Design
May 9, 2008 | Design | by Zolton |
Prog rock had Roger Dean, ’80s death metal had Dan Seagrave, and now, the new wave of American heavy metal has Tom Denney, who creates some of the most intense and intricate album covers since the psychedelic ’70s. Read more
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Design / Print Liberation
May 9, 2008 | Design | by Kate Barnett |
Print Liberation is an exceptional Philadelphia-based creative visual agency whose website showcases a variety of deisgn styles, each immaculately executed. Read more
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Design / Lemon Poppy Seed
May 5, 2008 | Design | by Ella Mudie |
Creating letters from sky might seem an impossible task. Not only is this done very nicely by Lisa Rienermann in Type the Sky, but her aerial approach to typography sits comfortably among the pages of a new book from Die-Gestalten. Lemon Poppy Seed: Multitasking Creativity is a compilation of work by a diverse and international selection of young designers bonded together by their independent spirit and a desire to push the boundaries of graphic design. Read more
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Design / Elaine Biss’s feminine charms
May 1, 2008 | Design | by Casper Johansson |
Known for her beautifully feminine graphics, Elaine Biss has been an international designer for more than fifteen years, working across jewelry, stationary, fabric prints and graphic design. Read more
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Design / Ee Venn Soh
April 26, 2008 | Design | by Zolton |
Ee Venn Soh is a self-taught designer from Malaysia whose work is very edgy and futuristic. Read more
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April 25, 2008 | Design | by Yuko Shimizu |
I was able to get in to see a sold out lecture in New York by Chip Kidd, a genius book designer and author of two bestselling books, including The Learners, which just came out earlier this year (and for which he also designed the cover). Read more
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Design / Kathryn Lewis
April 24, 2008 | Design | by Zolton |
London-based graphic design student, Kathryn Lewis, has just completed a project around the notion of the chronobiology. She spent a day avoiding all conventional clocks and relied purely on her own inner clock to wake her up, get me to her lectures and take her home on time, whilst recording her feelings every hour. Read more
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Design / Casper Franken
April 23, 2008 | Design | by Zolton |
There’s a wonderful sense of escapism about the work of Brighton-based designer, Casper Franken. Read more
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Design / Ben Hennessy
April 22, 2008 | Design | by Zolton |
The illustration and typography work of Sydney-based designer Ben Hennessy is just stunning. Read more
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Design / Neil Duerden
April 20, 2008 | Design | by Zolton |
There’s some bold design work on the rather flashy website of UK illustrator Neil Duerden.
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Design / Christiaan Postma Clock
April 20, 2008 | Design | by Gerry Mak |
Designer Christiaan Postma has created a clock made out of dozens of hands that end up spelling out the hours in Roman characters. Too bad it doesn’t do minutes, though maybe that would get a bit hard to read.
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Design / La Silueta Ediciones
April 19, 2008 | Design | by Andres Colmenares |
La Silueta is a design studio and editorial house from Bogota, Colombia, with a select portfolio of new artists’ books (Nicolas Paris, Doble Faz, and others), local street art and the publication, Chino Magazin. Read more
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Design / Momorobo
April 14, 2008 | Design | by Kate Barnett |
Momorobo serves as a collaborative vehicle for like-minded artists from various disciplines. Read more
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Design / Music Field
April 12, 2008 | Design | by Zolton |
Marshall Hook’s animated collage — Music Field — is made up of ‘found images, photography, CGI and illustration. It was mostly done in AfterEffects and Photoshop, with a bit of 3DS MAX’. Read more
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Design / Christina Magnussen
April 10, 2008 | Design | by Casper Johansson |
Norwegian illustrator and designer Christina Magnussen studied at the Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo and Central Saint Martins in London. Read more
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George Lois is the god of good ideas, or at least one of them. When I am stuck on ideas, I pray to George the God, or look through his works in hope of doing something one hundredth as good as his work. Read more
We spoke with Patience, lead singer of Australian band The Grates, about the new album the group are in the process of writing. Read more
Dear Miss Helena, one time host of children’s show Romper Room, you have a lot to answer for. Yes, squeaky clean Miss Helena of wholesome blouse and values, I have not forgotten those childhood years spent patiently glued to the television waiting for you to call out my name through the magic ‘looking glass’ — that portal to ‘good’ children everywhere. Read more
A project of my producer and drummer, Tucker Martine, Mount Analog’s soundscapes are gorgeous, melty mixes of organic and processed sounds. Martine brings the best musicians together to create strange and beautiful music.
This awesome promo video for the Lost At E Minor site was created by our friends over at New York-based design studio, Lifelongfriendshipsociety. Read more
Cheap Monday are arguably one of the biggest revolutions in denim since Levi’s. They’re pretty much the uniform second skin for the music totin’, cons scuffin’ youth of today. Read more
Maverick artist come architect, Michael Jantzen, has created this fantastic experiment as a design study for a modular prefabricated eco-friendly house. Read more
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Italian illustrator and designer Massimiliano creates vivid, dynamic and richly textured work. We caught up with him recently and asked him what had been keeping him busy of late. Read more
Brazilian artist Carla Tennenbaum has come up with some pretty awesome decorative pieces made completely out of discarded EVA foam, the non-biodegradable stuff usually used to pad sports equipment. Read more
Cellist Ben Sollee is like Andrew Bird with a little more soul, or Arthur Russell with a bit more bounce. Read more
I love the nostalgic overtones in Peter Drake’s artwork. His new series is based on a collection of lead soldiers his father assembled over the years. Read more
Travis Louie’s paintings are inspired by 19th-century portrait photographs. Instead of people, however, his subjects are goofy-looking monsters. Read more
For the rest of this week, we have eight copies of the Anton Corbijn directed DVD, Control — the story of UK band, Joy Division — to give away to randomly selected new Australian-based Lost At E Minor subscribers. Read more
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