December 2011
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY ONE.
If you live in Sydney, this Saturday night I have a series of screen prints on show at York Street PRESENTS, a group show being hosted by St Philip’s York Street Anglican. There’s a festive theme to the exhibition, and there’ll be free wine and live music, so if you aren’t already booked to the teeth with Christmas events you should totally swing by, from 5pm. Also, New...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY.
So, some pretty exciting news: the kids from Warner Music’s Cool Accidents blog selected my screen print as the winning entry in their recent Inspired competition. Thanks a tonne to those guys!
August 2011
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY NINE.
Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer have put together a neat series of video tutes for us Print Designers/Photographers/generally non-web savvy creatives whose ‘folio sites could use some help. Um, YES!
July 2011
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY EIGHT.
Having spent time in India last year, I was immensely moved by this video from Oxelo skateboards. Following Loic Houvenaghel, Nans Arnaud and Simon Volpoet as they skate the streets, fortresses and public spaces of North-West India, it was amazing to see places I’ve visited, such as the Tiger Fortress in Rajasthan (04:18), repurposed in a way they’ve probably never before been...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY SEVEN.
Portland, ME. May 2011
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY SIX.
Buena Vista, CO. May 2011
June 2011
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY FIVE.
Daniel Kornrumpf (isn’t that a fantastic surname?) has been getting a tonne of notice online this week - his amazing stitched portraits have appeared on most of the blogs I frequent. So apologies if you’ve already seen these. But seriously. They are so good.
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY FOUR.
Olympia Le-Tan, a French company specialising in unique handbags and minaudières (their current collection You Can’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover features clutches posing as literary classics), has teamed up with Spike Jonze (who seems to be prolific at the moment) and Simon Cahn to produce a stop motion short, created entirely out of felt. This behind-the-scenes teaser has me pretty...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY THREE.
Regular readers might remember this post on Olafur Eliasson. Earlier this year Eliasson completed work on the spectacular Your Rainbow, which is essentially a viewing platform, permanently installed above the ARos Museum of Art in Aarhus, Denmark. The circular walkway, located fifty stories high, allows the viewer to circumnavigate a corridor lined with panes of glass in every colour in the...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY TWO.
Staying with fashion, Swedes Our Legacy have released a bumper crop of button downs as part of their summer collection. Bra häftigt!
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY ONE.
I’ve been in New York for the better part of a month now, so figured it was high time I started sharing some of the gems I’ve discovered in this AMAZING city.
First up, a huge highlight was visiting the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty installation at the Metropolitan Museum. The retrospective of McQueen’s short but hugely influential career is nothing short of spectacular,...
April 2011
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY.
I’ve had the new LP Helplessness Blues, from Seattle kids Fleet Foxes, for a little under a week, and to be honest have barely listened to anything else in those six days. It’s been nearly three years since their eponymous debut launched them into the hipster consciousness, a pretty long wait on new material, but for me, this sophomore release goes beyond my expectations. The...
March 2011
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY NINE.
Pretty sweet idea pulled off amazingly. And the guys behind it are both called Daniel. Figures.
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY EIGHT.
NYC designer Jessica Walsh posted an interesting article this week about the set up she has for shooting portfolio work. As someone who is currently working on a new site, this couldn’t be more appropriate or helpful! Thought I’d share it with you kids too! While you’re there, don’t forget to check out her stuff, she works for Sagmeister, ‘nuff said.
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY SEVEN.
Here’s a great article pitched at young designers; Doug Bartow, principal of id29 shares his top 29 things a designer should know and do. Plus you can go buy the poster over here. Right?
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY SIX.
Ramón Ayala’s film clip for Spanish indie group Bedroom’s recent single Cançó de l’alba is an avant garde, surreal and somewhat erotic descent into a daydream-esque forest.
Boobies alert!
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY FIVE.
Another Australian who’s relocated to New York, Brooklyn based illustrator James Gulliver Hancock has been working on his All The Buildings In New York series for the better part of a year now. Whilst attempting to document every building in New York City through his quirky illustration style might sound as ridiculous as Sufjan Stevens’ abandoned 50 States Project, James sounds like...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY FOUR.
In a similar vein, when UK based agency Collective Approach discovered a large collection of antique London postcards, they decided to send them out as unique promotional mailers for the studio. A simple backing card was devised, into which each of the different postcards, complete with postage stamps and hand written messages, were set and then screen-printed over, before being sent to clients....
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY THREE.
Meanwhile, Melbourne based creative Rhett Dashwood took a particularly rad DIY route when developing packaging for showreels to be sent out to potential clients. He began by scouring second hand stores for suitable vintage books, then masked and sprayed each cover with his creative studio’s logo working as a keyhole through to the original cover art. The promos were then completed by...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY TWO.
Sydney based designer James Kape is going places, namely The Big Apple. In the hopes of landing a junior position at a reputable agency, he’s created these pretty great portfolios - they’re hand-crafted by an artisan book binder using brown box cover and a strip of yellow buckram on the binding. The cover title was letterpressed and the interior pages were printed digitally....
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY ONE.
If you’re unawares that Charlie Sheen has, as of this week, officially come unhinged, you’ve been hiding under some analogue rock (and yeah, there’s merit to the argument that this is not even a this week thing). Regardless, ‘bi-winning’ is getting a little old already, so wow your friends, colleagues and under-thirty family with other pithy remarks ol’ Charles...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTY.
You probably remember this post about Koralie & Supakitch, two uber talented French grafitti artists based in New York. This new quick video, again shot by Elroy, does a superb job of getting into their creative space. In other news, I want Supakitch’s haircut.
January 2011
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY NINE.
Got anonymous beef with someone, but don’t want to look like those assholes who write in their 450 words to the smh Heckler column? Enter the cathartic youdontdeserve.com, a site devoted to letting you send your negative vibes off into the netherweb… Of course if you’re not feeling pissed at somebody specific, a browse through everyone else’s pet peeves can be almost as...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY EIGHT.
Just saw this rad animation describing a new green energy technology. Commissioned by the New York times to coincide with their 2010 Year In Ideas issue, it was directed by Buck with music & sound design by Antfood.
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY SEVEN.
Of course this post could qualify as jumping on board that bandwagon of ‘best of lists’ that occupy blogs the blogosphere over as we ring in the new year, but hey, who ever said I was above bandwagons?
That said, I have to say that there have been a number of amazing albums that dropped this year; from some exceptional debuts to solid sophomore releases (or if you’re Sufjan...
December 2010
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY SEVEN.
Hey everyone!
Here at the New Exhibition studio we’ve really been getting into the Christmas spirit this week - our tree is up, decorated and lit, and the whole place smells so Christmas-y!
I’ve been on the hunt for some holiday themed tunes today and thought it would be fun to share them - you can download the entire mixtape, Throw Another Log On The Old Yulefire, here.
The...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY SIX.
So, until today I only knew of one Annie Novak. She’s marrying my friend Benjamin, in Maine this coming April and I’m pretty excited about the whole thing. But that said, this post isn’t about that Annie Novak. She’ll be Annie Krebs in a few months anyhow. Nope, the Annie Novak I discovered today is a different woman all together.
See, this Annie’s the urban farmer...
November 2010
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY FIVE.
I just had my first listen through to Avey Tare (AKA David Portner from Animal Collective)’s new LP Down There. Tare’s first official solo full length carries you through a murky world of sound that is both honest and otherworldly. As his myspace puts it: Wait for sundown and turn it up loud. Take a ride on Tare’s haunted boat and let yourself be guided through deep...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY FOUR.
With weather in Sydney finally feeling like summer should, there’s been a leaning in my wardrobe towards a nautical, almost Hamptons yacht club, theme. Just this Tuesday a friend and I raided the treasure trove of op shops that exist on the Central Coast, and I was particularly pleased to come home with a pair of polo Ralph Lauren chinos for six dollars!
All that serves as an introduction...
October 2010
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY THREE.
This mixed media wall installation by Supakitch + Koralie is so so so good.
Found via M&C Saatchi
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY TWO.
Whether you love or hate Mister West, you gotta give the man props for this ambitious undertaking. Plus, he uses Justin Vernon for the penultimate moment. Right?
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY ONE.
I love the direction a lot of advertising seems to be heading. Rather than taking an explicit ‘here’s our product, go on you know you want it’ approach, companies are hiring talented individuals to build a narrative into which the products play a secondary role.
One such example is this new video When Boy Meets Girl by über talented Sydney lad Luke Farquhar (you pronounce that...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY.
This ‘Semi-Sort-Of-Comic’ by America’s favourite illustrator Frank Chimero (I have no actual stats to back that up, this statement is based solely on the numerous re-occurrence of his name on the blogs I frequent), is a lovely example of the creative process. Plus it references cats and Chuck Norris, so it’s definitely destined to go viral. Inspired by an equally neat,...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & NINETEEN.
This pretty amazing documentary about Apple CEO Steve Jobs is totally worth taking fifty minutes out of your life to watch. Nerdy whilst inspirational goodness (which I guess makes it very Steve).
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” The Whole Earth Catalog
Found via Paul Barbera
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WatchCoachella commissioned Sam O’Hare to shoot this tilt shift time lapse of the 2010 festival, and it’s 225,000 strong crowd. When I came across it today, I immediately wanted to see it paired with the track Brooke Fraser penned at the three day festival, from her newly released album Flags. So here they are together; just so there’s no confusion, I’ve done the mashing, but...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & EIGHTEEN.
Welcome to the strange and wonderful mind of French illustrator Julien Pacaud. His photo collages have a retro aesthetic not unlike Mark Weaver’s, yet the quirks of his narratives and the almost surrealist compositions of his images in my mind set Julien apart. For me, the works have an apocalyptic tone, fusing fragments of images of the past with an impending sense of doom.
Turns out...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTEEN.
I came across the work of Mind Design via this identity work they completed for London based modeling agency TESS, who represent well established names such as Naomi Campbell and Erin O’Connor. Logos with varied incarnations are so on trend right now, but this is one of the better examples I’ve seen - I particularly like the fact that the logos are created using art deco...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & SIXTEEN.
Influencers is a short documentary exploring what it means to be an ‘influencer’ and how trends & creativity become contagious today in music and fashion. Something like a snapshot of New York creatives, the film follows a number of the young men and women leading the way in advertising, design, fashion and entertainment right now; the influencers who are shaping...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FIFTEEN.
If you’re a print designer, you need to watch this.
No seriously. Now.
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FOURTEEN.
John Paul Thurlow’s flickr stream is heavily laden with his illustrations of fictionalised magazine covers. Tres amaze.
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & THIRTEEN.
I saw this over at SwissMiss at the end of August, but with the wedding taking place next weekend, I thought it was still appropriate to sing the praises of this beautiful invite concept by Kelli Anderson. Like a souvenir from a roadtrip, couple Youngna and Jacob wanted unique invitations that would serve as a lasting memento of adventure for their guests. A map outlining directions to...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TWELVE.
I’ve just ordered my copy of This Year I Will Try Not To, a limited edition 28 page zine, printed in black on newsprint stock.
A joint effort of Elliott Scott and Christopher Doyle’s, the 405 x 295mm booklet is a tongue in check investigation of recent design trends and the ease with which we creatives are seduced into appropriating said ideas.
A limited run of 1000 copies,...
September 2010
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & ELEVEN.
Pardon the tits (I say that for those who aren’t into ‘em… for those of us who are, there’s some great pairs in here…) but this music video collaboration by director Nicolás Méndez and cinematographer Marc Gómez del Moral is a fantastic homage to Carl Sagan and to film produced in South America and Europe during the 1970s, right down to the 4:3 format. It’s...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & TEN.
On the back of his sophomore album Wide Eyes Blind Love, 26-year-old Brighton born singer/songwriter Mike Rosenberg, or Passenger, spent 2009 touring by setting up on street corners across the UK and Australia. Through this unique ‘busking’ approach to taking his music to the masses, it seems Rosenberg managed to meet and befriend the ‘it’ list of Australian...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & NINE.
Up There is a beautifully shot short, documenting the dying art of hand-painted signage. Directed and edited by Malcolm Murray, the 13 minute film follows a group of New York city painters, many of whom have learnt the skills of painting large scale advertising over decade long mentorships, bringing their story (which normally goes unnoticed above our heads) down to street level.
Found via...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & EIGHT.
What creative hasn’t felt misunderstood by his or her family? In their documentary How To Explain It To My Parents, Dutch collaborators Lernert Engleberts & Sander Plug (the guys behind that melting chocolate bunny short) let us play fly on the wall to a number of artists discussing their work with their olds.
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & SEVEN.
Helsinki based illustrator and designer Janine Rewell has some particularly nice work in her portfolio. Although, I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or be entirely disturbed by the human installation ‘Tan the Man’, a short-term ‘illustration’ achieved using vinyl stickers and a solarium (see below).
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & SIX.
I have to say that since picking up a pre-release copy of Arcade Fire’s third studio LP The Suburbs, I have been blown away by what is not only an undeniably fantastic album, but also a record created by a band who are whole-heartedly embracing the opportunities our current digital age is affording the music industry.
Arcade officially dropped The Suburbs on August 2/3, depending on...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FIVE.
I’m so glad Leonie, Chris and I got our ayes into gee a couple of Fridays ago and headed down to the opening night of the exhibition of Kevin Tran’s new body of work Strobe at China Heights. Previously unfamiliar with Tran’s work, I was hugely impressed by his bold, geometric infused images of animal, mineral, vegetable… well not so much the vegetable, but you get the...
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NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FOUR.
Bridging the gap between the cult following of LOMO toy cameras and our ever more digitised world, Industrial Designer Saikat Biswas has developed designs for the Holga D; a digital camera which would retain the winsome qualities and simplicity of it’s analogue inspiration. Fingers crossed the open-source production plans work out!