Curated by Arkitip, a more playful take on the blanket phenomenon. A collaboration between illustrator Pieter Janssen, better known as Parra; and Pendleton Woolen Mills. This virgin wool and cotton mix blanket features is an edition of 125.

There are a lot of ampersands in the title of this story. What do you expect though? You have three of the hottest firms in hotel, art, and footwear coming together on something special. “The inaugural season of Summer 2009 for the Ace Hotel Palm Spring Shoe and Tote will be limited to 500 pairs, 144 pairs of women and 356 pairs of mens, sold at hand picked retailers around the world. It will also be worn and sold at the Ace Hotel Palm Springs as well as at the Arkitip and Generic Surplus websites.”

Pre-order them on Arkitip now or risk your luck on July 1st. We’ll have a list of retailers up in June.

More views of the Ace Hotel & Arkitip & Generic Surplus Sneakers and Tote after the jump.

For the first time ever Arkitip handed the design responsibilities for the issue edition to an outside source. That source being the design trio Wood Wood. Their 44th issue edition also served as the working catalog for the HIGHMATH exhibition that took place last week at the Pool Gallery in Berlin.

Artists that participated in the exhibition were Andrew Schoultz, Chris Lindig, Ed Templeton, Evan Hecox, Cody Hudson, CR Stecyk III, Eric Elms, Gary Benzel, Geoff McFetridge, Jo Jackson, José Parlá, Josh Petherick, Kaws, Killpixie, Michael Leon, Kevin Lyons, Michael Perry, Parra, Phil Frost, Perks, Peter Beste, Peter Sutherland, Richard Colman, Ryan Waller, Shepard Fairey, Todd St. John & Steven Harrington. If you could not make it yet, the exhibition is still running, so go check it out.

For the occasion Arkitip did not only release their latest issue. It actually came in a box set, which consisted of the magazine and also a 3D Viewer with slides of all the artwork that was also presented at the exhibition. The box set is now on sale for 45 USD here.

After the jump more pictures.

Arkitip, one of our favorite art magazines, now also offers framed prints in their online store. You can now buy prints from Michael Leon, Kevin Lyons, Andrew Schoultz, Matzu, Todd James, Rostarr and others ready to hang on the wall!

Arkitip now entered into an exclusive agreement with the China Town Soccer Club. We have reported about them before, here a quick recap.

“The CSC is a semi-organized crew of artists, photographers, skateboarders and designers who meet year-round for friendly soccer matches in New York City’s Chinatown.”

Photographer Peter Sutherland is one of the founders of the club, and thus photobooks, t-shirts, and other goodies are released every once in a while. Arkitip now sells all the Chinatown Soccer Club goods in their online store. After the jump the rest of the current line-up.

Following the recent addition of the Arkitip Intelligence (sort of a blogroll), they now also updated the rest of the site with a fresh new design and more user friendly site overall.

Check out the new Arkitip website and discover the new products they have added to the online catalogue!

Here a little announcement about the upcoming exhibition “Highmath” being presented during the next Berlin Fashion Week in January 2008.

The art magazine Arkitip is curating its first exhibition in Germany and as the first external source ever, Wood Wood will design a whole issue of the magazine, which will serve as the exhibition catalog.

The “Highmath” exhibition will be shown from 31st of January till 21st of February 2008 and feature works of Andrew Schoultz, Chris Lindig, Ed Templeton, Evan Hecox, Cody Hudson, CR Stecyk III, Eric Elms, Gary Benzel, Geoff McFetridge, Jo Jackson, José Parla, Josh Petherick, Kaws, Killpixie, Michael Leon, Kevin Lyons, Michael Perry, Parra, Phil Frost, Perks, Peter Beste, Peter Sutherland, Richard Colman, Ryan Waller, Shepard Fairey, Todd  St. John and Steve Harrington.

Both the exhibition and the upcoming Arkitip x WoodWood issue are certainly something to look out for!

Arkitip Issue 043, in collaboration with artist Parra and Loomstate has been released. an Arkitip + Parra + Loomstate Organics reusable tote bag has been produced exclusively for this issue. Inside the issue you find the works of Parra, Robin Cameron, Nieves Pick, Rasmus Norlander and many others. Once again an outstanding issue, limited to 1500 copies. Grab it now here.