We get close ups of some of the Yuketen Spring/Summer 2010 Footwear Collection, with thanks to Oi Polloi. Here are five different pairs, Country Ranger being one style and Ghillie Moc being the other.

Yuketen have been making shoes for a little while now, 1995 was the exact birth date. They were set up by Yuki Matsuda, who moved over to America in order to work with true footwear Artisans. These shoes are made in in the traditional moccasin way, using American hides, which specifically wrap around your foot.

All their footwear is extremely comfortable, you can’t see to believe, you need to physically try. These won’t last long, so i recommend getting in quickly.

www.yuketen.com

Yuketen at Oi Polloi

Mitch Blunt is a freelance illustrator based in Hastings, England. He graduated from Kingston University in 2009 with a degree in illustration and animation.

Here we showcase some of his works sourced from his website. Mick’s work is primarily influenced by comic books, printmaking, 80’s movies, American literature and cartoons.

This sort of illustrative work really appeals to me, it’s simple and easy to decipher. I think an illustrators job is to easily put the point across, if he or she can’t do that, then there is no point in the piece existing.

View more of his work below or on his portfolio site.

www.mitchblunt.com

Norse Projects come through with a great preview of their Autumn/Winter 2010 Collection, it’s a shame we don’t get to look at the full thing though, because i can’t wait.

Fom these two sets of full outfits we see some quality looking products, as usual keeping it simple and functional. This includes some heavy outerwear for the winter months, gloves, head wear, and winter chinos. We also see that the Norse Projects team are working with Trickers on the shoes front, which looks promising.

Links:
www.norseprojects.com
www.norsestore.com/

Daniel Shibata is a Japanese Visual Designer that works for the design group WOW in Japan. This video called “Shinakansen ver.2″ (From Shinosaka to Tokyo), it was shot with an Olympus PEN(EP-1) with an M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm Lens. It shows his journey in an interesting way, creating spectacular shapes from everyday objects that you see in the city.

The Shinkansen, also known as “the bullet train”, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan operated by four Japan Railways Group companies. It is also the fastest train service in japan, you can go to Tokyo from Shinosaka in about 2hours and 30minutes.

Watch the video below.

www.daiheishibata.jp

www.w0w.co.jp

Pony Step illustrator, Richard Kilroy, gives us an illustrated look at some of their favourite elements from the Fall/Winter 2010 Menswear Season which just passed. This includes the likes of Jil Sander, Alexander Mcqueen and Raf Simons. I have to say, these drawings are stunning, seeing this has urged me to draw more.

“Now that the European men’s cycle is over, we can reflect on the MAJORS of the menswear shows – whether that be an Englishman showing in Milan, a Belgian in Paris or even a national showing in his / her own country this is Ponystep’s illustrated look at some of our favorite elements from the FW/10 mens season. Illustrations by Richard Kilroy.”

See what was said about each drawing at the Pony Step website.

Animator and illustrator Matt Smithson, or Man vs Magnet as he affectionally likes to be called brings us a collection of latest work he has been putting together so far in twenty ten. This artistic reel contains the many workings of Matt, with the majority for both curious pictures who represent him in the United States, and Nottoscale who represent him here in the United Kingdom. Matt brings a very surreal and unique style to the table, just looking his portfolio you can tell he’s not your average creative, his work is so out there, which I love. I think it would be and interesting place to live inside Matt’s head for just a day, it seems he has a child like imagination and view that any thing is plausible, which he has never allowed to grow up and good for him, his work is bold brave and beautiful and has the ability to make you stop in your tracks and just enjoy. To find more work from Matthew Smithson / Man vs Magnet follow the link below.

Audio used is Lions by Jonquil

Find more from Man Vs Magnet here

Haik Avanian, a designer, set up this website called reknit which you can send an old sweater or garment for his mum to reknit into a new item. Its an interesting project, but obviously he only has one mum, so there are a limited amount of orders being taken.

Here is the general artillery:

1.) you send an old sweater to my mom
2.) she unravels & reknits it into something new.
3.) a brand new, hand-made, one of a kind item is sent back to you.

Visit rekn.it.com.

Highsnobiety recently caught up with fashion designer, musician, and artist Henrik Vibskov in this short film interview.

As a fashion designer Henrik Vibskov has produced fourteen collections since he graduated from Central St. Martin’s in 2001. This man is currently the only Scandinavian designer on the official show schedule of the Paris Men’s Fashion Week, which he has been since January 2003. Quite an achievement!

They talk about his recent exhibition at Pool Gallery Berlin, but also touch on other subjects, including the old age discussion of creativity vs business.

View the video below.

I just found this cool publication called Mousse magazine.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English, it contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism and curation, alternated with a series of distinctive columns in a unique tabloid format.

Art direction by Francesco Valtolina & graphic design by temp & Mousse Publishing. Mousse is also an agency offering from concept to management of projects and events related to contemporary art and culture.

Head over to their website to view more.

Starting at approximately 4.30 in the morning to shoot this project Philip Bloom went about creating this insightful visual production about horse racing in America. In his recent blog post on this piece Philip mentions that he was surprised by the types of people involved in the American horse racing when compared to those here in England. Often young students seem to be involved here, in contrast at the hollywood stables he found Latin American guys with large filmic moustaches, he didn’t mind to much though as this all added to the character and culture of the piece. Theres a real community feel to this piece which I like, Philip has captured the welcoming nature of these individuals, who seem warming to those who want to learn about their sport and lifestyle. The original purpose of this video was to test out footage using Illya Friedman’s new Pl Camera, which is simply a very nicely modified canon 7D. You’d have to ask Philip himself, but I think this setup passed the testing, for more information on this piece follow the link below.

Music by Loscil
Song: Charlie
Album: Plume

Read more about this piece of Philip Blooms Blog here