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Today we launch the latest installment of the Curated by Arkitip project with New York-based HunterGatherer. The brainchild of Todd St. John, HunterGatherer is an award-winning design, illustration, animation and production studio.

St. John and frequent HunterGatherer collaborator Gary Benzel created the woodgrain pattern and have applied it to products ranging from furniture to skateboard decks. The signature design has been reintroduced for Curated by Arkitip, ornamenting two of our own signature products: the MacBook Sleeve and iPhone Slider Case.

HunterGatherer is known for its spare, but inventive projects, often combining experimental and hand-built techniques with more complex methods. Since 2000, HunterGatherer has stayed decidedly small, focusing on a limited number of assignments across a wide range of mediums. The HunterGatherer products for Curated by Arkitip add to the studio’s body of work, which include a number of animation projects for clients such as Nike, VH1 and The New York Times T: Magazine, as well as ongoing work for New York City’s green initiative, GreeNYC.

The HunterGatherer 15” Sleeve for MacBook Pro and HunterGatherer Slider Case for iPhone 3G S and iPhone 3G are available today in our webstore and arkitip.com with availability following shortly in select Apple retail stores and better boutiques.

To learn more about the project, watch the video featuring interviews with HunterGatherer artists Todd St. John and Gary Benzel.

One last preview before we launch the HunterGatherer installment of Curated by Arkitip on June 23.

The HunterGatherer Slider Case and 15″ Sleeve will be available next Tuesday along with a video that will give an inside look at the process and inspiration of designers Todd St. John and Gary Benzel.

The fourth installment of Curated by Arkitip features work by New York-based HunterGatherer.

HunterGatherer was founded in 2000 by Todd St. John as a way to bring projects ranging from product design to animation all under one roof. Since then, the studio has become internationally known for its inventiveness and distinctive fusing of hand-built and high-end techniques, creating influential work for everyone from MTV to the New York Times.

The woodgrain-inspired products for Incase are based on a design collaboration between St. John and Gary Benzel, a frequent HunterGatherer collaborator. Be on the look out for more information about our project with HunterGatherer. Products will be available on June 23.

Curated by Arkitip artist Steven Harrington has put together an exclusive mix for Incase and Arkitip. Featuring hand picked tracks from Steven’s collection, Bang-Ga-Wrong is a 45-minute mix of early Jamaican dancehall, dub and roots reggae reworked and mixed with help from Andrew Miller. Enjoy!

Bang-Ga-Wrong Tracklist

1. 0:01 Intro (’Original Sound’)
2. 0:25 Eccelton Jarrett, ‘Turn On The Heat’
3. 2:25 Cocoa Tea, ‘Young Lovers’
4. 4:49 Conroy Smith, ‘Original Sound’
5. 6:41 Courtney Melody, ‘Screechie Across The Border’
6. 9:33 Pinchers, ‘Agony’
7. 11:44 Little Jon, ‘Fade Away’
8. 14:00 Admiral Bailey, ‘Big Belly Man’
9. 15:32 Drum Break (’Whats Going On’)
10. 15:54 Al Fingers, ‘Whats Going On (Truth & Rights Remix)’
11. 19:11 Ecceltron Jarrett, ‘Rock Them One By One’
12. 21:00 Break (’Cuss Cuss’)
13. 21:09 Barrington Levy, ‘Here I Come’
14. 22:06 Roots Radics, ‘Cuss Cuss’
15. 23:06 Anthony B, ‘Warrior’
16. 23:55 Barrington Levy, ‘Come’
17. 26:16 Augustus Pablo, ‘Java’
18. 28:29 Barrington Levy, ‘Murderer’
19. 30:02 Flourgon, ‘Jump Spread Out’
20. 31:40 Keith & Tex, ‘Stop That Train’
21. 33:54 Gregory Issacs, ‘Night Nurse’ + Harry J All Starts, ‘Liquidator’
22. 35:54 Junior Delgado, ‘Sons Of Slaves’
23. 38:38 Upsetters, ‘Flashing Echo’
24. 39:54 Daddy Lizard, ‘Run Girl Run’ + Black Uhuru, ‘Happiness’
25. 42:43 White Mice, ‘Youths Of Today’
26. 44:22 Outro (’Youths Of Today’ + ‘Original Sound’)

Download “Bang-Ga-Wrong” (53.1MB MP3). Also available in the Incase Podcast.

We’re excited to announce our first game for iPhone and iPod touch, Parra Plays. Based on the Parra artwork from the second installment of the Curated by Arkitip project, the app consists of three games:

Poppers
It’s like a touch screen version of “Whac-A-Mole.” Touch the clouds before they pop! Sounds easy enough, right? Keep playing…

Parrot
Loosely based on “Simon Says,” but with a twist. You think you can break 100? Yeah right!

Pairs
Very similar to the classic “Memory” card game. Uncover the matching cards. The faster you do it, the better your score!

Parra Plays is 100% FREE. No ads, no pop-ups, just fun for days.

Don’t forget to check out the other downloadable Parra freebies.

And, if you’re in LA, Parra will be having another show at HVW8 Gallery on April 4th. We’ll be there too of course.

First off, a video of Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer building teepees large and small while installing their 2008 show at Subliminal Projects entitled, “Somehow, We All Seem Connected.”

This video can also be seen in our Podcast, our YouTube channel (in HD) or downloaded from the Steven Harrington Colab page.

And finally, we have some free Steven Harrington wallpapers for your desktop and iPhone.

Stay tuned for another Steven Harrington surprise coming next week.

Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer build teepees large and small while installing their 2008 show at Subliminal Projects entitled, Somehow, We All Seem Connected.

The third installment of Curated by Arkitip launches with Steven Harrington. The Los Angeles based artist created the custom design featured on the Steven Harrington Sleeve for MacBook Pro 15″ and Slider Case for iPhone 3G.

The third installment of Curated by Arkitip launches today with Steven Harrington. The Los Angeles based artist, who has received international recognition for his commercial and self-inspired art projects, created the custom design featured on the Steven Harrington Sleeve for MacBook Pro 15″ and Slider Case for iPhone 3G, both available today.

Harrington’s print work for Curated by Arkitip is representative of his signature aesthetic, incorporating a multiplicty of colorful patterns symbolic of connectivity and community. His designs are often times created from past experiences and childhood memories in addition to influence from Time-Life Encyclopedias 1965-1972, thrift stores and the 60s pysch sounds of The Moody Blues. Harrington leaves his work open for personal interpretation, infusing tangible objects that people can relate to like a photograph or memory.

The Steven Harrington Sleeve for MacBook Pro 15” and Slider Case for iPhone 3G are available now in our webstore and Arkitip and later this month at select Apple retail stores.

Our last update before we launch the next installment for the Curated by Arkitip series with Los Angeles artist Steven Harrington.

We will have a video and a selection of Harrington’s oeuvre to accompany the release next week.

The Steven Harrington iPhone 3G Case and Sleeve for MacBook Pro 15″ will be available February 12.