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HelloVon

Guest Posting 5 July – 9 July 2010

This week we welcome London based artist and illustrator HelloVon to guest post. Utilising a seamless blend of traditional and digital mark making techniques he has worked with clients including American Express, Nike, Liberty, Selfridges, Trussardi, Wallaper*, Rolling Stone and Non-Format as well as exhibiting original artwork in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, London and Paris.

What have you got planned this week?

A much needed bit of time off with any luck.

What do your parents think you do?

Have an easy life.

Who do you look like?

According to Hugo and Marie in NY “Frodo”. According to NYLON magazine “a young John Lennon.”

What’s your favourite sense?

Dangling my feet in a swimming pool in the roasting sunshine.

Tell us something people don’t know about you…

I used to be an ice cream man.

Did your education count?

Yes – but perhaps not in the way it was meant to.

What word can’t you spell?

Thnaks

Tell us a good fact

Big Mo in East Enders is Gary Oldman’s sister.

What’s Next?

I’ve got a few commercial jobs to finish off then I’m hoping to make time to work on some more originals for a solo exhibition.

What’s your ‘Plan B’?

I’m meant to have a Plan B?

Guest Posted Articles

  1. Von_friday

    Cmmnwlth

    Guest posted by HelloVon,

    Zoe and David from the NY based studio Cmmnwlth are another pair that fall comfortably between the lines of being technically brilliant product designers and artists with a succinct language all of their own. It is an exciting time for the studio as they have recently broken away somewhat from their organic and bespoke pieces to release their first product aimed at a wider market. Truncheons is a collection of lamps released through MatterMade which includes a pendent lamp, a free-standing one to be leaned against a wall and a desk lamp that rotates freely in its gypsum and marble base. Just lovely.

    www.commonwealth.nu

  2. Von_thursday

    James Jean

    Guest posted by HelloVon,

    James Jean is a man that rarely needs an introduction. Once illustrator, leaving the industry on a high with a huge Prada campaign in 2007 to go full time fine artist with a sell-out show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in NY a year later. You can witness this progression in full on his site via an extensive, and somewhat painfully impressive, archive of his output. Beware, it may just make you want to give up.

    www.jamesjean.com

  3. Von_wednesday

    Pieke Bergmans

    Guest posted by HelloVon,

    Pieke Bergmans is a Dutch artist come product designer. I first stumbled across her Lightbulb series (pictured) a few years ago and still love to this day the way in which it reappropriates something that is so small, brittle and hard into something that appears so organic, soft and alive – enveloping any object is stands on. Instantly arresting, playful and beautiful I could look at her work for hours. I’d also strongly recommend her Crystal Virus and Vitra Virus collections.

    www.piekebergmans.com

  4. Von_tuesday

    Kirsty Whiten

    Guest posted by HelloVon,

    Kirsty Whiten is one of the rising stars of the Scottish art world and it’s blindingly obvious why. I first came across her work when I had the pleasure of exhibiting in the same group show and was totally blown away by both her delicate pencil and water colour pieces accompanying her larger, bolder oil paintings. I still kick myself to this day for not buying one painting in particular when I had the chance. Pictured is Lace Monkey from 2009. Just so beautiful – I implore you to spend some time in her world.

    www.flickr.com/kirstywhiten

  5. Von_monday

    Chloe Early

    Guest posted by HelloVon,

    I’m a big fan of Chloe Early and her delicate balance between realism and abstraction, the gestural and the defined, luxury lifestyle and brooding sense of destruction. Pictured is the painting Majesty from her 2009 sold out solo show at StolenSpace Gallery. Chloe also happens to be the girlfriend of the extraordinarily talented painter Conor Harrington. Now that’s one talented couple. Watch out for her next solo coming up in LA this October.

    www.chloeearly.com