Archive for July, 2009
Making Leather Tote
A couple of iPhone pics I took while I was making the tote bag. Here’s the body of the bag cutout and the first handle rivetted on. Here’s both handles on, and getting ready to start sewing on that baseplate. The photos make it look small, but that cutting board is big. A 15 inch [...]
Bulletproof Tote
I’ve made the new bag. I’m calling it the Bulletproof Tote. It was hard work to make, a lot more difficult than the satchel. The body is a single piece of leather again, but there was a blemish/hole in the base, so I covered it with a rectangle of leather to match the base, which [...]
Rakuten Ichiban
Techcrunch have an article about Rakuten. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/05/japans-rakuten-can-the-biggest-e-commerce-site-you-never-heard-of-become-a-threat-for-amazon-globally/ It’s mostly e-business guff, but there is a small section which is relevant to buying goods from Japan. … About a fourth of all items available for Japanese customers can be ordered from selected countries through a service called Rakuten International Shipping Services . Non-Japanese users can access [...]
Levis 4th of July Campaign
http://goforth.levi.com/ Redefine the declaration of independence in your own words, in the spirit of today’s America. It’s the ultimate mash-up, mixing Nationalism with a Corporate brand. Whatever! I just like the boots in this pic.