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H E I D I L E E Hats will be available for Spring 2016 at RISD Museum Store !!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXmm2qlM85Q

H E I D I L E E featured in RISD XYZ Magazine CHANGE: Fall/ Winter 2015/16 pp. 001 + 014 http://issuu.com/risd/docs/risdxyz_fall2015_web_small

Inside → Start Here #ThoughtsFromTheEditor FACING CHANGE There's nothing new about change - except that it's all about what's new. Ever since the Big Bang (the event, not the show) a mind boggling 13.8 billion years ago, the universe has been in a constant state of change. At an individual level, each of us is changing physiologically every day. Our cells grow, die or mutate and our bodies age, deal with viruses and bloom with bacteria. The very act of living is one of constant change. And yet most people aren't especially open to change or comfortable with it. Most of the political wrangling that goes on around the world centers on either pushing for or resisting change- whether it's confirming the right to same-sex marriage, pushing for a 2°C cap on global warming or striking to impose Sharia law. Change may be inevitable, but achieving it is rarely easy. And historically, it's often contentious, scary, and bloody. Fortunately, change is also both a noun and a verb: It's a thing that happens to us and around us but it's also something we can spearhead, if not control. We can take charge and make change- something artists and other innovators do when they push at the margins. In the spirit of this issue, which revolves around various ways RISD alums spark positive changes, we've introduced a few changes ourselves. As John Waters hammered home when he spoke at Commencement, it's the "job" of contemporary artists to question the status quo and agitate for change. "Refuse to isolate yourself," he told RISD's newest alumni. "Go out into the world and fuck it up beautifully."

#NewModesOfMaking HEADY STUFF Since 3-D printing opened up a whole new world of making for H E I D I L E E 05 GD, the Brooklyn-based designer has been producing fabulous hats that appeal to a wide rage of fans- including Lady gaga, Madonna, Anne Hathaway, G-Dragon, Missy Elliott and Lauryn Hill. Her semi-flexible Vortex baseball caps (popular at this year's Maker Faire in NYC) are the most high-res 3D-printed wearables on the market. Whether working in bamboo, glass or laser-sintered nylon, Lee makes head adornments that are futuristic, fanciful and functional. Her H E I D I L E E Echo Hat (see also page 1) references the ancient Greet myths of Echo and Narcissus while offering a very contemporary commentary on today's tendency to experience the world through the "echo chamber" of social media.