Path to happiness gets complicated and confusing
Just when you thought the path to lifelong happiness was uber simple and you had it all figured out… Someone slaps you in the face and complicates things.
Sandrine Estrade Boulet
Sandrine Estrade Boulet sees different things in the streets than everyone and visualises them with her beautiful illustrations. | via
Luca Laurenti a.k.a. mklane a.k.a. the R’n'R designer
Luca Laurenti works in the creative industry for a range of international clients in editorial, publishing & fashion trade, like illustrator, graphic designer and art director. Luca get’s inspired from everything around him, and his style is not defined but he can master several of different techniques. Ink, pen, water colour and pencil are combined with contemporary tools like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create his work.
He constantly develops his ideas, and continues to innovate his design language, in order to create for each customer a tailor made solution. He is always looking for new projects and challenges to be confronted, totally different from previous ones. His online portfolio has just been updated, filled with amazing works for clients as Bang Art, Bastard, Billboard, Busta, Rolling Stone, Sportswear International, Urban, XL (La Repubblica), Impure, Lascivious, Leitmotiv, Proof 7, Sympathy for the Unusual, Toy2r, Editori Laterza, Hulger, L’Oreal, Subdued.
Luca Gentile
Che lo conosciate per i suoi Paper Toys, per BigChief o per i suoi lavori … lui è Luca Gentile, designer freelance con base a Milano. Ha appena aggiornato il suo portfolio. Dategli un’occhiata, merita davvero!
I Met The Walrus – John Lennon Interview
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. | via: 2.2
Howard by Julia Pott
Do you remember when we met? You were brilliant, witty, gorgeous to look at…something’s changed.
Film by Julia Pott | Voice Over by Carolyn Saint Pe | Sound Design by Danny Boyle
Music by Walter | Assistant Animator Robin Bushell | Produced at the Royal College of Art 2010 | Via: 2.2
Hat
Music written and performed by Max und Laura Braun
Directed by Michael Fragstein | via: 2.2
Honour your city on CitID
CitID is an ambitious project aiming to gain global consciousness by giving a (type)face to every city worldwide, big or small, rich or poor, famous or infamous, well-known or unheard-of. To be more precise, it is a collection of city logos from all over the world submitted by creative people with a dash of urban pride.
If you are a graphic aficionado, then you’ll get completely Xmas-morningy: first, you’ll be looking for your hometown, obviously; then you’ll move on to cities you’ve visited; then you’ll check out weird places like Tegucigalpa or Bandar Seri Begawan, and so on…
Mystic Lolitas by Mijn Schatje
” Pelle bianca come la neve e labbra rosse come il rubino ” è ciò che hanno in comune le “Lolitas” della talentuosa Mijn Schatje, che reinterpreta in chiave mistica il concetto della famosa e acerba seduttrice in 16 opere inedite esposte alla Dorothy Circus Gallery di Roma fino al 30 maggio.
L’artista francese Marie Blanc Hendrickx, il suo vero nome, a soli 27 anni vanta un portfolio di tutto rispetto. Dopo la doppia laurea in Fine Art e Graphic Design a Parigi colleziona rapidamente diversi successi nel campo dell’illustrazione; ma è nel 2008 che i ritratti delle sue bamboline, dagli occhioni intensi e bocche socchiuse, raggiungono un’indiscussa popolarità diventando le protagoniste della collezione S/S del brand Fornarina.
Yoko Furusho for Keds Shoes
Yoko Furusho - Utopia
The delicate illustrations of the talented Japanese NewYork-based artist, Yoko Furusho, are a celebration of pastels colors, ageless girls and ethereal landscapes. A delicious exotic graphic smoothie of Alice in Wonderland, Yoshimoto Nara and old Japanese animation topped with love for fashion and details.
The Hand of the Designer
The Italian National Trust and Moleskine present a new special project, “The Hand of the Designer”. The book is bound in the classical Moleskine Folio book layout, A4, but with white cover. The publication will come together with a 120-page Moleskine blank drawing sketch-book, for notes and free hand sketching. ”The Hand of the Designer” displays original sketches, given to the Italian National Trust, by 150 international designers, among them Bouroullec Brothers, Michael Graves, Hella Jongerius e Karim Rashid. The project is an intimate look into the creative process of the designer, and a celebration of the everlasting power of free hand sketching even in the AutoCAD® era. Quick sketches, graphic signs, paper collages, tools to express an idea: the freedom given to designers in choosing the materials to send allows an eclectic documentation.
“The Hand of the Designer” will be released in conjunction with a special exhibition including all the original sketches, at Villa Necchi Campiglio and Triennale Bovisa, on Saturday the 10th of April 2010, during the Salone del Mobile Furniture Fair in Milan. Following the exhibition, the original works will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s Milan at Villa Necchi Campiglio on May 13, 2010.
Pictoplasma: Berlin Festival
Asterokid by Douglas Lassance
It’s all about character! The Pictoplasma Festival will take place in Berlin April 9-10 with his massive turnout of designers from all walks, including character artists, directors, animators, and illustrators. If you work with or -simply love - the visualisation and application of character design you cannot really miss this extended weekend of screening, artist talks, interdisciplinary exchange and party.
