If you like antiques, you will truly love Adamstown. It is literally an entire rural town dedicated to antiques.
Located about 2.5 hours from NYC, Adamstown is the home of the famous Bollman Hat. A perfect day trip to find interesting items for merchandising your store, office or home.
http://www.antiquescapital.com
Part of understanding how to provide solutions that work in the real world – is understanding the real world.
The Keystone Design Union is dedicated to continuous travel, visiting new cultures, countries, cities… all designed to expand our Global Design Society and build a first hand understanding of the world we design for and market to.
Too much emphasis is placed on online media. While blogs and sites are an essential parts of modern marketing – by nature anything virtual plays second fiddle to a real world experience. In the coming years we fear that brands that are entirely based online will lose touch with what really connects people and builds real connections.
The World was Designed Offline.
David Gensler
Progress requires a firm understanding of yourself and your relationship with the future.
Long before the long list of creative networks, collectives, databases and special “lists” – The Keystone Design Union was building relationships around the world, servicing real clients with real solutions. While our methodology has been greatly misunderstood and criticized at times, we have continued to grow and produce powerfully profitable results for our clients. As The KDU continues to grow, now more rapidly than at any other point in our history, some critical differences become clear between us and the others – we are NOT a network, a collective, a database, a crowd sourcing engine or a god forsaken “list” – we are a Society. A private society to be precise. The difference is simple – Understanding. Unlike our soulless, massive database driven competitors, the core team personally knows each member of the KDU, understands their strengths and weaknesses and most importantly understands how they work with others to solve problems. We build our members commission free, understanding that a stronger member makes for a stronger overall KDU. While we have remained silent on this issue for many years, it is now time to sound the alarms. All those that supported The KDU, that now in one capacity or another have copy cat “collectives” will be targeted and challenged.
-David Gensler
The “Christopher Bevans” line was shot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Where we took on the snow and made it happen. This was a joy to shoot…
Special thanks to
Model: Rocky Coates
Designer: Christopher Bevans
For ages, anyone thats come by the Laundry! studios has asked me about making skate decks for the masses, and usual me I lagged for ages until now. After months of haggling with production, I managed to squeeze these two out as the start of many. The idea was to play off a Day and Nite them loosely, hence the names of the deck, but really just another avenue to bring my signature lettering and characters to life. As usual, the kdu gets it first, I showed a sneak peak a few weeks back and now these are live for mass consumption on the pkin site.
I had the privilege of collaborating with Justin Maller and David Gensler on a major project for one of the world’s largest sporting events: The 2010 Asian Games taking place in Guangzhou, China.
Special Thanks to:
361˚
and to all who participated in making this a great success
hola amigos, les dejo mi vision 2010 del kDU, enjoy!
The Global News Network (G.N.N) is a fictitious news program we developed for Sony Computer Entertainment as part of the marketing a new multi-player game called MAG.
Check out the 12 cool interactive videos we produced for the digital experience allowing you to rollover content in the videos and click and gain much more information and imagery. It’s pretty cool technology.
This is what TV may look like in 2036.
Here’s a video Little Red Robot had the pleasure of working on featuring SlimKid and FatLip of the Pharcyde.
We developed a 3d world of neon artwork to interact with the rappers.
I’ve been listening to the Pharcyde since I was young teenager, and this was quite cool for me to direct a video for them!
Todd dropped me a line that the KDU x RYZ collabo would be featured in selected Journeys shoe stores, and he wasnt kidding. Front and center as you walk in was the kdu collabo standing strong. At least in the santa monica store, me, anthony faucheux and mago were repped hard as you will see in particular. Trust and thx to the kdu.
OH MY F*cking GOD!! All the doubters can SUCK BLEEP!! The MAG0-Monster has risen.
You can watch the video here
Special thanks to Martin for covering our friends at Denham in Amsterdam and Marc Ecko’s latest ventures.
The KDU is featured in a six page spread covering the first leg of David Gensler’s world tour. First stops were China, where we met teams at Ogilvy and 361 Sports, before heading to Hong Kong to visit Edison Chen at Clot, Chris at IDN magazine and our good friend Brian at Knowledge. We then jumped to Japan for a few days of shopping and meetings. It was inspiring to talk to Frazier and crew at Nike Japan, before visiting Hiroshi Fujiwara, Hiroki and Matt from Visvim and the team at Swagger and Phenomenon. Stay tuned for the next issue of StreetWear Today for more coverage of the KDU world tour.
A little night time sketch to test some new color schemes
Three of The KDU’s top artist got together and collaborated on this insane project. The Network Works!!!! OWWWWW!!!
Special Thanks to:
Justin Maller and Maximilian Philip Spencer
It was a pleasure to visit the East Side London Brand, A Child of the Jago.
The Brits have been doing punk street wear before most brand directors were out of diapers.
View the entire set on Flickr
