tagged w/ wallets
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I have compiled a list of the 25 best wallet designs. These designs include retro, pop art, classic, comic, artsy, weird, graphic, horror and funny. These are the wallets that you must have unless your going into an important meeting then you need to walk yourself down to MACYS and purchase a CALVIN KLEIN wallet.I have compiled a list of the 25 best wallet designs. These designs include... more
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Last Friday (Nov 20st) WIRED magazine had an opening party for their holiday shop in NYC's Meat Packing District. (415 West 13th Street)
Dynomighty was invited for the co-branded Mighty Wallet that was on sale in limited editions to promote the WIRED brand. Moby was also there for an interactive mural that is on display at the back of the store and he even threw down some tracks for the super tech chic crowd that filled the space wall to wall.
All in all it was a great event and we hope a precursor to other co-branding opportunities to come.Last Friday (Nov 20st) WIRED magazine had an opening party for their holiday shop in... more
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Every mighty wallet has its own story as to how it came to be created. Each one has its own particular history regarding the design and where the inspiration come from. "My old wallet" is a wallet design that came from the first wallet I was ever given. My grandpa Bob gave me this wallet when I was just a little boy. I can't remember how old I was then but I grew up with my grandparents and was living with Bob and my grandma Mary at the time.
Somehow I managed to keep this wallet over 30 years and found it when I was looking through some old boxes of personal stuff I had stored away. The idea was instantaneous - I looked at the leather wallet and thought - this would be a great design all by itself. I took the wallet into my photo studio and shot it under the bright lights. The photos were used directly on the mighty wallet and the proportions fit perfectly.
The wallet itself was in good shape partly due to the fact that it was never really used it. When my grandpa gave me the wallet I was so small and it was so big I couldn't fit it into my pocket so it spent most of its time in a drawer of my desk until I was big enough to use it. The only thing that wore off was the stitching (surprise) and some writing where he originally wrote my name and our phone number in the middle.
Some people have asked me if he made the design himself. No, he didn't. But at first I thought he might have because my grandpa Bob was an industrious guy. He was a tool and die worker who was always working on some home project and he also did do some metal stamping. In fact the stamping in the wallet looked a lot like some metal stamping that my great-grandfather did to our towel racks. However it wasn't either of their design but they were both hard workers and now I can see the lineage of that in my family coming to rest with me.
I'm very proud that I have the opportunity to make a Mighty Wallet from the leather wallet my grandfather gave me. Its strange but just the other night I was thinking of my grandpa, and I was wondering about his father (my great-grandpa) and his struggle to succeed. My great-grandpa, John Kelleman, was the first in our family to immigrate to the US. Two years ago I visited Ellis Island and saw his name engraved on a monument there.
It seems like things have come full circle now with me moving to New York and continuing the dream of a better life for my young family. Now as a father myself I realize that I didn't get here on my own. The work and struggle that my grandparents and great-grandparents made is why any of this at all possible for me. Now its my turn to try to provide a better life for my wife and our two daughters.
My grandpa Bob isn't alive any more and he never got to see the Mighty Wallet version of the wallet he gave to me. But I know that he would be very proud of the success of Dynomighty and he would have loved to see all the crazy product designs I come up with. I would love to hear what he would have say about these wacky products. He was always equipped with a zinger when he needed one and he didn't hold back when he wanted to speak his mind.
I think he would be very proud and he'd brag about me and our family to all his friends. He would have used a Mighty Wallet himself so he could show it off to anyone he came across at the gas station, mall or track. But I don't know if he'd actually use the "My old wallet" though. He'd probably say "Jeez Terry, If you're gonna sell someone a paper wallet, the least you could do is clean it up and make it straight!" He is missed.Every mighty wallet has its own story as to how it came to be created. Each one has... more
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The folks over at Design Boom have put together some rather creative retro wallets hand-made from old cassette tapes. Since every cassette wallet is hand-made, each is unique and the number produced limited.The folks over at Design Boom have put together some rather creative retro wallets... more
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One World Wallet is a new initiative of artist Jon Coffelt. Jon's duct-tape art wallets are the focal point of a growing social media art work that Jon is creating from the stories of people who use his wallets.
Jon's driving force is his attempt to understand our memories of how we spend and what we spend on, utilising a wallet that is also an art work. By using an art work as a wallet we explicitly make a stand against the dominance of brands, opting for an art inspired product rather than one manipulated by branding techniques.
One World Wallet is a new initiative of artist Jon Coffelt. Jon's duct-tape art... more
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