80’s Nostalgia / Yoko Honda
These digital paintings by Yoko Honda pay homage the affluence and excess of the 1980’s. The Tokyo based artist was inspired by idealized visions of Miami and Los Angeles, commonly portrayed in 80’s pop culture. Honda began to uploading her work to Instagram in 2013, since then her carrer has taken off, including a commission by Australian skateboarding […]
1980Graphic designIllustrationLos AngelesMiamiNostalgiaTokyo
States’ Cup Jerseys / Nick Leimbach
Soccer jerseys this side of the pond have always been lackluster, whether its Nike’s hit or miss designs for the mens national team or the mediocre MLS kits by Adidas. But University of Maryland senior Nick Leimbach presents an exciting collection of 106 American jerseys. Leimbach constructed the collection around a fictional tournament called States’ […]
AdidasCollege ParkFashionGraphic designJerseyLe coq sportifLotto
New Banknotes for Norway / Snøhetta
“When contrasts come together, as when soft meets hard or digital meets analog, a dynamic is created. Our cubical pattern first of all represents pixels; our times visual language,” described Snøhetta in regards to their scheme, The Beauty of Boundaries. “Secondly, it represents mosaic; surface décor put together by different materials of different colors which […]
ArchitectureC.R.E.A.MGraphic designGuapNorwayPdangSnøhetta
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop / Keiichi Matsuda
The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it. A film produced for my final year […]
AnimationArchitectureGoogle GlassGraphic designJapanKeiichi MatsudaLondon
MirrorMoon EP / Santa Ragione
The game is comprised of both single and multiplayer modes. As a single player, your space travel begins on a red planet with its unique moon and extends across galaxies. It’s a combination of adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving but since each Galaxy consists of a thousand Systems – it will only be […]
Graphic designItalyMotion graphicsSanta RagioneVideo games
Luxurious X-Rays / Lux Inside
The French collective project Lux Inside created x-ray scans of iconic luxury items using 3D scanning technology. Products range from the highly technical Leica M8 digital camera to the ever fashionable Louboutin shoe. –@ybaynes
FranceGraphic designLeicaLuxInsidePhotographyXray
OBEY THE GIANT – The Shepard Fairey Story / Julian Marshall
This film is based on the true story of Shepard Fairey’s first act of street art during his time at Rhode Island School of Design from 1989-1992. – Jullian Marshall Director: Julian Marshall Producer: Andrew Gisch Director of Photography: David Vollrath Writer: Alex Jablonski
Alex JablonskiAndrew GischArtBiographyDavid VollrathGraphic designJullian Marshall
The Houses of Westeros Poster (Limited Edition) / Darrin Crescenzi
Like many people, I was introduced by the HBO adaptation–I’m sure to the chagrin of the longtime readers. I began reading the first novel while watching the first season, quickly becoming hopelessly obsessed. I basically disappeared for about five months, devouring all five books in the series, culminating in this borderline-depression when there were no […]
A Song of Ice and FireBrandingDarrin CrescenziFlyknitGame of ThronesGeorge R.R. MartinGraphic design
ARK1 International Space Station Mission Patch / Shepard Fairey
Artist Shepard Fairey may be best known for Obey Giant and his
FictionGraphic designInternational Space StationNASAShepard FaireySpace
Logobook / Ludovic Houplain (H5)
In order to create Logorama’s surreal commercial landscape of 2,500 logos from past and present, the designers gathered a massive database of more than 40,000 consumer graphics. Taschen will publish a selection of that list aptly titled “Logobook,” with an alphabetized index of 7,000 images and captions identifying company, category, year and country of creation. – […]
BooksFranceGraphic designH5LogoLogoramaLudovic Houplain
Windows of New York / José Guízar
Windows of New York by José Guízar: The Windows of New York project is a weekly illustrated fix for an obsession that has increasingly grown in me since chance put me in this town. A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught my […]
East VillageGraphic designHell's KitchenJosé GuízarNew YorkNYCSoho
The Work of Silence Television (Gianmarco Magnani)
We are just huge fans of Peruvian graphic designer, illustrator and print artist Gianmarco Magnani aka Silence Television. The work speaks for itself; clean, sexy, elegant drawings of various objects from Kaneda’s bike and the BttF2 DeLorean, to girl rockers, guitars, Vespa scooters, and vintage motorcycles. Admire, then purchase some of his exquisite work; affordable prints are available HERE and...
AkiraBack to the Future IIDeLoreanDigital artGianmarco MagnaniGraphic designIllustration