Skins: Design and Styling
So, I have to admit to being introduced last night to what is (apparently) all the rage for teens in the UK right now: Skins. Watching episodes from season 1 on Netflix with my 14 year-old step son, I was hooked after 20 minutes. The series follows a group of High School students from Bristol, England and covers controversial plot lines that include sexuality, substance abuse, eating disorders and much more. Not only are the story lines and characters well done and funny, but the styling is fantastic—sort of Gossip Girl, meets upper class Brit, meets American Apparel—and way cooler than anything that is on American TV right now, MUCH cooler than anything that was around when I was 14…and, ehem, dealing with issues that surely would never make it past our censors…
Their marketing and design team should also be credited for creating an impressive multi-media campaign including an extensive website and blog, and app.
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Page Magazine
It should be apparent by now that I love magazines. All types, shapes and sizes—and, in my quest to develop Sloane I have been hunting more than ever to find inspiration. Check out this great one called Page from Monterrey, Mexico put out by the very talented design firm, Face.
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Tomorrow evening, the Steven Zevitas Gallery will host an artist’s reception for Amy Ross, Brother Wolf. Amy is well known for masterfully crafted watercolors that merge plants and animals. This new body of work is in collaboration with her brother who recently served in Iraq. Read the full press release here.
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Blog Love: Booooooom!
Boooooom! is the brain child of Canadian artist, Jeff Hamada. The blog features posts on art, design, film, music, photography and always features fresh content
you won’t find on other sites.
Geoff McFetridge: Best Magazine Cover Design Winner of 2009
Eric Daigh: Push Pin Art
Craig Nunn: Photographs, Limbs
Keith Schofield video for Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg*
*NOTE the interesting debate on artistic ownership and internet issues.
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Interactive Gabriel Orozco
My husband and I are looking forward to getting down to New York to see the MoMA’s Gabriel Orozco retrospective. In the meantime, I think the interactive site they created is really interesting and fun to navigate.
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Simon Page’s Year of Astronomy
Self-taught graphic designer, Simon Page from the UK has been making making waves with his International Year of Astronomy posters. I love his 60s-simplicity mixed with pattern and negative space. Read his full interview with Grain Edit here.
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Boxed is the new bottled.
I’ve never really been a fan of bottled water, even before the recent anti-bottle backlash and appearance of overpriced stainless steel bottles in Whole Foods. (Seriously? I think someone already created this at the turn of century and it was called a canteen…this isn’t a new concept people.) Packaging the fundamental element of human existence just seems like such an obvious monetary ploy. BUT,
I have no problem admitting that I can always subscribed to anything that is package well. Case in point: these fantastically conceived and designed pieces by Neil Hubert for Box Water is Better. I’m just going to pick one up for my mantel.
Featured in Boxed and Labeled
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Our next edition of New American Paintings, #85, focusing on the Pacific Coast will be out next Friday. The Pacific Coast area is consistently a strong book for us every year, but I think the entire staff agrees that this one is particularly good—potentially the best to date. Pre-order a copy directly here.
Cover: Devin Troy Strother
Spotlight Feature: Allison Shulnik, interview by Evan J. Garza
Watch the Grizzly Bear video for Ready, Able by Shulnik
Eric Yahnker
Nicholas Bohac
Ryan Callis / Eric Geschke
Melissa Manfull / Marci Washington
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Hitchcock for Haiti
Hitchcock posters designed by UK designer, Matt Needle.
50% of the proceeds go to Haitian aid relief charities.
Other recent works:
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idN Magazine
Amazing international design magazine, idN, is “devoted to bringing designers
from around the globe together to communicate with, learn from and inspire
one another.” Aside from their amazing content, the covers alone are impressive.
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