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George Kastrinakis sent over some pics of the new Front Street shirts, which you can check out by clicking below.

Mmmmm fortune cookies.

Shirts are also available at Dans Comp.

Makr is a leather and fabric brand started by designer Jason Gregory that makes items for carrying your life in. The whole thing started four years ago as an experimental art project and turned into a entire collection. Jason worked with Ronnie B from Shadow on a number plate for the Lightning Bolts art show where they did some great laser etching. The laser etching is used on all the Makr products and it’s a great complement to the hand sewn aspect of each piece. This collection is the first full collection from Makr and consists of wallets, cardholders, and pouches.

Check out Makr here - makr.com

Nike just launched a small site for their new, highly blogged about Sportwear line, that’s dropping soon. I can admit that I was way into Nike’s not so long ago and still have a closet full of em, but these days, I’m more for the simple shoes like Vans, Convers, Lotek and Pointers. I guess my whole style has evolved over the past year or so and I find my self wearing way more simple stuff… I don’t think I even have one t-shirt with a graphic on it at the moment. I’m way more into cut, fabrics, and all the small details and the Nike Sportswear line is exactly that. Built off of classic pieces, they focus on fabrics, cuts, and simple ways to improve the products. The site that was launched is pretty minimal and only has small previews of some of the stuff. They do have a cool little video of the whole release that went along with the Lightning Bolts art shot in China and you can see some cameos of Spinner and Nigel. There is also a photogallery for the Windrunner featuring Nigel and it’s dope to see Nigel in there with his bike. Thanks to Shino for the heads up.

Check out the Nike Sportwear site here.

Crandall- Want a Defgrip update?
Nuno- Depends, whatya got?
Crandall- New softgoods.
Nuno- Only if it’s a picture of you wearing one.
(sends picture without Crandall)
Nuno- You’re not in that picture
Crandall- You want a custom one with Godzilla in the background?
Nuno- Of course.
Crandall- Gimme 10 minutes.

Click below for pic, and hit up FBM for more info.

David Lang sent me this link to a video that was posted on the Continuous Lean blog about Martin the Tailor and the dying profession of tailors in general. It’s a great piece that is very well filmed and it really interesting to hear about a profession that I know so little about, but can appreciate so much.

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Last week we posted an old ad with Mike Aitken from a company called Subfreakie and mentioned that Mike Ditry, who started that company and does all the design for Mosh, has a new project called Ludwig. There were a few comments asking to see more of Ludwigs line and it was just our luck that SlamXHype posted a nice feature on them this morning. They have a bunch of product shots as well as a great write up talking about the brand, the direction, and how great it is to see clothing companies growing up and moving away from the cliché t-shirt graphics. We are psyched to see Ludwig getting great press and we can’t wait to see more. P.S. Mike Ardelean is famous!

Check out Ludwig on SlamXHype here.

“Our new backpack is now available worldwide. The coach is a simple & compact bag, and as the name suggests, you won’t get any trouble at an airport when taking this on as hand luggage! It fits up to a 17″ laptop, so even pc spaceship lovers are not left out, and has a neat cable routing for your iPod headphones.”

-Dean Hearne

Check out the Coach HERE.

Before Aitken was rocking Fox and Lotek gear… Even before he was on Fit, he was rocking t-shirts for Subfreakie, a clothing brand by Mike Dytri, the guy behind all the Mosh graphics. Mike is no longer doing Subfreakie and is currently working on a brand called Ludwig, but he just hit me with this old ad that was printed in the short lived BMX Action Magazine. The ad is dope and it’s always rad to see old Aitken stuff.

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