HIATAS http://hiatas.com the portfolio of shane ellis Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:24:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Interview with Omer Arbel http://hiatas.com/?p=573 http://hiatas.com/?p=573#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:36:16 +0000 shanellis http://hiatas.com/?p=573 Omer just had one hell of a week! He has been awarded the Ronald J. Thom Award for Early Design Achievement (awarded by the Canadian Arts Council) and the World Architecture Festival shortlisted Arbel’s 23.2 House design.

Listen to a recent interview with Omer re: these achievements and more; here

Congratulations Omer

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My new kicks:

“At Quoddy, one person handsews your shoes at their bench – the quality of that pair is a testament to the individual skill that went into making them.”

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]]> http://hiatas.com/?feed=rss2&p=548 0 Home Away From Home http://hiatas.com/?p=540 http://hiatas.com/?p=540#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 22:10:54 +0000 shanellis http://hiatas.com/?p=540 Dreams do come true!

Built by Kevin Smith

More info here

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S/Double > Shawn Stussy has launched an online store for his new brand – in case you didn’t know; he cut ties with the stussy brand more than a decade ago – he also has a great blog

Does the world need another chair? > No! – but this one is pretty cool

]]> http://hiatas.com/?feed=rss2&p=536 0 100407 links http://hiatas.com/?p=529 http://hiatas.com/?p=529#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:15:41 +0000 shanellis http://hiatas.com/?p=529 These links are all behind the scenes videos of stuff getting made:

John Lobb Shoes > the very best of British Craft – “We’ve turned our faces against machines”

Outlier Tailored Performance > technical urban/cycling apparel

Furni Creations > Montreal based studio that makes nick-knacks (clocks, bags, etc)

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Final Cut Saw Blade > cuts and sands at the same time – wow!

Made.com > cut out the middle man (for furniture) – a startup company

Time to Rethink Design > I couldn’t agree more

]]> http://hiatas.com/?feed=rss2&p=517 0 100217 links http://hiatas.com/?p=512 http://hiatas.com/?p=512#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:23:34 +0000 shanellis http://hiatas.com/?p=512 I am trying out Google’s browser (Chrome) on my home computer – Over all I like it but it does not allow me to seamlessly integrate my Delicious account into it like Firefox does (this is because Delicious is a Yahoo service). So… I am going to try to start archiving interesting links in my blog. Here are the first two:

If your product is Great, it doesn’t need to be Good. > great article from the creator of gmail (Paul Buchheit)

Them Things > Amazing (and I mean really amazing) collection of images

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