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bastard‘s next back to school project was selected, along with projects from 14 other brands in the design industry, to take part in a nice venture promoted by Camera di Commercio di Milano and Provincia in collaboration with Material ConneXion Italia, Domus Academy, IED, NABA and Politecnico di Milano.

Pick a hundred students, coordinated by prominent teachers from the best design schools in Milan, the biggest center in the world for research and consulting on materials and productive processes and 15 Milan based brands that are into developing and bringing innovative products to the market; this is the basic recipe of Un Designer per le Imprese 2012.

We have already started working on it and in the next few days we will meet, at their schools, all the students interested in working with us.

We are happy to introduce the first bastard school line that is distributed in the best stationery shops throughout Italy and sold online in the School section of the bastard store.

Production and distribution are handled by Biembi S.p.A. of Milan.

LET IT ROCK, we cannot write anything else on the Matteo Fumaz Fumagalli snowboard.
Matteo chose a 156 bastard Twin Tip with a custom hard rock artwork made by Alessio Yex Frascati and Luca Duke Oldani.

Fumaz is the first “guinea pig” for the MySnowboard project, would you like to be the next? Write to: mysnowboard@bastard.it

When we wear camo we feel strong and rebel like Rambo.

We love those orgies of form and color that make us camouflage, but exactly like Rambo we hate the horrors of war. This is the reason why when we designed our camo pattern, we included the stylized form of an origami dove, a symbol of peace and fraternity.

Camouflaged, but swollen with peace and love.
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We always knew that skateboarding was born in the 50’s in California by surfers moving on the city sidewalks… what if we suddenly realize that in the Nazi Germany of 1943, Goebbels’ son was using something really similar to what we ride today?

In this video documentary of National Geographic that recently went public on the italian television a skateboard is shown, with tail, trucks, wheels and a proto-ramp for dropping in. Dogtown leftover?

Fontable is a project by designers Alessandro Canepa and Andrea Paulicelli: a new concept of modular elements that form tables using graphic signs; alphanumeric furniture as they call it.

Today they present their first special edition of fontable × bastard.

Tables are made from steel sheets with lacquered paint for indoor and outdoor use, with adjustable legs in painted iron that allow the overlapping and combination of table surfaces.
The Skulltable, that reproduces Ricky Fiorentini’s original skull design, and the Roundtable that reproduces the original round bastard logo have been created specifically for bastard.

Should you want to know more about the fontable world you can visit their website.
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Lukas Goller is a visionary hippie with a thick german accent who has dedicated a big part of his life to snowboarding and the mountains. His brain is a volcano of ideas and his bohemian attitude makes him have a sensitive and focused point of view on the most different aspects of reality.
His sober madness, in contrast with the rationality and the experience of the long time designer/skater/snowboarder Andrea Vecchi has created the the new fw11-12 snowear collection signed by bastard: an orgy of essential lines, functional designs and revolutionary ideas.

Thames & Hudson has just published Total Office Design – 50 Contemporary Workplaces, a 320 pages book edited by Kerstin Zumstein and Helen Parton featuring fifty office projects from around the world.

To the bastard store by studiometrico  the editors dedicated four pages with pictures by Giuliano Berarducci.

The book is now available at the bastard store – as usual – and costs € 30,00.

The girls at Shedonism couldn’t wait for the official release in fall 2011 of RaGazza Ladra, the collection designed by La Pina for bastard, so they had to swing by the bastard store to admire the entire collection.

And La Pina was physically there for presenting her work. The girls took the opportunity to ask her questions regarding life, work, her passions and obviously the RaGazza Ladra clothing collection.

You can read La Pina’s answers on La Pina itw on Shedonism.

Marc McKee and his artwork have been hosted at the bastard store during the days of Milan Design Week, too bad Marc packed everything up on tuesday and flew back to LA with his precious load of skateboards, sketches, drawings and stickers.

Thanks to Marc – who’s also the hand behind skateboardgraphics.com – to Blast! Distribution and to everyone who came by to behold the exhibition of a milestone in the history of skateboarding.

An interview with Marc aired on RAI5 inside the show Cool Tour on Wednesday, April 20^th, here the video. [It’s italian language only, needs Microsoft Silverlight !? and starts at 00:08:38 …sorry for this]

A few copies of the book are still available at the bastard store along with the few silkscreen prints left, which were issued in a limited series of 30 pieces.
The graphic, which you can see in the photo above, is the Jesus taken from the famous Gabriel Rodriguez pro model for 101.