ANA KRAŠ a serbian born designer creates the most colorful, original, and spell binding lamps called bonbons. The geometric metal forms are meticulously wrapped in naturally dyed silk thread. This young creative seems to fly right below the radar of mainstream design, just how she likes it. Her lamps are hand created by wrapping thread tightly together [...]
Tag Archives: feature
Peter Madden
Peter Madden is an Auckland-based collage artist who creates heavily detailed, surreal microcosms that seem to leap out of their two-dimensional frameworks. Madden, toils away with old issues of National Geographic and an exacto knife, freeing colorful birds from there pages. Using positive and negative space composition his mosaics taunt the eye. Madden’s spindly chairs [...]
Pret-A-Surf
Pret-a-Surf founders Jillian Demling (Entertainment Editor at Vogue) and Karen Mulligan (Studio Manager for the photographer, Annie Leibovitz) met over 10 years ago working on a photo shoot. While shopping for a surfboard and clothing for surf camp in Costa Rica, they were frustrated by the lack of product in the market place. Nothing met [...]
KONY 2012
A young film maker named Jason Russell from INVISIBLE CHILDREN, has been working and dedicating his life to the awareness and ultimate capture of Joseph Kony, the war criminal of Uganda, Africa. Kony’s actions of rape, abductions, and mass murder makes Kony a clear example of evil. Jason Russell believes that through viral video and [...]
Two Laps
Boys in general have a talent for making most anything a competition. From racing to the top of the stairs to who wins the girl. As boys get older rivalry only escalates to business deals and golf games. What is the state of men with a little wrinkling, do they still have the king of [...]
Matt Wisniewski
I first came across Matt Wisniewski when searching for up and coming graphic artist. His arresting portraits made from a seamless blend of photography and layered ghost like images, made me smirk with creative jealousy. Wisniewski lends his decerning eye to grainy black and white portraits and fashion tares, while meshing rolling landscapes and crashing waves..the [...]
AESOP
Aésop an Australian skin care line, has become an uncontested success story in the notoriously fickle beauty industry — focused on providing its worldwide clientele with the highest quality botanical skin care, rather than subscribing to mainstream-cosmetic anti-aging hype. Aésop has 20 signature stores including stores in Paris, London, Sydney and Melbourne. In keeping with Aésop [...]
HERE
“Here” is a short film by Luca Guadagnino best known for his breakout “I am Love,” with Tilda Swinton. The short film, is co-written by Tilda Swinton with music by Jason Schwartzman…(yep, Jason Schwartzman). The film has a Hitchcock heroin feel, Blonde lead and all. The blonde being none other than the elusive model Agyness Deyn. [...]
New Dutch minimalism
Master class Dutch minimalism at it’s finest. The layers of the glaze, stain the bare wood with high saturation color. The visual conversation as the three young boys tilt their wrists just so, as if to place each drip in it’s exactness… Is Awesome. Lucas Maassen offers a modern parody on the often used sentence [...]
