Ttragic passing of the talented Amy Winehouse - Image by Hedi Slimane
Wednesday 27 July 2011
NIKE - Ice Cream Parlor
Nike's latest venture, Boulevard Ice - an ice cream parlor. Based in Harlem, New York, The shop follows up the campaign which involved an ice cream truck driving to various parts of the city to sell trainers, laces, t-shirts and, of course, ice cream.
Fitted out to resemble a giant refrigerator, Its a $1 to escape from the hot summer months for locals. The rest of the store provides visitors with an interactive basketball experience and a range of customisable shorts and t-shirts, as well as some exclusive Hyperdunk and Hyperfuse sneakers, and you can get an ice cream
VISIT:
Nike Basketball Boulevard Ice
2490 Frederick Douglass Blvd.
New York, NY 10030
Tuesday 26 July 2011
Elle Fanning on the cover of LOVE
She is becoming mine (and everyone else's) favourite little fashionista. First Marc Jacobs, now the cover of the bi-annual fashion bible LOVE. Looking ridiculously angelic and etherial, with spooky lighting that sends chills down my spine. Lets hope she does the transition from child star to adult star with grace and poise and no flashing of underwear as she falls out of a taxi!
Monday 25 July 2011
The ultimate toy watch.
Kidrobot and Swatch have teamed up to create 8 of the coolest watches I've seen in a long time. These bad boys surpass the Baby-G coolness and smash the vibrancy of the Nixon watch. Plus they come with matching Dunny. Kidrobot and Swatch asked 8 contemporary artists to put their individual styles onto the would be blank canvases of the Original Swatch watch and the white Dunny. Its bling I wouldn't mind having on my wrist!
Friday 22 July 2011
A flamingo was carrying my clutch bag
Markus Lupfer has created an awesome video for his Resort collections with the help of stylist Aldene Johnson and director Tabitha Denholm, starring Florence Welch, Sadie Frost and more fashion icons. The video is a tongue in cheek mock-u-mentary shot in a 60's style with scratched effect film and styling to match. It shows a funny side to somewhat stern model like Irina Lazareanu and an even better side of Sadie Frost who appears obsessed with everything A-symetrical, a problem that many fashionista's suffer from! Check out the video in style.com for all the laughs.
Wednesday 20 July 2011
The Gypsy Gentleman Episode 1: New York City - New Tattoo & Travel Magazine.
The Gypsy Gentleman Episode 1: New York City.
Marcus Kuhn presents
The first edition of a brand new tattoo and travel magazine.
Featuring Interviews with Thomas Hooper and Virginia Elwood.
A Kinetic Science Production
Producer: Richard Kennedy
Executive Producer: Marcus Kuhn
Director of Photography: Justin L Stanley
Original Music By Lucero
Additional Music By Missing Ships
Tuesday 19 July 2011
IMAGE OF THE DAY By Shaka
at Galerie 208 in Paris. Thanks Juxtapoz
Monday 18 July 2011
The exhibition Where Asia and America Meet
Ai Weiwei, outside Tompkins Square Park, 1986
“The New York I knew no longer exists....Looking back on the past, I can see that these photographs are facts, but not necessarily true....The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.” –Ai Weiwei, 2008
Hennessy x KAWS Cognac Bottle
KAWS has attached his name to another project of great interest by designing a “very special” Hennessy Cognac bottle. The Hennessy Very Special Cognac bottle features a number of signature treatments of the artist including the chomper teeth graphic on the cap seal, the double “X X” eyes for the Hennessy Seal and colorful abstract graphics to the bottle label.
Friday 15 July 2011
"Alife" "NY" and "Crack"! 'Private Property'
Alife presents: Jessica Clark by Amy Dellar from alifenyc on Vimeo.
The other day NY street wear brand Alife posted this video 'Jessica Clark by Amy Dellar'. The short is a portrait of a cute young lady with a lot of tattoos going about her daily business, all the while the words "Alife" "New York" and "Crack" are emblazoned in white in the middle of the screen for the duration of the video. I was not entirely sure what the video was even for, but after some digging around on the Alife site I found this photo below: a table supported by the words "Alife", "NY" and "Crack"! The table is part of Alife's 'Private Property' exhibition thanks ruby
Stephen Powers vs Ogilvy & Mather New York
Flights of Genius by Stephen Powers from Jun Lee on Vimeo.
Ogilvy & Mather New York and Joshua Liner Gallery unveil a series of commissioned murals by celebrated artist Stephen Powers that reinterpret the words and quotes of agency founder David Ogilvy.
Power’s bold graphic style, reminiscent of vintage advertising illustrations puts a unique emphasis on famous Ogilvy sayings and transforms them into actionable words designed to inspire the viewer. Painted in bright colors on the North stairwell of the agency’s headquarters office, the murals run from the first to the 11th floor of the office building.
The murals are being unveiled to coincide with the 100th birthday of David Ogilvy, one of the most influential and important figures in modern advertising
Thursday 14 July 2011
Lady Gaga - Araki Nobuyoshi - Bondage
Eccentric pop star Lady Gaga down to her bare essentialsfor Japanese contemporary artist Araki Nobuyoshi. with a “bondage” interpreted by the artist with a tasteful iconic image. view more
Haze vs Huf
Incase x ipod Nano
Innovations for your favorite Apple items, has recently released an all new flexible wrist band specified for holding your iPod Nano. Available in matte black, silver, gold you can purchase them online now from the Incase webstore.
Golden Sun Movement
Golden Sun Movement - Acid House Aty & Twenty First Century Psychedelia,
An Exhibition By Luke Insect - Leo - Dave Little
7th September - 6th October 2011 - Bang Bang Gallery -
Choriner Strabe 34 - 10435 Berlin
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Massive Light Jockey Instrument - FORM US WITH LOVE
Interactive installation of 91 linked 24 carat gold covered Work Lamps creating a massive Light Jockey instrument. The installation was uncovered June 18 at Design House Stockholm's opening of their OPEN concept in Boda, Sweden. The Work Lamp VJ installation has 91 individual dimmers attached to a separate control table. 1100 cable ties where used to link the lamps together. The installation allows the viewer to interact with each separate lamp to create graphic patterns or light moods.
FORM US WITH LOVE for DESIGN HOUSE STOCKHOLM OPEN from FORM US WITH LOVE on Vimeo.
Vice 10th Annual Photo Issue
Underwater bedroom -
Rest in bed, when all around you rages marine life. Many of us could only dream of something like that. But some dreams have the property becomes a reality. About five years ago at the Conrad Rangali Island has opened Maldivs underwater restaurant. In honor of its fifth anniversary, the restaurant guests have a unique opportunity not only to eat well in the 12-seat restaurant and sleep in this bed in a room with a panoramic view. And all this at a depth of several meters below the Indian Ocean
Life After
This series is an exploration into the tattoos, and lives, of members of South Africa’s ‘Numbers’ prison gangs (the 26s, 27s & 28s) after having been released back into society, normally after many years, if not decades, of imprisonment.
Tattooing has always been forbidden in the South African prison system, with severe penalties, but the drive to create these marks is so strong that tattooing equipment will be created somehow. Pigment will come from grinding up rubbish bins, industrial rubber washers, batteries, or bricks. This will then be mixed with saliva, and will be pushed under the skin with nails pulled out of furniture, or sewing needles. READ MORE
Hepar Water - Mark Gmehling of Publicis Agnency
5 beautiful visuals created by illustrator Mark Gmehling of Publicis Agnency.
An advertising campaign for Hepar water on digestion and intestinal transit thanks to its magnesium enrichment.
Monday 11 July 2011
Damien Hirst for Red Hot Chili Peppers
Iconic British artist Damien Hirst has been commissioned by LA rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers to produce the artwork for their tenth studio album "I'm With You". Hirst's love of pharmaceuticals with a fly standing on top of a hard-shelled medicine capsule that has I'M WITH YOU printed on the side. Album release on 30 August, 2011 Warner Bros. Records 14 new tracks, produced by Rick Rubin.
Friday 8 July 2011
Oversized and Oversexed, Murakami Mines the Past With Racy New Gagosian Show in London
Takashi Murakami has a confidence crisis. Perhaps bored with the Manga imagery always associated with his name, the Jeff Koons of Japan clearly wants to prove in his new Gagosian show in gallery his artistic roots reach further than the relatively recent Anime culture. This is most apparent in four triptychs that pay imitative homage to the turn-of-the-century painter Kuroda Seiki, best known for having introduced Western style of painting to Japan. One of Murakami's triptychs is a copy of Kuroda's own "Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment," a 1900 composition of three realistic female nudes to which Murakami has boldly added a double signature: "Seiki Kuroda – Takashi Murakami 1899-2010." The claim for a lineage couldn't be more explicit. READ MORE (artinfo)
The Dictionary as Art Concept?
Magritte A to Z, Tate Publishing, 2011, showing Magritte's Time Transfixed, 1938. Designed by Tony Waddingham
How important is originality when it comes to book design? The issue came up recently in a panel discussion in Zurich that I took part in, organized around the annual Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition. The term “beauty” is something of a red herring here. What the jury, which included Cornel Windlin (the chair), Lars Müller and Linda van Deursen, seemed to be looking for were books that contribute something new in their design. Exactly what this means in terms of the 19 titles they chose for their final selection, and how these books meet this criterion, was never properly defined during our discussion. But it did seem that a book that was merely excellent in applying a familiar design approach, as plenty of the also-rans appeared to be, couldn’t, in the jury’s view, qualify as a “most beautiful” book.
Thanks Design Observer READ MORE
Thursday 7 July 2011
Paper fashion in Betty
I've been a fan of the online magazine Betty for a while and adore their soft stylings and girly notions. The fashion is cute but what really caught my attention was the cut out paper fashion shoot in the most recent issue. It was created by a wonderful lady called Lou Taylor from Brighton, who I have had the pleasure of meeting previously. Betty is very good at reinventing fashion shoots in magazines and breaking the boundaries from just a photographic shoot. Lou Taylor has shown you can communicate a current fashion styling without a gangly model and the other shoots within Betty add on to what you normally see. Even if it is adding garden flowers to a whimsical image, its refreshing and just so darn cute!
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Gerry Judah Jaguar E-Type Sculpture
Constructed using half a kilometre of 1200mm diameter steel tube, this sculpture by Gerry Judah stands 28 metres tall and weighs over 175 tonnes – the equivalent to 135 E-types! A striking tribute to a true motoring icon. The E-Type was an overnight sensation when it was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in 1961. Despite changing fashions and the passage of time, our fascination with the E-Type is as strong today as it was 50 years ago, and those swooping curves are still as breathtaking as they were when Enzo Ferrari described it as
“The most beautiful car ever Made.”
Concept, design and production: Gerry Judah
Structural Engineering: Capita Symonds
Fabrication and Installation: Littlehampton Welding
Photography: David Barbour
www.gerryjudah.com
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Terence Conran Funds Design Museum Move
Designer Terence Conran, who will turn 80-years-old this year, will be giving a huge gift of approx. £17.5m to help London's Design Museum move six mile west. Although the Design Museum are very happy with the building they're currently in, most people agree that the space (a former banana warehouse situated on the Thames) is much too small. The move will see them take over the currently unoccupied Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, giving it three times as much space.
"Moving to the Commonwealth Institute will allow all our dreams and ambitions for the Design Museum to come true, to create a world class space with the size and scope for the serious promotion and celebration of design and architecture in this country. I am also uplifted by the support we are receiving from Government, who recognise the enormous contribution the creative industries make to the economy and the quality of life of ordinary people. Design, manufacturing and business are completely interlinked and one cannot succeed without the other."
"Moving to the Commonwealth Institute will allow all our dreams and ambitions for the Design Museum to come true, to create a world class space with the size and scope for the serious promotion and celebration of design and architecture in this country. I am also uplifted by the support we are receiving from Government, who recognise the enormous contribution the creative industries make to the economy and the quality of life of ordinary people. Design, manufacturing and business are completely interlinked and one cannot succeed without the other."
Underground Gallery Space
Elle Fanning for Marc By Marc Jacobs
Now Elle Fanning is following in the footsteps of her older sister Dakota by being the new face of Marc By Marc Jacobs. A fresh faced model of 13 with whimsical stylings and stern looks. I'm sure the campaign will run with great success and put the Fanning sisters firmly on the fashion map. However I do feel old looking at these young models, with Hailee Steinfeld modelling for Miu Miu. Then again this is just the next generation catching up, so look out!
Hermes Bracelet Campaign
The latest ad campaign from French high-fashion house Hermès sees their new collection of bracelets incorporated into great paintings by the likes of Gauguin, Ingres, and Courbet. THANX HUH.
"Disney will always be magical, no matter what age.”
Taylor Jones has a blog called Dear Photograph in which he holds up old photos in the exact location that they were taken, bringing the past back to life. With each photograph, the owner of the image makes a statement about the photo. At first he was just posting his own photos, but now he gets tons of email submissions from all over the world. He is now hard at work on a book. THANX Design Milk
Chris O'Dowd on Graham Norton
Chris O'Dowd looked very good on Graham Norton's show last night on BBC1. He wore a pale blue suit jacket with simple white shirt, spotted tie and plain black trousers. Topped off with some worn chelsea boots and dishevelled beard. Maybe it is the shock of not seeing him in geeky t-shirts from the IT crowd but Chris O'Dowd looked hot and very cool, a definite male pin up for being beyond the fashion trend.
Monday 4 July 2011
IMAGE OF THE DAY - Signe Vilstrup
About . Dividing his time primarily between Copenhagen, Paris and Milan. Signe has great passion for beauty and aesthetics, and through photography he has found the ideal way to express ideas and visions. Mainly shooting fashion, lifestyle and personalities. view more
COMBO x Moleskine Installation by Paolo “Zero-T” Capezzuoli
COMBO X Moleskine: "INK SMOKE OVER STAPLED NOTES" from Combo Clothing on Vimeo.
Della collaborazione con Moleskine, COMBO mostra ora la video-presentazione dell’opera “Ink Smoke Over Stapled Notes” realizzata da Paolo ‘Zero-T‘ Capezzuoli. Any given surface can be reenvisioned and adapted from its original and “primary” form, creating fresh canvas possibilities, those that expand both in dimension and impact. I think the Moleskine notebooks I used in this piece, multiplied beyond its daily function in the personal sense, show a great example of this concept at work.
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