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Bobbito Garcia Launches The Sneakerpedia in London

Peggy — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:10:41 +0000

I got to hang out this week with my very dear friend, Bobbito Garcia, who was in London for the launch of Sneakerpedia at the The Queen of Hoxton. Sneakerpedia is aiming to be the biggest online archive of sneakers ever. Who better to promote this, then the author of “Where Did You Get Those?; New York City’s Sneaker Culture 1960-1987” and host of ESPN’s “It’s the Shoes?” You should of seen it on Wednesday night, Bobbito was surrounded this whole new generation of sneaker enthusiast, who kept coming to him all night thank him for his contribution to the game and the culture.

The Sneakerpedia is hoping to create an open source collections from sneaker enthusiast around the world into one hub that notes each shoe’s respective histories and variations. That database of shoes will contain serious detailing tag words – stitching, material, linigs and even celebrity association. The tagline for Sneakerpedia – “a community space not a marketplace, run by sneakerheads, for sneakerheads”

Manzine

Jonathan — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:23:45 +0000

I like laughing, in fact it’s one of those things I should do more often. To that end, I really ought to pick up the new issue of Manzine. As the name suggests, it’s a bit like a men’s magazine, but instead of catering to the sophisticated Alpha males who read Monocle or Esquire and travel business class to destinations like Milan and Minsk, is more tailored to that confused, bumbling and inconsequential species, possessor of strange obsessions (pencils, Krautrock, snooker), and whose idea of grooming doesn’t extend beyond a bar of soap and a Gillette Sensor Excel.

Previous issues of Manzine have included articles on Biltong, the classic Model A hand-dryer, the facial hair of current world leaders (represented with some pretty high-tech infographics) and on why the owners of small dogs can still claim to be macho. The new issue, you’ll be delighted to learn, has a travel special on nuclear bunkers and a piece simply titled Notes Towards A Unified Economic Theory Of The New Politeness In Driving. It’s very British. It’s very funny. And if you’ve never bought a men’s magazine in your life, you’ll be relieved to know that on this day, of all fine days, with a copy of Manzine tucked away in you man-bag, you can finally claim your rightful place alongside the other men of this world.

Urban Explorers – DIGGING the derelict

Jez Smadja — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:12:55 +0000

It was only last week that the New York Times reported on The Underbelly, an exhibition space in an abandoned subway station that’s so secret, few people besides the participating artists will ever see it. In Paris, it’s the 300-year-old catacombs which frequented by daring set of adventurers known as ‘catephiles’ who hold parties, spray throw-ups or even screen films in the old ossuary. Not to be outdone, the UK’s urban explorers are roaming derelict buildings up and down the country, leaving evidence of their discoveries through photos posted on the interwebz. On the forum 28dayslater, the hub for UK explorers, people swap tips, organize sorties, share advice and recount their stories. The spots to explore are broken down into Jeopardy-like categories including Industrial Sites, Leisure Sites, Underground Sites and, my personal favourite, Asylums and Hospitals.

Back in the 1970s and into the 1980s, a generation of squatters, often with anarchist leanings, would break into unoccupied buildings to avoid paying rent. Famous sites including St Agnes Place in Kennington, The Republic of Frestonia in Notting Hill and Tolmer’s Square in Euston. Then, with the warehouse scene in the late 1980s, it was commercial buildings on the outskirts of the city that were broken into and turned into spots for all-night raves. This all came to a peak in the 1989 Summer of Love parties and soon petered out after the Criminal Justice Bill made unlicensed gatherings easy for the police to shut down.

This new generation of urban explorers don’t seem to have any ulterior motive other than the buzz of walking through abandoned buildings and the unexpected discoveries that these might yield. The places range from swimming pools to munitions factories to power stations and even the house where they filmed reality TV show, Big Brother. If you’re fed up of spending weekends in nightclubs or restaurants or in front of the glare of your laptop, get hooked up with these band of explorers and get acquainted with some hot spots which definitely won’t be listed in Time Out.

T-Shirt Party

Jez Smadja — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:00:18 +0000

The concept is simple. Every week, for 52 weeks, T-Shirt Party create a new design that gets printed on plain white, Fruit of the Loom, soft cotton tee, and is delivered to your door, smelling fresh as a newborn kitten, for just £10 each (£15 if you live in the US of A). With every tee bearing a message, mantra or maxim such as ‘Open Your Eyes’ or ‘Me Against The World’ or ‘Things Fall Apart’ or ‘Champz & Weed’, and with each design accompanied by a video to illustrate the weekly pearls of wisdom, T-Shirt Party are bringing their love of fashion, music and film together in one machine-washable endeavour. Remember, real G’s wear white tees, and if you don’t believe us just go ask Brother Malcolm.

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2010 VIMEO AWARDS

Jez Smadja — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:00:22 +0000

When it comes to internet brands, it’s usually a case of the good guys versus the bad guys, like The Guardian (free) vs. The Times (pay-wall), or Boomkat (music specialist) vs. Juno (music wholesaler). In the video category, I’d choose Vimeo over YouTube any day of the week, not only for the superior streaming quality but for the obscure foreign documentaries and long-forgotten B-movies you’re unlikely to find anywhere else.

So it’s exciting to hear that, in a brand awareness exercise, Vimeo are holding the 2010 Vimeo Awards to shine a light on creative online content. On 8-9 October in New York, there’ll be screenings of the 45 finalists for the awards, whittled down from some 6,500 entries. The judging panel consists of familiar names like M.I.A., Morgan Spurlock and David Lynch who will be deciding which of the finalists walk off with the loot. Broken down into categories including Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, Music Video etc. the quality on the shortlist aint too bad. We especially enjoyed Schlimazeltov!, a beautifully-shot documentary about the London Jewish community, as well as Thrush, an innovative short film, composed mainly of digital phots, about a love affair that was doomed from the start.

Schlimazeltov! by the Light Surgeons:

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Thrush by Gabriel Bisset-Smith:

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London Art Book Fair

Jez Smadja — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:00:39 +0000

With the state of the publishing industry right now, you might think that the 2010 London Art Book Fair, 24 – 26 September,  will be full of indie publishers making libations to the gods, doing rain dances, or just tearing their hair out. But you’d be mistaken. Niche publishing remains hale and hearty, and the products being made are just as exquisite and arresting as ever. Last year, the Whitechapel Gallery held the first ever London Art Book Fair, and 2010’s edition promises to be bigger, brighter and, erm, bookier? Bringing together big players like Phaidon and Thames & Hudson alongside rare book dealers and small indies, the range of titles on display will be mouth-watering. But more than just an opportunity to get your hands on art books at highly discounted prices, the fair will be hosting talks by artists such as Jake and Dinos Chapman and Turner Prize winner Martin Creed as well as showing short films by the likes of Dan Eisenberg and Robert Frank. Juergen Teller will be signing his latest book and there’ll be discussions on a range of subjects including DIY publishing by Self Publish Be Happy.

New Style Classic: The 3DD Aviator

Matt Diehl — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:00:09 +0000

As Hollywood teeters on the inexorable slide towards putting out EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN’ MOVIE in 3-D, style hangs in the balance. Watching 3-D movies is the ultimate exercise in conformity, man: everyone looks the same, because everyone is forced to wear the same 3-D glasses.

Until now…

Meet “the official 3DD aviator.” Yes, that’s right—3-D glasses styled in the uber-classic aviator-style frame. As in, yes, when everyone else around you is wearing conventional 3-D glasses, you, in fact, are sporting specs you might actually wear in public. In fact, that’s not a bad idea! These particular 3D aviators were actually developed in conjunction with a book called 3DD: A 3-D Celebration of Breasts, a compilation of iconic cleavage images in three dimensions from New York photographer Henry Hargreaves. However he came up with the concept, it’s a relief that finally one can find a pair of 3-D glasses that look good even outside a darkened movie theater…

Timeless Meets Contemporary: agnès b. pour Opening Ceremony

Matt Diehl — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:00:55 +0000

Is there a fashion sensibility more primally timeless than agnès b.’s? The utterly Parisian clothing line, which took off in the ‘80s and defined a generation, has always been based on what is essentially essential in style: the color black, a slim cut, playful stripes…. Not for nothing did Quentin Tarantino put his Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs gangsters into black agnès b. suits. The design was so perfect, so utterly redolent of classic periods yet beholden to none, that the choice made sure Tarantino’s characters never looked dated; instead, they looked caught between eras yet utterly present and in style.

As such, what proves most fun in fashion is when “timeless” crashes right into now—which is what’s happened with agnès b.’s new collaborative collection with Opening Ceremony. Opening Ceremony has much in common with agnès b.—OC is as much a curatorial voice for fashion as it is a “label” or “store,” perpetuating its point of view that, like agnès b.’s dominion, manifests in their boutiques located in style centers across the globe. Indeed, Opening Ceremony has become synonymous with what’s truly forward in clothing and design, from Hong Kong to Los Angeles and beyond. That international aspect, and the perfect symbiosis of each partner’s aesthetic, is what makes “agnès b. pour Opening Ceremony” (as the collection is called) such an ideal pairing. Much like those suits Tarantino favored, the signature pieces from “agnès b. pour Opening Ceremony” hit that perfect note between “avant-garde” and “wearable everyday.” Think perfect cardigans emblazoned with stripes and colors seemingly at cross purposes; “Lolita” backpacks that fuse the essence of ‘80s new wave with how that style has evolved today; jackets that can’t decide if they’re a sport coat or motorcycle gear; monochrome color blocks that evoke both ska fashion and Russian surprematism, chic gray worker’s jumpsuits for both men and women… All perfect—which is what happens when classic gets a new, friendly makeover/takeover…

Kinfolk + K-Swiss: Tokyo Design Meets Cali Sunshine

Matt Diehl — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:00:43 +0000

Last week, tastemaking style/design blog Hypebeast took notice of Tokyo biking-aficionado collective Kinfolk’s collaboration with sneaker icon K-Swiss. The pairing centers around K-Swiss’ “Malibu ‘66” collection: following the inspiration for the collection, Kinfolk curated a series of images, “A Celebration of California Culture,” that capture the classic Cali sports lifestyle, especially around the heritage pillars of beach and bike culture. It’s an apt pairing: just as K-Swiss is known for its timeless designs, Kinfolk’s aesthetic pivots around those classic elements that prove fresh and essential from generation to generation. In these images, that gestalt spans everything from idyllic Golden Coast’s beach views to fixed-gear cyclists and their time-tested gear, all bathed, naturally, in radiant sunshine.

The K-Swiss/Kinfolk collaboration also extends to an edited, limited-edition collection of gear, in line with Kinfolk’s passion for the ultimate in handmade, modern and enduring. Custom made and branded with K-Swiss’ ‘66 shield, the project embodies and combines the best of each company’s culture, imbued with the artisanal Japanese quality of Kinfolk with the SoCal flavor of K-Swiss. The bikes were recently unveiled at at Kinfolk’s bar in Tokyo’s Nakameguro nabe, and are currently being showcased in the window of the flagship K-Swiss store in Tokyo. Ten handcrafted bags and fifty hand-dyed indigo scarves from the collaboration also were commissioned—proof that when it comes to sports and innovative design, California and Japan make for good kinfolk, indeed…

Instant Classic Gadget: Droid – The Inevitable R2-D2 Star Wars Edition Smartphone

Matt Diehl — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:08 +0000

I’m going to be completely honest: I just purchased a Droid 2 today. I’d been rocking Blackberry for a minute, but… It was time to go smartphone, for so many reasons, the least of which was I couldn’t see that spinning hourglass again without feeling deep trauma. But speaking of deep trauma, as undeniably sexy as the iPhone is, I wasn’t quite ready to endure AT&T’s customer service and service woes (when I was at SXSW in Austin earlier this year, no one I knew with an iPhone could get service); as well, I chose the Droid 2 because I just can’t get down with the touch-screen keyboard—my fingers are too meaty, and I send too many emails to re-type constantly…

I was totally happy with the idea of my purchase until… I discovered there’s going to be a Star Wars edition of the Droid 2 coming out in September! Making the pain even worse… It’s going to be an R2-D2-themed phone! (check out this uber-cool preview website here). It’s going to be available to order online only, with “exclusive Star Wars content and external hardware designed to look like the trusty Droid from the film saga” and an image of R2-D2 on the back. There’s apparently some kind of crazy treasure-hunt contest involved… I’m ferklempt, just ferklempt…

Then again, with a name like “Droid” (which apparently had to be licensed from the Star Wars folks), this development was probably inevitable. Apparently the tech blogs have been up on this for a minute, so where have I been? Now, I am currently crying robot tears… Well, in two years, when I’m due for an upgrade, if they have a Bladerunner edition, we’ll be all good. Until then—the Star Wars edition is definitely the Droid I want!

Instant Classic: The Monotron, Reviewed…

Matt Diehl — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:33 +0000

So, we hipped you to the resurgence of interest in analog synthesizers already, and to the introduction of the Monotron, the first pure analog synth made by the mighty Korg company in, like, many decades. Analog synths have become downright trendy in the best way thanks to artists spanning LCD Soundsystem to Dam-Funk, and the Monotron by Korg looked like a genius move when we first encountered it: a genuine analog synth, priced for recession-era hipsters at a cool sixty bucks! But them we got our hands on an actual Monotron, and…. WOW.

A recent review called the Monotron “the Gameboy for synthesizer fiends”, and that’s pretty dang accurate. If anything, the Korg Monotron resembles another fairly new, ultra-stripped down analog synth that synth freaks covet, the Gakken SX-150. However, while the Gakken is dope in its own gritty right, the Monotron goes way further. For one, it feels way more solidly built than the kit-based Gakken, but more importantly, it features a powerful filter, taken from the classic, collectible late-‘70s era Korg MS-20, giving it a truly classic synth sound. However, what’s coolest about the Monotron, beside its Daft Punk-esque robotic moniker, is how absolutely limited it is. Unlike a full-featured synth, the Monotron only has five control knobs, giving you crucial but limited control over pitch, intensity, and that almighty filter; it also doesn’t have a traditional keyboard per se, but instead a ribbon strip that you run your finger over in a smooth continuous motion to create sound.

Despite the limited features, what’s fascinating about the Monotron is that it has no specific “sound”; everyone seems to do something slightly different with it. This is refreshing in an era where everyone seems to have an infinite number of loops, samples and software synths at their disposal, but you consistently hear the same tired sounds and tricks being used in songs. There’s no instant recall on this baby: instead, the Monotron forces the player to be truly creative with limited means—it’s like the Ramones of synthesizers! You can even run other sounds through it—guitars, other keyboards, microphones—turning the Monotron into a truly twisted guitar pedal. At the same time, with a little ingenuity, one can use it to replicate a smash hit pop song, like Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”:

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As well, it’s possible to make an entirely serviceable trance-ish dancefloor number using just the Monotron, as this video makes abundantly clear:

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It even has a practical application in worship music, as this rendition of “Amazing Grace” demonstrates:

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So if you’ve always been curious about synthesis, or are a classic synth freak seeking uncharted waters, I heartily suggest you check out the Monotron. In capable hands—or even idiot ones—it’s got the potential to be both the sound of the past and the wave of the future. As one reviewer questioned, “is Korg’s Monotron a toy or a tool?” In practice, the answer is clear—it’s gloriously both.

Duke University presents ‘The Record – Contemporary Art & Vinyl’

andrew flanagan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:12:03 +0000

Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Jasper Johns, Christian Marclay, Ed Ruscha, Tunde Adebimpe, fabulous fraud Mingering Mike, are some of the more well-known contributors to Duke University’s The Record, a massive examination and expansion of the circular, dusty, untenable, near-perfect vinyl-pressed recording. The exhibition has every medium under the sun: photography, painting, performance, sculpture, installations, video, and, but of course, sound. Also the B-Side section of their website is definitely worth a look, providing a host of great links for the record-curious. The focus and the involved are unimpeachable. For those of us who can’t make it to the exhibition itself, I’m confident some lovely things will trickle and ripple out from this fascinating cross-section.

Mingering Mike

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Christian Marclay Mini-Documentary

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High Score! Original Pac Man Designs Revealed!

Peggy — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:00:18 +0000

Nerds, unite: we’ve found some vintage videogame buried treasure. Control, the “Dutch industry magazine for game developers,” just unearthed some gold: we don’t speak Dutch, but we can’t get over how cool the images are from Control’s recent article on Pac Man creator Toru Iwatani. In the piece, Iwatani reveals his original sketches—yes, that’s right, sketches, with pencil on graph paper—for the Pac Man designs.

Despite their minimalism, Iwatani imbues the designs with a whimsical geometric lyricism. It’s wild to encounter such genius in its primordial-ooze state. What Iwatani create would become one of the most perfect, addictive video games ever; funny to think it all started with a pen and a pad.

Internet Sports: Where Everyone’s A Winner…

Matt Diehl — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Those geniuses at The Guardian over in the U.K. have compiled the ultimate list of Internet sports dominating our laptops and generally causing us to hope no one notices what exactly we’re doing at our computer when we should be working. We have a soft spot for “Celebrity Table Tennis,” personally, and you can’t go wrong with the psychedelic ping pong of “Rong”; “Zombie Football” is no joke, either (oops, maybe it is!). Soccer/footie fans, meanwhile, should prepare for an addiction to “Free-kick Fusion.” That “Flick n Kick Rugby” is played online, meanwhile, means you won’t be left bleeding and toothless at the bottom of the scrum. All in all, kiss your productivity goodbye and watch the fun level rise…

Instant Classic T-Shirt: Parra X Madlib

Matt Diehl — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:00:42 +0000

Two great tastes that go great together: the coolest, most forward and backward gold-standard hip-hop/music in general head and the coolest, most forward illustrator/designer around. This perfect combo expresses itself in the latest must want objet from collector-friendly Stones Throw: a Madlib t-shirt put through the visual genius of acclaimed Dutch designer Parra. Madlib, of course, is Stone Throw’s resident genius, the umbrella under which so much of the label’s innovative magic happens. Parra’s designs are as dope as Madlib’s beats, especially his Rockwell Clothing efforts: under Parra Rockwell provides clothes that are much like the Madlib t-shirt: whimsical yet dead serious about design, inventive with fonts, minimal yet psychedelic, all the while largely avoiding genre clichés, logo diarrhea and pop-culture gimmes. Parra’s star is ascendant—he just finished a Los Angeles retrospective in collaboration with Arkitip — and this latest collaboration with Madlib proves that he’s as on point as ever. It’s like a funky beat you can wear; we like the white-on-blue one personally, but both are perfect.

The shirt itself is a tribute to a true California design classic: the logo of Madlib’s beloved L.A. Dodgers, a perfect style addition to the current baseball season. Like we said, two great tastes that go great together.

Classic Technology: Retrofitting iPads For Old School Video Games

Matt Diehl — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:00:56 +0000

We’ve heard a lot about how the iPad can be used—for, like, reading books and s***. But we’re most excited about turning the iPad into an old-school video game arcade cabinet!

Everything seems to come back to old-school video games, doesn’t it? Whenever there’s some massive technological leap, from cell phones to Playstations, someone figures out some way to use it to play old-school video games! Well, the supreme uber-nerds at ThinkGeek have now applied this inevitable de-evolution to the iPad with the “iCade” —that’s right, a desktop arcade cabinet that the iPad docks into as the player for Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Qbert and so on. Yes! Apparently created as a April Fool’s joke, the iCade may prove to be the most fruitful application of the iPad yet. Or at least the most fun… Time wasting starts…. NOW!

May Day Weekend Events

Matt Diehl — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:38:39 +0000

The coming week bodes well for lovers of culture on both coasts. From Los Angeles to New York, art, music, and happenings combine in a series of events that both bend genres and break rules. The May 1st weekend proves particularly action-packed in Los Angeles, as far as categories blurring.

On Saturday, “Los Angeles, I’m Yours”—a multimedia exhibition/bazaar subtitled “A Poketo and Kitsuné Noir Market”—opens in the Space15Twenty building, nearish to Amoeba. Running from 7 to 10 p.m., “Los Angeles, I’m Yours” brings together music—a special Portugal. The Man show, fresh off their Coachella appearance—with “a living art market. Filled with an eclectic mix of found objects, these vintage pieces are given new life as over 30 artists”—spanning everyone from Neil LaBute to Geoff McFetridge—“reinterpret and reincarnate these objects into art.”

Also on the day of May 1st in L.A., the Mochilla crew do their part for MOPLA (Month of Photography), cosigned by the likes of Waxpoetics: in this event, J. Rocc and Quantic and other crew associates provide groove sonics, along with live soundtrack to the visuals from the film premiere/ screening of Timeless, combining the aural visions of Ethiopian legend Mulatu Astatke and Brazilian genius Arthur Verocai to honor the spirit of J. Dilla.

And later in the week, on May 4th, on the other side of the world, in New York City on the Lower East Side, “A Nice Set” opens. What’s distinguishes this show is that it brings together a number of internationally diverse artists to create unique DJ slipmats, from Ray Smith to Sneaker Freaker and Yuku Shimizu. Yes, art made from DJ slipmats; of course, the music (by Tyler Askew and Butter) better be good if the art is based on dance music. This opening actually launches the tour of “A Nice Set”: with any luck, it will rewind over to a city near you…

Classic Covers: Giorgio Moroder’s Extraordinary Records

Matt Diehl — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:00:29 +0000

Giorgio Moroder is freaking cool, people. He invented, like, electronica, and dance music, and disco, and techno, and everything: check out songs like Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” for proof, yo.

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And I mean, dude wrote the soundtracks to Scarface AND Midnight Express! What?!?!!

You wouldn’t think Giorgio Moroder could get any cooler. Well… Think again! The maestro recently released a book, Extraordinary Records: Any Color Except Black—The High Baroque Of Vinyl Recordings, that does for album visuals what Moroder’s synthesizers did for sound. Most album design books concentrate on record cover art, but Extraordinary Records goes one cooler than that and focuses on the visual possibilities of the actual vinyl disc itself. Spanning Mastodon to Pink Floyd, the images captured here are truly freaky deaky and surreal, reminding us how wildly creative the music biz could be in days of yore. Moroder captures vinyl graphic oddities transformed into Medusa’s heads, biomorphic shapes, and psychedelic eyeballs and stuff—really, these pictures make CDs and, gosh, especially MP3s seem totally lame. Rock on, Giorgio!

Thomas Heatherwick’s British Pavillion

andrew flanagan — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:25:33 +0000

World’s Fairs and World’s Expositions began in 1851 in London, Britain’s groundbreaking Crystal Palace providing science fiction environs to representatives from everywhere as the Earth looked on. Nikolai Tesla pulled a similar eye-widener, turning on his reality-shifting alternating current and illuminating Chicago’s World’s Fair as if by extremely efficient electrical magic.

One hundred and fifty nine years later Shanghai’s World Expo is attempting to step into the future and back into nature with a pavilion design somewhere between seedpod and breathing orb. The British Pavilion’s exterior is constructed from 60,000 thick fiber optic juts, the tip of each twenty-five foot rod implanted with a smattering of seeds. The result is some sort of alien brain, a shifting and caressed experiment in affective space. The structure was designed by Thomas Heatherwick and his Heatherwick Studio, responsible for works such as this amazing staircase , and this amazing London pub.

Another Awesome Day At SXSW: Flatstock

Matt Diehl — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:16:59 +0000

At South By Southwest, it’s the bands that get the hype. But there are aspects of the conference that, if you dig deeper, prove just as rewarding, if not more. One great, somewhat under-publicized facet of SXSW is Flatstock – an exhibition organized by the American Poster Institute where designers of concert posters display and sell their work. Flatstock proves dizzying: the sheer talent involved rivals that of the bands on the posters themselves. Set up in SXSW’s main conference hall, it features row after row of booths set up by the artists themselves, selling their work (often in fine-art print quality) and of course, advertising their services to the bands that are there anyway as a captive audience. The posters span everything from incredibly surreal, biomorphic images for Dead Weather to witty pop-art takes on Lady Gaga and Willie Nelson. Indeed, for all of SXSW’s web-savvy “interactivity,” it’s the gloriously old-school paper and ink of Flatstock that provided some of the week’s greatest artistic thrills, as you’ll see here…

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