Daniel Jarosch and Henrick Klingel’s coloring book for grown-ups features 100 of the most popular sneaker designs from 1916 to the present.
The book opens with a brief history on the evolution of the “sport shoe” — tracing its origins from Charles Goodyear’s invention of vulcanization in the 1840s to its role in hip-hop and skateboard culture — but dedicates the vast majority of its pages to detailed, full-page silhouette drawings ranging from Adidas to Vans.
The 18 major brands covered provide ample opportunity to re-imagine classic designs with your own bold colors, and each sneaker is removable for framing or fridge posting. Plus, the high-quality art paper means you don’t have to stick to just crayons.
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For the 30th anniversary of the classic sci-fi franchise, designers have been honing in on everything Star Wars with homages that bring us back to our days of Princess Leia lunch boxes and our Han Solo action figures. Old habits die hard, and wanting to emulate your favorite Star Wars characters? Well, that’s something you haven’t been able to stop doing ever since the first time you held up a stick and made a “woosh” sound every time you swung it at your baby sister. Face it, we’re all Star Wars nerds at heart and now we can look the part. The best in 2009′s Star Wars-inspired fashions after the jump.
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Today at Flavorpill, we drooled over Madge’s Upper East Side Double-Wide. (She’s come a long way from the girl who ate bags of popcorn in Alphabet City.) We discovered the modern-rock haters, PRE-DURST. We thought the world might be ending thanks to Amy Winehouse’s rider demands for Yorkshire tea and a sober crew (OK, and some tequila. Attagirl!). We couldn’t decide which new store is cooler: Nike, Puma or Adidas. We wondered where all of you fall on our Spectrum of Online Friendship. We wished we had a bike to take to get blessed. Do unicycles count? We examined the carbon foot print of printed books. We wished we had an iPhone so we could read the Wall Street Journal for free. We wondered who would spend 2K on Prince’s purple iPod. We booked our tickets to Cleveland, thanks to this compelling travel video. And finally, we watched the trailer for the new Harry Potter flick. Whaddayathink?
