Beinghunted’s Look at WTAPS 04/14/2008
Posted by Vaughn in Mass Media, Street Culture.comments closed
WTAPS IS a Japanese brand that I have come to love over the last year and a half (more than a bit slow to check into the game, I know). And because its availability due to price points and its low supply stateside has been an obstacle for me, I am generally forced to continue to watch the brand from afar and to keep it in mind as a personal reference point. I love the brand because of its military and street and work wear orientations that are so well effused through the line, flawlessly incorporating the two main design ethics that have been an important go-to inspiration and motif within the most credible of men’s street fashion lines.
Last year the brand collaborated with Vans for a very popular line of branded Half-Cabs, Eras and Authentics that featured the brand’s signature crossbones in patterns on the shoes’ upper mid-panels. Well-known stateside for their collaborations with Stussy, Supeme, and A Bathing Ape, the brand recently released its first collection of 2008 and unveiled its website that featured a lookbook for their spring/summer collection titled “Extreme Prejudice.” Online magazine Beinghunted (BGHD) also features the website and lookbook as part of its “Printed Matter” feature.
Read BGHD’s Printed Matter P.1, WTAPS [Here]
Check BGHD’s interview with WTAPS designer [Here]
Check WTAPS [Here]
‘The Age of Persuasion,’ Seismic Shift 04/14/2008
Posted by Vaughn in Global, Marketing, Mass Media.comments closed
CBC RADIO’S Terry Riley hosts a show called The Age of Persuasion that discusses the power of advertising media and its methods. Riley’s January 26th, 2008 episode: “Old Media, New Media, Blue Media” looked to document the transition of ad media through the years and notes the seismic shift currently going on in the advertising world which has gone new media or “transcendent,” by marketing ideas, as opposed to directly selling products, and effectively doing so in unorthodox ways.
Listen to the episode [Here]
