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Eye Magazine (like the Monocle’s and the SSIR’s of the world) is a real quality publication that I simply cannot afford. As a result I am that guy sitting in the corner of Borders with 40 magazines piled next to me. Fortunately for cheap bastards like myself, most magazines have blogs that offer a lot of the same content with the same eye for presentation. Recently Eye Magazine began a blog, which is nice because it is a UK title and ends up costing like 25 bones stateside. There are only a handful of posts at this point, but so far so good, and its future looks promising with the Eye team stating that they will be
asking a wide range of writers to contribute notes, reviews, work in progress, rants, praise and other comments to help us understand this brave new world while we get on with the job of making the world’s most collectable design magazine.
Honestly though, now they just need to revamp their main site. It’s an inaccessible piece of crap, completely inappropriate for a magazine like Eye.
Maybe the coolest thing I have ever see. Jansen creates machines that move by harnessing wind energy. The things look incredibly life-like… I’ll shut up… no words…
I had mentioned a few months ago the break of Nick Paparone with Art In The Age Of… Thankfully he didn’t run off to Brooklyn and instead threw himself into Print Liberation - a kind of Philly print-house/visual agency/brand development/clothing shop/all-around creative enterprise. They just came out with a bunch of new t’s and are dropping their “Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer“, which Paparone authors, in a few months. The book introduces the screen printing process to novices and gives some more advanced techniques to more experienced printers who are trying to hone their skills.
Amazon Description: Print Liberation is a comprehensive DIY guide to screen printing for both novice crafters as well as experienced artists. The book begins by giving readers a brief history of screen-printing while outlining the basic principles of the process including the equipment and tools needed to get started. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color photographs show readers the various methods for making great screen prints and tips on how to avoid screen-printing mistakes. Information about printing on various surfaces from wallpaper to t-shirts, cylinders and more gives readers a general understanding of the various applications for screen-printing and solid information on how to turn their screen prints into a personal art or business. Bonus sample images formatted for screen-printing are included for readers to use in their own screen prints.
As to the shirts, really nice stuff. I love this Obama shirt, so obnoxious and awesome. See below for some other samples. Buy stuff here. Cheap. Good. Philly. Enjoy.
The greatest music magazine… ever! just came out with its 50th issue, which is being offered for free in .pdf here. There’s like 200 some odd pages here. Good Stuff.
And then there was Gianluca Fallone. Really cool stuff. I love the Daft Punk stuff. The guys is based out of Argentina and is currently doing freelance stuff. Check out his site here.
Also, never saw this site before but stumbled across thankscaptainobvious.net the other day (yeah, great name). He (Capt. Obvious?) came up with some nice mix tapes of covers. Git ‘em here.
I was getting hip to Philly-designer Tim Lahan’s site when I came across a link to Sleevage… Pretty nice. They basically write about album cover art. They are in beta at the moment, whatever that means, and are looking for writers. I request reviews of the last two Jose Gonzales albums… what’s going on there?And DURKL has new stuff out… Fall ‘07… which is amazing as always.AND Kanye’s Mom… That’s really too bad. Our hearts go out.
Found this on reddit. Really beautiful. The full-screen gets a little grainy at points, but that’s cool. It gets kind of trippy towards the end.
For all you design heads out there… ffffound.com is a novel image bookmarking site. The concept is great and I am seriously enjoying wasting away my time on it. Still in beta at the moment and I am wondering how its going to get out of beta. The images that are currently featured are awesome but all have a similar modern design aesthetic to them. Would they be cool with opening up the point of view beyond their chosen entourage of image-finders? What happens when people start putting up porn? Or just shitty images? Maybe a vote up (or vote down?) function, a la digg or reddit? Anyway… enjoy.
PSFK points to MIA’s site as a rumbling of the new ‘insane aesthetic‘. Can we call it ‘the lo-fi aesthetic’? We can, I think… ok, the wikipedia page is going up. I first saw it on paperrad.org but since then it has been cropping up all over the place and I think when MIA is using it all over her stuff we can at least call it psuedo-mainstream (but I guess the point is that its not even a little mainstream, so…). It seems like a kinda 80’s boldness mixed with an early 90’s infancy-of-internet/intro to saved by the bell thing, all topped off with a fuck you web 2.0 mentality. http://come.to/~o is also good. (I almost got a seziure from this one.) I could write pages on this, but I’ve got stuff to do, and anyway the sites speak for themselves. I’ll leave it up to you to make insightful comments on its cultural (in?)significance.
update 1: shitty wikipedia entry. refine.
update 2: wyld file
…it all turns to gold. I seriously don’t push products too often but Chuck Anderson is one of my number ones. Check out his prints here. (I’ve got this one hanging in my work room.)
Anyway, he came out with a line of T-shirts recently. Really, really fresh stuff. Pick ‘em up here and enjoy looking better than your friends.
