Archive for March, 2011

Me Studio (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

“We all have the same computers, but my hands and mind are not the same as yours. “Located in the Netherlands, Me Studio was founded as a one-man operation by British designer Martin Pyper in 2005. His work comprises a mix of three things, he says: ima…


Aakk Forever — Adam Turecek, Kristina Ambrozova (Czech Republic)

“There is definitely a Czech design style – its is characterized by excellent typography, a sense of humor and the courage to experiement.”
Aakk Forever consists of its two founders, Adam Turecek and Kristina Ambrozova, the former being in charge…


Milan Nedved (Czech Republic)

“Perhaps our most typical attributes are maintaining a sense of humour, exaggeration and looking for short-cuts.”With a decade of digital experience under his belt, Milan Nedved has worked for a wide variety of clients, studios and advertising agen…


T-Post (Seattle, USA)

“The world’s first wearable T-shirt magazine, T-post mixed outdoor functional clothes with printed messages on how to survive and to fully enjoy the great outdoors”Peter Lundgren is the Editor-In-Chief behind the world’s first wearable magazine-printed…


Jon Klassen (Los Angeles, USA)

“Jon Klassen enjoys thinking about inanimate objects and places where things happen on their own.”Canadian-born Jon Klassen creates beautiful collections of animation and book projects inspired by nature and folk tales, using delicate, muted palettes.h…


Jesse Auersalo (New York, USA)

“Jesse Auersalo is represented by Finnish illustration agency Pekka Finland and London-based creative consultancy Big Active”Based in New York, Jesse Auersalo is a visual artist with an amorphous style, producing strong masses of black and white, surre…


love japan. help japan. buy nice poster.

love japan. help japan. buy nice poster.

buy paul vicker’s ‘Love Japan – Help Japan’ Poster in aid of the Sendai Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster. proceeds from poster sales to Japan Aid via The Red Cross & Save The Children. A2 format 420×594 mm Giclée print on quality heavyweight paper in a Colissimo tube €30/$30/£30 or more with PayPal. contact vickers.paul@neuf.fr


visitor from japan

visitor from japan

from our awe50me friend, no vacancy gallery… “The earthquake in Japan has been an enormous shock to everyone and it has been brought closer to home for us by the fact that Sean was very lucky to make it out to attend the opening of his solo show Visitor. Our hearts are with all the [...]


RACE: TICKLE ME LOGO AND SHINY DISCO WALLS

RACE: TICKLE ME LOGO AND SHINY DISCO WALLS

“Some more fun with kinect. Tickle-me-logo is a piece that lets users manipulate a logo by the movement of their hands/body. what they do is represented on screen so it seems as though they actually touch the logo. Shiny Disco Walls is manipulation of the point cloud projected on a wall. with proper calibration the [...]


I AM DAVID SPARKLE – SINGAPORE

I AM DAVID SPARKLE - SINGAPORE

One of the pioneers in the instrumental post-rock scene in Singapore, I Am David Sparkle takes its name from a tongue-in-cheek anglicisation of popular ’70s Malaysian disco king, M. Daud Kilau. Their music however, is an entirely different beast. Best recognised for their hypnotic, dark sounds falling into the categories of indie, shoegaze and post-rock, talent [...]


reka’s ‘down low too slow’ in melbourne

reka’s ‘down low too slow’ in melbourne

www.backwoodsgallery.com


Mono Kultur (Berlin, Germany)

“One issue, one person, one conversation, is the style that Mono Kultur magazine embarks upon, having featured the great Tilda Swinton and Dries van Noten.”Mono Kultur is an independent interview magazine published by Kai von Rabenau with one solid con…


Ty Lettau (California, USA)

“In my opinion, minimalism works specifically because it forces you to do what all designers should do anyway. If there’s less stuff for the viewer to focus on, then there’s more possibility of grasping the main idea.”Ty Lettau is the Director of E…


RACE – FLORIDA

RACE - FLORIDA

NAME: Race Krehel AGE: 25 WHERE YOU FROM/LIVE Jacksonville, Florida aka Duval WHAT YOU DO Well I went to school for Visual Effects for movies. I moved out here after college and worked at Lucasfilm Animation Singapore for a bit over a year. Since then I have been working with some friends on events work [...]


Rafaël Rozendaal (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

“Born in Amsterdam, Rafaël Rozendaal’s has exhibited all over the world in galleries and museums, making installations with projections.”Known for making websites as art pieces that are sold and collected with domain names, dutch-born Rafaël Rozenda…


Chevychase (Stockholm, Sweden)

“Our idea is to develop and use the most appropriate functionality and visual language for the product or service in question. Each and every project is treated individually and afforded the same care and attention. “Chevychase is a Stockholm-based mu…


paul white’s auto abandon

paul white's auto abandon

now showing at melbourne’s metro gallery till march 14. check out more of his work at www.paulwhiteart.com


Denis Darzacq (Paris, France)

“Question the place of the individual in society, reflecting the frustrations and the freedom, which it is necessary to know how to protect.”French photographer Denix Darzacq explores the relationship between man and urban space, creating an artistic s…


Dalston Creative (Stockholm, Sweden)

“Two styles and a twist and mix. One is the arty/crafty style that comes out of Konstfack (university of the arts) and then there is the slick, minimalistic style with long lines based on our bleak, wintry Nature. Twist them up and mix them and somewhe…


Tim Hunkin (Suffolk, UK)

“Tim Hunkin, engineer turned cartoonist turned television presenter before finding his true calling as an artist and curator.”Originally trained as an engineer, Tim Hunkin is a bit of a quirky chameleon, starting off as a cartoonist for The Observer…


Erik Wåhlström (Stockholm, Sweden)

“The dream would be that anyone seeing my work feels something. Anything at all, really. With this much buzz going around, especially visually, I try to aim for friction. Something that lingers, something that’s sometimes ugly, or off.”With his backg…


Jordi Labanda (Barcelona, Spain)

“Having illustrated for the most important magazines and newspapers, Jordi Labanda has branched out into design, resulting in a fashion collection and a product line of stationary”With a background in industrial design Jordi Labanda began working as a …


Recovering Lazyholic (Texas, USA)

“…but where minimalist design is concerned, it is even more of a challenge … you have a smaller arsenal of imagery to pull from and it is easier to fall into the traps of go-to stereotypes….listening to that inner voice if you will, doing what fe…


Storm Tharp (Portland, USA)

Storm Tharp’s recent exhibit of portraits entitled, “Ashby Lee Collinson” debuted at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City – October, 2010.Storm Tharp is an artist based in Portland, his work is expressed through a variety of conceptual and repre…