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Before you think this is some snide, acidic response to the reams and reams of girls doing selfies on Tumblr, it’s not. It’s the new project of nice man and illustrator Jon Burgerman. We don’t know much about his selection process, but he’s basically just taken classic Tumblr shots of girls, with Harry Styles, with a handbag, doing a mirror shot, wearing an ironic jumper etc. etc. and he’s drawn them in luminous, fun colours. Once he’s selected a girl and drawn her portrait he then puts it back on to Tumblr to create a cycle of internet content. It’s so great, isn’t it, the internet, it’s just full of good stuff like this.
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It’s competition time again kids and the good folks over at One Word Brief are offering you the chance to have your creative talents showcased in a beautiful book. Whether you’re a photographer, designer, illustrator or film-maker, One Word Brief want to see your creative responses to a single word – in this instance ‘Be’. Your ideas can be as left-field and unusual as you like as long as they’re completely original and show off the best of your abilities.
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You’re probably thinking; “Does graphic design really have the ability to make me drool?” The answer is yes, yes it does. And this is currently due to Somewhere Else, a Singaporean graphic design studio and their rebranding for Foodology; a restaurant made up of nine different food stations so the idea was to create a flexible identity that can morph to fit their multi-faceted personality. Full of simple, effective graphics tied together with a traditional stamp symbol, and finished off with touch of vintage – this is tasty graphic design in its most literal form.
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I know the trend for men these days is a long-on-top-and-short-on-the-sides, but to me a mullet and a moustache truly is the sign of a real man. Look at these footballers’ sweaty brows; a toxic lather of sweat and wet-look gel accumulating on their foreheads. This archive of serious sports hunks is Old School Panini, a blog set up by Alexandre Bourouf who, after finding his old Panini football sticker album decided to start seriously collecting these gems from yore.
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Sometimes in this business you stumble across images that you’re immediately drawn to and then can’t find out who was responsible for creating them. So it was with Rasmus Ohlson, whose marbled book project has sat on my desktop for months in a folder of anonymous images that I’ve been meaning to research. Then two weeks ago, miracle of miracles, I stumble across his website and months of anguish are brought to an end.
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Take that week, it’s Friday now which means we’ve basically got you in the bag. Sure you threw some real curve balls our way, like the incessant morning rain and some of the most depressing current affairs we’ve read about in ages, but we kept our heads held high and we reckon we made the best of you. To celebrate we’ve done a podcast (that’s an exaggeration, we do one every week) and it’s packed full of the finest light-hearted art and design chat you ever did bleedin’ hear. We’re on top of our game! (mostly)
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If you used to spend your time scrutinising the Hello Nasty album cover in your room (this is before the time when we all had work to do) or if you just thought, or still think, that The Beastie Boys are the coolest guys ever, then you’ll like this. Good old Juxtapoz magazine have gone and located all the designers and artists responsible for the consistently amazing Beastie Boys artwork and have interviewed them about the process.
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In the early 1960s, while Russ Meyer was busy carving out his niche as the godfather of American cinematic sleaze and coining the term ‘sexploitation’, a Belgian advertising dropout was single-handedly turning a previously childish medium into a hotbed of smut and witty narrative. The Adventures of Jodelle was a comic book unlike anything the world had ever seen. Gone were the spandex-clad superheroes and simple, good vs evil, narrative structures upon which so many children had squandered their free time and in replacement the very first adult-themed graphic novel, complete with ample chests, Roman setting and an allegorical spy narrative.
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We’ve featured some pretty strange photography projects in the past, and Lean With It by Paul Octavious fits snugly into this category. Paul has been on the site before with his awesome video experimenting with the colour indigo and now Paul travels far and wide to find these trees battered by wind or just born this way (poor trees). The beauty of these photographs is the subject’s ability to exactly mirror the angle of the tree’s slant even with ones as low as 45 degrees, these guys are truly experts – now go find your locally inclined tree and get your lean on!
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There’s a trend that’s been brewing for the past year or two which is for photographers to take photos of rather mundane situations to highlight a certain beauty that resonates when the world is a teeny bit sleepy, and the strange scent of youth is floating around. I thought Cait Oppermann was perhaps one of the photographers who is partial to this, and she is, but she is so much more than that.
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This may not be to everyone’s taste, but to those of you who are into this kind of thing, Fredric Fleury is amazing! Every project he completes is so different from his last that it could easily have been done by someone else entirely. His new project Half Man is an exploration into the insides of smoking, drinking cartoon heads. Is that a gold tooth? Yes. Is he clutching his own breast? Yes. Is that a dog poo on his nose? Yes. Still reading? If so, you’re definitely into this kind of weird shit like I am and you should go and check out the rest of his work, now!
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Mmmm, crisp, beautiful photos of crisp, beautiful people wearing crisp, beautiful clothes. That’s the sort of thing I want to look at on a Thursday afternoon. These striking shots have been taken by photographer Rory Van Mulligan who spends his days hanging out and shooting the fashion-wise and the genetically-lucky to pay his bills. His choice of models and confident strides between monochrome and full fat colour are glorious, and have put him up there on our list of London photographers to watch. Have you seen his client list? Holy moly!
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One Nicer Tuesdays down, many more to go, and for the second edition of our new Tuesday night event (it really is the new Wednesday you know) we’ve lined up another sweet list of speakers to entertain and illuminate you with their professional insights – you can get your hands on tickets right now!
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Hey Will Robson-Scott, how do you feel about a new nickname? Soon everyone is going to be joining in with me calling you The Pizza Man, because my goodness do you always deliver. We needed no proof of Will’s talents as a filmmaker, having previously featured his brilliant pieces on a quirky New York street photographer and a skateboarding enthusiast with Asperger’s Syndrome. But for my money his latest film Jela is Will’s best yet. It’s a portrait of a man shaped by the culture of London’s East End in the 1980s and 1990s, a former drug addict, a football fanatic and an amazingly compelling screen presence. It’s a mark of Will’s creative confidence that he cedes centre stage to his subject and feeds off the fizzing energy of Jela rather than needlessly overcomplicating things for the sake of his own vision. Simply brilliant.
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A corollary of the triumphant return of Daft Punk – which has dominated the cultural scene for what seems like weeks now – is a lavishing of attention on the humble helmet. And as if to prove that it’s not just their music-making compatriots who understand the power and the glory of this kind of headwear, Paris-based Ill Studio have collaborated with high-end motorbike helmet makers Ruby to create this super limited edition series. Ill created a bespoke pattern for the range called Venecia, “echoing the works of redesign and ornamentation by post modernist artists from the beginning of the 1980s such as Alessandro Mendini or Robert Venturi.” Stylish, restrained and undeniably hyper-cool, let’s have three huzzahs for helmets and all who wear them!
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For over 30 years Wayne Hemingway has been an influential designer with his wife and business partner Gerardine Hemingway. They set up fashion label Red or Dead in the early 1980s, (which ran for 21 consecutive seasons on the catwalk at London Fashion Week), and the couple went on to found Hemingway Design, a multi-disciplinary design agency working across the arts.
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You loved him in Ready, Steady, Bang, (actually you laughed as he was repeatedly and brutally murdered, but hey ho, live and let live) and now Cowboy is back for a bigger and better adventure with his dear hobby horse clasped firmly between his legs. This teaser trailer from Animade is only a precursor to the full-length animation but has all their trademark character development and style crammed into just a few seconds of footage. From his childlike galloping to the way he furtively pats his equine friend, Cowboy is probably one of the most loveable geometric characters we’ve ever come across and we can’t wait for his next adventure.
