A WORLD THROUGH THE HANDS
August 10, 2010
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Category Archives: SUSTAINABLE LIFE + DESIGN
A DECADE
July 27, 2010
This year marks a decade on my journey to Alabama Chanin.
Looking at where we started, where we have been and where we are headed has been an amazing and beautiful process. What a time of laughter, tears, exploration, and, well, growing up.
To celebrate our growing up, we will be launching several exciting collaborations over the next months, planning celebrations, looking back and, of course, looking forward.
The first of these collaborations – with our friends at Commune Design – has resulted in a set of new logos for Alabama Chanin and Alabama Studio Style.
Here today we present our new Alabama Chanin logo…
Look for the new logo to be integrated into our couture clothing, our site and the Alabama Chanin world over the next months. Come back tomorrow for a chat with Roman Alonso, from Commune, about design, his trip to Alabama, a bit of history and the humor behind our new and improved label.
Thanks to everyone for sticking with us this past decade… looking forward to the next.
ALABAMA IN THE BRONX
July 20, 2010
From Father Andrew @ Goods of Conscience:
“Do you notice the corn growing next to the garage? We have chickens up here too. I am loving the indigo flag waving Alabama in our midst.”
Read more about Father Andrew & Alabama Denim **Photo courtesy of Father Andrew
MAP OBSESSION
July 19, 2010
I have been obsessed by maps recently. Perhaps I am searching for something?
Princeton Architectural Press has found another little treasure (map) with Kris Harzinski and the Hand Drawn Map Association:
From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association
And get lost here: Hand Drawn Map Association
THE MAP AS ART
July 9, 2010
Just as I am designing the new collection, a treasure of a book arrives on my desk from Princeton Architectural Press.
I have always been a fan of You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination.
And now Katharine Harmon has compiled the most beautiful collection of images and ideas in her newest book The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography.
Quilts, installations, illustrations, photography… sitting with this book is like traveling while sitting at my studio table.
Katharine Harmon: The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
INSPIRED READING LIST
July 8, 2010
Thank you to everyone at the New York Public Library for having me ‘round for the Handmade Crafternoon back in May. And thanks to Jessica for this inspired reading list; I would like to have each and every one of the books she selected.
SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT
June 28, 2010
Beautiful images of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault––photographed exclusively for NOWNESS by Greg White.
Some believe that this vault will be the saving grace for a future where hybrid seeds have altered the crops of the world.
IN OUR BLOOD
June 15, 2010
Thinking about all of our consumption, plastic, and the oil spill that spoils our beautiful home.
From my son Zach today, a thoughtful piece about our role:
SETH BORENSTEIN
Published: Jun 11, 2010
Published: Jun 11, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) – Has the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico got you so mad you’re ready to quit Big Oil?
Ready to park the car and take up bike-riding or walking? Well, your bike and your sneakers have petroleum products in them. And sure, you can curb energy use by shutting off the AC, but the electric fans you switch to have plastic from oil and gas in them. And the insulation to keep your home cool, also started as oil and gas. Without all that, you’ll sweat and it’ll be all too noticeable because deodorant comes from oil and gas too.
You can’t even escape petroleum products with a nice cool fast-food milkshake – which probably has a petrochemical-based thickener.
Oil is everywhere. It’s in carpeting, furniture, computers and clothing. It’s in the most personal of products like toothpaste, shaving cream, lipstick and vitamin capsules. Petrochemicals are the glue of our modern lives and even in glue, too.
Because of that, petrochemicals are in our blood.
Read the full article here: Boycott Big Oil? Prepare to give up your lifestyle We need a revolution for this century…in our blood?
*Photo by Robert Rausch for our Revolution collection
NOWNESS
June 10, 2010
NOWNESS – Every day of the month there is something to love.NOWNESS
Look for Alabama Chanin on NOWNESS in the coming months thanks to Wyatt Troll and all our friends at Commune.
POISON + WINE
June 7, 2010
What an inspiration to get to hear The Civil Wars at Billy Reid’s Florence store this weekend.
One of my best music memories of all time is having seen Kate Bush – in a small venue – in New York City in the late eighties; the performance Saturday night ranks right up there.
Beauty and harmony beyond compare: