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We recently participated in the BMW Guggenheim Lab’s “City of Bits, Bytes and People” interactive presentation and ideation event run by the M.I.T. SENSEable City Lab. Below is the screen breaking down the basic methodology for initializing the group ideation process. Now Design Your Intervention!
Awesome graphic design and typographic treatment on this “Town and Country” wild-posting in Chelsea, in New York City, for a recent art event
Fashion Forward Fashion Show is just that, a fashion show but an unusual one that’s really more a local promotional event. The show was staged on a blocked off stretch of Broome St. between Orchard and Ludlow streets in a neighborhood enclave increasingly influential in the New York and international art and and fashion world. We’re talking about the neighborhood in the Below-Delancey Street (“Bel-Del”) part of the Lower East Side.
The show was set up in the middle of the block with the runway forming a rectangular path with small pedestal-like stages at each of the four corners. The models walked each of the four segments connecting the corner and then posed on each of the four stages. Surrounding this style spectacle was seating for the audience as well as the usual Saturday bustle of residents, tourists, hipsters, gallery-crawlers and brunchers crowding the sidewalks.
A cadre of photographers shot each model at various points along the circuit. The models were wearing clothes from current collections of designers with shops in the Lower East Side, including Robert James, Earnest Sewn, and James Coviello. DJs played a live-PA set during the two-hour show. Lots of fun.
The annual Kentucky Derby, the premier horse race event in the United States, is this weekend. We don’t really care for the sport, but we couldn’t help but notice and appreciate the colorful and varied designs of the jerseys the horse jockeys wear. Each unique shirt is associated with a jockey and the horse he rides, as well as his assigned number, as the chart below shows.
Some New Orleans natives in the office in Los Angeles recently celebrated a mardi gras tradition and brought a “king cake” in. It’s a visual treat as well as a culinary one.
Our beautiful margarita during a break at the recent Art Los Angeles Contemporary art-fair.
We went to an ad agency Xmas party last night at a large club in Hollywood, in Los Angeles. We imbibed a LOT of cocktails. So many in fact that we have little memory of the evening’s drunken craziness. (And what memories we do have are a confused blur.)
Fortunately, we took pictures with our iPhone. A review of the images fills the gap in our memory and leaves us a little surprised, bewildered and amused. Below is a sampling of these images. The skull lamp is awesome. The faux porn-set and shoot was a bit of a shock. The space was beautiful. And many people danced like fools.
Somehow, we ended up in a Thai bar and restaurant on Hollywood Blvd. watching an indie rock band from Thailand perform covers at 1:30 A.M. while noshing on red-curry with vegetables.
Scenes from a New York City bar showing the FIFA World Cup final between Spain and Holland: Spanish supporters go wild as Spain score and go on to win the 2010 World Cup. Some of these shots were taken after Spain scored their winning goal. Other pics show patrons and staff lost in concentration as they view the game on the bar’s television before the goal came. The bar is Les Enfants Terrible, a French-Brazilian-West-African bistro in the Lower East Side of NYC. It’s also Global Graphica’s local go-to for “offsite meetings” involving the consumption of caipirinha.
The New York Times reports on how French graffiti / street artist “Andre,” who is known for his character Monsieur “A” (or Mr. “A”), is exhibiting another body of his visual work with an indoor gallery show at the influential clothing-culture shop Collette on Rue de St. Honore in Paris, France.
The artist, whose real name is Andre Saraiva, explains how he thinks it’s patronizing to try to exhibit graffiti or street art on canvas in a gallery setting. Thus his show at Collette features paintings in a style that is completely different from that of his street artwork and totally removed from the Mr. “A” icon and style he’s painted in cities around the world (and which he recently contributed to the “Luxury Reborn” ad campaign for Belvedere brand vodka shot by photographer Terry Richardson with model / actor Vincent Gallo).
We’ve found a couple of great Flickr pages of street art and graffiti art devoted to the late Michael Jackson. It’s amazing how many wheat-pastes, murals, stickers and stencils there are devoted to the so-called King of Pop from all over the world, before and after his death. Michael Jackson, R.I.P. Some examples are below, the first by jefflphoto and the second, a stencil of young MJ in Barcelona, by Hebe Design.
Miami Graphic Design: Poster for the Rhythmatik club DJ event in Miami. Love the Star Wars film imagery and style — the line drawing of a Storm Trooper wearing headphones and the movie’s iconic movie typography.
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Street artist Shepard Fairey was arrested at a museum exhibition of his work in Boston last Friday. According to the
Boston Globe, Fairey was arrested at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) as he arrived for a sold-out event, part of the Supply and Demand show of his work, where he was scheduled to DJ. He spent the night in a Boston jail.
The artist will appear in court Monday.The police nabbed Fairey for wheat-paste posters the artist allegedly put up in two public Boston locations discovered in January. Fairey has become practically a household name in recent months as the creator of the iconic, blue-and-red Barack Obama “Hope” posters that were ubiquitous in major cities across America during the later stages of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.
More coverage below:
LA Times: Obama ‘Hope’ poster artist Shepard Fairey arrested
Sydney Morning Herald: Artist behind presidential image arrested
Newsday: Nation briefs: Obama poster artist arrested
New York City street art: And more shot of the interior at the Lazarides Gallery New York show “Outsiders NY” at the Bowery and Houston Street, where the Lower East Side, Nolita and the East Village neighborhoods converge.
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New York City street art: More interior shots of the Lazarides Gallery New York show “Outsiders NY” in a former wholesale restaurant supplies shop at the Bowery and Houston Street.
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New York City street art: Interior at Lazarides Gallery’s “Outsiders NY” street art exhibition, downtown New York City.
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From the City Life file: Standing crowd up front near the stage during the recent Wolf Parade concert at Terminal 5 in New York City. Great show. (Thanks for the ticket, Jess!)
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From the City Life file: After the recent Wolf Parade concert at Terminal 5, NYC.
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This is a great little video clip — a mini-documentary — on Os Gemeos, the twin brothers from Sao Paulo who are the international superstars of Brazilian street art. The video has a short interview with the Os Gemeos bros while they were in New York for a big gallery show. There is also an appearance in the clip from Jeffrey Deitch, the influential art-world impressario and owner of the New York gallery showing the work, Deitch Projects.
Musician playing a keyboard integrated into the architecture of an unused part of the Battery Maritime Building (an old ferry terminal) in downtown Manhattan. Various structural elements of the building emit sounds corresponding to the keys. The keyboardist performed as part of an ensemble. “Playing the Building” is the name of the keyboard-building art installation (and thus the unique venue), which was created by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne .
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