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Havaianas and Threadless Debut Six Designs on Flip-Flops, T's

Havaianas, the amazingly popular and remarkably comfortable flip-flop line from Brazil, unveiled in NYC on July 8 the winning designs that came out of the first flip-flop design contest, held in partnership with Threadless.com, the online community-based T-shirt company. Six pairs of flip-flops and six matching T's debuted on Havaianas's website and were launched nationwide on July 12.

Democratic design has been gaining force in the fashion world as companies are "crowd sourcing" and allowing the general public to be part of the artistic process. Havaianas wanted to involve its consumers and fans in this inventive development by hosting the contest in March. The "Threadless Loves Havaianas" design competition was Threadless's first foray into the accessories category and the site's first design challenge outside of T's.

The site received more than 600 design submissions from contestants around the world. Artists Farhan Hassan from Singapore and Alvaro Arteaga Sabaini from Chile drew the highest number of votes and were named the winners. They joined the existing designs by Josh Perkins from Arizona, Jess Fink from New York, Ross Zietz from Chicago, and Emmy Cicierega from Massachusetts to form the collection.

The flip-flops will be sold exclusively on the Havaianas website for $28 each. Threadless.com will produce and sell T's featuring the six winning designs for $18-$20.

Above is the " Royal Wave" design. Check out the gallery for the full collection!

Gallery: Havaianas and Threadless Design Contest Winners

Tags: design contest finalists, flip flops, flip-flops, Havaianas, t shirts, threadless, Ts

Griffin & Threadless Team Up For Fashion Forward iPhone Cases

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Gadgets

It is not always the case that iPhone cases must only be used to protect your iPhone. They can also help make a statement about you. This concept has been clear to many, which is why the business of selling iPhone cases is probably as big as that of selling the phones. Unless you are serial butter fingers and need a heavy duty two inch thick rubber case to keep your iPhone out of the "dead gadget bin" you'll want something thin enough to not detract from your enjoyment of the phone, as well as something that makes a more individualized statement about you than "I am among the millions of people who have this Apple product." To help solve this problem Griffin Technology and the UGC (user generated content) trendy shirt maker Threadless have teamed up to offer two special iPhone cases based on popular shirts - and you can get the matching shirts too. Plus, you can download a matching wallpaper for your iPhone. They have really thought this all out. Now your iPhone will actually match your attire.

The first design is called the "Birds of a Feather" and uses Griffin's ultra-thin soft blue rubberized exterior iPhone case with a design by Ross Zietz. Then you have "Clouds Within The Thunder" by Joe Van Wetering that is a stylized thunder bolt on a yellow version of the case. Each artistic iPhone case is $34.99. You can visit Threadless from links above to check the out more, where there are also links to get the matching shirts for $18 a piece. The cases are also available at select Apple store locations. These items are nifty, and it is smart to change your iPhone case once in a while to keep things fresh. Certainly a minor luxury to have art on anything functional - and that is why I like these particular iPhone accessories.

Gallery: Griffin Threadless iPhone case