Another busy week has passed by and as usually more than enough stuff across the network to keep us occupied. Some quality previews for both the upcoming holiday season and next spring were posted throughout. There has also been strong coverage of art, and don’t miss the posts detailing Tokyo denim culture from Selectism.

Highsnobette:

• Conceptual Designs by Una Burke
• Feiyue x Unholy Matrimony
• Adidas x PPQ Collection

Radcollector:

• Altamont Holiday Jackets
• Quarter Productions Self Edit
• Western Edition Skateboards | Bay Cruiser Boar

Selectism:

• Ally Capellino Spring/Summer 2010 Preview
• Tokyo | Inazuma Festival
• Ediface Weatherwear Collection

Curated:

• Superb Cycle Shop by Oziio Design
• Piecebook Reloaded
• Freaks and Flash (pictured).

Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to celebrate the fearlessly progressive spirit of London’s greatest creative minds, past and present. At the heart of the exhibition are fifteen commissions from some of London’s most dynamic creatives, as a group they demonstrate the diverse approaches to design in London. Among the participants in the exhibition are Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon, Paul Smith and others.

Paul Smith created a rabbit rubbish bin for the city of London. The ‘New London Rubbish Bin’ will be popping up in Covent Garden and Holland Park for a four-month trial period from 28th May. The giant rabbit bins, with ears that light up when anyone puts rubbish in them, are Paul Smith’s contribution to Super Contemporary – an exhibition which opens on 3rd June 2009 at the Design Museum.

More images of the New London Rubbish Bin by Paul Smith follow after the jump.

Nylon TV has a great new episode. They visited design guru Karim Rashid at home and the designer talked about music, creativity and ideas. Check it out!

Not one to stay out of the news for long, Parra’s sculptural chair has received a nice rundown over at SuperTouch. The chair is a produced with the help of Toykyo. We’ll be on the look out for more concrete release information.

It is certainly one of the most impressive pieces by the Dutch artist and seeing it, we hope for more in this direction.

Now open at The Threadless Gallery space in Chicago (located at 3011 North Broadway), an exhibition of the work of MWM Design. MWM (Matt. W. Moore), has completed projects in a variety of media for the show. Included is hand painted work, spray painted canvases and textiles. In total, the exhibition celebrates three distinct series, each representing a distinct medium. On view until December 3.

Selections from MWM Design follow.

Written by graphic designer Cey Adams, with help from noted hip-hop photographer/historian Bill Adler, DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop gets to the nuts and bolts of establishing the hip-hop aesthetic. Both Adams and Adler contribute essays, as do notables like Russel Simmons and Sacha Jenkins. Visuals, the driving force behind the book, come from the likes of HAZE and Dapper Dan. Fine arts are also represented, with the work of Mr. Cartoon, Kehinde Wiley and others reproduced and dissected.

A must for anyone interested in hip-hop and its many spin-offs. Out now from Collins Design.

Images from DEFinition after the jump.

Artist and toy designer James Jarvis has written an article for Computer Arts Projects on the creation of the Bird God character. Also the character appears on the cover of the issue.

Have a look at the full Computer Arts Project Cover by James Jarvis after the jump.

Fancy yourself a designer? Think you got skills with a pencil and pad, or photoshop? Well, XLARGE is offering the chance once again to enter the "Do It Yourself" design contest. Visit the contest site, download the template, whip up a tee and submit. Then, if you’re good enough, when June 30th rolls around you’re tee might just be chosen as part of the spring ‘09 line. Runner-up prizes include shopping sprees on the webstore. 

This season The Reed Space run by Staple Design worked with Head Porter on a luggage collection, called PRISM. The collection will consists of different bags and pouches each coming in a different color and soon you will find out that they nicely go one with another.
Jeff Staple gives us some first teaser images and it looks like, the PRISM collection will be released in the coming week.
More images after the jump.

Converse, with an assist from Utah Jazz star Kyle Korver, today announced the launch of MyChucks, a contest inviting participants to design a Chuck Taylor® All Star® shoe with the chance to win the ultimate prize of having their shoe produced by Converse and sold exclusively by Eastbay. MyChucks gives contestants the chance to bring their own creativity to the Converse canvas and showcase their design to the world.
As part of the contest, Kyle Korver submitted his own design of the Chuck Taylor All Star shoe which will be featured online, along with a video of him designing his shoe and explaining the process. Korver’s shoe features pinstripes to represent all of the people in his life, and a red stripe to represent himself and his desire to be an original. Converse will produce 226 pairs of the shoe, which pays homage to Korver’s jersey number 26, and will be donated to the Kyle Korver Foundation.
To enter, contestants can visit mychucks.eastbay.com to download the entry kit which contains a silhouette of the Chuck Taylor All Star shoe and contest instructions. Participants need to submit a scanned image of their design and a 20-30 second video explaining their entry. Submissions will be placed in an online, public gallery where visitors can vote on each design.
The top five designs with the most votes will enter the final round of judging which is determined by the total number of votes, and the judging of artistic ability, creative expression and overall design by a panel from Converse and Eastbay. The Grand Prize will be announced on or about July 11, 2008 on mychucks.eastbay.com. The winner will be flown to Converse headquarters to work with designers and developers and create the final version of the shoe, which will be produced and sold on Eastbay.com beginning in January 2009.