Benny Gold x Hersk Days of Gold
Scott Hersk (hersk.com) lent his hand for the Days of Gold shirt. He and I have enjoyed more skate sessions together than I can remember. This design is inspired by our skate adventures and the retro 80s colors really add to the nostalgia. I love how the vintage skateboard products and spots create the letters of the design.
Video: Pharrell Williams Interview “D’Art Assaut”
Blast Magazine talked to Pharrell Williams on his recent Paris trip, where he launched his new chair creations. Check out the video interview, where the musician talks about art and his latest project. Enjoy!
Alright Gucci
DJ JAYCEEOH PRRESENTS: AVANT-GUCCI threw me so off when I spotted it. It’s a completely different mixtape cover I expected to see – from anybody. The cover took me back to Design History, I was thinking it could have been inspired by the cubist movement or African art. Anyway, the design is fitting and it kinda looks like Gucci, haha. It also reminded me of some African masks I was looking at a couple days ago..
Check it out after the jump.
Graffiti out in Israel
Enjoy this first animation clip from Tant and Unga of the Broken Fingaz Crew out of Israel.
Simple blends
I’ve been work’n on a fashion show flyer that sent me on a hunt for design inspiration. I always liked the concept that less is more, with that said, I didn’t want to alter the images too much. Blending options, that are sometimes overlooked, doesn’t do much alteration to the image but can take you along way. Simple blends with lower layers does just enough for me. If you really know what you’re doing mixing it with layer masks can take you over the top. Here’s some layouts I found with SIMPLE blending options. Blending options are found on the right in the layers pallet just above your layers.
I’m a big fan of the “A Toast to Pace” design. I’ve had it on my desktop for a while, I’d always go back to just look at it. Jus’ stare at it – it feels so off but still weighs out evenly on all ends
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Not try’na toot my own horn, but this photo is so dope. Depth perception is heavy in this one. I tried something new called tilt shift photography. It’s when you focus the lens on a single part of the photo and shift around the surrounding/neighboring area to create an optical illusion of miniaturized scenery. Real tilt shift lenses are quite expensive, but a similar effect can be achieved by using Photoshop after you take the photo.
Original after the jump.
Video: Dir. Tamra Davis Speaks x Sundance
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child” director Tamra Davis talks about the artist’s passion for film, and the second career he wanted to pursue.
Giulio Cappellini
“The design object must definitely be functional, but above all it must be beautiful and convey a powerful sense of pleasure and irony.”
- Giulio Cappellini
It’s Surreal: Kanye speaks on nostalgia x opinion x creativity
Kanye gets real deep with this one. From where he’s been to where he’s at now, the need have an opinion and the need to create. ‘Ye makes a heart felt address on Alexander McQueen’s contribution to fashion, damn, that was a big blow. The only fact is “COMMON OPINION”.
I’m on the plane listening to the college dropout. It brings back so many memories. When we made it I had all 6 parents, 4 grandparents and my mom and dad. Now I have my dad and my grandfather.
Music is so nostalgic. Every song I listen to brings me back to when I first played them for my mom, when I first played from for Dame, when I first played them Jay, when I first played them for Kweli, when I first played them for my niggas back in Chi, when the album first came out, when I first called Ebro from Hot 97 and begged him to play through the wire, when DJ Pharris blew me up in the Chi.
We used to be the niggas rocking polo shirts, Louie back packs, paper denim jeans, and exclusive Adidas from Sporty LA. We were the underdogs. I never feel like I’m not the underdog. I never felt completely comfortable. I’m tormented by the need to create. With the loss of McQueen I feel like we lost one of those faces of modern creativity’s Mount Rushmore.
There were times that the only thing that kept me on this earth was the need and responsibility to create. Maybe McQueen felt his job was done because his last collection was the greatest of the decade. We are all so hurt. I know we’re selfish because he brought us so much joy and inspiration.
I know how it feels when the night demons come. We can’t let them control our hands and feet. Sometimes when it hurts so bad we have to just lay in the bed. Just lay in bed and don’t move please, I know how it feels. I wish McQueen could have just been still. Don’t let the psychiatrists give you their drugs because it slows down your wings. Society and public opinion can beat the wings off of angels. When god sees they can’t take it anymore he brings them back home.
During this new album process sometimes I turn the music up and drink and cry. When something sounds so amazing and ground breaking I’m reminded of why I live. I drink the pain of now 2 generations and breathe our melodies and messages. The music keeps us alive.
I was blessed with the opportunity to bring my and others dreams to life. It’s like performing magic or something. It’s surreal. We bring the unrealistic to reality. “Go hard, go hard, go hard” echoes in my dreams. When I wake up and brush my teeth and look in the mirror it’s like I see Michael and my mom and Malcolm. Who’s that African in the background mom? Oh he created the original layouts for the pyramids but was written out the history books and his MTV award was given to “aliens”.
There’s no such thing as fact anymore, only opinion. The closest thing we have to fact is “common opinion”. Everything is an opinion. The way you dress is an expression of your opinion. Your religious beliefs are your opinion. The music you turn up loud is your opinion. For most people it’s easier to just agree. For me the hardest thing is to ‘just’ agree and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something’s missing. The feeling that something’s needed.
News: Matt W. Moore, Crystals x Lasers Exhibition
We’re kinda late on word of this event, but better late than never. Thanks to the web as a new media, we’re granted unlimited to access to information. Matt Moore’s work with patterns and color pallets pulls your eye from point to point on the composition. View photos from the opening reception.
MWM (Matt W. Moore) has traveled to Paris for one month to prepare, from scratch, for his first Paris Solo-Exhibition. He arrived with no art, no supplies, and no firm plan for this new series of canvas paintings. The ideas for the artworks have actualized while processing time spent absorbing French Culture, exploring the City Of Lights, the vibrant colors, the exaggerated geometry, and the diverse architecture and fashion of Paris.
These paintings were created entirely with spray paint, one of Matt’s favorite mediums. But the designs are very clean, and appear almost digital in their precise details and craft. An honest, analog attempt to achieve the same depth and abstract geometry of his digital “Vectorfunk” style. The goal with each work is to have the viewers eye fall into the piece and get lost in the optical illusions, trying to figure out what is up, down, left, and right.
MWM : Crystals & Lasers.
Since.Upian Gallery. Paris, France
February 5 – March 12, 2010
View images from the opening reception
*Series of 18 New Canvas Paintings and a Mega-Mural in Paris District 10.
BIZY DREAM’N
What’s happen’n y’all? I’ve neglected my audience, we’ve neglected our audience. School’s been killing me so much that I’ve kinda let our direction veer a little off-track. As a result, I decided to put everything on hold for a little while to start back in March. We still have a few loose end to knot up, but we’ll be going through it while still keeping up to date with the happen’n.
Also, I’ve been restructuring Bizy Dreaming, now Bizy Dream’n. A lot lately has been about change and about research. Before, I think Bizy Dreaming was too stiff. Where’s my personality in that? The simple change is due to how I text. I truncate my -ing’s, not by much, with -’n. Here it goes. I hope y’all feel this one.
Hass Grotesk
Helvetica’s creators, Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann, would have never imagined that their sans serif masterpiece could become one of the world’s design classics. “Neue Hass Grotesk”, its original name
Type Treatment in Ad Design
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers: England
Amnesty International: Ted Bundy
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Video: “Love Away” Kinetic Typography
By: Chris Brice
Music by: Curvine
Kinetic typography is technically defined as an animation technique mixing motion and text. It is presented in a manner intended to convey or evoke a particular idea or emotion.
I Deserve To Be Here
Here is the long-awaited first single from Preme Da Prez, “I Deserve To Be Here,” featuring and produced by Kayla Bliss. Also, the “I Deserve To Be Here Mixtape” Will be available for download IMMEDIATELY after the song receives it 10.000th download. This is a real inspirational song about overcoming the odds – it’s a wonderful mix between real rap and R&B. I Deserve To Be Here is one of those songs you blast in ya car, hands in air – carefree. You have to listen to the song to understand where I’m coming from. Can we make this a trending topic on twitter people?!
Download I Deserve To Be Here here
Untitled (Radio Rip) – Talib Kweli Feat. Jay Electronica, J.Cole & Mos Def
This track go hard for real! Talib created something special with this track – bringing together some serious artists to body the beat. Keep It Surreal APPROVED!
Download “Untitled (Radio Rip)” – Talib Kweli Feat. Jay Electronica, J.Cole & Mos Def
Jin Young Yu Glass Scupltures
Korean artist Jin Young Lu creates transparent sculptures with expressive masks that she partially covers with nicely patterned clothes, and the result is quite astonishing. Wonderful ghostly figures that stair right at you.
Chad Harris
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