Zoo York asked Mark Owens and Matt Owens to develop a line of six skateboards for their artist series. The six boards represent the socio-cultural realms of Literature, Architecture, The Arts, Transit, Food and Tourism. Together the series encompasses New York’s “Urbane Jungle.â€
Great work!
The album cover is a subject of perennial interest among graphic designers. Sleeve design remains a popular subject for college projects, and many young working designers aspire to design for the music industry. Revealing state-of-the-art contemporary music graphics, Cover Art By: is packed with more than 400 examples of sleeve art. As well as CD and album covers, the insides of CD booklets and the backs of vinyl sleeves are shown. The book opens with an in-depth essay reviewing the current scene, then focuses on the work of 30 international designers/labels who are the most influential in the field, making this a must-have for designers and students, as well as music industry professionals and fans.
Cover Art By:
Adrian Shaughnessy
320 pages
250 x 195 mm
ISBN 1 85669 527 1
paperback
£24.95
Isn’t it time we all agreed that no one really enjoys, nor ever has enjoyed the antics or mere presence of a clown?
It’s true and research at the University of Sheffield says it’s official - clowns suck. Since the ‘80s, Hollywood has consistently portrayed clowns as nothing but creepy. And despite the indisputable power of tinsel town, there’s probably a list of rent-a-clowns a mile long in your city’s phone book. Yes clowning is still going strong, it’s the audience that’s becoming extinct.
So do we hate clowns because we never liked them from the start, or is it because decades of movies have turned us against them?
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This issue of T-post was designed by London-based, Finnish illustrator and graphic artist Klaus Haapaniemi. One of the hottest British fashion illustrators at the moment, his work seems to be everywhere; from a crockery range for Iittala to prints for Levis, Cacharel, Topshop and D&G. Not to mention the illustrations he did for the storefront windows of Selfridges department stores and the special edition Christmas storybook he made together with celebrity writers such as Madonna’s daughter Lourdes and…eh..David Hasselhoff.
Have a look at more of Klaus’ work at klaush.com
The classic tradition of Dutch Delft craftsmanship hits the streets of New York City.
Presenting the ‘New York Delft’ Porcelain dinnerware collection.
Each place setting is made of fine porcelain and has five pieces; a dinner plate, side plate, soup bowl, cup and saucer.
A 5 piece place setting is about $ 100..
You can order it via lovegrove & repucci..
Jayson Scott Musson from Philadelphia rap trio Plastic Little talks about his provocative poster art at his recent exhibition at the Dazed Gallery… Check it out here!
From January 25th to February 10th the festival of urban fashion and art called “Wedding Dress # 2″ takes place around the citizens of Berlin’s Fashion Week.
In Berlin’s neighborhood Wedding about 15 restaurants, temporary showrooms and creative ranges are furnished, in which urban fashion and international art projects are shown. Itself the following competition “Create your own Wedding space” is to deepen the argument with the urban area and to bring up the possibilities for discussion of its future use.
The festival has the goal of making the range for the future development citizens of Berlins neighborhood Wedding. Experiencable of inspiring and the discourse with planners, creative ones, politicians, energizing architects and adjacents residents.
In addition the program offers in about 25 restaurants vernissages and parties, discussion evenings, films and performances and shopping options.
FOUR MODULES
After the organizer, which had already given citizens of Berlin the possibility to present themselves in the Wedding housing enterprise DEGEWO, with the competition “Wedding Dress # 1″, young fashion designers in January 2005 now gone a step further with “Wedding Dress # 2″:
“Wedding Dress # 2″ draws completely consciously a very versatile overall view with four different modules approximately around the topic “urban fashion and art” and wants adjacents residents such as visitors into the happening to also include:
1. Shops and showrooms for road and urban fashion as well as “Remix” - ranges for creative working on fashion exhibitions of international artists.
2. Those at the interface between art and fashion work information to occupations in the fashion industry.
3. The Fashion Week Berlin and the planned building and town development measures of the DEGEWO as well as
4. the advertisement of a competition for the temporary use or installation in a restaurant on the Brunnenstrasse for about one year.
But now my BIG LOVE Jeremy Fish throws his hat in the accessories ring with his Superfishal line…
I really like the lifestyle products expansion route my favorite artists is taking just so long as he keeps it tasteful. Both these guys have done just that…
JEREMYVILLE is an artiste/designer/autor who lives between Sydney and New York. He wrote and produced two international books: “Vinyl Will Kill” and recently “Jeremyville Sessions“, both published at IdN.
At this hour when the customization is omnipresent, JEREMYVILLE has no limits to find his imagination new universes to be personalized.
Proof of his ambition is the Sketchel Project where he collaborated with more than 500 artists just like Geoff McFetridge, Miss Van, Genevieve Gauckler, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Jim Woodring, Friends With You, Devilrobots…
With ease in the dumb comic-strip as in the commercial illustration, he draws pastel contours of his very poetic pop psyched universe as he breathes and never remains in front of a white sheet for a very long time.
It is the first exhibition of JEREMYVILLE called FOREVER & ALWAYS in Paris and it will take place from from November 29 to January 12, 2008 at ARTOYZ.
You will be able to discover screenprints, skateboards, books, toys, paintings, tee-shirts, Sketchels and even more…
SO MAKE SURE 2 GET THERE IF YOU ARE AROUND PARIS THESE DAYS!!!
The Vernissage will be today, November 29 starting at 7 pm at ARTOYZ.
I just finished watching the new Halloween Movie directed by Rob Zombie.
And for all of you who are into Horror movies: this is the best Halloween the world has ever seen!!
I’ve always been a BIG fan of his artwork. Yeah right, his movies are kinda art for me. Never seen movies where sex, crime, love and sheer brutality was assembled to such an erotic powerful and colored journey like on his. The way he works out fear and desire in every scene just turns me on and I’m even not quiet sure why Rob Zombie’s combination of beautiful blonde bimbo and sinister psychotic serial killer is such a powerful combination..
Rob Zombie is best known as a musician, formerly the lead singer for the band White Zombie. He’s also well-known as a fan of B-movies, horror movies in particular, and over the last few years, Zombie has become a screenwriter and director himself. His first two movies were House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, the latter of which enjoyed significant amount of success. And the former movie was a cult classic in its own right.
He is also the executive producer of the forthcoming film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, based upon his comic book series, ‘The Adventures of El Superbeasto’ (which appeared in his Spookshow International comic book). USuperbeasto is animated and due for a 2008 release.
House of 1000 Corpses was Rob Zombie’s directorial debut and his first horror film. It took four years to make (1999-2003), and was finally released by Lion’s Gate Films in 2003, after Stacy Snider, then-head of Universal Pictures, sold the film to them, as she did not wish for Universal to release the film. It was later revealed that Snider is not a fan of horror films. It featured a shocking amount of violence and gore, a hark back to Rob’s exploitation-film influences. It told the tale of a group of unlucky teenagers who stumble upon the Firefly Family, a family of sadistic and vicious murderers. The film was shot in a surreal and over-the-top style that alternated between dark and campy humor.
house of 1000 corpes
1000 Corpses’ sequel, The Devil’s Rejects, showcased a much different style. Whereas House was at times comedic and bizarre, Rejects was more dark, serious and gritty and was more of a Western revenge movie than an outright horror film. Released in 2005, Rejects had the Firefly Family on the run from the law and a particularly vengeful sheriff whose brother was murdered by them in the first film.
the devil’s rejects
Rob Zombie contributed to the 2007 exploitation film Grindhouse, by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino by directing a faux trailer, called Werewolf Women of the S.S., starring his wife, exploitation veterans Udo Kier and Sybil Danning, and Nicolas Cage, who did his appearance for free as a favor.
Zombie next directed Halloween, a reimagining of the 1978 classic that was released August 31st, 2007.
halloween
If you are into Horror movies then all his movies should be on your must-have list!!!
Enjoy watching the trailers.
designer’s own words:
The product turns two plastic bottles into a clothes hanger by screwing the bottles into the hook. By the concept that reuses empty plastic bottles, I try to present to consumers a realistic idea to address environmental realities and encourage the reuse of already “consumed†items to form a new functional product. The design incorporates the following features that make it practical and appealing to both producers and consumers: • Low cost, realistic commodity • The shape of the bottle provides more fit support for the shoulder of clothes than traditional ones • Inspire the interest of users: the concept will attract consumers and inspire a rethinking of consumption habits
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name of design : hanger
design by : xuan yu from usa
interesting:
the winner of the competition:
name of design : watering can
design by : nicolas le moigne from switzerland
designer’s own words:
The idea consists in reusing PET and glass bottles. A PET closing piece is able to fit different shapes of bottles and to change it into a watering can.
more:
name of design : my little sister’s tea party
design by : mydesign ronen&mikulsky + MYDesign- + Yaron Ronen + MIchael Mikulsky from israel
designer’s own words:
Large quantities of disposable plastic cups are common site after any party. This is a modular structured system made of used disposable plastic cups and paper clips. In day time it functions as natural light source lighting and at night time it functions as light fixture with 220 volt light bulb situated inside the system. Similar to bee-hives structure this system can grow to any size and it is much stronger then its component.
and:
name of design : medusa
design by : anette kithier from netherlands
designer’s own words:
an industrial product of our days as a material source, imitating ancient roman and crystal glassware
MAP mag is the latest online magazine based in Miami. It was created because music and art bring people together. Think of Map as a gathering place where you can all get together and follow up path to great music, art and fascinating people.
MAP is a refreshing publication with the perfect blend of art, music and unique design brought together in a cool, classy way with a flair for the artists.
As an exciting, new energy is emerging around in the arts, music and culture as Miami and South Florida continue to grow. Opportunities abound for enrichment, education and entertainment with great symphonies, dance, opera, art and every conceivable art form in between. MAP als showcases fascinating people with captivating life experiences.
So we wanna hype his latest Zoo York collab decks and feel this edition (above) that he did for 20×200.
Michael Perry works in Brooklyn, NY making books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, and drawings. He is currently curating two new books. He also recently started a magazine called Untitled a… That explores his current interests. Doodling away night and day, Perry creates new typefaces and sundry graphics that inevitably evolve into his new work, exercising the great belief that the generating of piles is the sincerest form of creative process…
If you’re out and about tomorrow, stop by Jen Bekman’s gallery, where he’s giving a talk and signing his Hand Job book from 3-5pm.
Since the early 1970’s Duane Hanson has been making startlingly lifelike sculptures of middle America accomplished through a complex process of casting from live models, recreated in bronze or fibreglass resin.
Duane Hanson concentrated on the naked fact of the subject, an astonishingly persuasive counterfeit of another human being as a fully realised physical presence.
The insistence on the irreplaceability of each person, and on the dignity to be accorded to those who are usually overlooked or spurned as ordinary are central to Duane Hanson’s art and humanitarian vision.
Duane Hanson’s sculptures of people are just too believable. Creating vignettes of real American life, he doesn’t forget a single detail. Casting his figures from live models in his studio, Duane Hanson then adorned them with every attribute of life-likeness from tiny body hairs, varicose viens, bruises, and hangnails. He hand picked their clothes from second hand shops, and accessorised them accordingly.
Upon encountering one of these extraordinarily realistic sculptures, the typical reaction of a museum visitor unfamiliar with Duane Hanson’s work can be among the most interesting and amusing events one might witness in a museum or gallery.
Hanson’s sculptures, especially those that are appropriate in a gallery setting such as Seated Artist, Museum Guard, Janitor or Old Couple on a Bench, are often dismissed as people at rest-sitting or standing like any other visitor. Many visitors may never know that those people they passed were actually artworks. On other occasions a visitor might try to engage the sculptures in conversation. Of course, after a few moments they discover that these are not real people after all!
Duane Hanson was an extraordinary craftsman and an observer of life. In creating an artwork, he first determined the proper pose for the sculpture. Working with a model, the artist took photos until he was satisfied with the figure’s position. Then the artist formed rubber and plaster molds of each part of the subject’s body-arms, legs, torso and head molds were each created separately. When the molds dried, they were cut off the model and filled with flesh-colored polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass.
NOT SURE IF YOU’RE GOING TO FIT ONE OF THESE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM, SO CHECK THEM OUT AT THESaatchi Gallery.
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.
Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.
Since Learning To Love You More is also an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant’s documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. Past presentations have taken place at venues that include The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
Since LTLYM inception in 2002 over 5000 people have participated in the project.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you might as well start at #1 (make a child’s outfit in an adult size) and wear it to the next event…
in the corporate world, climbing ladders and shaking hands are running simultaneous.
between lunches, dinners, and meetings, something had to surface among the numbing uv lights of the office to keep everything in line. the post-it note, a small square with re-adhearable adhesive on the back, was such one answer. the three-inch bright yellow square is employed as a reminder, a note, or for organization… but some don’t see it as only a productivity tool… they see it as a medium for colorful art.
even on 3m’s corporate site the post-it notes are sold with the slogan “so express yourself in color.†some creative people took that idea to their heart…
below are several examples of how people have used the sticky notes to create works of art.
(“TO DO†is a project by the new york based public art collaborative, illegal art.)
sweden born illustrator stina persson is one of these persons who have seen more in their lives at the age of 19 than I have seen until today. „at nineteen years of age she found herself in japan, working at a mexican restaurant while studying japanese.
from there, she went to perugia, italy, where she attended the accademia to study fine art. after this, off to florence for some additional fashion and language studies. a two-year stint at pratt institute in manhattan followed, with a major in illustration. while in new york, stina also painted a number of large-scale portraits and held several one-woman shows.“
then she moved back to sweden, „where she built an impressive clientele including elle, gourmet, damernas, res, silikon magazine, dn, akesson & curry and magazine.“ wow. currently she cooperates with italian fashion label fornarina. and her strange unique, and elegant style - based on it.
Sixe began to paint in the middle of 89-90. Since then he has been making many works, and proving all type of materials, textures and forms.
He began bombing and making letters by the street and after a time it had an own style of letters and personages.
Later he entered a creative phase within a factory, painting his first pictures with letters like which he painted in the streets. Little by little he investigated new forms and styles, but without turning aside to him of my initial ideas, creating new series of pictures with personages, different forms and textures, that a little left the traditional graffitti.
After a time he started to work with the volume doing his first iron sculptures and compositions, transforming my plastic personages into 3D. Sixe has made three series at different times at which it is possible to be seen, like at the same time that it was changing the form of the personages, changed the series of the sculptures. Also he has been arranging his pictures in the street with working hours of hours in the factory, creating in different scopes and applying his creations in numerous projects: from exhibitions of graffitti, decoration of interiors, stores, to works for advertising agencies and marks of all type…