Offerings to the Masters of the Universe

 

Come see the latest Art Installation by Curtis Edwards, "Offerings to the Masters of the Universe" @ UA through August 7th!

Half shrine, half nostalgia fest, all awesome!

Offerings to the Masters of the Universe, an installation by Curtis Edwards

Please join us at Urban Alchemist on Saturday July 30th at 6pm for our latest art opening, Offerings to the Masters of the Universe.

Artist

Curtis Edwards

gives us the chance to pay homage to our childhood heros, with an altar to She-Ra, He-Man and the like.

Come meet the artist, have a drink on us and pay tribute to some old childhood memories.

Curtis Edwards is an artist/illustrator working and living in Brooklyn, NY.  For more work by Curtis Edwards please check out http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=ggiggocab&et=1106769566164&s=4090&e=001K9hgIEmvRG32HsqtgIWb17YMzssBTaFd8tziTwdJnGp43dIQlANVjsgNri1vSzmJvDcOf6gZjFGypO-bvsbgxxOvukMIXFjyJh1eZ4JjVWLIj3f1MD73DcSc9o71PuEF

Hot Summer Sale This Weekend!

It's time for the Hot Summer Sale at Urban Alchemist!  Come in and get some cool deals from your favorite local designers Saturday, July 30th and Sunday, July 31st only! 

Come by Urban Alchemist and cool down with a cold beverage while shopping the latest styles from local designers.  Save up to 20% at our Hot Summer Sale!

       Here's a few of our favorites!  Come by and check out the rest!

 

Sandals by Ice Cream Candy

Flossie Fern Salt Soak

 Eswera Tribal Cuffs

 I*M*Handmade Wax Print Skirts

 Alison Corrie Turtle Pillow

DESiGNERiCA Floating Double Starburst Ring

Stern Design Works Erosion Necklace

See you this weekend! 

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Open Call! New Coop Member Contest

OPEN CALL!!!

Do you or someone you know create wonderful artwork or products?

Are you looking for a great place to sell them?

Well, we are looking for you!  Urban Alchemist is conducting a search for new coop member to join the family.

The search starts now and ends August 15th so get your submissions in now!  

Those Chosen will begin Sept 1st!

We will be considering everyone from crafters to Painters, from sculptors to clothing designers and more!  Winners will receive a coop spot and $50 off of their first month.  Depending on the quality of work we see, we will be choosing between one and three new coop members.

If you are looking to promote a line or sell one of a kind items or artwork, Here is your way to have a brick-and-mortar location to send customers to where your work will always be available, Plus you will get the opportunity to promote your work through general marketing,  storewide sales and special events like trunk sales, fashion shows, or art shows.

Concept:
Conceived in 2008 as part store, part gallery and part artisan salon, Urban Alchemist offers an eclectic mix of work by independent designers.  Our wonderful Collective is located at 343 5th. Street in
Brooklyn, NY 11215.  www.urbanalchemiststore.com for details

Coop Membership:
Coop Membership is limited and therefore spaces are not always available, however, with a recent opening at the coop we are putting on the search for the next great addition to our unique shop.  Coop members take home a large percentage of their profits, pay a monthly rental fee, and work once a week at the store.  We try to select coop members who we think will be most successful.  This means we choose designers whose work we think will be popular among our customers and melds well with our current offerings.  deadline: august 15, 2011

Submission:
To submit your work for consideration (or ask a question), please email uasubmissions@gmail.com with *COOP COMPETITION* in the subject line.  Please tell us a little about your work / what makes it unique and why you are interested in joining our coop.  be sure to include a link to images of your work or at least 5 images embedded in the message.

Stuff I've Liked Lately by Erica Schwartz

I'm always looking at new eco-friendly products.  Sometimes I buy them, sometimes I just want to see what new ideas other people are coming up with... inspiration comes from everywhere.  So here are four products I've seen lately that sparked my interest.  Each is not only an intelligently conceived concept but also well-executed and more beautiful than previous attempts to solve the same problem.  These are not products we currently sell in our store, just stuff I like.

1.  Wasara: disposable compostable single use tableware.  Leave it to the japanese to create disposable paper plates that are too beautiful to ruin with american food.  I'm almost afraid that if I tried to eat off it i'd be unable to throw it out afterwards.  I may have to buy some just to play with them, though.  design*sponge ran a cool how-to about dip dying them.

2. Totem Lamp by Lightexture: Brilliant ceramic desk lamp.  Our local stars Avner and Yael, whose products we carry in our shop and previously featured on our blog, have a great new design.  I absolutely love this one!  The inside is painted gold to make the light warmer, the top can be adjusted to change the quantity of light escaping the ceramic shade, and the fixture uses a compact fluorescent. 

 3.  Water Bobble:  The water bottle with a replaceable charcoal filter.  The concept isn't exactly new (think backward britta), but the execution  appeals to me.  This isn't surprising since I  tend to like the simplicity of shapes and bright colors coming out of Karim Rashid's studio.  I actually bought myself one of these and I'm really loving it.   I can refill my bottle from any tap and it always tastes good.  My only criticism is that the bottle isn't particularly durable  If it was made from a plastic more like the BPA-free Nalgene and cost more, I'd be a little happier.
 

4.  iQ Cleaners: condensed cleaning products.  As much as I hate to support something that you can most easily get at Walmart, this product strikes me as one of such brilliance because of its obvious simplicity.  Liquid cleaners are mostly water, so why are we transporting and buying them in their diluted form?  This brand offers a super-concentrated refill to which you add your own water.  Plus the product is eco-friendly and the bottle, which may eventually need to be replaced, is biodegradable. 

And is it just me, or do these last 2 products seem a little quite?  It goes beyond the fact that the images were similarly styled-- these two products are latching onto the same issue and resolving it in a similar way.  You buy an empty bottle, fill it with your own local water, and use a cartridge to make it into what you want.  Use color to identify-- in case one, i get a green bottle and my roommate gets a red one.  In case two, the color of the cartridge and its contents tells me which type of cleaner it is.   I'm not suggesting that anybody puts cleaning solution in a water bottle (thankfully the designers didn't team up and use the same shaped bottle), but I can only hope this suggests that as a culture we're realizing how much energy we waste transporting water in trucks instead of using the water that's readily available in our pipes.

Ice Cream Candy brings shoes to UA!

New Apothecary Section at UA

Swing by and check out our new apothecary section at UA. Handmade products for your mind and body.