Kolorit

Posted on September 15, 2008 Under Art

Plenty (though certainly not all) of people who are native to big cities such as New York are often too jaded to see the bizarre beauty inherent in the urban cityscape. Hailing from the war torn Bosnia and Herzegovina, and…

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Japan C at Felissimo Design House

Posted on September 15, 2008 Under Design

Hiroshi Fujiwara, Junya Watanabe, Takashi Murakami. These are all household names by now, and if you are not familiar with them, you should be. I think the late Amy Spindler said it best in her 2002 NY Times article: Japan…

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Illumini

Posted on September 11, 2008 Under Art
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Storm Clouds by Jeff Soto

Posted on September 11, 2008 Under Books
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Panos 2013

Posted on September 11, 2008 Under Art

You know why driving isn't fun? Because your car is spewing out Earth killing gases? Maybe, but also the road signs can be so boring. It's a problem the Panos 2013 aim to address in the town of Lyon, France.…

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Choque Cultural Art Attack

Posted on September 10, 2008 Under Art

Only months after the tagging fiasco at a graduation show at the Sao Paulo private art university Belas Artes, a different [UPDATE: APPARENTLY ORGANIZED BY THE SAME GUY AS THE PREVIOUS INCIDENT] gang of 30 pixadores took matters into their…

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Royal Remarkable: The Train Car Project

Posted on September 9, 2008 Under Life

Last time we checked in on Royal Remarkable (aka Joshua Gajownik), he was getting busy with Grafuck and Hand Job, two of the most graphically brilliant projects with sexual undertones that we've ever laid caresses on. Since then, the man's…

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Phil Clarke-Hill: Lustrabotas

Posted on September 9, 2008 Under Art

We all walk past people selling things on the street every day. It is really easy just to pass them by and continue on. Phil Clarke-Hill couldn't just pass them along on his journey through Bolivia. For one, the street…

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Element Editions

Posted on September 9, 2008 Under Art

Louise Despont, Jackie Saccoccio, and Randy Wray are just some of the unique talents that Brooklyn-based fine arts publisher Element Editions have been cultivating. Their mission: to bring experimental printmaking (we imagine this to be something like using a Pantone…

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The Awesomist Tomorrow

Posted on September 4, 2008 Under Art

A Los Angeles Chinese antique store turned art exhibition space will play host to an ink drawing and sculpture show that conjures up memories of MC Escher's layered drawings (if Escher used color and submarine themes). Kiel Johnson's solo show…

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