Throughout Polaroid’s history of innovation, they have consistently redefined the concept of Instant Photography. Edwin Land was always searching for new ideas and inventions to “remove the barriers between the user and the product.” He brought us Polavision, Polaroid Slide Film, and many other instant tools that changed the history of photography. Now, in 2008, …
Elizabeth Peyton (b.1965, Connecticut) has been credited with infusing the ancient art of portraiture with a new life. Published this autumn to coincide with her major solo show at the New Museum in New York, Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton features full-colour reproductions of the artist’s portraits of contemporary pop stars, royalty, artists and friends. The …
Zachariah Johnsen, is a young artist concentrating in watercolor, pen & ink, and mixed media works on paper. His medium of choice is the micron pen and he uses them exhaustively to describe a world of ghouls, monsters, and misfits – the shady characters in everyday life, but just hidden from normal view. Zach focuses …
Giovedì 11 dicembre JagerNoctis festeggia a Roma l’ultima notte di luna piena dell’anno. Busta non poteva perdersi questo evento al quale parteciperà con un’edizione davvero speciale di “Busta Su Misura”, ricca di sorprese. Infatti per l’occasione Busta si rifà il look in formato small size (19×19) e stampa a 2 colori! E ancora: i contenuti, …
For their first large-scale exhibition in the U.S., Doshi Levien have taken over the first floor of Moroso’s New York showroom. If the images in the slide show below are any indication, expect to see much more from this London-based duo in the coming years. Just over a year ago, Jonathan Levien and Nipa Doshi …
Cityscapes by Mark Yankus. Originally trained as a painter, and then working as a collage artist, it was not until fifteen years ago that Marc Yankus began incorporating his own photographs into his artwork. However, when he did so, it marked a turning point in his career. In many of Yankus’ photographs, textures scanned from …
Using more than 1000 books and three weeks of filming in stop-motion, the producers Apt Studio and working with Asylum Films made this beautiful film to commemorate the 25th anniversary of imprint 4th Estate. The film contains numerous in-jokes and references to the books it features, and everything, from the ships in port to the …
Aaron Rose recently teamed up with Nike to do a set of Beautiful Losers videos called Make Something!!, “a series of art-based workshops taught by world-renowned influencers of DIY culture.” The videos feature Aaron Rose, Kaws, Ed Templeton, Mike Mills, Tobin Yelland, Money Mark, Jesse Spears, Jesse Leyva, Lenny Messina, a definite who’s who of …
Ankar is a Swedish based web shop that initially only sold cashmere with the idea of colors, the multitude of colors was the reason Ankar decided to sell directly to the final consumer offering more colors than any retailer would. Now Ankar has launched the East African Kikoy, a product originally and still worn as …
Since its frantic inception S***R attracted the eye of creative people in the worlds of fashion and music. Indie artists, musicians and actors have been spotted wearing S***R shoes, among these respected designer Matthew Williamson, Thom York from Radiohead, Skin, Orlando Bloom, many a band from Kings of Leon to Muse, Nouvelle Vague to Liars, …
