The A-List Of Fashion Tips For Designers
Being a designer doesn’t mean your creativity stops at the pixels on your iMac. You can stand out and be creative with what you wear, too. These fashion tips will get you started in the right direction.
Fashion tips for designers
1. Black rimmed glasses (an essential component to the designer lifestyle)
You’ll get automatic designer street cred with these babies, anecessary item in any designers ensemble:
link: http://bit.ly/black-rimmed-glasses
2. A killer T-shirt
A unique, illustrated t-shirt is an essential element to any designers wardrobe – especially one about Japan
link: http://bit.ly/custom-t-shirt
3. Shoes to match the soul
Get some designer respect with these classic converse with a twist -At the same time 5% of each purchase goes to the fight of AIDS
link: http://bit.ly/converse-shoes
4. What time is it?
Get the classic, minimal look with this watch hanging off your wrist
link: http://bit.ly/minimal-watch
5. The iPhone
Being part of the mac culture of great design extends not to just your computer, but your phone, too
link: http://bit.ly/iphone-phone
6. Write your creativity down
Don’t be the guy that has the next best design only to lose it because he didn’t write it down – use a custom moleskin notebook and record
your creativity
link: http://bit.ly/moleskin-notebook
These are just a few fashion tips for designers that will help set you apart from the crowd and help you tap into your creativity. You may be asking yourself, “Does it really matter what I wear?” I once read a quote that said, “If the look of something doesn’t matter, why do we comb our hair?” Why indeed.
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3 and 5 is what I do. Number 4 is an option geeks say why do you need a watch, use your phone… Although if you are fashion geek probably get one of those led flashy watches or something that looks nice but don’t have one…
For 2 I sport band t-shirts daily. Today’s Panic at the Disco, yesterday Landmine Marathon, Day Before Napalm Death, Day Before that Jimi Hendrix, Day before that Strike Anywhere, ok well you get the idea… After all I went to to college to study Music, I am self taught in all my computer skills and became a web developer.
@Mike – I think you’re right about the watch/iphone overlap. I like the idea of an LED flashy watch. In the 3rd grade my heart coveted the Panasonic calculator watch. To this day, it still makes my inner nerd swoon.
Illustrated t-shirts are all the rage in the design world, and I’m sure there’s some wicked awesome band illustrations out there. Try threadless.com for some great tees.
Was just waiting to hear that from someone else. Its been proven watch sales fallen because of Cellphones one less thing and now worries about daylight savings time as well. Watches should be getting smarter soon as a cellphone maker did make a cellphone watch don’t know how it was taken as I haven’t seen many with it and their are some caller id watches with fossil and the like. Ya, even more geeky…
spelling mistakes:
Their- “There”
Now-”no”
I think you’re right – as phones become more and more our everything gadgets, watches and their like will fall with the trending times.
Wait a sec, I thought that by wearing these items I was being original?
Who am I?
@Zach – you are who you are, but we all fit into a culture, too. These fashion tips are simply small measures to start the acculturation process into the design community. All communities have their distinct dress guidelines, it’s just a matter of whether or not we want to ‘fit in’.
Besides, originality is somewhat of a cultural myth, in my opinion.
Hipsters ruined geeky fashion. :’( Fun article, though. I give it four out of five stars (minus one for the iPhone love *hehehe*).
@TheAl, I didn’t make the rules, I just point em out so other designers and designer want-to-bes (that’s me) can fit it where they get it.
And I agree about the Hipsters.
I really think you should replace the minimalist watch with its binary counterpart.
LOL…. I usually dress up like that…yeah … I dont have a iPhone and moleskin notebook… actually I’m not kinda notebook person also.