available July 13th at http://cliffdwellermedia.com.

CLIFF DWELLER is a collaboration between CYDWOQ shoes and designer/artist Ari Balouzian. Balouzian graduated UCLA with a degree in linguistics, while also apprenticing with his father, designer and architect Rafi Balouzian. After designing over 30 styles for CYDWOQ, he started CLIFF DWELLER as a way of bringing his aesthetic established by the audio visual project of the same name to functional and unique footwear. The GRAPHITE journal of the Hammer museum describes CLIFF DWELLER as work that “transports you to a dusky strange planet where the old American midwest, deep sea monsters, and warped interpretations of Hollywood classics come alive and illogically coexist.” Each style on the website is made in a limited quantity with handpicked vegetable tanned leathers from the Italy and is all handmade in Burbank, CA.

collection will be available July 13th at http://cliffdwellermedia.com:

CLIFF DWELLER is a collaboration between CYDWOQ shoes and designer/artist Ari Balouzian. Balouzian graduated UCLA with a degree in linguistics, while also apprenticing with his father, designer and architect Rafi Balouzian. After designing over 30 styles for CYDWOQ, he started CLIFF DWELLER as a way of bringing his aesthetic established by the audio visual project of the same name to functional and unique footwear. The GRAPHITE journal of the Hammer museum describes CLIFF DWELLER as work that “transports you to a dusky strange planet where the old American midwest, deep sea monsters, and warped interpretations of Hollywood classics come alive and illogically coexist.” Each style on the website is made in a limited quantity with handpicked vegetable tanned leathers from the Italy and is all handmade in Burbank, CA.

stills from robert wilson performances. photos from robertwilson.com

Marcello Gandini is an Italian car designer, widely known for his work with the automotive design house Gruppo Bertone, notably his design of the Lamborghini Countach. Together with Giorgetto Giugiaro and Leonardo Fioravanti, Gandini forms a noted triumvirate of Italian car designers, all born in 1938, within months of each other. Gandini currently continues to work on automotive and aviation design.In a 2009 interview with Robert Cumberford, editor at Automobile Magazine, Gandini indicated “his design interests are focused on vehicle architecture, construction, assembly, and mechanisms – not appearance.