• How To Make Your Own iPad Head Girl Helmet

    Jay Donovan

    By night, Jay writes for TechCrunch and has been contributing to the blog since 2009. By day, he manages Digital Strategy for Alliance Data. Prior to that, he held Art Director and Designer jobs at GSW Worldwide and Resource Interactive leading interaction design and mobile prototype projects. You can reach reach him at jaydonovan at crunchgear dot com. → Learn More

    Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
    hat

    Well, not really, but Thinkmodo has put out a new video showing some behind the scenes footage of how they, in partnership with Clockwork Apple, created the iPad Head Girl hat, um…head piece. The thing actually looks pretty solid, although I would not go as far as to say that it looks comfortable.

    You likely saw the iPad Head Girl video making rounds in the media last week. Conceived by Thinkmodo’s Michael Krivicka and James L. Percelay as a way to promote Hearst’s first iPad-only magazine CFG (Cosmo For Guys). The video became the #1 most
    viewed YouTube video in Science & Tech and has been featured on many tech and news sites. It was  pretty much everywhere.

    While the concept seems fairly simple, the video does shed some light on the amount of work that went into this shoot. Who knows, now that the campaign is over, maybe there is an opportunity to re-productize this faux chapeau as a new-wave, expensive lampshade?