There is little that is more engaging than a skimpily clad, laser rifle toting heroine, ploughing her way through green alien blood and giant 12 eyed monsters, yet the icon of the powerful female is an ancient theme. Modern popular culture and Science fiction seems to be increasingly obsessed with the female and its role as initiator and liberator, a mantle that was accepted largely in the ancient worlds of mythos and ritual.
Archive for August 26th, 2009
FLAP Innovative design
Published by August 26th, 2009 in interesting and environment fashion. 0 Comments
Greetings all
Innovation is a key factor in design when it comes to renewable energy in Africa. Saying this a few of the top designers of the eco industry have come together and graced the African continent with a innovative design that has me waiting with trepidation. The FLAP project short for Flexible Light And Power sees leading local designers from Portablelight , PopTech and Timbuk2 coming together and working on The Solar Satchel.
A device ‘completely off the grid’ this otherwise ordinary messenger satchel is powered by what looks like a five by thirty centre metre solar panel that is able to power a two watt bulb as well as a USB that can be used for charging a multitude of gadgets like radios and cell phones. With the project still in a ‘research’ phase in Ghana ,Kenya and Uganda alike you can keep up to date with Erik Hersman on apparent feasibility at @WhiteAfrican or @AfriGadget. Just a quick note, Erik is one of the founders of AfriGadget and will play a vital role in the research team as he will be the ultimate ‘decider’ with regards to potential users.
I wish the team the best of luck and hopefully we’ll be seeing some awesome self powered back packs that’ll be commercially available.
Till next time
Alex
Springleap.com has a fresh t-shirt competition renovation revolved around a series of fun spunky THEMES!
Evolving the usual bi-weekly general competition to an all-inspiring fresh bi-weekly THEME competition, Springleap.com brings forth a stream of creative themed ideas to its community of designers and design lovers.
The theme competition encapsulates the same exciting process as the previous competition except for the tons of fabulous themes in store. It’s all about the series of dynamic inspirational concepts to spunk up the Springleap.com t-shirt competition, aiming to bring the community an edgy array of correlative themed designs.
For every theme competition a funky fresh WoRd-uP post will be written, creating a special brief to steer your design direction. The winning t-shirt design entries remain the same and for the staggering cash and prizes available go to the Springleap.com prizes page. Check it out here!!
Hi there all.
The fashion industry is a cut throat place. There is no denying that it’s a world that very few of us would survive in at a top professional level.
Most of us who love fashion will work in retail and market our own brands from the safety of a boutique or fashion store. There are those however who are destined to show their design might on the famous runways of the world, such as events like the Mercedes Benz Fashion Show that I mentioned yesterday.
For those of us who will only be able watch these fashion mega powers from the shadows, we have less glamorous alternatives to living the high fashion dream…such as playing fashion show games online.
Online fashion show games have been around for ages and have become a popular boredom beater for people from all walks of life. These easy to use and admittedly addictive games are the bane of bosses everywhere. I don’t think it’s easy to count the number of receptionists that have their ears blasted by their bosses for abusing the internet in this regard.
It’s all about getting their virtual fashion life fix.
