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maxihealth · 4 years

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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 5 of 5, Letters “U” through “Z”

We’ve had a lovely week on Seneca Lake, re-setting our physical, mental, and emotional clocks in the #KahnCave. It’s been blissful.

I’ve enjoyed receiving feedback on the past four days of ABCovid-19 journal shares on my LinkedIn page and Twitter feed @HealthyThinker. My #arttherapy is yours for the sharing and taking. We are all, truly, on this pandemic journey together. That’s public health, for you.

Today, I bring you the fifth and last day of sharing my COVID-19 alphabet with you: the letters “U” through “Z.” Read on, and please let me know after seeing all 26 alpha’s which page(s) you liked best. I’ve already started version 2 of this, to share new learnings and feelings I have as the U.S. didn’t really crush the curve we so hoped would happen back in April when I completed the pages you’ve seen.

Onward, health citizens.

U is for unemployment

The Great Lockdown of our lives via quarantining and sheltering-in-place also led to a lockdown of livelihoods for many people. I devoted the “U” page to unemployment. While there were other u-words I could have chosen, I wear the professional lens of an economist so this “U” was part of the early forecasting I was doing as COVID-19 took hold of our lives and our jobs.

I found an old scrapbook paper page featuring classified ads (remember those? Those of you who think Craig’s List is Old School won’t, so here’s a useful description of “the classifieds” from Advertising Age).

The photo at the upper left illustrates the dramatic growth up and up of job losses in the U.S. The nation went from 4.4% unemployment in February 2020 to 14.7% in March. As I write this post today, 13th August, nearly 1 mm more people signed up for unemployment benefits; the country recorded an UE rate of 10.2% in July 2020 as some people have returned to their workplaces since layoffs and furloughs began in February and sustained through March and April.

This page reminds the reader that a pandemic impacts not only physical health, but a nation’s people’s economic health and financial wellness. Health is, indeed, wealth.

V is for virus

“V” could have been for vaccine, too, which it will be in my Phase 2 version of the ABCovid-19 Journal v2.

On the “V” page, I lined the base with handmade paper from Florence, Italy, that has organic “bleeding” vertical lines that looked great with the flowing “V” card I found in a deck of alphabet cards.

I cut the chest x-ray image out of an old medical journal I had in my paper stash: we knew early on the respiratory disease aspects of the coronavirus, so this x-ray seemed well-placed here on the virus page.

On the left side, I used a photo from many that have been curated from microscopic images of the virus; this one, in colors that matched the Florentine paper.

I spelled out “virus” using letters from a three-dimensional foam alphabet set called “Thickers” to achieve a lumpy texture on the page.

W is for Wuhan

My last plane trip on business in 2020 was on February 27, when I was engaged to speak with the medical leaders of Sharp Healthcare System in San Diego, California. I always welcome the opportunity to head to San Diego because when it works out, I love to visit with the Scripps Research’s Dr. Eric Topol for a few minutes to brainstorm health, life, liberty, and our pursuits of happiness. I did so on the 27th after landing at SAN Airport, then drove on to the San Diego Marriott, the site of my meeting with the Sharp team.

We convened on Friday morning, the 28th, in a large ballroom — several hundred clinicians, managers, and me. Before I kicked off my early am keynote talk, a senior leader of the organization introduced the meeting with an update for the team on the status of personal protective equipment for the enterprise.

The short story was that, like the bulk of hospitals in the U.S., the source of #PPE (masks, gloves, and other disposable goods used every day by every clinician) was China — and specifically, factories located in Wuhan.

Wuhan was a hotspot for the coronavirus in China. The lockdown of the area led to a huge shock to the PPE supply chain. This article from 4th February WIRED spoke to the impending mask shortage due to the coronavirus in China.

That scenario was my up-close-and-personal intro to COVID-19 through the eyes of a client — a major health provider. I took extra time to consider and curate this “W” page, using Wuhan as the theme. I had this incredibly intricate scrapbook paper of a region of China, with snaking graphics and towns, some circled in red. The undulating design is organic and consistent with the viral context. I found a few travel stickers which were faux passport stamps from Chinese cities, and a red “traveller’s star” piece of ephemera at the bottom left.

I finished the page with a printed photo of a miniature map showing the location of Wuhan in its region.

X is for Disease “X”

In their research into pandemics, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a list of the worst of them; these include

COVID-19

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever

Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease

Lassa fever

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Nipah and henipaviral diseases

Rift Valley fever

Zika, and…

“Disease X.”

This ABCovid-19 journal page calls out Disease X as a warning: there will be yet another pandemic, as yet to be named.

But she’s out there. Be aware. Be prepared.

The base of this page is a map of The World because we are all in the pandemic world together…from Wuhan to Milan to Manhattan to Kirkland, Washington, and on to Austin and Boston and Atlanta and Houston and St. Louis, MO. In the U.S., the spread of COVID-19 would not be limited to the west and east coasts.

I found that surreal graphic at the right in a magazine article talking about Disease X which felt picture-perfect, albeit mega-disturbing… as appropriate.

Y is for yeast

One of the new life-flows awakened in consumers in the pandemic was home-cooking and, in particular, bread-making.

And specifically, sourdough became a normal, reassuring home-making activity. Posting homemade breads on Instagram became a thing for millions of people around the world.

But bread-making requires a basic ingredient called yeast, and in the Age of Corona, yeast was hard to find. USA Today wrote about the shortage, as did People magazine; this was a mainstream challenge which became symbolic as a DIY life-flow signaling control over “something.”

This ABC page is dedicated to that scarce commodity for our pandemic pantries. I lined the page with wonderful vintage kitchen/cooking scrapbook paper, on top layered with images of women cooking and serving with pride.

I love the old toaster on the left labeled “Bon Appetit.”

I took a picture of a plastic bag of flour I bought at Whole Foods which, in the early pandemic, had a shortage of baking supplies. The store had large industrial-sized sacks of flour in their storage area and the staff began to create 5 pound bags of it to satisfy shoppers’ growing baking jones.

Finally…

Z is for Zoom.

Of course, “Z” is for Zoom.

Zoom brought families together during the Judeo-Christian Holy Week in March 2020, for virtual Passover Seders among Jews sharing the annual ritual and Christians on Easter weekend communing in faith and Sunday meals on laptop monitors. Mashable wrote up a primer for how Jews could host a Passover Seder over Zoom. NBC did a “THINK” piece on how G-d could show up digitally in the pandemic, even via Zoom.

For this page, I started with one of my favorite paper lines I’ve hoarded over the years — it’s called “9 to 5” from October Afternoon, and feels a bit like “Mad Men” meets Michael’s or Joann Crafts. I used this paper series for a mini-book I made about my mom’s career, so I really do love the series.

I added in a vintage look journaling card, reminiscent of “Dick and Jane” book art, that reads, “Work at Home,” illustrating a “housewife” doing chores around the home…ironic twist to a page dedicated to a word for a platform that has enabled millions of workers the world over to collaborate online and tele-work from home in the lockdown era.

With Zoom, we complete all 26 letters of the ABCovid-19 alphabet.

It’s been my pleasure to open my #arttherapy kimono to share these pages with you. Each of us needs to hack our way through the mental and emotional side effects of the pandemic. For me, my creative outlets always give me a way to channel frustration, loneliness, and other negative feelings that detract from my resilience and positive energy. The feelings are really and must be acknowledged, but I try to constructively engage with them and arm-wrestle through creativity, processing them but killing them with creative kindness.

That’s more personal content than I usually share on Health Populi, but we live in very challenging times in the Age of Corona. Thank you for traveling this journey with me. We will persist, will will survive and thrive beyond the lockdowns. We’ll wear fashionable masks, find joy in small things, and get to hug each other at some point. Until those in-person hugs come, I wish you well, love, health, and your own constructive creative outlets.

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wdmsolutionsuk · 5 years

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Stock Photography On Your Website?

When is it O.K (if ever) to use Stock Photography on your website?

Getting great images for your web design can be tough, especially when you’re on a budget. Hiring a professional photographer may be the ideal solution but not everybody has that luxury. Thankfully, all is not lost. Queue – Stock Photography. A good web designer will know where to find stock photography and share this with you.

There are 2 different types of stock image available online. If you’ve never looked before it can seem a little confusing. You have:

Royalty Free Stock Images

Free Stock Images

Royalty free images do not always mean they are free to use. You will often still have to pay to use the image, but you won’t have to pay any royalties to the photographer as they have licensed their image to the supplier/website. This is how websites like Shutterstock operate.

Free images are completely free of any charge. You can use them without paying any kind of license fee.

However, it’s important to understand that both of the above image options may well have licensing restrictions that govern how you are allowed to use that image. Sometimes you have complete permission to use however you see fit. Other times you may only be allowed to use the image for non-commercial reasons.

For example, If we’re building a website for you and you want to use a stock image for your website, that may be fine. But if you want to use that same image on your promotional flyers you might have to buy a separate licence to do so.

The site you obtain your images from will tell you the terms of the license and how you’re allowed to use them.

Many of the free sites offer complete freedom so you don’t have to worry about licensing in any way.

DM Compass have put together a fairly comprehensive list (shown below)…

Foter: Foter has 335million frees stock photos. Pictures are divided into the following categories: Abstract, Animals, Art, Building, Business, Celebrities, Education, Fashion, Food, Holidays, Interiors, Nature, Outdoors, People, Religion, Sports, Technology, Vintage

Free Range Stock: FreeRange is mostly utilised for pictures of Food, Landscape, Industry and People photos. You can also find a vast range of Background & Texture pictures.

Gratis Graphy: Graphy offers free high-resolution pictures that you can use on your personal and commercial projects. All pictures are completely free of copyright restrictions

Magdeleine: Magdeleine is a blog that features the best free high-quality stock photographies. On this website, you need to be sure that the image you choose is marked as “public domain” to be able to use it without attribution.

New Old Stock: New old stock offers a great selection of vintage photos from the public archives. It’s the perfect website if you are looking for quality vintage photos for your blog or your social media channels.

Open Photo: Openphoto is a collection of copyrighted photographs (approx 20,000) released under a user-friendly license. You can find beautiful original images by talented photographers on this website.

BucketListy Photo: On Bucktlisty you can find a collection of over 7000+ travel photos from all over the world anyone can use… it’s Pete’s travel blog, a he is a travel filmmaker, a photographer, a digital nomad and a design freelancer.

Pic Jumbo: On Pic Jumbo you can Search and download beautiful free stock photos for personal and commercial use. There are more than 1900 free high-resolution pictures on this website.

Picography: Picografy offers stunning free pictures for everyone to use, the main categories are City Cultural, General, Hospitality, Nature, People, Scenery, Street, Technology and Wildlife.

Pixabay: Pixabay is one of the most used websites on free stock photos. There are more than 1.4million videos and pictures here and it’s one of my favourite websites to use for finding gorgeous pictures for my websites and social media channels.

CreativeCommons: According to Wikipedia, “Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[2] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public.”

Unplash: Unspash has a vast range of high-quality free images and photos you can download and use for any project and no attribution are required for using these pictures. The website claims over 70,000 contributing photographers and generates more than 5 billion photo impressions per month on their growing library of over 509,000 photos.

MorgueFile: MorgueFile is a website database for free high-resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use. You can find here more than 380000 high quality, high-resolution photos, free for commercial use and with no attribution required.

Pexels: Pexels offers a vast range of high-resolution photos for your personal or business project. All photos are free for personal and commercial use and attribution is not required. The website is in English and German.

Public Domain Pictures: Public Domain Pictures is one of the best places with copyright free pictures on the internet. Pictures are organised into the following categories: Animals, Architecture, Background, Business, Flowers, Food, Holidays, Illustrations, Landscape, Light Effects, Macro, Nature, Objects, Office, Other, People, Seasons, Sports, Still, Life, Symbols.

Splitshire: Splitshire offers Free Stock Photos for commercial use without copyright restrictions. There are 982 astonishing pictures to choose for your business or personal use, mostly related to Animals, Nature, Landscape and Fashion.

Stock Photos for Free: StockPhotos4free has a huge range of high-quality free stock photos with thousands of pictures all over the world organised in categories like International Location, US Cities, Backgrounds, Timelapse, Nature and Animals, Light and Energy.

Stockvault: Stockvault is a free stock photo community where “photographers & artists can share their own photos and artwork with people from all over the world” They offer thousands of pictures and illustrations of people, animals, buildings and street photography, landscapes, plant & flower photos, objects from computers & electronics to food and jewellery photos.

Getrefe: Getrefe helps organisations and individuals bring ideas to life in a memorable way. On this website, you’ll find high-quality imagery for all your business or personal projects. Perfect for aspiring designers, bloggers and freelancers.

PhotoPin: Photopin is a free tool that helps bloggers and designers find beautiful photos with Creative Commons licensing. Download the photos and get attribution links already formatted for you.

Startup Stock Photos: Startup Stock Photos offers Free photos for “startups, bloggers, publishers, websites, designers, developers, creators”. There are few images for now but it’s a growing website and it’s worth to keep an eye on it.

Every Stock Photo: Everystockphoto is a search engine for free stock photos, offering community features to the stock photography community. Free photos are listed under creative commons, public domain and other free licenses.

Free Digital Photos: On Free Digital Photos you can Download free and premium stock photos and illustrations for websites, advertising materials, newspapers, magazines, ebooks, book covers and pages, music artwork, software applications and much more. All their free images are of high quality, produced by their community of professional stock photographers and digital illustrators.

Image Base: unfortunately it looks like this website is not working anymore :/

Photogen: On Photogen you can search and download quality free, high-resolution stock photos and images of business, industry, concepts, nature, transport, travel, and many others categories. The Photogen free photo gallery is regularly updated with new quality, high-resolution free photos and images.

Public Domain Photos: Public Domain Photos offers 5,000 free stock images and 8,000 free clipart. they have a good selection of “Business People” photos and these type of images are particularly good for business presentations and business plan.

RGB Stock: RGB Stock is a beautiful website with more than 110000 stock photos and stock images online. Rgbstock has a huge number of high-quality free stock photos and dazzling free graphics for illustrations, wallpapers and backgrounds. It’s one on the first website I check when I am looking for free stock images for my clients.

Unprofound: Unprofound is a small website offering royalty and cost-free photography. You can mostly find there some pictures taken by talented photographers and you can upload your photos too and have your own portfolio online.

As you can see there are plenty of places online where you can get images for your website design without handing over your cash. Some of them are great but be careful. There are plenty of stock images (both free and paid) that should never have made it to the screen.

This hilarious article by BoredPanda.com illustrates this point clearly…

The hashtag #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob, originally started by scientists, has been going around and it is a perfect collection of the times when stock photographers clearly had no idea what they were doing. The fails, along with the inherent cheesiness of the weird stock photos and the indignation of those whose jobs are woefully misrepresented, combine for a perfect storm of funny photos!

Scroll down below to check out a list of Bored Panda’s favourite funny stock photos!

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So, you can use stock images in your web design but should you?

In truth, there’s really nothing wrong with using stock images as long as you’re a little selective and try to steer clear of bot the boring generic stuff or the downright silly (as we’ve seen above).

Even if you find some really good images for your site, it may be worth taking a little extra time to edit them and make them unique. By giving your images their own style that matches your branding, you’ll stand out from the crowd for the right reasons.

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pamelahetrick · 6 years

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How to find your niche as a designer

One of the perks of being a seasoned graphic designer is having a say in which jobs you take—a luxury not available to those without much work to showcase. For this reason, many designers seek to establish themselves in a niche—that is, to hone their portfolio into a specific area of design, which can be based on industry, style, design category or some combination.

A narrowed scope can allow you to see further. Design by Henrylim

But wait—you might ask—won’t working in one specialization limit my clientele? Not necessarily. Specializing often results in a higher skill level and will make it easier to establish yourself as the go-to expert in that type of design—resulting in more work in the long run than the jack-of-all-trades approach.

Deciding on a niche is not to be taken lightly. There’s many to choose from, and there’s demand, your own interests and much more to consider. That’s why we’ve put together some tips to help you settle into a graphic design niche that will keep you engaged and hopefully employed for years to come.

What design work are you naturally drawn towards? —

A great place to start is with your own personal taste—after all, your niche will be a big part of your brand for clients. Your Pinterest boards or saved inspirational images will be a big help here—identify any patterns in style, industry or design category.

Certain industries often come with a common stylistic trend. For instance, designs for games tend to involve realism and detailed painting whereas flat color transitions are useful for designing mobile apps.

You can get this process started early on in school by seeking training in a formal style, such as vintage, which will be applicable to a number of different industries and prepare you for your future preferred niche.

Is there a design niche that fits in with your personal lifestyle? —

Lifestyle illustrations by ~Yuly~

Along these same lines, your own lifestyle can be a big source of inspiration for your potential niche. After all, your hobbies are a reflection of your personality (important for your branding), and if you are already interested in an industry, you will have a big head start as its design expert.

If you are interested in fashion, for example, you probably already have a bank of inspiration to access, from magazines to runway shows. Think about choosing a specialization that will benefit from your knowledge—designer clothing logos, fabric pattern design or posters for fashion events.

Similarly, your background can inform your specialization. If your lifestyle is more rural, channel your familiarity with the countryside into a niche like farm logos or nature branding.

What type of work will keep you engaged in the long run? —

One of the risks of working in a graphic design niche is that you could get burned out or plain bored of working in one area. For this reason, it’s good to think about what niches allow for enough variety and creative exploration to keep you interested for a long time.

Start with what aspects of graphic design excite you the most (geometry, color relationships, etc.). Even something as traditional as typography or negative space can be reinterpreted a million different ways for different clients.

It can also be helpful to look over your past projects and consider which ones made you experience the most growth as a young designer. What projects were the most difficult or taught you some new tricks? This can indicate that there was more creative problem solving required, which is necessary in finding an longterm niche.

What types of clients approach you? —

By AL_X

If you are a designer who is regularly approached by clients, try to recognize a recurring demographic. This might be an indication that your style is naturally suited towards these clients and an opportunity to tailor your portfolio more towards them.

For example, if you are often approached by children’s brands like the following designer, consider filling your portfolio with the kind of designs that work for children’s book illustrations, apparel patterns, branding etc. This will allow you to keep your portfolio diverse while making the most out of a particular client base.

By bananodromo

On the other hand, if you find yourself often working in a broader niche like web design, you might try narrowing the designs in your portfolio to approach those clients from a more specialized angle. Most websites need icon designs after all, and showcasing your expertise in this area might allow you to snag some clients from the designers who resort to clip art.

How can you cast a wide net? —

Design by PANG3STU for wade.mallet.

A niche may refer to a selected focus, but that does not necessarily mean it’s a small one—a piece of the pie can still leave you with a lot on your plate.

In other words, a niche doesn’t always target a single type of business or design format. It’s up to you how broad your niche is, and it’s important to cast a wide net to ensure steady work.

A category specialization like label design can give you access to all sorts of different projects. Just make sure you’re aware that the broader the niche, the more work you may have to choose from but the more competition you’ll face.

Staking out a specific look can be a great way to differentiate yourself even while working in a niche as broad and competitive as logo design. The following designer, for instance, uses a minimalist approach to all of her branding. This allows her to cast a wide net while giving her own designs a clear stylistic trademark—clients know exactly what kind of design they will get with one look at her profile.

A niche is nice —

Now that you’ve got some questions to ask yourself, it’s time to get started staking out your very own design niche. Doing so effectively will set you up as an expert in your field while allowing you to do work that truly interests you. Like anything worthwhile, you might not succeed at the first go and have to start again. Remember that it often takes time to find your true calling, and ultimately sometimes the right niche finds you!

Want to establish yourself as an expert in your niche?

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susaanrogers · 6 years

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How to find your niche as a designer

A narrowed scope can allow you to see further. Design by Henrylim

What design work are you naturally drawn towards? —

Is there a design niche that fits in with your personal lifestyle? —

Lifestyle illustrations by ~Yuly~

Similarly, your background can inform your specialization. If your lifestyle is more rural, channel your familiarity with the countryside into a niche like farm logos or nature branding.

What type of work will keep you engaged in the long run? —

What types of clients approach you? —

By AL_X

By bananodromo

How can you cast a wide net? —

Design by PANG3STU for wade.mallet.

A niche may refer to a selected focus, but that does not necessarily mean it’s a small one—a piece of the pie can still leave you with a lot on your plate.

In other words, a niche doesn’t always target a single type of business or design format. It’s up to you how broad your niche is, and it’s important to cast a wide net to ensure steady work.

A niche is nice —

Want to establish yourself as an expert in your niche?

Learn more

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blue17vintage-clothing · 6 years

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90s fashion is so in right now – so here are the top five mens 90s fashion styles you should know. They are easy to wear and easy to put together, for a no fuss look.

Five mens 90s fashion styles

90s fashion for men was quirky and a little bit unconventional. Many people had very little money and so happily raided vintage stores to get a mis-matched, but charming style. They favourite plaid shirts, chunky sweaters, old band t-shirts, roomy jeans and maybe a little bit of makeup.

Unlike 80s styles, messy layering was in and though the usual style was a shirt open over a t shirt with maybe a cardigan over that, the more daring might wear a pretty dress over their jeans instead. Actually, that went for girls too. However, this was more for rock stars and isn’t a part of the 90s revival I’ve seen on the catwalk lately.

90s hair and makeup

90s hair could be coloured or bleached but it should look like you did it at home, and if you want to wear makeup it should look like you’re not very good at it. No point following today’s excellent make up boy’s you tube channels, they’re just too polished. For style inspiration, try looking towards Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Brian Molko or Jarvis Cocker. Top 90s female style stars were Liv Tyler, Drew Barrymore, Rachel Green, and Jennifer Aniston.

Indie movies like Slackers and the Big Lebowski are great to watch to get inspiration, and just great to watch anyway. The Matrix was also huge in the 90s for its awe inspiring special effects, but seriously, don’t watch that for fashion advice. Neither the bits where they wear leather trench coats nor the bits with holey jumpers and sad expressions are a great fashion statement.

Five Mens 90s Fashion Styles – Separates

Since the 90s have come back at the men’s fashion weeks, it’s a vintage fashion look you might want to try. Don’t worry, it’s very easy to wear and flattering. There’s no tight trousers that only suit the skinniest of figures, or bright colours that draw attention. Instead it’s a little bit of luxury in the shape of a velvet blazer, and a lot of practicality in the shape of sweaters and parkers.

Here’s my top five mens 90s fashion styles and how to wear them. The trick is not to go for a full look or you’ll seem like you’ve wandered off a film set. Just pick and choose elements you like and wear them as a twist. Our model, Josh, illustrates this perfectly as he sports a very fashionable beard, and is very well groomed, which isn’t something most 90s men could boast of.

The Blue Levi 501 Jeans

josh -Blue Levi 501 Jeans

The classic that has rarely been out of fashion for urban men. The cut is high waisted, and relaxed through the leg. The classic 90s wash is a mid-blue, but really however they come. The idea is that these jeans have been loved, worn and washed many times.

In the 90s these jeans were a kind of anti-fashion – they represented no particular style statement. They weren’t wide leg, like in the 70s, they weren’t bleached and patterned like fashion 80s fashion. They were just your average joe, comfortable jeans to pull on and go.

Now though, amid more contemporary skinny jeans and dark washes, these jeans stand out. Just a bit, and just enough to look stylish. They are still as comfortable as ever. Roll up the hems for a modern touch like Josh does.

The White Wool Sweater

Close up white wool sweater

A classic 90s outfit was often bought at a vintage store. That’s where, if you’re smart, you’ll shop for a cosy white sweater. Josh models a simple chunky white rib one here. You might have noticed the trend for Norwegian or Fisherman style sweaters, and this is an excellent example.

Bought new, these tops can be very pricy but in a vintage store they are inexpensive. For 90s style, pair it like Josh with your 501s, and just a t-shirt or nothing underneath.

The Olive Green Parker

Who can forget the Blur vs Oasis battle of the 90s? Both of these bands claimed to be alternative. But both had thousands of fans and ranked highly in the pop charts. And both bands had a favourite jacket – the parker. Olive green for preference, it was part of their lad’s uniform. Last time I saw lead singer Noel Gallagher on stage he was still wearing his.

The parker also has a longer urban fashion pedigree than just the 90s. The highly stylish Mods of the 1960s, a style and culture tribe who famously fought with their rivals, the Rockers, also wore green parkers. In fact, Noel Gallagher really liked Mod styles, sporting a bowl haircut and sideburns in the 90s as a revival. So that’s where the 90s popularity came from.

Whatever their genesis, parkers are a fashion outfit that is lightweight, will keep the rain off and look good.

The Diamond Print Sweater

josh-Diamond Print Sweater

This is definitely a look you want to go to the vintage shop for. This brown and yellow roll neck with its distinctive pattern is something for your 90s party, but also every day. It is really playing into the trend for oversized woolly jumpers.

Men fashion is often about practical, wearable items with a twist like an unusual print, pattern or colour way that sets the clothing apart from the crowd and this really fits the bill.

The Velvet Blazer

josh- Velvet Blazer

The velvet blazer is one of my very favourite men’s party outfits. It can be styled very simply, with a black roll neck and black dress trousers. Wear dress loafers, as Josh does here, (no socks though!) or if you really want to make forproper Mens 90s fashion styles, try black Dr Martens.

The usual colours for the velvet blazer in the 90s was an un-patterned, block colour in olive green, navy blue, burgundy, brown or black. This isn’t a peacock style, just a touch of the luxurious. Don’t be tempted to wear it with a cream silk cravat or tiny moustache like a dashing 40s film star, unless, of course, you want to look like a dashing 40s film star.

Finally, 90s style is about relaxing, mix and matching, and having fun. So go have fun!

The Top Five Mens 90s Fashion Styles You Should Know Of 90s fashion is so in right now – so here are the top five mens 90s fashion styles…

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njawaidofficial · 7 years

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Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner Approved Clothing Label Local Authority Channels Dark Side Of Surfwear

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Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner Approved Clothing Label Local Authority Channels Dark Side Of Surfwear

Co-founders Alan Sutcliffe and Jeff Skene talk about the dark humor behind the brand that’s being worn by everyone from Sting to Kourtney Kardashian — and decipher the ‘Fucked Up Friends Club’ tagline.

That cheeky “Cougar Lounge Beverly Hills” T-shirt that Kourtney Kardashian rocked in 2016 amidst rumors that she was having a fling with Justin Bieber, 14 years her junior, was the creation of Malibu streetwear label Local Authority. While the brand name may not register immediately, flying under the radar is one of its chief attributes — one that’s appreciated by a fan base that includes Sting, David Beckham, Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner, The Weeknd, Kristen Stewart and Kendrick Lamar.

Need we say more?

On Thursday night, Local Authority co-founders 37-year-old Alan Sutcliffe and 33-year-old Jeff Skene (also co-surfers, co-motorcyclists and co-residents of Malibu) feted their weekend takeover of Maxfield Malibu with cocktails made of Casamigos tequila, the brand created by George Clooney and Rande Gerber, another Malibu success story.

The pop-up shop, open through Sunday, features Local Authority’s graphics-and-logo laden merchandise — one-of-a-kind upcycled vintage T-shirts ($450) and hand-painted items such as denim jackets ($1,805) and Converse Chuck Taylor All Star high-tops ($895).

Easier on the wallet are small runs of baseball caps ($125) and screen-printed T-shirts ($110) cut and sewn in L.A. and adorned with provocative phrases such as “Sunset Strip Club” and “City Of Angels, Dealers Of Death & Destruction.” There are even a handful of surfboards ($3,800) and skateboards ($1,200 or $950 for a deck) showcasing the brand’s signature dark humor.

Come Monday, a smaller selection of items will continue to be available in L.A. exclusively at Maxfield stores in Malibu and West Hollywood. The line is also sold worldwide at stores such as Montaigne Market in Paris, Selfridges in London and Jeffrey New York.

Below, Pret-A-Reporter caught up with Sutcliffe and Skene to chat about the line they created in 2014.

On the designers’ backstory:

Skene: I grew up in Malibu. My dad is a very focused businessman [mortgage broker Jack Skene] and my mom is an artist [sculptor Roxanne Skene], so they are both creative. I grew up surfing and met a few guys who worked for industry brands like Hurley and Volcom, and they hired me right out of college to do illustration work. From there, I worked with Diane Von Furstenberg’s son Alex Von Furstenberg to remodel a store and design product for his [now defunct] surf shop Clout in Malibu, where I had the opportunity to do a lot of custom stuff. Then I worked for Jason Bleick’s L.A. brand Ever, where I really learned the trade of doing custom design.

Sutcliffe: I’ve worked in sales for Harley Davidson, Chrome Hearts and Maxfield; I spearhead business development and play a role in the brand’s overall design and vision. Jeff and I have worked together on different creative projects for about 10 years now. I’m originally from Southampton, England, but have lived in Malibu for 12 years.

On what inspired Local Authority and its edgy humor:

Sutcliffe: We launched in 2014 with a reworked vintage collection of T-shirts, jackets and shirts … we really thought we could capture something unique that was not in the market — the essence of a more rebellious side of the Southern California surf, skate and motorcycle culture, as opposed to the more commercial, Beach Boys stuff. This is more aggressive and rock ‘n’ roll.

Skene: There are a lot of small core surf shops around here that offer product that is about the Malibu lifestyle, but we didn’t see anything in this market that was a fashion-caliber product. We thought it would be cool to do something that had an element of fun but was still edgy. It’s dark, but everything’s supposed to be taken lightly.

On the vintage vibe:

Skene: We started by going to the Rose Bowl Flea Market and thrift stores and buying true vintage pieces and then screen-printing our logos on them and remaking them, cutting them up and doing custom patches. Now that we’ve grown, we offer our main cut-and-sew line [made in L.A.], but for specialty stores, we get information about their location, which is as special to them as Malibu is to us, and work with them directly to come up with fun, custom concepts that really pay tribute to that community … The exclusivity of the brand is really important, so that’s something we’re trying to hold on to. That’s part of our strategy, to keep it pretty limited.

Sutcliffe: We’ve always been inspired by vintage textiles and the way they look and feel on your body. We really wanted to capture that in the DNA of the brand, even once we started to [manufacture], so we worked on the wash of the garments a lot and Jeff developed the screen-printing techniques to create an aged look and feeling.

On that tagline:

Sutcliffe: One of the reasons we came up with the Fucked Up Friends Club idea was that almost all our friends had gone to rehab or been divorced or gone bankrupt, so we thought, you may as well enjoy and own the revelry and craziness that life holds. It’s better to laugh at it!

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