June 18, 2009 | New Eco | by Deanne Cheuk |
The first section of the High Line in New York’s Meat Packing district opened last week. Go check out the beautiful gardens atop of amazing architecture by Frank Gehry [The IAC Building], Polshek Partnership [The NY Standard Hotel], Shigeru Ban [Metal Shutter Houses] and other notable architects. Designed by James Corner Field Operations, with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, highlights of the elevated garden walkway include moveable deckchairs on the old railroad tracks, a water feature to cool your hot feet, and a glass viewing window that is like a futuristic TV screen looking down on the traffic below. Read more
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March 3, 2009 | New Events | by Deanne Cheuk 
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The New York Chapter of the AIGA presents the first ever presentation by designer-artist Mario Hugo on March 26. Reknowned for his creative type designs and stunning illustrations for clients such as Warp Records, Dolce and Gabbana, Channel 4, and The Fader, this event promises to be inspiring and memorable.
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November 10, 2008 | New Products | by Deanne Cheuk |
This is a chair design inspired by an illustration by James Gulliver Hancock. I love the possibilities this opens up and can’t wait to see what these guys make next!
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October 23, 2008 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
I’m really liking the style of Natsko Seki. I like the scale she uses, the surrealism, the playfulness and textures. It looks fresh and you can keep looking at her work and finding more in it the longer you look at it. Read more
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March 21, 2008 | New Art | by Deanne Cheuk |
Lu Hao is an incredible Chinese artist who paints meticulous and insanely detailed depictions of organized everyday collections in China, like shelves of CDRs, all painted with ink on silk. You won’t believe it even when you see it! Read more
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January 15, 2008 | New Design | by Deanne Cheuk |
One of the hardest working typographers I know, Mike Perry is currently working on his second book. Read more
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December 30, 2007 | New Design | by Deanne Cheuk |
Bernard Maisner is a wonderful typographer. I love his custom envelope addressing. What a treat to receive!
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December 21, 2007 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
I’ve always loved Stephane Manel’s drawings. They have a sense of freedom and romanticism about them. Read more
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December 14, 2007 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
Steven Wilson just did the latest cover for The Fader magazine which really caught my eye. Fader’s art director — and occasional Lost At E Minor contributor — Phil Bicker led me to Wilson’s website. I’m really impressed with how prolific he is and how he’s created his own style that looks a bit 70s mixed with right now. [see also the illustration work of Barcelona-based artist, Alex Trochut]
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September 20, 2007 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
I came across Charley Harper on Ebay a few years ago, I bought a signed book and was immediately hooked. His work is so modern for its time. It’s all handmade, but it looks like it could have been created on a computer. He’s had a prolific career, and when you scroll through the entire book and see all of his work together, it really is mind-blowing. [see also Other Design]
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September 13, 2007 | New Design | by Deanne Cheuk |
The work on the Buero NY website is amazing — it’s my art direction obsession! So much work, so many cool clients … what a fantasy.
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September 13, 2007 | Cool Websites | by Deanne Cheuk |
With their daily (and obscure) free music downloads, Bumrocks was the first music blog of its type. Like other great ideas, it’s spawned a bunch of rip-off sites, but Bumrocks is still the best.
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September 5, 2007 | Cool Websites | by Deanne Cheuk |
The Sartorialist is my street fashion inspiration. It’s so interesting to see how people are dressing and putting looks together in all the different cities it covers.
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September 4, 2007 | New Art | by Deanne Cheuk |
Brian Bress is my art obsession at the moment. I recently saw his show at the LFL gallery in New York, and his collages and photographs were so striking, modern and funny that I couldn’t stop staring at them.
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August 30, 2007 | Cool Websites | by Deanne Cheuk |
Featuring music, sport and graphs, the Emo + Beer blog is a classic. It always makes me laugh! Read more
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Some friends and I serendipitously stumbled across the work the artist Hiro Kurata the other night and we have been jointly obsessing over it since. Kurata’s work is torrid, moody and fragmented like a restless dream. Bursting with texture and patterns, it’s simply brilliant. As my friend Andrew Degraff accurately put it, ‘It’s like Savador Dali thrown through a plate glass window’. Indeed. Read more
Last weekend I went to the Golden West in Baltimore to check out the What Cheer? Brigade, a marching band from Providence. I wasn’t expecting much, but when they opened with a cover of Slayer’s Raining Blood, my knees buckled. I think I could hear a musak version of that riff, and I’d still bang my head. The rest of the band’s set was just as riotous, with people dancing so hard, you’d think we were at Mardi Gras. I haven’t had that much fun at a show in ages.
Now here’s a serious treat. The digital work of illustrator Aleks Senvald possess all the handmade charm of an actual painting, brimming with a giddy charm and sweetness, played out through her wonderfully rich narrative. Read more
Interior design website, Apartment Therapy, just posted some amazing pictures of ’70s rock stars in their parents’ homes. My favorite is of David Crosby and his dad [below]. The two look so completely opposite of each other that it’s hard to believe that it’s Crosby’s real dad. They also look like they’re barely concealing the contempt they have for each other. Crosby’s father was an Academy-Award-winning cinematographer who shot Tabu and High Noon, amongst other well-known films. Read more
Oh man, this is good. If Jamie Lidell was born in any earlier era, he would have soul brother number one plastered all over his birth certificate.
As a child, gold mining towns were exemplified in my mind by boring theme parks populated by out of work actors in naff colonial costumes. My parents used to drag us along in our overheated datsun because they couldn’t afford to take the kids to Disneyland. As often happens, I now appreciate the destinations whose mentions used to prompt a whole lot of whingeing about seatbelt buckle burns and compensation payouts of McDonalds. Walhalla is one such beauty. Set in the misty foothills of Australia’s Baw Baw ranges, it was once a gold era boom-town, but is now home to less than 20 residents (not counting the ghosts). Read more
Saltwater is a British clothing design label based in London and Cornwall who aim to bring a fresh approach to fashion with their use of beautiful colour, selected cloth, and close attention to detail. The store also has a great selection of carefully sourced accessories from around the world and a growing range of other clothes.
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Marci Washington’s gothic paintings have an Edward Gorey-esque romanticism about them, her vampiric figures suggesting dark and mystical narratives. Read more
Argentine illustrator Poly Bernatene miraculously creates many of his beautifully textured, painterly images in Photoshop. Despite his twenty-first century method, his illustrations achieve a sort of timelessness that is bound to mesmerize children for years to come. Read more
James Blagden’s neon fantasies
New York illustrator James Blagden’s work is so wonderfully trippy, I feel like I need to wear shades and a top hat when looking at them just to do them justice. Read more
Produced by In The Yellow, this six and half inch tall vinyl toy by Luke Chueh is limited to just one hundred pieces and comes in clear colorway with silver eyes.
I’m a sucker for just about anything to do with printmaking. UK illustrator Jonny Hannah makes a very strong case. Busy, colorful, spontaneous and brimming with inspiration, THIS is the stuff amazing is made of. Read more
Legendary pop culture artist and Agit Pop founder Ron English will be a guest compiler of an upcoming issue of our email newsletter, writing about his favorite cultural discoveries. To read Ron’s edition of Lost At E Minor, simply sign up to our weekly newsletter. It’s free, you win!
The Mission is part of a series of maps and images of Lauratopia, a fictional world that Brooklyn-based illustrator Laura Carmelita Bellmont has made up as a home for her imagination. The prints are archival, sized 8″ x 7″, and available for US$60. Read more
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