Work at Ace Hotel and Swim Club Palm Springs

7 January 2009

We are holding a job fair today Jan 7th and tomorrow Jan 8th, 9am-3pm at Ace Hotel and Swim Club in Palm Springs

Ace X CMJ

27 October 2008

We just got back from College Music Journal ‘08 Music Marathon & Film Festival in  NYC. The whole week was a blast, but the highlight for us was the Knitting  Factory and Spectre’s PDX@CMJ event, which showcased nearly 30 Portland  bands.

We were excited to participate in PDX@CMJ in the form of an Ace Photo Booth. People piled in for some great party shots, like these ones.

The event tied  everything together for us – Portland, great bands and New York City. Look for Ace Hotel New York to open Feb 1st and Ace Hotel Palm Springs to open in mid-January.

Ace Photo Booth

Portland Band Starfucker on stage and in the Photo Booth

Blind Pilot and Hannah From Spectre Music

Other Photo Booth Shots from the night

Ace Hotel X Tokyo

2 October 2008

This past Friday Sept 26th in Tokyo Japan, Ace Hotel in collaboration with Cute Alert and Travel Portland, hosted “One Night in Portland”.

The event was held at the infamous Le Baron nightclub in Aoyama and featured a performance by the Portland band Starfucker as well as DJ Girlfriends.

The band and DJ played to a packed house filled with Tokyo influencers and cool kids. Center stage featured a video projection of Portland Style presented by Cute Alert and attendees received a gift that included a Portland Survival Guide (In Japanese) created by the Ace Hotel and compilation CD of local music put together by Dave Allen and Travel Portland.

The party was a unique collaboration for a hotel and visitors association.

*All Photo Credits are Tokyo Dandy EXCEPT DJ Girlfriends Photo which is The Cobra Snake

One Night in Portland…in Tokyo

25 September 2008

If you happen to be in Tokyo tonight check out a party we pulled together with Cute Alert and Travel Portland.  The Portland band Starfucker and DJ Girlfriends are playing at the infamous Le Baron in Aoyama.  

New York Paris, Paris New York

16 September 2008

There is a new airline called l’avion that started a little over a year ago, all business class, point to point between NYC and Paris.  Pricing is reasonable for business class, the overall design and branding is very crisp. Staff uniforms are tres chic,  good food, I highly recommend this airline for Travel from NYC to Paris.

Ace Hotel New York

26 August 2008

Check out some drawings of the new Ace Hotel New York.  These were drawn by our design firm Roman and Williams.

Here is a little info on the new hotel, located at 29th and Broadway in Manhattan.  The Ace Hotel New York features a wide variety of room types.  From bunk bed rooms starting at $199 all the way up to Loft Suites at $899

Ace is the low card and the high card.  Our basic rooms are affordable but replete with cool amenities. Our big suites offer all the luxury you would expect from a high-end hotel. Our sensibility is democratic and inclusive. We appeal to a broad spectrum of travelers, directly, without reducing everything to the lowest common denominator.  The proof is in the common areas, where all these disparate types come together in a social place that is both dynamic and intimate, vibrant and warm.

Ace Hotel New York is improvisational, a mix of styles, historical periods and objects that come together in layers. The hotel’s design takes its cues from the vibrancy of street life, the honesty of materials and the potential of invention. It is about soul, latent in the old architecture and re-introduced through the new design.

Design Competitions in Japan

17 July 2008

Our good friends at Shift magazine in Japan are hosting some amazing design competitions this year, check below for information and good luck.

UT GRAND PRIX 2009

UNIQLO’s annual T-shirt design competition since 2004, the 5th “UT Grand Prix” will call for entries from July 15th.

Based on the concept of “T-shirt Design Olympics”, UT Grand Prix calls for T-shirt designs from young & upcoming creators from all over the world. Works will be chosen from more than 10,000 submissions in the first and second phases of judgment, & these will be shown on the web. In the final stage, 20 designs will be selected by presiding guest judges, & these designs will then be sold as UT (UNIQLO T-shirt) at UNIQLO stores. Cash & other prizes will be also presented to the winner(s). The Grand Prix (top) prize is 3 million JPY (or equivalent in local currency at current rates).
Submission Period: July 15th – September 21st, 2008
http://www.shift.jp.org/en/blog/?p=216

AMUSE ARTJAM 2008

AMUSE ARTJAM, a new art competition by a Japanese agency for all-round entertainment “AMUSE”, will open calling for entries from August 1st. This is a competition that has counted more than 5000 submissions and total 70000 visitors in the past 6 events, gathering attentions as a gateway for young artists to success. This year as a new project, they will open a new gallery for contemporary art called “ArtJamContemporary” in the art complex building “NADiff A/P/A/R/T” in Ebisu, Tokyo. The participants of ARTJAM will be mainly featured in the gallery and sent to the world.

Anyone can participate in this competition regardless of genders, nations, ages, educations, professionals or amateurs, and genres. However, the competition winners need to participate in the award ceremony, which will be held in The Museum Of Kyoto on October 5th, 2008.
Submission period: August 1st – 31st, 2008
http://www.shift.jp.org/en/blog/?p=215

12TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

CG-ARTS Society with Agency for Cultural Affairs and The National Art Center, Tokyo will start calling for entries for 12th Japan Media Arts Festival. They seek vibrantly creative works that are opening up a new era in each division of Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga.
Submission Period: July 17th – September 26th, 2008
http://www.shift.jp.org/en/blog/?p=212

DOTMOV FESTIVAL 2008

Online magazine SHIFT presents DOTMOV Festival 2008, a digital film festival aiming to discover talented creators and provide them with an opportunity to show their works. Works submitted from all over the world will be screened throughout the world venues from November 2008 (Date will be different depending on the venue). Last year’s total submission was 297 works from 34 countries. This year’s tour will be Sapporo, Sendai, Shizuoka, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Sao Paulo.
Submission Period: September 20th, 2008
http://www.shift.jp.org/mov/

SHIFT 2009 CALENDAR COMPETITION
Shift has been trying to offer artists many platforms to showcase their works online. The Shift calendar competition held from 2003 successively, pushes the boundaries between online and off line using a “calendar” as its medium. Entries are invited from all over the world and selected works will be distributed throughout the world in the format of a physical calendar.
This year, selected works will be exhibited and sold at PRINT’EM web site for a year with support by PRINT’EM, a graphic print center operated by Mitsubishi Paper MIlls Limited.
Submission Period: September 10th, 2008
http://www.shift.jp.org/2009

Beijing issues guide to clapping at the Olympics.

10 June 2008

Communist Party organizers have issued the official guideline on Olympics cheering to ensure crowds clap properly during the summer games. My personal favorite, the “double thumbs up”,  is highly encouraged.

Check out the Financial Times for details

Green Underwear

9 June 2008

Item in last weeks Economist about the worlds first carbon neutral clothing factory, MAS Holdings in Thailand. British retailer Marks and Spencer contributed 400k towards building this new sustainable facility and will be manufacturing a line of “green” underwear to hit London High streets in June

Snowpeak

9 June 2008

This last weekend I visited this excellent shop called Canoe.

They feature a hand picked selection of furniture and interiors objects, including Postal Co. notebooks, which Sas posted last week. They also just received a shipment from Japan of a company called Snowpeak, which has been around since 1958 and is a luxe take on camping and outdoor gear.

Check the English site for US orders. The Japanese site has an expanded selection.