Art Brussels
Jose Maria Mellado "Hotel by Tequendama Falls" courtesy Crown Gallery
From the 23rd to the 26th of April, Brussels will become a real Mecca for professionals, artists, critics, collectors or simply art lovers. The 28th edition of the Art Brussels Art Fair will host the works of more than 1 500 artists showing a selection of their finest paintings, sculptures,photos, video, and installations.
Lei Xue "Tee Trinken" courtesy Galeire Hubert Winter Vienna
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.
Minä Perhonen
Akira Minagawa has created clothes and textiles since 1995 that embodies aesthetic combination of simplicity and beauty. Deeply influenced by the Scandinavian design, Minagawa’s brand Minä Perhonen – literally in Finnish: ”I Butterfly” - merges the finish and dye quality of Japanese textiles with minimalist elegance of North European tradition.
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.
Tokyo Plastic is back!
The Tail Gunner from tokyoplastic on Vimeo.
The genius creators at Tokyo Plastic have been working hard to release their new character’s epic series: Kitteh Kitteh, a superfurry and apparently ultra cute cat with delusions of omnipotence. The concept is not new but the result meets the expectation and you cannot avoid at least to smile at the vision of the funny evilness of the protagonist .
At the moment you can enjoy two episodes – The Tail Gunner and Catzilla – which are going to be screened at a few quite major film festivals, but I suggest to spend some time and watch also the previous works of this amazing creative studio.
A little additional thing which can be found at the moment only on youtube is the Scatman tribute.
Mix-Style Headphone
Let’s get back to the fashionable world of street-couture headphones. If you are already familiar with names like WESC, Skullcandy and Urbanears you cannot miss the Japanese brand Mix-Style.
The Subs
The Subs: with love from Belgium. Rebel New Electro, Belga Trance, Boys noize….It is quite difficult to categorized this trio from Gent who loves brutality and rave in beat but introduce a new sound into the world of trance and electro.
FLorian
- Rope Necklace
Florian Ladstaetter, avant-garde designer in the field of jewelry, is pampered by stylists and praised by leading fashion magazines. His resume includes an impressive array of awards, exhibitions and collaborations worldwide and his works are not limited to jewelry, but range from interior design to photography and video production.
Florian does not like stereotypes and labels, but prefers the freedom of interpretation in its production, which is a blend of art and intellect, philosophy, and metal design.Amazing how he manages to give a new shape and meaning to simple materials or objects far away from the idea of jewelry.
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Ryuichi Ogino
Ryuichi Ogino is a Japanese artist,working between Tokyo and the West Coast. For his creations, he uses a variety of mediums: from handmade paper-clay toy figures, acrylic paints, wood, lined paper, and canvas, to digital renderings. He has more recently shown his works at Giant Robot, Receiver Gallery, White Walls, Park Life, and Project. His artworks, which are definitely a result of the contemporary pop culture’s trends, can be purchased at Panorama, an indipendent publisher based in Tokyo.
大日本人 Big Man Japan
If you are into Japanese pop culture, the bizarre sense of humor and the absurdity of Big Man Japan will surely entertain and amuse you. Director, protagonist and famous comedian, Hitoshi Matsumoto, has reinterpreted the familiar path of traditional daikaiju (big monster) pics, creating a mockumentary with CG monster battles and Power Rangers parody. But don’t expect the action and speed of Hollywood super-heroes movies and of course it’s to be expected that some people will get the joke and some will not.
Oded Ezer
Oded Ezer is an extraordinary Israeli typographic artist and type designer. He stands out for his unconventional ideas which has transformed the concept of typography: many of his creations often are inspired by sources not related to typeface like nature, architecture, and science. Ezer’s works cannot be simply categorized under the name “typography” since fonts have become tridimensional paper-made biological creatures.
If you want to discover more about this visionary designer, Gestalten will realease in April the monograph “Oded Ezer. The Typograper Guide to the Galaxy”
Q-pot
Do you like French macaroons? Do you love chocolate? Do you crave for sweets? Japanese brand Q-pot creations cannot satisfy your discriminate taste, but they are a joy for your eyes and they will make you drool.
Q-pot designer, Tadaaki Wakamatsu, makes small jewelry pieces out of wax: he moulds and cuts the wax to create an ideal shape and then he casts it in metal. He aims to make people happy, positive and excited through his accessories, which become a communicative vehicle: wouldn’t you strike up a conversation with someone wearing a creamy blueberry cake ring?
