Bolo Paper has just released Super Best Friends, an illustrated book by M. Gatti one of the most important italian illustrators in the last decade and the co-founder and creative dicector of Mutado.
ILLUSTRATION
All famous couples in history made the difference through their complementary qualities. Think to Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Starsky and Hutch, Bart and Milhouse, Andre Agassi and Brooke Shields, Roger and Jessica Rabbit, John and Yoko, Mulder and Scully, Will and Grace, Thelma and Louise, Batman and Robin, Catherine …
Pen & Ink, is a tumblr-blog featuring Illustrated Tattoos & The Stories Behind Them. They have just started, there are only 3 at the moment, but it worths a visit.
AGIDEAS Festival finished yesterday in Melbourne and also the local International Design week. Each year agIdeas brings 40 internationally acclaimed creative people to Melbourne, those who have pushed the boundaries and excelled in their area of creativity. It was established in 1991 by Ken Cato and developed and presented by the Design Foundation in Melbourne. …
Dentro il web crescono storie che, con poche parole, arrivano al punto. Ad esempio quella di Yuri, un tipo instabile che di volta in volta indossa le scarpe di qualcun altro – instabile anche lui – e ne racconta la storia. Il risultato è un insieme di disegni, infografiche, approfondimenti a pop up e parti …
E tu come la stappi una bottiglia di champagne? Una volta il cerimoniale era ben diverso, visto che accompagnava l’incoronazione del re di Francia. Ora l’attenzione è più al soffitto, o al vicino di tavola, o al tappo che non vuole uscire, e via a prove di forza e bottiglia tra le gambe…
G.H.MUMM crede però che conoscendo i piccoli gesti e i grandi rituali dello champagne sia possibile apprezzarlo ancora di più. Per questo ha creato una app per Iphone, Champagne Protocoles, con la quale potrete imparare a scegliere la bottiglia di champagne più adatta e a portarla delicatamente alla giusta temperatura o come stapparla con eleganza e sciabolarla con classe.
Con una lettera al New York Times ha ottenuto la sua prima commissione internazionale. Dopo, una strada tutta in salita per il giovane illustratore Francesco Bongiorni. A soli 27 anni ha un curriculm vitae da fare invidia non solo ai suoi coetanei, mentre la sua esperienza oltre oceano ha attirato l’attenzione della stampa italiana. Francesco, …
If forks, dishes and spoons were real, they would probably look like the Great Gatsby or maybe Don Draper. At least, according to the opinion of Australian stylist and art director Sonia Rentsch, who created a delicious set of still life compositions which actually explain the art of setting the table giving cutlery a human …
Erin Jang: graphic designer, art director and illustrator based in New York. During 2012, she’ll draw almost every snack she’ll come across. Nice work! More about, here
Dreaming of a pied-à-terre in Montmartre or of a loft in Upper East Side? Having a baguette for dejeuner or a bagel for brunch? Fan of Stars and Stripes or of blue-striped tees by Jean Paul Gaultier? All these contrasts and dichotomies between two cities, two visions and two ways of life are brilliantly described …
When last January I went to Maison Object in Paris, the playful stand of the British designer, Emily Dupen, caught my eye in a sea of hyper decorated and clinical booths, where the most important names in design display their big guns thanks to huge cash flow injections. Dupen’s inspiration comes from fascination and passion …
Quite a month after the closure of London V&A Museum exhibition around postmodernism, it’s time to get something from it. In few words, postmodernism was a way of being which influenced all the productions in a range between 70s and 90s. These 20 years are well known by the excesses and destruction of great comforts …
Ha inaugurato sabato 3 marzo la personale di Luca Laurenti ( a.k.a. mklane) presso lo Spazioxygene a Roma. Ben 40 ritratti di gente che non faticherete a riconoscere, realizzati dal bravissimo illustratore, grafico ed art director romano. E visto che siamo di parte, vi ricordiamo l’illustrazione del designer Marcel Wanders realizzata da Luca per Polkadot …