Posted: August 11th, 2010 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Editorial, Favourite, Singapore | No Comments »
WERK No. 18: KEIICHI TANAAMI PSYCHEDELIC VISUAL MASTER
336 pp, colour, 220mm x 305mm, Edition: 1000 copies
Keiichi Tanaami is a Japanese artist and graphic designer whose work has transcended various art mediums. His unique and radical artistic creations, which were influenced by his dreams and memories, have often been the source of inspiration for young contemporary artists.
WERK No. 18 visually documents his psychedelic visions with more than 200 illustrations from his personal collection. The cover of each issue is hand-coloured with different forms of powdered pigment such as chalk, crayon, granite and pastel, emulating Keiichi Tanaami’s colouring methods.
Press contact:
KEIICHI TANAAMI – info@ashu-nk.com
WERK – contact@workwerk.com
WERK is represented in Japan by ASHU NAKANISHI Co., LTD – info@ashu-nk.com
http://www.workwerk.com
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Posted: June 9th, 2010 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Branding, Favourite, Graphic | No Comments »
The Holland Dance Festival is the largest biennial dance festival in the Netherlands; Over sixty performances, more than one hundred workshops, and a dance parade with over 1200 amateur dancers. In addition, the 2009 Festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Netherlands’ standard bearer of the dance: the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT). Besides an international platform to present the diverse facets of the art of dance, the Holland Dance Festival will be a reunion of former dancers and choreographers of the NDT, gathering in The Hague from all over the world. Silo created a campaign identity showing the aspect of this reunion of talents. The blue dots represent this 50 years celebration, and can be seen as a metaphor for the NDT dance DNA spreading the world. The variations of the fluorescent graphics give a celebratory, dynamic image of the 2009 Festival. All kinds of promotion material was designed, including multiple series of posters, a website and a Festival brochure as the main objects.
http://www.silodesign.nl/html/index.php?page_id=22&category_id=6
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Posted: June 1st, 2010 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Favourite, Graphic, Identity | No Comments »
“In this city, every day’s a marathon. Living in New York is daily endurance test, a real time obstacle course, a sensorial avalanche. There is a beautiful brutality to a city where everything is in flux, in process, under construction; where nothing is straight or finished or fully functional. New York is our beast: its ugly and dangerous but show it some affection and its a loyal friend forever. We’re proud because we’re tough. We can take it. We can absorb punishing heat and spiraling rent and bitter wind and appalling smells and it only makes us love it all the more. “Fire is the test of gold,” the old saying goes, “adversity the test of strong men.” Its not that we’re arrogant, its just that we feel we are tested every day and every day we prove we’ve got the metal. 26.2? That’s nothing. I commute from Queens.”
2×4 produced Nike’s branding for the 2009 New York City Marathon. The campaign included broadcast, posters, store windows, point of purchase displays and general morale boosts along the road.
http://2×4.org
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Posted: January 26th, 2010 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Favourite, Photography | No Comments »
“My most recent paintings and drawings explore the sensation of seeing from a car while driving through the rain. I am fascinated with the constantly changing, yet particular landscapes seen from the car and also the way that the water on the windshield interacts with that landscape. The water creates a shifting lens for the way we see the environment- both highlights and obscures our viewing. Perspectives slip and compress, while shapes and colors merge into one another. I also work with relationships between surface and depth, between flatness and illusion. These works are born out of real experience and have a close relationship with the medium of painting- its fluidity, transparency, and capacity for layering, mixing, and blending. I draw upon a lineage of painters from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter.
The paintings themselves are compiled from hundreds of photographs taken while driving in rainstorms with the windshield wipers turned off. While these moments are commonly ignored or deemed a necessary part of reaching our desired destination, they are powerfully charged with weather, light, and color- all experienced at a great velocity. This combination of speed and subdued calm, as the world goes past, creates a kind of transcendental moment that I hope to tap into with the fluidity of the painting medium.”(gregory thielker @ my modern met)
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/on-a-rainy-daygregory
via http://mariehelenesirois.blogspot.com/?zx=ea361249657dbd4e
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Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Author: Yanda | Filed under: Favourite, Graphic | 1 Comment »
Graphic design was much more feeling and crafted back then. Without much formulas, hard rules and combining traditional art like hand drawing graphics or painting with computer technology to ease the working process.
Can I say technology kills it all?
Nowadays, out of ten work I have seen, nine are really bad ones and doesn’t trigger any surprises or can make anyone smile.
Born in Arosa, Switzerland in 1928, Lamm was a major contributor to the Milanese design style of Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. This post-war period in Milan, distinguished by its intellectual and progressive attitudes, booming economy and companies open to new ways of communication, attracted many design figures from Switzerland. Xanti Schawinsky, Max Huber, Carlo Vivarelli, Walter Ballmer, Aldo Calabresi and Bruno Monguzzi (to name a few) all moved to Milan (1933, 1940, 1946, 1946, 1954 and 1961, respectively) and were employed by the influential Studio Boggeri, founded in 1933 by Antonio Boggeri.
via http://www.thisisdisplay.org/features/design_pioneer_lora_lamm/
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