May 29, 2009
About Mykita UK
MYKITA was founded 2003 by Harald Gottschling, Daniel Haffmans, Philipp Haffmans and Moritz Krueger. What to some may sound like an Asian-style name was in fact inspired by the firm’s first premises – a former day-care centre for children (in East Germany abbreviated to „Kita“).
Just a year later, the world was introduced to MYKITA *Collection No.1* – an evolutionary step up in terms of both design and exclusivity. The all-new range of metal frames was unveiled at the Silmo international eyewear fair in the fall of 2004. A highly innovative functional design comprising simple plug connections made complex soldered joints and screw connections redundant, while the frames themselves were cut out of stainless sheet steel before being folded into form. As well as being incredibly light, the latter could be adjusted to the wearer thanks to a wide variety of configuration options. The corrective spectacles andunglasses in the collection ranged from the classically elegant to avantgarde designs in a wide range of frame colours. A frame for every face. Exactly two years later, a new collection was unveiled at the 2006 Silmo. In a marked departure from previous frames, MYKITA *Collection No.2* were made from full-bodied acetate – a material that enjoys a huge tradition in the eyewear industry. What set the new spectacles apart was the hinge – a connecting element that hugs the front and temples in the style of a sheath. The designs are crisp, clear and distinctive and are each related to frames from the metal collection. A carefully selected range of nine distinct colours gives *Collection No.2* a varied but nonetheless homogenous collective look. All frames are hand-made at MYKITA’s own production site in Berlin and are available at over 1,400 high-end opticians and selected department stores across the globe.
These glasses are made with top-quality stainless steel, just 0.5 mm thick, ensuring an ultra-light feel. The actual production of MYKITA eyewear sees every part of the frame cut out of sheet metal and folded into a lightweight but full-bodied format. Linking these is a remarkably elegant and intelligent screw-less hinge design that ensures total flexibility and allows complete, custom-fit adaptability of inclination and frame according to the wearers’ facial proportions. The technical wizardry is coupled with aesthetic clarity and optimum vision to provide a recognisable trademark for MYKITA. To apply most of the colours featured in the collection, MYKITA chose a PVD finish – a state-of-the-art vacuum-heat coating technique that guarantees a non-oxidizing and highly wear-resistant surface. The prescription frames in *Collection No.1* are available in a choice of ten colours, the sunglasses in eight colours. MYKITA collection No. 1 – over 50 styles available in a choice of 10 colours.
The MYKITA design team had for some time been planning to make a collection incorporating a fuller-bodied material, and eventually decided on cellulose acetate. Basically composed of cotton, wood pulp, acetate and pigments, it is a natural material that has a long tradition in the eyewear industry. *Collection No.2* indeed shares a variety of features with the original concept. It features a “snap-hinge” made of 0.8 mm flat sheet metal familiar from the construction principles applied in the first collection. A major new innovation was the use of photomechanical etching technology. The connection point between the hinge and the acetate frame likewise represented a unique challenge for the designers. The fourteen prescription styles and six sunglasses are available in a range of opaque colours, with no lamination.
Report on Mykita done by The AgenC
Mykita London
About Mykita: Mykita London, Mykita England, Mykita UK, Mykita Ireland, Mykita Mauritius, Mykita Seychelles, Mykita Namibia & Mykita South Africa
Mykita
Mykita glasses are made with the best-quality stainless steel ensuring an ultra-light feel. Each part of the frame is folded into a lightweight but full-bodied format. A state of the art vacuum-heat coating guarantees non-oxidizing and highly wear-resistant finishes. MYKITA frames are all about: timeless designs, lightweight, flexibility, and comfort.
May 26, 2009
The Gadget Show’s Jason Bradbury in his Mykita Glasses (model: Fletcher) as seen on television every week.
-Ever thought about designing something with straight lines and radiuses.. well Mykita did it and it look really great.
MYKITA sunglasses are light , elegant and hight quality products .
We can find big shape man and woman , with a perfect glossy gold , pearl , black berry colors …*
Mykita is a German eyewear brand that was founded by Harald Goffschling, Daniel Haffmans, Philipp Haffmans and Moritz Krueger in Berlin in 2003. The four were at the creative and managerial core of the successful ic! Berlin eyewear brand, which they left in the September of the same year to embark on their own creative adventure: Mykita.
Just a year later, the world was introduced to Mykita Collection No.1- an evolutionary step up in terms of both design and exclusivity. The designers had created an innovative, highly functional design comprising of simple plug connections that made complex soldered joints and screw connections redundant while the frames themselves were cut out of stainless steel before being folded into form. As well as being incredibly light, the latter could be adjusted to the wearer thanks to a wide variety of configuration options.
The new FLASH line adds some vivacity and life to Mykita’s Collection No.1 with vibrant Swiss laquer coatings.
Mykita
About Mykita UK
MYKITA was founded 2003 by Harald Gottschling, Daniel Haffmans, Philipp Haffmans and Moritz Krueger. What to some may sound like an Asian-style name was in fact inspired by the firm’s first premises – a former day-care centre for children (in East Germany abbreviated to „Kita“).
Just a year later, the world was introduced to MYKITA *Collection No.1* – an evolutionary step up in terms of both design and exclusivity. The all-new range of metal frames was unveiled at the Silmo international eyewear fair in the fall of 2004. A highly innovative functional design comprising simple plug connections made complex soldered joints and screw connections redundant, while the frames themselves were cut out of stainless sheet steel before being folded into form. As well as being incredibly light, the latter could be adjusted to the wearer thanks to a wide variety of configuration options. The corrective spectacles andunglasses in the collection ranged from the classically elegant to avantgarde designs in a wide range of frame colours. A frame for every face. Exactly two years later, a new collection was unveiled at the 2006 Silmo. In a marked departure from previous frames, MYKITA *Collection No.2* were made from full-bodied acetate – a material that enjoys a huge tradition in the eyewear industry. What set the new spectacles apart was the hinge – a connecting element that hugs the front and temples in the style of a sheath. The designs are crisp, clear and distinctive and are each related to frames from the metal collection. A carefully selected range of nine distinct colours gives *Collection No.2* a varied but nonetheless homogenous collective look. All frames are hand-made at MYKITA’s own production site in Berlin and are available at over 1,400 high-end opticians and selected department stores across the globe.
These glasses are made with top-quality stainless steel, just 0.5 mm thick, ensuring an ultra-light feel. The actual production of MYKITA eyewear sees every part of the frame cut out of sheet metal and folded into a lightweight but full-bodied format. Linking these is a remarkably elegant and intelligent screw-less hinge design that ensures total flexibility and allows complete, custom-fit adaptability of inclination and frame according to the wearers’ facial proportions. The technical wizardry is coupled with aesthetic clarity and optimum vision to provide a recognisable trademark for MYKITA. To apply most of the colours featured in the collection, MYKITA chose a PVD finish – a state-of-the-art vacuum-heat coating technique that guarantees a non-oxidizing and highly wear-resistant surface. The prescription frames in *Collection No.1* are available in a choice of ten colours, the sunglasses in eight colours. MYKITA collection No. 1 – over 50 styles available in a choice of 10 colours.
The MYKITA design team had for some time been planning to make a collection incorporating a fuller-bodied material, and eventually decided on cellulose acetate. Basically composed of cotton, wood pulp, acetate and pigments, it is a natural material that has a long tradition in the eyewear industry. *Collection No.2* indeed shares a variety of features with the original concept. It features a “snap-hinge” made of 0.8 mm flat sheet metal familiar from the construction principles applied in the first collection. A major new innovation was the use of photomechanical etching technology. The connection point between the hinge and the acetate frame likewise represented a unique challenge for the designers. The fourteen prescription styles and six sunglasses are available in a range of opaque colours, with no lamination.
Report on Mykita done by The AgenC
Mykita London
About Mykita: Mykita London, Mykita England, Mykita UK, Mykita Ireland, Mykita Mauritius, Mykita Seychelles, Mykita Namibia & Mykita South Africa
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Mykita is a German eyewear brand thatv was founded by Harald Goffschling, Daniel Haffmans, Philipp Haffmans and Moritz Krueger in Berlin in 2003. The four were at the creative and managerial core of the successful ic! Berlin eyewear brand, which they left in the September of the same year to embark on their own creative adventure: Mykita.
Just a year later, the world was introduced to Mykita Collection No.1- an evolutionary step up in terms of both design and exclusivity. The designers had created an innovative, highly functional design comprising of simple plug connections that made complex soldered joints and screw connections redundant while the frames themselves were cut out of stainless steel before being folded into form. As well as being incredibly light, the latter could be adjusted to the wearer thanks to a wide variety of configuration options.
The new FLASH line adds some vivacity and life to Mykita’s Collection No.1 with vibrant Swiss laquer coatings.
Welcome to the official blog of UK TV celebrity and children’s author Jason Bradbury.
Jason is Britain’s best-known face of gadgets and consumer technology. As host Five’sThe Gadget Show he has tested many of the world’s biggest and most successful gadgets in ever more exotic and dangerous situations. An ordinary week for Jason may involve swimming with sharks (without a cage), throwing a one-man submarine around a Californian lake or hanging out of a helicopter over a volcano – all in the name of testing tech.
When he isn’t putting gadgets through their paces, Jason is busy writing his new trilogy of books. His first novel, published by Puffin, is due out in February 2009. Dot.Robot tells the story of a brilliant young gamer who is recruited by a top-secret organization to pilot their robotic defence force. The books are a coming together of many of the passions that Jason shares with geeks (and geekets!) the world over – robots, gizmoes, maths and web culture – many of which are reflected in the pages of his official website.
May 9, 2009
Rhys Ifans in Mykita in “The Boat That Rocked”
May 5, 2009
Eddie Jordan
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Here are a couple of pictures of Eddie Jordan in Mykita where he was commentating for BBC1 at The Bahrain Grand Prix. Eddie Jordan is wearing Mykita model: James in shiny silver with varifocal lenses.
Eddie Jordan in his Mykita Glasses
Edmund “Eddie” Jordan (born March 30, 1948) is the founder and former owner of Jordan Grand Prix, a Formula One constructor which operated from 1991 to 2005.
[edit]Early career
Born in Ireland in 1948, Jordan grew up in Bray, County Wicklow, intending to become a dentist but left school (Synge Street Christian Brothers School in Central Dublin) to work for the Bank of Ireland as a clerk. When, during a strike in Dublin, he went to work on the island of Jersey, he witnessed kart racing for the first time and was enthralled; upon his return to Dublin, Jordan bought a kart and began racing. His first race was at Bouley Bay, Jersey, in 1970; he entered the Irish Kart Championship in 1971 and won it.
[edit]Motor racing
In 1974 Jordan moved on to Formula Ford, where he competed for two years, but was forced to sit out the 1976 season when he broke both his legs in a crash. After his injuries had healed, he switched to Formula Atlantic, won three races in 1977, and won the Irish Formula Atlantic Championship in 1978. Jordan and Stefan Johansson raced in British Formula Three in 1979, calling themselves “Team Ireland”. The same year, Jordan drove in one Formula Two race and did a small amount of testing for McLaren.
[edit]Team management
At the end of 1979 and short of money, Jordan founded his first team, Eddie Jordan Racing, which ran drivers David Leslie and David Sears in 1981 at various events in and around Great Britain. In 1982 his primary driver was James Weaver; in 1983 Weaver ran again in European F3 and Jordan hired Martin Brundle, who finished second to Ayrton Senna in British F3. In 1987 the team employed Johnny Herbert, who proceeded to win the British Formula Three Championship.
Jordan also entered a Formula 3000 team, whose first wins came with drivers Herbert and Martin Donnelly in 1988. In 1989 the Jordan F3000 team dominated the season and Jordan driver Jean Alesiwon the championship.
[edit]Formula One
Jordan founded Jordan Grand Prix in 1991 hiring the respected Gary Anderson as Chief Designer. The team quickly gained its respect and punched above their weight on a number of occasions during the season. It should also be noted that Eddie Jordan gave a young German called Michael Schumacher his Formula 1 debut in that, the team’s debut season. After one race for the team, Schumacher was lured away to rivals Benetton.
In 1998 the team achieved its best ever result when drivers Damon Hill and Ralf Schumacher finished first and second at the Belgian Grand Prix. In 1999, Jordan achieved their F1 zenith when Heinz-Harald Frentzen became a genuine contender for the championship, ultimately finishing third, the best placing ever of a Jordan driver and accumulating two race wins along the way. He was leading theEuropean Grand Prix, but retired from electrical gremlins.
In 2009 he returned to the F1 scene as a Pundit for the BBC’s coverage, along with David Coulthard. [1]
[edit]Decline and sale to Midland
After losing a Honda engine partnership deal to the BAR (later Honda and now Brawn GP) team in 2002 and numerous difficulties within the team (including a very public row and the sacking of Frentzen before his home GP), Jordan was forced to switch to expensive Cosworth engines. The added burden of this plus DHL withdrawing their sponsorship and Benson and Hedges toning down their sponsorship soon added up and the lack of funds made his team go from bad to worse in 2003. However despite this, Jordan delivered an improbable race win in Brazil 2003 courtesy of Giancarlo Fisichella, the first for Fisichella and the last Formula One victory for the Ford Motor Company and the Jordan team.
Jordan’s steep fall from the glitzy heights of 3rd in the constructors in 1999 was now out of control. Despite new sponsorship from Trust computers and the addition of “Quick” Nick Heidfeld and a promising young rookie in Timo Glock for 2004, Jordan were in serious trouble. Jordan retained complete ownership of his team until 2004 and his rejections of rumoured approaches for buy outs (most notably from Peugeot and Honda) may have cost the team greater success.
His famous charisma had enabled him to “finesse” a number of sponsorship deals, without which Jordan Grand Prix would almost certainly have gone the way of Prost Grand Prix or Arrows. At the end it all proved too much for Eddie Jordan. If he did not sell he realised he would soon have to close his doors. A buyer was found in Midland Group financed by wealthy Canadian businesman Alex Schnaider and in early 2005, the team was sold to Midland Group.
The team competed for one final season as ‘Jordan’, before renaming the team as Midland F1 Racing for the 2006 season, then being sold later in 2006 to Dutch car manufacturer Spyker Cars to becomeSpyker F1 for 2007, and then sold again to become Force India in 2008.
It still operates out of Jordan’s old premises at Silverstone. But the dream of Eddie Jordan, his pride and joy, the “rock and roll team”, were lost forever to the hard realities of modern Formula 1.
[edit]Other interests
Eddie Jordan is now a Formula one pundit for the BBC. He also wrote a monthly column called ‘This much I know’ for F1 Racing magazine until they relaunched with Murray Walker writing instead. Eddie has also worked on a TV series called “Eddie Jordan’s Bad Boy Racers”.
He continues to love rock and roll music (he plays the drums). Until 2007 his band’s name was V10. A cut down version of the band is currently gigging at various venues around the world under the name of “Eddie & The Robbers”.
Jordan’s other sporting interests include golf and horse racing.
His father Danny Jordan played football for Shamrock Rovers in the 1950s and Eddie was a fanatical fan of the club [1]. Jordan is a fan of Coventry City Football Club and has been linked with takeover bids for the club.[2] He also has a season ticket for Celtic FC
He has several other companies still owned partly or wholly by himself including the Vodka brand Vodka V10 and the energy drink brand EJ-10
Jordan has written an autobiography, “An Independent Man”, which was published in May 2007.[3]
In 2007 he was appointed Chairman of Rally Ireland, a round of the World Rally Championship.
May 5, 2009
Here are a couple of pictures of Eddie Jordan in Mykita where he was commentating for BBC1 at The Bahrain Grand Prix. Eddie Jordan is wearing Mykita model: James in shiny silver with varifocal lenses.
Eddie Jordan in his Mykita Glasses
Brawn GP driver Jenson Button, left, overtakes Lewis Hamilton of McLaren Mercedes during the opening lap of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix. (Hassan Ammar/Associated Press)Jenson Button won the 2009 Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon in Sakhir.
The current points leader, driving for Brawn-Mercedes, won by 7.187 seconds over Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel. Jarno Trulli of Toyota was third.
Button, who has now won three of the first four races, led this one almost exclusively from lap 12.
“I came out of the last corner in third on the first lap and from then on it was a tough race, but very enjoyable,” Button said.
He switched to hard tires on lap 38 on the second and final pit stop, and two laps later pulled ahead of Vettel as the Red Bull driver went in himself.
Vettel’s second-place finish moves him up to third in the driver’s standings with 18 points.
“This was a very good result for us,” the Red Bull star said. “[It] was a difficult race. I got stuck behind Lewis [Hamilton] and it’s quite difficult to [pass] here.
“Once I was finally able to pass him, I had to [fend] him off over the last couple of laps.”
Brake problems
Trulli won the pole on Saturday, but quickly lost the lead when Toyota teammate Timo Glock passed him on the opening lap.
Glock led until the 12th lap before pitting, and couldn’t catch up to the leaders again after suffering brake problems.
The German ended the day in seventh position, well ahead of Fernando Alonso, in a Renault, who finished in eighth.
The opening lap saw a lot of jostling for position, with last year’s points champion Hamilton jumping from fifth to second before going wide into a turn and falling back to fourth, being passed by Trulli and Button.
Hamilton, driving for McLaren, ended the race in fourth for his highest finish of the year. Button’s teammate, Rubens Barrichello, came in fifth, and Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen picked up the sixth position.
Felipe Massa, the 2008 Bahrain winner for Ferrari, struggled all afternoon and finished in 14th place after starting eighth.
The race was completed in very dry conditions, under a clear and sunny sky. This left the drivers debating between using hard and soft tires, with most choosing to finish the race on the firmer ones.
With the win, Button takes a 12-point lead over Barrichello in the drivers’ championship.
Dream of last year’s finish
Formula One now takes a week off before heading to Europe for the May 8-10 weekend. Spain will host the first race on the continent at the track in Catalunya.
Last year’s Spanish Grand Prix saw a 1-2 Ferrari finish, with Raikkonen and Massa taking the top two spots respectively.
This year, Ferrari can only dream of having a finish like that, picking up only seven points in four races this season.
Meanwhile, Brawn-Mercedes has been the dominant team this year, bumping up their constructor’s point total to 50.
RBR-Renault and Toyota are well back, at 27.5 and 26.5 points respectively, in a season where the old guard has made way for new teams and drivers to break through.
