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While it's not quite glamping, FieldCandy tents certainly up the hip quotient to sleeping in the great outdoors. Perfect for Music Festivals, traditional camping and even for a night in the backyard, FieldCandy tents are made in the UK, high performance, hardy expedition tents with classic ‘A’ frame storm tent construction and digitally printed flysheets (or covers).






The digitally printed flysheets are what make these tents stand out from any other. Limited editions by contemporary artists, photographic images of food, textures and trompe l'oeil, and everything from clever to edgy to cute.










With tons of options (over 50!) to choose from, all the FieldCandy tents are made of 100% polyester and are waterproof to a minimum of 3m hydrostatic head. Fire retardant to EU & US standard, they are also flex and tear tested, highly UV fade resistant, treated with Ultra-Fresh and coated with fluorocarbon (Teflon) for ultimate strength and durability.

Here are a few of my favorites:















The Inner Tent
FieldCandy's inner tent is 100% natural cotton, that's breathable - result a dry and comfortable nights sleep:


What's in the box:



Product Features:

Heavy Duty Zip
We only use zips from the worlds leading zipper manufacturer YKK, your flysheet will feature a particularly heavy duty YKK zip with large inner and outer toggle protected by a Velcro zip cover.

Pegging points
FieldCandy tents have extra pegging strong elastic and adjustable pegging points for security and stability, designed to prevent roof dipping and groundsheet rucking, with storm guy lines for extra protection in bad weather.

Extra strong pegs
Completely different from old fashioned tent pegs, FieldCandy pegs are a new design from hardened aluminum, extra strong, designed not to bend with a handy little hole for your custom peg puller.

Every FieldCandy tent comes with spare tent pegs, so don’t worry if there are pegs left over, even when all the pegging points are full. A hammer comes as standard that saves hurting your foot pushing the pegs in.

Easy set up poles
High quality, high strength, low weight precision engineered Aluminum Alloy poles in silver.

You will be amazed how quick and easy it is to set up the tent poles. Hold each pole at one end, give a little 'wiggle' and they slot together all by themselves. Very clever. They are environmentally friendlier, stronger and lighter than standard poles.

Breathable Cotton Inner Tent
When you breath you create moisture, most modern day tents are made from plastic so there is nowhere for that moisture to go - result misery. FieldCandy's inner tent is 100% natural cotton, that's breathable - result a dry and comfortable nights sleep.

Sewing & Sealing
FieldCandy inner tents are sewn with cotton and the flysheets with treated polyester, both through flat felled seams, which are then seam sealed for maximum performance.

Spacious sleeping area
Larger than other two person tents, the light grey interior creates a sleep-inducing environment for a more comfortable night. With a mesh window for ventilation and increased light, along with a lantern hanging point for those dark cosy evenings.

Safe as well, your inner tent is fire retardant to EU and US standard CPAI-84, but please always make sure that all cooking, fire lighting, smoking etc. takes place a safe distance away.

Lockable storage pockets
No tent can be 100% secure, but most thefts are opportunist - so reduce the risk with your valuables by locking them away in the four pockets that lock with the combination padlocks provided.

There’s masses of other handy storage places, four see-through storage pockets and two mobile phone / MP3 pockets, for all those important bits and pieces.

Sizes & Weight
Outer dimensions: 3.55m (L) x 1.7m (W) x 1.4m (H) or 11'8" (L) x 5'7" (W) x 4'7" (H)
Inner dimensions: 2.65m (L) x 1.5m (W) x 1.3m (H) or 8'8" (L) x 4'11" (W) x 4'3" (H)
Carry bag: 0.6m (L) x 0.2m (W) x 0.25 (H) or 1'11" (L) x 8" (W) x 8" (H)
Weight including accessories: 7.4Kg / 16.3lb
Weight complete tent only: 6.3kg / 13.9lb

Instructions
Although very easy to pitch, FieldCandy tents are supplied with practically indestructible, waterproof instructions just in case!

Owners Manual
Wherever you pitch your FieldCandy tent, expect questions. Your Owners Manual contains many of the answers. It also, of course, tells you how to use and care for your tent.

Authenticity
FieldCandy certifies that your tent is authentic and one of a limited edition of an exclusive design manufactured and sold in accordance with our policies and standards. This certificate is issued after your tent has passed all quality checks and immediately before it is packed for shipping. It is genuine only if it displays the authorised stamp of Outstanding Tents Limited.

FieldCandy is the Registered Trade Mark ® of Outstanding Tents Ltd, based in Jersey, our design office is in the mountains of Italy, and our products are printed, manufactured, assembled and distributed worldwide from ENGLAND.

See and shop all the FieldCandy tents here

all images courtesy of FieldCandy

Artist Yiying Lu created this fun animated infographic for the San Francisco based data visualization company Visual.ly

Included after the infographic are some of her good 'old school' hand drawn ink sketches for the project.








Visual.ly
Yiying Lu

above: a dress and t-shirt made by designing digitally online and then printed and sewn for you by CONSTRVCT.

Having successfully reached their funding goal on kickstarter ($11,250 were pledged of their $10,000 goal), you're bound to hear more about this unique idea by Mary Huang & Jenna Fizel.



CONSTRVCT is an interactive fashion collection. You can design your own wearables that are then printed and manufactured for you. Custom designed art and images are uploaded to your choice from various classic garment silhouettes, digitally printed on jersey fabric and then sewn in your size and packaged by CONSTRVCT.



It is a new system of digital bespoke, where the web and computer driven design and production mediate the creation of unique designs. The name "Constrvct" refers to this act of creation. The collective goal is to create a social fashion label that reflects the creativity of the people who wear the clothes.

How it works:
Starting with a few classic silhouettes, everyone is invited to create their own designs by uploading photos or images that are turned into digitally printed clothing on double knit cotton jersey like simple dresses and t-shirts.

The example shown below is using a photo that Jenna took of stained glass in Barcelona:


When a design is ordered, the artwork and the cutting pattern are printed onto fabric with inkjet textile printing (this allows them to create production runs of 1 in a streamlined manner):


Voila! - Mary wears a dress made from Jenna's photo of the stained glass:


For the Jersey dresses, sizes US 0-16 available, in standard, petite, and tall. They can also do custom sizing.

The clothing can be custom sized, and your name printed right into a tagless "label" on the garment. Plus, custom packaging with your fabric swatch and initials:


Their larger vision is to be able to achieve truly crowd-sourced fashion design, where anyone can publish their own fashion collection, with full production and retail ready to go.



The team, shown above, is Mary Huang and Jenna Fizel. Mary in NYC and Jenna in Boston, they have backgrounds in building cutting edge interactive experiences and have a history of creating exciting ideas in experimental fashion design.


CONSTRVCT

The official teaser movie artwork and poster designed by BLT Communications for Quentin Tarantino's "Southern" (don't call it a Western), Django Unchained, has been released.



The stylized graphic poster resembles those by the magnificent Saul Bass (whose West Side Story, Anatomy of A Murder and Vertigo movie posters are shown below) with its minimal color ink and flat two dimensional imagery.



The movie has inspired many designers and artists to create some of their own. I have compiled a large gallery of fan posters by scouring some of the best-known artist portfolio sites on the web, such as Society6, Deviant Art and Behance and other individual sites to share them with you. I've even included credits and links to purchase them as art prints, where available, for you.

by Joel Amat Guell:

by Deep Search (Society6):

by Luis Fernando Cruz (Society6):

By John Houzer Smith:

Three beautiful versions by Italian graphic designer Federico Mancuso:



by John Patten:

by Dcomp (Deviant Art):

by Fluidzen (DeviantArt):

by Shokxone-Stdios (DeviantArt):

by DazTibbles(DeviantArt):

by Crusty Dog (DeviantArt):

by BaoThao (DeviantArt):

by Ninjaiworks (DeviantArt) and on Behance:

by herbertroy (DeviantArt):

by N8MA (DeviantArt):

by Daniel of the UK's Screenhopping site:

by Jamie:



Here was an older poster design by an unknown artist made prior to actor Joseph Gordon Levitt having to pull out of the film:


While Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (scheduled for release on December 25, 2012) isn't a remake of the 1966 Django Western starring Franco Nero, it is in the "shoot-em-up" genre of Spaghetti Westerns and comparing the new posters to the 1966 movie posters is very interesting - especially given the 'retro' Saul Bass-like design of the official 2012 movie poster.

1966 International Movie Posters for Django and some subsequent sequels:
German:

French:

Japanese:


Italian (left) and Yugoslavian (right):

Spanish:

German DVD version:

A special thanks to all posters and the movie poster shop for the vintage poster images

Since the movie isn't scheduled for release until about six months from now, I'm sure we'll be seeing many more fabulous non-official posters for Django Unchained - and I intend to keep you updated.

The Official Django Unchained Movie Site

See all Int'l versions of the official teaser poster here.