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Designers.MX – Beautifully designed mixes

Lukas — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:10:09 +0000

Looks like the right way of doing it.. Designers.MX. Great playlists with great design. They say:

If you’re anything like us, you love music as much as design. We’re asking some of the industry’s top designers to let us in on one of their secrets…what music fuels their creativity.

Visit here: http://designers.mx/

Shepard Fairey – Obey to the better

Andrea — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:12:25 +0000

“Introducing the American artist Shepard Fairey is a bit like explaining whose portrait he famously altered for the “Hope” campaign that was widely used by Barack Obama’s supporters in 2008. Since the mid 1980s he has created outstanding (then: street) art that is strong, iconic and expressive. Shepard Fairey is also a thoughtful, committed, and outspoken activist who revives the artistic virtues of standing up for the freedom of speech and fighting for rational and non-corporate ways of dealing with the issue of copyright. Obey the interview we did with him in Los Angeles in late 2010!” (gestalten.tv)

→ www.obeygiant.com

Source:Gestalten.tv

Illustration by Simon Prades

Lukas — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:35:53 +0000

Simón Prades is studying graphic design at the university of applied sciences in Trier. I really like his illustrations and drawings. A call to awareness of what is happening in the world is visible throughout his work. And we all need some more of that..

See more on his website or his blog. (The top drawing is a large-format related to Mexico).

The series “Three”

The series “Revolution”

Beautiful Infographics and Data Visualization

Andrea — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:47:45 +0000

I just love Data Visualizations. Informations are such a big thing in our generation. Its everywhere around us, so we need to emotionalize them in an optical way and it is just mesmerizing to see a lot of data packages beautiful visualized, especially when you need to handle complex data.Visual codes of informations. On noupe you can get more Info graphics.

Judith Supine

Andrea — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:03:59 +0000

Judith Supine is a 29-year-old artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Supine could not speak until a month after his seventeenth birthday. He could not physically articulate words, he could only squeak and grunt. Supine often drew pictures to communicate with his family. His mom saved all of his pictures, just one of many reasons why his mom is great.

Judith Supine sources images from fashion magazines, art history books and any other publicatios he manages to lay his hands on. He gets his magazines out of people’s trash, from the public library, from the dentist’s offices, from his little sister’s magazine collection, from bankrupt porn shops. You can find his work on the streets as well, but he is doing a lot of stuff for sell.

for more collages from him, go to his flickr account

and watch a video from his work in his studio on youtube

Aaron Rose / Beautiful Loser Movement

Andrea — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:39:44 +0000

Circleculture Gallery, Berlin presents “Trouble”, new works by Aaron Rose, which give very personal and direct insights into the artist’s mind. Aaron Rose is perhaps best known as a curator. With his touring show Beautiful Losers and the documentary of the same name, he brought underground artists to public attention, championing a DIY aesthetic informed by their various backgrounds as skaters, punk rock fans and graffiti writers.

Aaron Rose is a lot more of an influence than you probably ever thought. He’s responsible for the large-scale, traveling museum exhibition titled Beautiful Losers (there’s a book too), he’s a writer and independent curator who shows all over the world, and he was the owner/director of the highly influential Alleged Gallery in New York for 10 years.

click here for the Interview - Some true words of him about the culture development.

shots of his current art exhibition in the circleculture gallery in Berlin:

For this show he has a particular obsession: painting on suitcases. “Suitcases from the 50s to 70s were manufactured in such interesting color palettes – these incredible mustard yellows and army greens,” he says. Rose calls the works (some of which are stuffed with surprise goodies for buyers to walk away with) “object paintings,” displaying them in the spirit of Duchamp. Art historical references aside, the show’s conceptual slant is psychological, personal even. “It’s my baggage,” says Rose. “The exhibition is going to be very much a confession, what all my problems are.”

The Japanese Popstars Feat. Green Velvet – Let Go

Lukas — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:28:46 +0000

The Japanese Popstars Feat. Green Velvet – Let Go from David Wilson Creative on Vimeo.

Music video to accompany The Japanese Popstars’ new track ‘Let Go’. Featuring techno artist Green Velvet on vocals, and follows on from their ‘Destroy EP’.
Created over an intensive 20 day period in September 2010.

Epic stuff.

Illustrations by ZSO

Lukas — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:32:38 +0000

ZSO also known as Sara Blake does some amazing Illustration work. Last night i was watching Justin Mallers live transmition on ustream and he commented about her and led me to the site. Nice way of finding out about new stuff.. So anyway, she is truly talented and does some very cool stuff. Here´s what she writes on her about page:

“Hello, I’m ZSO. (On paper you may also know me as Sara Blake.) I’m an Interactive Art Director, Designer, and Illustrator living and loving in New York City.

ZSO (pronounced |zō|) is a collection of letters that I find aesthetically and phonetically beautiful. Together they make sound much like “so,” the adverb which means “to such a great extent.” I am a person of extremes, for better or worse (most often the latter), so the ring of it was fitting, and the moniker has since stuck for good.

“

See more of here work on her website (www.hellozso.com) and check out the interviews on dazed digital and thee blog (to name a few). By the way..thats her.