Back from the Bread & Butter trade show at Berlin Tempelhof airport, my feet are tired and my brain is as well. Still I´d like to share some T-shirt designs of three of my current favourite designers with you:
The only new work I got through the Berlinale job was a mail from this dude, interested in me designing a limited edition shirt for the Berlin Fuc King Hell Club Tour in summer 09. We finally hooked up, I got thanked for the website, worked on the shirt together and it turned out great. So finally, smiles all around. Life is crazy sometimes.
I hope that my work can remind us that imagination can defy gravity and bend time. It is our own responsibility to enjoy every second of the day. Nobody else can do that for us. Have fun, eat candy, do what you love, love what you do… We might get thrown off this spinning ball of iron and mantle tomorrow.
Steven Harrington lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Influenced by Time Life encyclopedias from 1965 through 1972, thrift stores and the ’60s psych sounds of The Moody Blues, his art might be termed “contextual objectivism.” That is, each piece is created as a tangible object symbiotically defined of a larger context. In addition to producing commissioned and self-inspired works, Harrington operates National Forest Design with fellow artist Justin Krietemeyer.
Jared already told you that I will try to fill in for him while he´s having a good time in Tahiti.
To give you a brief idea about who I am: I´m responsible for Spreadshirt´s social media activities, I´m a lover of all kinds of contemporary electronic club music influenced by “Third World” (I hate that expression) music genres, and I´m running a little T-shirt label called “seen.” through which me and my partners try to spread reggae and dancehall related T-shirts which don´t look like the regular reggae and dancehall related T-shirts (no red, gold and green, no marijuana leaves, no Bob Marley). And ye, I´m blogging about all those things as well and am very happy top host a brilliant weekly “lazer bass” podcast by my man Tim Turbo.
Alright. Enough shameless self-promotion. What will I write about here in the upcoming days? Well, like Jared does, I´ll basically try to show you visually inspiring stuff I´ve been stumbling upon lately. And I´ll kick off with the work of Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz (see picture above). Together, they created Guerra de la Paz.
The creative duo loves to create colorful ‘textile sculptures’ (more here) and playing with textural layering. Their work is based on a combination of traditional disciplines and experimentation with dimension and the use of unconventional materials. Its just sumptuous ! If you are in NY be sure to check their latest exhibition at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery.
Btw: I´m heading off to Berlin now - if anybody of you will be enjoying some Bread and Butter or any other Fashion Week goodness, too, feel free to link me up via Twitter or Facebook.
Well it’s been a long time coming. My wife and I promised eachother that once I got my US Permanent Residence (Green Card) we’d go on a big vacation, and yes you guessed it we are finally going.
This time we are headed to Tahiti for 9 days. Curious? checkout Wikipedia on Tahiti.
So this is goodbye for a little less than 2 weeks, but you’ll be left in good hands! Tobias (Tobi) will be taking over for the period and I’m sure he has some great posts planned for you guys.
Also, as a little parting gift I managed to work on some personal designs the other day, and I designed Tahitibot (click for full details). I figured it suiting :)
Have a good weekend laFraisians and I’ll make sure to return with pictures and stories :)
Things have been rather chaotic at laFraise the past few weeks, so it’s always nice to just sit down, chill out and watch something cool. Amazing colour usage helps set this video apart from the norm. This is the latest track from Simian Mobile Disco and at first I didn’t like it too much. The song started to grow on me and the fact that it seems to be making fun of the music/media industry also made this one stand out.
A good browse through Flickr can always result in some solid inspiration. A good browse through any sites on our blogroll (to the right —>) can result in the same.
Jello! Today’s post is coming to you from Jared’s wife, Jennifer.
Jared is indisposed this evening due to having one of his wisdom teeth pulled today. Poor lil’ guy. :(
I thought I’d share with you some of my favourite stuff from one of my favourite sites, Etsy.com.
On Etsy, you can find just about anything handmade. I frequently buy handspun yarn, bags, jewelry, etc. Guys,
don’t think this post is just for the ladies, I added some stuff that even you might like.
