Horween Leather x Vividbraille bag

It only made sense to use Chicago's own Horween leather as we gear up to create the "Universal bag". Bag will be available at the Vividbraille store by Thanksgiving. More info to come...

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Vegas Part 2

Here are more pics from our travels. To be continued...

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MAGIC Las Vegas Day 2

Our first couple of days here in Vegas has been so much fun. With so many great people and brands it has been hard to share with you all that we have seen and experienced. We will keep you posted as our trip continues, and as our journey to bring back some of our favorite brands and pieces to the VB store continues. More to come...

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Now on to the Goods!

As the store interior is practically finished, we turn our sights to the hand picked goods we will be featuring (cant wait to see what Vegas has in-store). In the meantime here is a look at the finished interior of the store (including tools and ladders). Photos courtesy of Dale Murray (the one and only).


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We are working hard to bring all of our favorite lines under one roof. Be on the look out for rsvp invites via email and facebook. More info to come...


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Man Vs. Machine

I had a discussion with a friend the other day in which he was comparing humans to machines. I don’t know what enticed us to have a conversation of this magnitude, possibly that he was watching a sci-fi movie on television. Never the less, it got me to think about machines and if I should feel threatened that some super computer one day will take the art and design world by storm. Than I concluded that, this would be impossible. Machines and computers operate in binary code. Everything to them is a bunch of 1’s and 0’s. Art and design is fluid and that is all 7’s and 8’s and every other number possible. Now, granted they both have forms of intelligence. In machines and computers it is artificial. It must be programmed what to do. With art and design it is a genuine intelligence that is experienced in our daily lives. Machines are limited to their own color scale. Black and white has plenty of possibilities but is no match for the color wheel that art and design have in their arsenal . Art and design flow like electricity through each and every one of us and it is up to you how to translate that current into your own signal. How bright that signal is, is determined by you the operator.

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The economy has wrapped its dark hands on America's motor city. These images are from the country's most notorious ghost town. With the struggles US auto manufacturers have been through in the past years it has taken its toll on not just the manufacturing facilities, It has slowly infiltrated its Art's centers and has deteriorated them to the point of almost being unrecognizable. The massive out flux of people leaving Detroit for other metropolitan areas of the country has put the fast forward on the decay of some places full of history and passion that may not ever be returned to its formal self.