see those well-made symbols?
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Mar 30, 2011
Mar 29, 2011
Kanye West Gets Artier with George Condo and M/M Paris
The Nowness published a series of photos from the graphic and art design firm M/M (Paris), depicting their most recent collaboration with Kanye. Founders Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag designed baroque lettering for the liner notes to on Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which also featured cover art by George Condo.
Now the duo is taking the collaboration one step further with a range of silk scarves pairing their lettering with Condo’s images. The scarves will be sold in a limited-edition of 250 (50 of each of five designs) this spring at Colette and www.mmparis.com. Augustyniak and Amzalag allegedly described collaborating with Kanye as “a complex exploration of power,” which is French for “a beautiful dark twisted fantasy.”
via Fader
The Away Project
Nike, official sponsor of the national French team, and colette teamed up to create The Away Project, at colette from March 28th to April 9th. For the occasion, Chanel, Colorware, Comme des Garçons, Hermès, Ladurée, Longchamp, MontBlanc, Swatch, Trousselier, Yves Saint Laurent, and their iconic products, striped in blue too!
via Colette
Mar 27, 2011
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Mar 25, 2011
Untitled I (2009)
Kudzanai Chiurai
Chiurai was born in Zimbabwe and his early work focussed on the political, economic and social situation of his homeland. Now living in Johannesburg, he is an activist and artist (painter, designer, editor and photographer) who addresses issues such as xenophobia, displacement, consumerism and black empowerment in his work.
His satirical series The Parliament depicts the fictitious characters of an imaginary government cabinet in a parody of media representations of masculinity and political power. The series draws upon the conventions of African studio portraiture, dramatised magazine features, hip-hop, film and fashion as well as the story lines, stereotyped characters and plots of soap operas. These mediations also inform his decorative portraits of young Jo'burgers seen against cloth backdrops imprinted with political logos and figures.
'The person I use for many of these portraits is essentially a performer; he's a pop icon in South Africa who everyone knows from television and radio. His name is Siyabonga Ngwekazi and it was important to use him as he works in popular culture - he is part of that collective consciousness and a South African audience would immediately recognize him. He is a popular icon himself and people look at him as a model for style and fashion. So to see him outside of that TV context is to be aware of the artifice of the roles he adopts, of his performance of black masculinity and popular culture as image… I wrote the briefs for the series and started working with stylists and a photographer and borrowed clothes from people.'
Kudzanai Chuirai, interviewed by Tamar Garb, South Africa, 2010
via V&A Museums
TOOLS: REAL STUFF for FUTURE CLASSICS
"TOOLS" is the first book from HUZINE book label, which represents the idea cannot be compressed
into HUGE. Outdoor, tableware, furniture, and clothe, all items create the goodness of life to wear, to eat, to live. Total of 282 tools are included.
via HUZINE
Mar 24, 2011
Aziz talks about the most embarrassing New Year's Eve moment with Jay-Z
via Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Mar 23, 2011
Mar 22, 2011
Mar 21, 2011
Plumen 001
The PLUMEN 001 is the world's first designer low energy light bulb.
The dynamic, sculptured form contrasts to the dull regular shapes of existing low energy bulbs, in an attempt to make the Plumen a centrepiece, not afterthought.
The PLUMEN 001 works like any other high quality low energy bulb - saving you 80% on your energy bills and lasting 8 times longer than a standard incandescent bulb.
It screws into any standard bulb fitting, gives off a warm white light and will work either shaded or even better, completely naked.
via Plumen UK
Mar 20, 2011
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