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Today’s Featured Item: Hand Embossed Leather Cuff

by trish on February 17, 2010

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Circles Cuff

This cuff features a hand embossed circles pattern branded onto your color choice of hand dyed leather cuff. Studless now but available on request. Made from scrap leather- good for you, good for the Earth. Measures 1.5″ wide, cut to your size when you order. Secures with steel snap.

*to measure: loosely wrap string around wrist above wrist bone and compare to a ruler or measuring tape. include your measurement in the customer comments section at checkout. Shop Project TransAction’s full collection here.

About the designer:

Jacob Vaughn Gushue is a 28 year old artist/designer hailing from Boston, MA who runs a one-man silk screening and leatherworking shop called Project TransAction.  Jacob earned his undergraduate Bachelors of Fine Arts degree with Distinction from Massachusetts College of Art in 2003, where he studied in a unique program called Studio For Interrelated Media (S.I.M.) Since then, he has shown in two indie film festivals (Flaming Film Festival and Pawtucket Film Festival,) a number of political poster shows (including Paper Politics and internationally acclaimed Yo! What Happened to Peace?,)  co-produced a series of rock/mixed media art shows with Form Productions, and most recently worked on graphic design and tech for Homo A Gogo 2009.
Jacob created Project TransAction in August 2006 as an idea based around bartering and re-use. Over time it evolved to become what it is today: a shop featuring a unique combination of custom screenprinting and handmade leatherwork. Jake designs and hand-crafts each and every item with careful attention to detail, and in the most earth friendly way possible.  He selectively works with other progressive companies to create affordable, long lasting, and thought provoking goods that people can feel confident investing in.
Project TransAction is currently based in San Francisco, CA.

Who or what inspires you?

P. Diddy.

What is your favorite music?

The Gossip, Immortal Technique, Tracy and the Plastics, Aesop Rock, Mos Def, Macromantics, Arab on Radar, Katastrophe, Northern State, Jean Grae, Erase Errata, Mika Miko, DJ Jenwason, A Tribe Called Quest, Dizzee Rascal, The Moves, Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Scream Club, RjD2, Team Dresch, Babes In Toyland, The Capricorns, Hole, Seven Year Bitch, Lil’ Kim, Tool, Vivaldi, Kagen, Tricky, OutKast, Tattle Tale, Sleater-Kinney, Eminem, The Need, King Cobra, The Lunachicks, Le Tigre, Julie Ruin, The Haggard, The Third Sex, The Butchies, Pank Shovel, Stereolab, Calentura, Numbers, The Fun, Sonic Youth, David Bowie, Ravi Shankar, Placebo, PJ Harvey, Massive Attack, Lightning Bolt.

What is your favorite food?

i love food, and i love to cook. i’m particularly fond of indian and middle eastern cuisine as well as fresh home cooked meals.

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trish

In The Chic Boutique Today, Katie Burley Hat

by trish on August 27, 2009

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Domino – Buy Now

Funky black and white fedora! Totally UNISEX. Girls, boys, boys who wanna be girls and visa versa. Anyone can ROCK this! Fur felt, hand blocked and hand trimmed with quarky domino game pieces and embroidered with silk thread. This is NOT your grandfathers old hat!

Shop full collection of Katie Burley’s hats here.

About the designer:

I was born and raised in Washington, DC. I followed my heart and my hands to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where I studied Fibers and Wearable Sculpture. There, my love of all things cranial was unveiled.

After many interesting adventures, from working in a one room “sweat shop” in NYC, to making one of a kind hats for the runway, I now call San Francisco home.

I hand block and hand trim each hat, with selected materials that are few of a kind or vintage, making each piece couture. Inspired my pieces of discarded history, hunting in alley ways and digging through thrift shops for abandoned souls.

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In The Chic Boutique Today, Project TransAction

by trish on August 11, 2009

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Mariposa Studded Cuff – Buy Now

This whimsical, feminine cuff is the first of the new women’s designs from Project TransAction. Made from a single strip of recycled saddle scrap leather, this piece is hand dyed to a rich cherry-oxblood red then screen printed with a butterfly/vines image. The cuff is accented with a mix of brass and steel rivets and secures by criss crossing over the wrist for a less rigid look. See more items from Project TransAction here.

A bit about the designer:

Jacob Vaughn Gushue is an artist living in San Francisco who runs a one-man,  independently owned screen printing and leather working shop called Project TransAction. Project TransAction features high quality handmade leather belts and cuffs, as well as screen printed accessories and limited edition hand screened t-shirts.  Each item is designed and hand-crafted with the utmost attention to detail, and in the most earth friendly way possible.  The politics of small, local, and independent business are intrinsic to TransAction’s mission, and learning and educating others about the importance of shopping indie and being an informed consumer is viewed as vital. TransAction strives to work with the most socially responsible companies available, with the intention of creating affordable,  thought provoking goods that people can feel confident investing in.  Eco-friendly, fresh, and indie.

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Mo

SMASH UP XV – Track Bike

by Mo on August 7, 2008

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Are gas prices finally motivating you to commute another way? Especially this time of year while the sun is shining and the snow is not flying. This month’s Student SMASH UP can either remind you to commute another way OR help you suggest it to the world; better yet, buy one for someone who drives their car around the block to the coffee shop, grocery store, post office etc.

This month we stick around the Pacific Northwest with a tee for the guy’s -and maybe the gals?- from Nathan Coyne out in Portland, Oregon. Nathan is a junior at Portland Community College prepping to transfer to PNCA, and this tee is an ode to his track bike – we love it!


“I have been printmaking for about 3 years now and I really love it, hopefully I will be able to do it full-time as a career one day. I always like to draw things that I enjoy doing, riding bikes, etc. Since I’ve never gotten my drivers license I end up riding my bike everywhere and that made me want to make a shirt about my fixed gear. I like to create images for areas that I think need more exposure, stuff that I think matters.”

Click on any of the pics in this post to open up these images and see how crispy clean Nathan’s print is, and head into the SMASH store to see the barcode on the back. Eco-brown in color, this tee is the earth friendly version of a vintage heather classic from Alternative Apparel, an organic cotton and recycled-poly blend. This tee is also unisex – um, gals you may want to be careful where those bike wheels end up! – we think it looks rockin’ on both of our models above. By the way, a Darling thank you to Barbara and Logan who we stole from work one sunny afternoon in Chester, CT this week! Thanks as well to the talented Whosiepie for these shots.

Thanks again to Nathan, for his super speedy printing, here he is on a recent trip hanging out at Yosemite.

Don’t forget his shirts, and all the student SMASH UP garments, are limited edition and only to be found at Smashing Darling. Check them all out here, an if you know any student printmakers, send them our way! Email mo@smashingdarling.com.

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trish

Fashion Tribes, Lesley Scott Shares her Editor’s Picks

by trish on August 1, 2008


One of the easiest, most budget-friendly ways to cheer up your wardrobe is with accessories – in particular, jewelry. Even a dressed down jeans-and-cute-tee looks spicy instead of drab by adding an eyecatching piece or two. Here are five rockin’ handmade rings from SmashingDarling.com crafted by some of the most talented indie designers on the market who combine unusual materials like silver with resin or concrete, and – like fashion magpies – give new life to the likes of vintage ball buttons and cut colored glass:

1. Berry beaded cocktail ring by Lucky Accessories
2. go robot! Vancouver ring
3. Anne Maa Designs sterling Triangle ring
4. Manic Trout Poison Ivy Button ring
5. unisex Katy concrete ring by Tam Aura

- Lesley Scott Editor of Fashion Tribes

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