As an exclusive homage for Roger Federer’s birthday, Nike got together with artistcollective Plus 41 to create a special Nike Sportswear Flywire Windrunner, along with some other product.
Nike Sportswear official launch took place on 08.08.08 too; as a homage to one of the best and most well known tennis players in the world, Nike created a very special Gift Pack in collaboration with the Swiss artist collective ‘+41’. Here we present you the windrunner and the longsleeve shirt out of the pack.
What makes Roger Federer gift pack pretty unique are the exclusive graphic symbols created by +41 collective, showcasing the most important moments of his life as well as the biggest success stories of his career: for example there is a double merging ‘W’, which stands for his first Grand –Slam victory in Wimbledon in 2003. A perspective tennis court showed as an arrow with a crown on its peak, demonstrates his way to the long-lasting number one of the Tennis world class. And a symbol made of three tennis balls, lying on top of each other is the symbol for the family. Further there is a graphic of four swung into each other hearts, which symbolizes Roger Federer’s love for his girlfriend Miroslava (Mirka) Vavrinec. In total ten of these graphics decorate Windrunner and Tee.
the Nike Sportswear special Gift Pack was handed over to Roger Federer at the launch event of the Nike Sportswear Store opening in New York City, 21^st Mercer Street. This moment was captured by + 41 and will be displayed in an installation in the exhibition space of the Berlin 0808-store (Münzstraße 20, Berlin) in September. More on that soon.
Now have a look at detailed images of the windrunner and the t-shirt after the jump.

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+41 has created an art installation inspired by the almost religious fanaticism surrounding the beautiful game. Titled “Holygame,” the piece ties together a series of football boots to form a monument to football. As part of the NIKE 1/1 project it was exhibited last week in Milan, and will be mounted again in June for the Art Basel Fair.
A great reminder to prepare for EURO ‘08!

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Today we can report about a project that we have watched for a little while already – Fairtilizer, a new site that is dedicated to music. In principle its an online community that brings together people that love and care about music.
Join Fairtilizer to:
* Discover today’s most relevant and groundbreaking artists, labels, and tracks
* Create and share playlists
* Download free tracks daily
* Subscribe to your favorite artists, labels, charts RSS feeds
* Connect with artists, labels and people who care about music
+41 is in charge of the design for the site (which is not done yet), and created some Fairtilizer t-shirts now. One t-shirt is a reference to Peter Saville/Joy Division’s work. They redesigned the FAIRTILIZER logo in an “Unknown Pleasure” way… the other one is an organic transcription of the same logo.
Those T-Shirts are now available on their website and at Colette Paris. Check out the other t-shirt after the jump.

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Once again the Parisian concept store Colette has something special waiting for you, bringing together some of the most talented artists from around the globe – Domestic Curated.
CURATED BY COLETTE is a collection of vinyls by 10 leading artists and graphic designers. André – aka Mr A -, Claude Closky, So-Me, Work in Progress (Self Service) from Paris, +41 from Switzerland, Greg Foley (Visionaire) and Fabien Baron from New York, KAWS from Brooklyn, Jeremy Scott from Beverly Hills and Nagi Noda from Tokyo. Only 500 copies of each set have been made, and all are exclusive to colette in France.
The set is now available at the Colette eshop. Check out the other vinyls after the jump.

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A long time ago we reported about this collaboration and now it finally got released at Sold Out. The Swiss graphic design  team and fashion brand, Plus41, designed two sneakers for the Etnies Plus collection and applied their iconic graphics to the upper of the shoes and mixed them with a nice choice of high end materials. Both models have now been released in limited quantities!

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