art-design

City DNA

April 3,2012

Chinese artist Lu Xinjian has taken ariel views from google earth and abstracted them, turning them into colorful pattern-like renderings. With this series titled City DNA, It's hard not to draw parallels between Lu and Keith Haring. That is, until you look into the artist's process. Lu will first sketch out the designs he ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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Puma Hoodies Bag

March 26,2012

  We knew something was up when we came across this backpack recently. The structure, the style and the added touch of a hood... Normally such an added accessory would make us cringe, but not today. Upon closer inspection, we all realized why we couldn't help but love this bag: it's ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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Cue music: Movin On Up …. To A Deluxe Apartment In the Sky

March 14,2012

Ok, well maybe not quite so deluxe, but an apartment in the sky nonetheless. As promised, a few snapshots from my new place of residence! Welcome to the little apartment in the sky as I've named it (it seemed more fitting... this is Paris people, space don't come cheap.) I'm more ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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Handmade Type

March 14,2012

For all the typography nerds out there, here's a fun one for you. Tienmin Liao is student at the Prat Institute with no shortage of interesting ideas, the most recent one being Handmade Type. Drawing shapes onto one or both of her hands (that can't have been an easy task) she then ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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The Peanut Butter Solution

March 14,2012

Casey Neistat was in our good books as soon as we saw his piece on bike theft go live on the NYTimes website. What we didn't know at the time was that during shooting for the bike theft documentary, Casey dropped his camera. Never a good thing to do, ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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Pixels and Polaroids

March 14,2012

It shouldn't come as a surprise to many that more and more artists have begun dabbling in bringing a "vintage digital aesthetic" into the offline world. Space Invader and all his followers are the first examples that come to mind, but one recent and particularly charming take on this comes ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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We Are All Radioactive

March 14,2012

This week marked the one year anniversary of the Fukushima tsunami. Reminders have been all over the papers, with articles stating facts and figures and while we hate to say it, with reports giving the standard "it's been a year, how is the city ravaged by [enter natural disaster here] ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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Über Chair

March 13,2012

Joseph Donahue is the creator, designer and fabricator behind the inspired, Über Chair. His vision was to create an artistic piece of ergonomic outdoor furniture, using sustainable and environmentally friendly methods and materials. He built the Über from the idea that twenty eight pieces of material bound together is stronger, and ...

Author: Flimsey Goods
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Tim Burton’s Notebook

March 13,2012

I know I promised pictures of my new chez moi but first, I'd like to take a moment to gush about the Tim Burton exhibit on at La Cinémathèque de Paris. I was lucky enough to get a spot at the opening vernissage which means exhibit + champagne + snacks. Tim ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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Meet Mark Gowing [Graphic Design]

March 2,2012

We can't help but love the poster work coming from Australian designer Mark Gowing. With Swiss hints here and there, Gowing knows how to manipulate and play with geomtry and shapes. As you can see above, the results rarely dissapoint. Each of his posters is the most pleasent of visual ...

Author: Eliza Struthers Jobin
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