April 25, 2011 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
Spanish artist Paula Sanz Caballero creates miniature worlds of characters embroidered with hand-sewn vintage and found fabrics. Against richly textured backdrops, she creates an interplay of personal relationships and stories with a technique that is uniquely hers. Read more
February 25, 2011 | New Events | by Deanne Cheuk |
Yvette Helin created the Pedestrian Project in 1990 with several performers costumed to look like the pedestrian graphic symbols from road signage. The stark black silhouettes photographed in different environments is a clever commentary on people and their environments as public art. Read more
February 5, 2011 | New Art | by Deanne Cheuk |
Mircea Cantor is a Romanian artist who works with video, animation, sculpture, drawing, painting and installation. His work is often a commentary on contemporary society with characteristics of Romanian folk traditions. Read more
February 5, 2011 | New Art | by Deanne Cheuk |
Rachel Sumpter creates colorful otherworlds in her paintings and prints of imagined landscapes and lives. Read more
November 5, 2010 | New Art | by Deanne Cheuk |
London-based illustrator Yehrin Tong creates stunningly intricate designs and dizzying patterns: ‘simple and minimal rarely come into her vocabulary’. Read more
August 19, 2010 | New Design | by Deanne Cheuk |
French artist Mehdi Hercberg, aka Shoboshobo, draws, designs, organizes workshops, puts out zines and sweatshirts, and collaborates with other artists for shows. How’s that for active?
August 17, 2010 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk 
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Christina Christoforou is a London-based illustrator and artist, her delicate and dreamy drawings are commissioned for book covers, music, film and editorial. Read more
August 16, 2010 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
Japanese illustrator Symbolon works with his signature ‘shadow graphic’ style to create fashion illustrations for clients including BBC, Polaroid, Macy’s and American Airlines. Read more
February 23, 2010 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
Illustrator Jesse Auersalo divides his time between Brooklyn and Helsinki. His distinctive, character-driven work is marked by an aesthetic he describes as ‘polished and clean, as well as sticky and dirty.’ In his first-ever New York presentation, at Bumble and bumble on March 3, Auersalo will discuss his design background, its relationship to his personal life, and how they all affect what he is doing now.
January 20, 2010 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
I’ve just fallen in love with the work of Melbourne-based Ben Wright, aka Ben Zen, the cutest, sweetest drawings and small worlds, which leave me longing for more. [see more creative work from Australia on our sister site, The Colour]
January 6, 2010 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
Danny Roberts, a 24 year-old illustrator whose fashion illustrations have been featured in Elle and WWD, draws beautiful images in his own quirky art-meets-fashion style. Modelling his drawings on real-life models, Roberts has created his own fashion world and has the real fashion world a-buzz.
November 3, 2009 | New Events | by Deanne Cheuk |
November is shaping up to be Typographic month in New York. On November 5 there’s the official opening of Lubalin Now — the inaugural exhibition at the newly re-located Herb Lubalin Study Center at the Cooper Art Union, featuring beautiful typography from the likes of Alex Trochut, Huntergatherer and Non-Format [featured above]. Read more
October 13, 2009 | New Events | by Deanne Cheuk |
AIGA/NY presents Hillman Curtis on Thursday, October 22. Hillman will be discussing how still images — mainly from contemporary photography — influence the narrative of his film work. Come and catch a rare glimpse into the mind of the respected designer, filmmaker and author.
October 13, 2009 | New Products | by Deanne Cheuk |
You can turn your doodles into photo-montages with the online tool PhotoSketch, which uses images from Flickr, Google and Yahoo to produce composite images based on even the most rudimentary drawings. [image via CreativeReview]
September 20, 2009 | New Trends | by Deanne Cheuk |
Entrepreneurial 26-year-olds, Diana Hardeman, Pavla Mikula, and Michelle Truong have created a side business (they all have fulltime jobs!) of subscription service icecream delivery. For ten dollars, you can select from five seasonal homemade flavors hand delivered directly to your door. Sign me up!
Doss Blockos? Doss Blockos? DOSS BLOCKOS? It’s a beer. It’s in Melbourne and it takes its name from a famous squat situated on East 9th Street in Manhattan, New York, in the 1990s. Ah, yes. We like. A lot.
I think I’m turning into a housewife because I really love this clip-on bin by Jay Kwak Design that makes it really easy to sweep crap off of a table.
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
Designer Haik Avanian has set up a website through which you can send an old sweater for his mom to reknit into a new item. Seeing as he only has one mom, not all orders can be filled, but you can keep trying.
A culmination of nearly four years of writing and recording, Omaha quintet, The Faint are preparing to release their fifth album, Fasciinatiion, on August 5 on the band’s own newly-formed label, blank.wav. Working without any time constraints, the songs went through many recorded incarnations before finding their final forms. The result is the best album in the band’s career, a record that is the purest culmination of The Faint’s brilliant musical instincts, ideas and aesthetic, with each member contributing equally to its creation.
These handmade Phillips Head Screw cufflinks will really tighten up a man’s outfit. I love the quirky, casually-sophisticated vibe they add to a shirt.
We have a Contribute Section through which you can post onto LAEM under your name about your favourite pop culture discoveries. So help spread the good word about those talented peeps doing talented things. They win. You win. We win!
Using Kyoko Hashimoto’s popular design, these acrylic earrings are made with unique hand formed sterling silver sleepers that make them light enough for everyday wear. Part of Kyoko’s collection, I Blame the Uni, (pronounced ‘oo-nee’, the Japanese name for sea urchin) and inspired by her experiences in the underground club scene of Tokyo. Read more
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