Jeff Staple PSFK Conference Presentation

This is a video of Jeff Staple's, owner of Staple Design and Reed Space, presentation at PSFK Conference Asia 2008. Jeff Staple is a major force in streetwear. He is the sole founder of Staple Design, a menswear clothing brand and design and creative direction firm. He also owns the New York boutique, Reed Space. If you follow Staple design you know the clothing line started as just a t-shirt line years ago, but due to hard work the brand currently features a full menswear line with high quality cut and sew pieces. The firm's design, creative direction, brand mangaement, and marketing work is also amazing. He is currently doing exactly what I would like to be doing with my life. His career path and accomplishments are all major sources of inspiration for me. The video explains why.

Essentials: To Better Living

The 3 week Art + Design program I was doing is over now and I'm stuck in San Jose, CA with absolutely nothing to do. So I guess I will start some projects.

1) Read a novel

-A Portriat of A Artist As A Young Man

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus.

A Portrait is a key example of the Künstlerroman (an artist's Bildungsroman) in English literature. Joyce's novel traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions he has been brought up in. He finally leaves for Paris to pursue his calling as an artist. The work pioneers some of Joyce's modernist techniques that would later come to fruition in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake."

2) Learn Adobe Illustrator

3) Start eating healthy and exercising daily.

4) Learn to use my camera.

5) Nothing

TresBienShop.net

A little while ago I posted a video of the making of the Sweden based men's wear shop, Tres Bien. Along with many others, I believe Tres Bien is doing great things in retail. As seen in the video the physical shop is beautiful, however the online shop is just as great. Everything is amazing, the presentation of the products, the design of the site, ease of use. The shop is based in Sweden, but there is also a currency exchange feature that will display all the prices in six different forms of currency, one being the US dollar. I think this is a great idea. It makes shopping so convinent. However, the best thing about the shop is of course the products. The shop carries brands such as APC, Church's, Comme des Garscons, Common Projects, Dries Van Noten, Final Home, Folk, Gitman Bros, Head Porter, Junya Wantanabe, Kitsune, Maison Martin Margiela, Mismo, Nike, Obident Sons, Opening Ceremony, Pendleton, Our Legacy, Raf Simons, Rogues Gallery, Shipley & Hamos, Wood Wood, Surface to Air, and Woolrich Wollen Mills. Tres Bien is doing great things with retail on and offline. Like me you may not be able to afford many of the products they carry, but that still doesn't stop me from daydreaming. Especially about those Our Legacy Camo Chinos. However, they are actually having a pretty good sale on the site at the moment. The photos above is a couple collections I made of some of my favorite peices.

As of now I'm in San Francisco taking some design classes. I'm having an amazing time and I will be posting some pictures of my trip soon.