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“Set Speed, Watch The Ride.

Inspired by a night run through London. designer Ben Drury presents a visualisation of the relationship between runner and city. Based on a recent run with Run Dem Crew (the 11k 4 bridges route) it documents the city at night, accompanied by a lettering interpretation of the runner’s inner voice.

After 11 km, and over 500 images condensed into 2 minutes, we land on the lunar surface, and in a transcendental state – salute the hardware.”

Enjoy!

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STHLMVII is a football tournament/series of talks, which aims to connect the creative communities of Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Copenhagen.

Ben Drury (UK, Art Director) and Nicholas Haggard (NYC, Photographer) have both contributed to the creation of STHLMVII. Ben has created the STHLMVII crest, which will be on all teams football kits along with their own self-designed crest. Nicholas Haggard will document the tournament & the teams; his photographs will be exhibited at restaurant Tranan 10th June – 24th June.

Ben Drury, Nicholas Haggard, Brian SS Jensen & Karl-Oskar Olsson (CPH Fashion designers, Wood Wood,) and four other presenters, will stage talks throughout the day where they will share their experience in their creative fields.

The event kicks off at noon on June 6, 2010 at Zinkensdamm IP in Stockholm. For more information visit – www.facebook.com/nikesportswearsweden

Check out all the team crests after the click.

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UK artist Ben Drury once again worked with Nike on a new sneaker. This time they collaborated on the Nike Air Max 90 Current Premium. The running shoe features an upper made of premium leather, mesh, perforated leather and nylon. Furthermore the lacing is inspired by hiking boots, an element that we have seen on lots of footwear this season already. A graphic element has been placed on the heel of the sneaker and the tongue tag reads “Trust Me” on the right shoe and “London” on the left shoe.

The Nike Air Max 90 Current Premium by Ben Drury is now available at 21 Mercer.

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On Friday 18th September, Nike Sportswear and Mercury Music Prize winning recording artist Dizzee Rascal will release the Nike Air Max 90 ‘Tongue N’ Cheek’ sneaker. The sneaker was created in partnership between Dizzee, Nike Design and long-time Dizzee collaborator and creative director, Ben Drury. Will go on sale exclusively at Nike’s1948 store in London’s Shoreditch, ahead of the release of Dizzee’s fourth LP, Tongue N’ Cheek (Monday 21st September)

This promo video has been created specially to celebrate these two releases. Art directed by Drury, shot by hype photographers Tim & Barry the same creative team behind the album artwork, also includes the skills of up and coming director/animator James Copeman. Set to ‘Chillin Wiv Da Man Dem’ – the sound of Dizzee at his most laid-back- the film fuses elements of the album artwork with additional footage, and is a light hearted look into Rascal’s world.

To see more and read more head to nikesportswear.com

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On Friday 18th September, Nike Sportswear and Mercury Music Prize winning recording artist Dizzee Rascal will release the very special, and strictly limited, Nike Air Max 90 ‘Tongue N’ Cheek’ sneaker. Created in a special partnership between Dizzee, Nike Design and long-time Dizzee collaborator and creative director, Ben Drury, Dizzee describes his Nike Air Max 90 as “Stylish but simple. The Air Max 90 is pretty much THE street shoe, ‘innit? It’s quite sporty, but when you get the right colours you can wear it with anything. But with this one we tried to keep it quite plain so it could complete any outfit. It’s functional and there was a pretty deep design process involved”.

Dizzee and Drury collaborative works to date are compelling because there’s a duality. With this design, the almost obvious literal titular graphics are countered by subtle execution. Drury explains, “The tongue—it’s pink. Like a tongue. The ‘u’ in the embroidery takes the form of a tongue. All this is countered by the subtlety and quality of the materials used. Premium leathers complimented with transparent details. With Dizzee, it’s all upfront – he’s straight up, clear. He is in the world’s spotlight. That’s why this shoe is super bright and fresh. Brushed suede may not be most practical material for London, but that reflects Dizzee’s life right now—he gets dropped off on the red carpet, no fronting! We all set out to make a shoe which could take a bit of punishment and still look fresh, which we think we have achieved here” said Drury.

The Air Max 90 ‘Tongue N’ Cheek’ is constructed from a subtle combination of chalk white premium grade soft leather and high knap premium suede. The toe box features an additional perforated detailing in the leather which is carried through the heel wrap. The tongue is contrasting pink premium leather with suede back detail (“the pink tongue was almost an afterthought—looks like a tongue doesn’t it?” —Ben Drury) and features Tongue [right foot] and Cheek [left foot] special red embroidery detail.

The Air Max is further personalised with a reflective Dizzee man heel tab logo, a transparent Swoosh (“My idea for extending the whole transparent thing from the Air mid-sole to make anything I could transparent was partially a response to what I know about Diz. I’ve been working with him for years, and I’ve always found him to be totally transparent in his dealings. He’s honest and all those details, in another way, reflect personality traits ”—Ben Drury) and a special two piece outsole comprised of white and clear rubber revealing Dizzee’s Dirty Stank Recordings logo (“I love the logo graphic on the bottom. The big fly makes it official. No one really sees the bottom but it’s one of them little touches that a sneaker pimp would like—Dizzee Rascal) and two tone laces with reflective stitch details (“the little things, they add nice. Personally, it’s for when I’m onstage, with the lights. Or in a rave, I still like to go out and party, so I’ve got little effects. The way they’ve speckled it into the laces, it’s just subtle. But it’s enough. You don’t see many laces like that either. Some people go mad with the laces. To have laces that reflect like that will be a big deal for some people. I like it that they’re breathable as well. It’s a nice mix.”—Dizzee Rascal)

The sneaker launches just days before Dizzee releases his fourth album ‘Tongue N’ Cheek’. Coming out on Dirtee Stank, it features the huge Number One singles ‘Dance Wiv Me’ and ‘Bonkers’ and new single ‘Holiday’ which sees Dizzee teaming up with Calvin Harris and Chrome, the same duo that Dizzee worked with on ‘Dance Wiv Me.’

The Nike Air Max 90 ‘Tongue N’ Cheek’ will be available exclusively from Nike Sportswear at 1948, London on Friday, 18th September, 2009.

1948, Arches 477-478, Bateman’s Row, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3HH. Tel: +44 (0)207 729 7688

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The summer delivery from Sydney, Australia based retailer come brand Supply has arrived at Haven. “We here personally love the genuine gritty skate and metal imagery used by Supply. This drop is highlighted by the excellent collaboration with New York based artist Kostas Seremetis who has worked along the likes of Surrender, Neighborhood and W)taps. Also arriving are the Check Single Pocket Shirts that are offered in some nice refreshing colors. Supply also has one of the best headwear programs offering a variety of different styles.” We couldn’t agree more. The new collection also includes artwork from Ben Drury. Available now at Haven.

See more items from the Supply Summer 2009 Collection after the leap.

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Ben Drury has worked on lots of Nike projects to date and it seems like a very interesting one is coming up soon. He worked with Dizzee Rascal on an Air Max 90. The sneaker features clear premium leathers on the upper. Furthermore he designed an Air Max 90 Current with some hiking boot accents. So far we only get to these these teaser images, more to come soon.

More detailed images of the sneakers follow after the jump.

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UK artist Ben Drury designed a couple of Reigning Champ hoodies and crewneck sweaters for Surrender.

“Both featuring signature 25oz Canadian cotton fleece, crossgrain cut and side rib gussets is sure to make you stay warm and comfortable for the winter. The sweaters will have a simple black look with corresponding patches on the sleeves.” Via Hypebeast.

These will be released soon at Surrender dealers and surrenderarts.net.

Take a more detailed look at the hoodie after the jump.

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Yesterday we gave you a detailed look at the Nike Air Max 90 Current CoLab Artist Series that will be released worldwide tomorrow. The series consists of three sneakers, designed by Ben Drury, Kevin Lyons and Japanese artist Yokoyama.
Today we give you look at the apparel that comes along with the sneakers out of the Nike CoLab "Air U Breathe" series. Each sneaker will come with matching t-shirts as well as a windrunner. Pics via Hectic.
Have a detailed look at all the apparel after the jump.

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After much speculation and half decent images, we can finally show you today the entire Nike Air Max 90 Current Artist Series pack, consisting of three Air Max 90 Current, designed by Ben Drury, Kevin Lyons and Hito Yokoyama.
The pack will be released at Overkill this coming Friday, 8th of August.
Many images of all three sneakers, giving you a detailed look at the graphic of the artist that have been placed on the tongue, heel and lining, you can find after the jump.

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Since a week or so, images of a soon to be releasing Nike Air Max 90 Artist Series have been circulating. Now we got the scoop on the entire initiative and will clear things up. 
Overall there will be three artist editions of the Air Max 90 Current. The first one by Kevin Lyons we showed you here. The second one designed by Ben Drury you can see here above. There will be a third grey model, designed by Japanese artist Yokoyama. Matching the sneakers there will be 3 windrunners and also 3 t-shirts.
All we need now, is decent images of the whole thing, so hopefully that will follow soon!

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The Nike Air Max 90 Current has been well received since its launch and is an interesting alternative to the current Air Max line-up. In August several artist editions of the sneaker will be released.
The orange pair has been designed by Kevin Lyons. The white/grey model still needs to be identified, but first voices on the Internet say that it might be designed by either Ben Drury or Hitomi Yokohama. More on that soon.
Both styles are now available for pre-order at Kix-Files.
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Arkitip has become one of our favorite art magazines in recent years, not only because of content, but also because the overall package was always interesting and worth collecting. Now their latest issue 46 has been released and once again they put some very special together.
Issue 46 comes with 3 covers, created by Kevin Lyons, Michael Leon and ben Drury. You can get one or collect them all. The issue includes editorials from Studio von Birken/Ben Pogue, Tony Arcabascio, Nieves, C.R. Stecyk III, Frank Novak and Joshua Gregory. Each issue comes with a blank Beams T x Arkitip t-shirt and each issue comes with a heat transfer sheet designed by the cover artist, that you can then apply to the t-shirt.
A great idea. As usual the issue comes hand packaged and limited to 1500 sets.
Get yours now here.

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