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The Diffa Dining by Design Show and Dinner


Arpad Baksa, "All the Webs We Weave"
(50 Gloriosa lilies hung from a bicycle wheel)


Fashion Institute of Technology w/mentor David Stark


Slade Architecture, "Born Again"
(furniture found discarded in Battery Park garbage rooms covered in duct tape)


David Rockwell, "For the Love of Movies"
(Swarovski crystal curtain divides table w/"Breakfast at Tiffany's" projected on the wall)


Eric Warner for Aesthete


Bradley Stephens
(My fave)

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After 40 years, Heinz revamps ketchup packets

The new design has a base that's more like a cup for dipping and also a tear-off end for squeezing, plus it holds three times as much ketchup than a traditional packet.

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IT was a cut-and-paste operation as aspiring designers gathered last week to show off creations improvised, literally, with tape and shears. Their efforts, unveiled at Don Hills, a downtown club, were part of Style Wars, a competition produced by the House of Diehl, a New York design firm. The point, Mary Jo Diehl said, was to give the young a chance to shine under pressure.

"In a dream world you've got six months and a bolt of Italian silk to make a dress," she said. "In the real world your resources and deadlines are tighter than Shrek in a Speedo."

[http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/18/fashion/20091122-runway-slideshow_index.html]

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Louis Vuitton got together with Parsons for a student design project called, appropriately, "Reconstruction."

Ten teams of two students each were given pieces from the Vuitton archive, as well as signature looks from Marc Jacobs. Judges for the contest, held last week, included Harold Koda of the Met’s Costume Institute and Nick Sullivan of Esquire magazine.


And the winners? They were Min Sun Kim and Lydia (Yeo Chung) Kim, for a design that remixed men’s wear and a trench coat, with a hand-painted hem.


[http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/cut-and-sew/]


The other contestants' designs:





Check out the winning designer's heels!: