Apparel and products made from soft materials for personal, recreational, outdoor or work use.
Examples include: clothing, shoes, bags, backpacks, hats, uniforms, sleeping bags, tents, textiles, etc.
Open to Professional and Student work. Professional entries must be produced and released to the market (see Speculative category for concepts and prototypes).
As a Creative Director at frog, Michael DiTullo is a passionate advocate as well as experienced practitioner of design. He has worked with a diverse array of companies such as Intel, Google, Procter & Gamble, Honda, Nike, Converse, Burton Snowboards and Harman Kardon and has products in production in the housewares, consumer electronics, automotive, medical, eyewear, time piece, fashion and performance footwear industries. DiTullo’s work has garnered international awards and he has been featured in many media outlets, publications and design books. Michael is frequently a featured speaker at universities and design conferences. He is particularly focused on physical product design that happens at the intersection of want and need to create objects of desire, manifest brand and impact culture.
With 15 years of experience working in soft good product-design & development, Coleman has a strategic focus on the process of getting it built, on time and to budget. Having worked with Nike, Polo, Gravis, Nixon and owning MEDIUM and VAEL; Coleman blends a specific entrepreneurial background combining product development and business acumen. Specializing in the wholesale sector with expertise in identifying new business opportunities, Coleman conceptualizes and generates soft goods through hands on product development, usually at the factory level. With a solid foundation in industrial design and client relationships; his newest ventures PHYLA and CLOVEN deliver more quality work.
Always finding himself drawn to “sculpture in motion” from an early age, he toyed around with the idea of becoming a car designer before discovering his interest in footwear. Working for apparel brands like The North Face & New Balance, he designed running shoes and new technology concepts; while continuing to develop a keen interest in dynamic forms and biomechanical systems. Believing in human-centered, high performance objects, he has been working to create livable, exciting objects that reflect the desire of the user to push farther, and go faster.
Seeking out new ways to blur the lines between design and emotion, technology and fashion, he founded Formant Studios in 2011; a collaborative design studio with broad experience designing for the consumer electronics, automotive, and fashion industries. Formant has worked on projects with Chris Bangle, HTC, Astro Studios and Proef. Greg is now leading design for Sol Republic, an emerging lifestyle electronics company in San Francisco.
As Creative Director for The North Face, Chris leads Global Creative Strategy, Product Design and Innovation Platform execution including design strategy for the technical mountaineering collection, Summit Series. Chris is a former Nike Global Creative Director and has had the opportunity to work with brands such as Apple Computer and Amazon.com, as well as frog design and Pentagram. Chris founded the influential travel goods and apparel brand ANT-ID in collaboration with the Japanese trading giant, Itochu International. This eclectic collection of high design, high function, soft-goods became a cult favorite in global fashion centers and could be found at Barneys NY and Beams Tokyo. Chris’ work has been selected by Collette, Paris.