nooka sightings: school of seven bells

if you follow my posts, you know i'm a fan of school of seven bells and tag them as a band to watch from ghostly records. here is an interview with them where the interviewer talks at length on the nooka watches they're wearing, but unfortunately, doesn't mention nooka once! :( oh well! we know what they're talking about.

full interview here.

band site here. buy the album on itunes and cd shops worldwide!

fake gold and gold leather models they wear available here and fine retailers.

upcoming: nooka zon

again, this has somehow leaked before i could blog about it – our nooest nooka, the world-time nooka zon™

conceptually, the zon is closest to my concept of representing time as you experience it – the pixels fill up one minute at a time just as sunlight or fills and empties the sky through 12 hour cycles. it is also evocative of the hourglasses that fill with sand as time progresses. and as intuitive as it is, i doubt there will be many people who can glean the exact time from the display – so at the touch of a button: a standard analog digital display replaces the grid of pixels!

i personally engineered this watch to sit squarely on the top of the wrist no matter which are you choose. you will have to adjust the strap to flush right for your left arm and flush left for your right [or center if you prefer it that way]. a custom tool is included with the kit to accomplish this.

moreover, this is a world time watch with 24 cities pre-programmed for the world traveller like myself.

it has a weight to it that is new for our line and i hope you will lve it as much as i do.

-matthew waldman november 15th 2008

available soon!

matthew waldman on miho hatori's elle japan blog

[posting from puerto rico this week!] really cool blog by super artist miho hatori for elle magazine japan. miho really 'got' the philosophical underpinnings of my designs without any explanation from me – so nice to expand the mutual admiration society!

in japanese here.

you can buy the watch i'm sporting here.

photo by miho hatori.

nooka on karmaloop tv!

nooka zubs on karmaloop tv!

if the code isn't working right the link to their site is here.

a very busy thursday night

this past thursday was very busy indeed. first, the booka launch party for the new steven heller book, the design entrepreneur, in which there's a 2 page interview with me, and then the very glam opening party for the new ddc lab store on mercer street in soho! it was fun to have both uptown chic and downtown buzz in the same night! all the ddc brand ambassadors were sporting prototypes of the upcoming ddc lab + nooka collab with their ddc lab + new balance fashions. it seemed like everyone in the fashion world was there so i got to cram a lot of socializing into one evening [the redbull and vodkas certainly helped].

ilovedust + kidrobot

friend and fellow creative genius, mark graham, presented me with this AMAZING hand customized munny last night. i LOVE it. thanks mark! i decided to scan the figure this time and it looks like a space baby in the space station cloning lab.

ilovedust site here,
kidrobot here.

devilrobots urban vinyl

shinichiro kitai of devil robots and i have been members of each others mutual fan clubs from the very beginnings of each of our design studios. it's so exciting to to see his work evolve and grow over the years. here is a snapshot of some recent additions to my studio from his!

most figures shown available here.