Ocean Parts by Koby Sibony

Ocean Parts by Israeli designer Koby Sibony, is a series of sculptures created from a combination of plastic pieces collected from the beach and metal wire. I love the playfulness and crafty aspects of these creations – particularly the remote control cars and radio. These bring me back to my youth, when I would collect sticks and stones and other debris and make them into creative playthings (kids, this is what we did before the Internet). And thanks to Koby for helping clean up the shorelines!

Hermes x Graffiti Artist Kongo

For Fall 2011 legendary French luxury house Hermes have collaborated with Graffiti artist, Kongo, to produce a number of silk scarves based on his signature style of writing. the scarves are now available at Hermes stores around the world with part of the proceeds going towards the graffiti collection Kosmopolis, who support young artists.thanks SLAMX

The Da Vinci of Design: 7 Ways Steve Jobs Changed the Visual Arts Forever (And One Way He Didn't)

Steve Jobs's stunning announcement that he is stepping down as chairman of Apple has investors worried. Can the tech Goliath sustain the momentum it has built under the sensei-like leadership of Chairman Jobs, beginning with his rebranding of the iMac and continuing through the revolutionary launches of the iPhone and iPad? But spare a thought for the art world, which in manifold ways, subtly and not-so-subtly, has been transformed by the innovations Jobs has pushed forward in the last few years (even if artists have come into conflict from the company from time to time). Here, ARTINFO takes a look at a few of the way that Jobs's impact has been felt across the visual arts. thanx artinfo.com

Copyright - Forever Less One Day

In the below video, C.G.P. Grey takes a look at the interesting world of copyright in the U.S. and the affect it has had on the creativity of mainstream culture. The six-minute-long short film gives a quick history of the copyright law since it's inception back in the 1700's, and uses Disney and Star Wars as case studies.

colette: “In The Beginning” by FriendsWithYou

in store gallery at colette’s is host to art collective, Miami’s FriendsWithYou. “In The Beginning” is the The exhibition, which is the debut  series of bronze sculptures and a series of prints, including some exclusive edition prints for colette, an animation video piece and more.  The exhibition starts August 29th and runs through till September 24th.

– A Cover With Staying Power: The New York Times snags a sneak peek of Dasha Zhukova's new publication, Garage, and calls it "one of the most intriguing magazines to come along in years." The art-and-fashion glossy's debut boasts three different covers, including one by Damien Hirst featuring a peel-slowly-and-see sticker of a green butterfly covering a female model's crotch. Removing the sticker then reveals a butterfly tattoo by the artist in a delicate place. Did we mention that Shala Monroque, the girlfriend of Hirst dealer Larry Gagosian, is the creative director of the magazine? [NYT]

From Garage with Love

With the continued demise of print journalism, art publications seem to be doing just fine, thankyouverymuch. A new niche mag makes its debut practically every day. True to form, there's one more to add to the list today. Helmed by Pop's former editor-in-chief, Dasha Zhukova, Garage looks like a carefully curated zine, studiously low-budget and vaguely Soviet in design. Named after Zhukova's art space in Moscow and scheduled to come out during New York Fashion Week, Garage is a blend of art of fashion, featuring collaborations between renegade figures in both worlds.

READ MORE Catherine Blazowski (HINT MAGAZINE)

Paging Loewe

Echoing Loewe's bold sense of color and whimsy, the entirety of Masters of Leather, as it's called, was written and illustrated completely by hand. Submerging himself in Madrid and Barcelona, visiting Loewe's ateliers and meeting its artisans, Clarke left no bag unturned. The result is a clever, unconventional look into the world of fine Spanish craftsmanship one and a half centuries in the making.
Words Jenny Studenroth (Hint Magazine)

Available mid-September in all Loewe stores.

Video | PROJECT NYC Recap 2011

“The stories being told are a direct reflection of the current state of the fashion industry and how the landscape is evolving. Each brand is showcased with its own distinct point of view coming together to make PROJECT New York. This video highlights some of the great initiatives that happened in New York City at PROJECT. The Blogger PROJECT curated by Marcus Troy, the Splashlight Pop Up Studio, the Blind Barber Experience and the MADE by PROJECT.” thanax Selectism.com.

PROJECT NY July 2011 from PROJECT on Vimeo.

Custom Chalk Letterer - DANA TANAMACHI

DANA TANAMACHI is a graphic designer and custom chalk letterer who hails from the Lone Star State, but currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She enjoys crafting, reading, walking, and especially listening to Country music from the 1990s.

Nagging Doubt "The Pull" from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.

The By & By from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.

Ace Hotel Room 1021 from Dana Tanamachi on Vimeo.

In June 2008, Dana moved to New York City and began working at SpotCo designing posters for Broadway shows. Currently, she works at Louise Fili Ltd, a NYC-based studio specializing in logo, package, restaurant, and book design. VIEW MORE

Imelda Marcos Puts Her Foot Down Over Controversial Dildo Jesus Art Show in the Philippines, Shuttering It

If there's one thing guaranteed to raise hackles, its the kind of work by Mideo Cruz featured in the exhibition "Kulo," which opened June 17 at Manila's Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP): The pieces in question feature images of Jesus with large dildos fixed to their collaged surfaces, extending visibly outwards. In one offending work, Jesus's face is covered with a wooden ashtray topped by a semi-erect penis encircled by a dangling cross bracelet. In another, a large cross sculpture is adorned with a bright red dildo.
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Meet the Itinerant Art Crew Transforming an Abandoned Berlin Amusement Park Into an Artist Wonderland

If you put your mind to it, pretty much anything can be converted into an art experience: basements become art galleries, factories become biennials, entire cities become art-world playgrounds. Adaptive reuse is all the rage, a postmodern urban balm that uses the power of art to resuscitate abandoned and irrelevant buildings and neighborhoods. "Kulturbahn" is such a project, a proposal to turn Spreepark Berlin, a forsaken amusement park built by the German Democratic Republic in 1969 and transferred to private hands after the Berlin wall fell, into a multimedia art playground. READ MORE

Rainbow Warrior: Delfine Bafort

The Belgian Model Turns Chameleon Under the Tropical Palette of Francelle Daly

KT Auleta conjures equatorial extremes in her latest beauty film for NOWNESS, transforming model Delfine Bafort from dewy jungle innocent to fierce tribal warrior with the aid of celebrated NARS makeup artist Francelle Daly. Auleta’s vision was for the cosmetics to mimic the differing qualities of light in a day: soft and misty morning sunshine turning to hyper-real bright colors at noon, and a fade out to black when night falls. “I wanted it to feel organic, but with a fantastical edge,” explains the photographer and filmmaker, whose work has appeared in Vogue, Elle and The New York Times’ T Magazine. Referencing real-life body-painting traditions, Daly turned to Phyllis Galembo's Maske, a book on African and Caribbean carnival costumes, as well as to the work of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock for their color blocking and brush strokes.

Rainbow Warrior: Delfine Bafort on Nowness.com.

Passion Of The Craft [Trailer]

Passion Of The Craft is a short documentary about just that.

BANDIT, a strategic ideas agency in Copenhagen, work with clients daily that don't understand the real link between the lives of the consumers, and their brand. So they started on a journey to find like minded individuals in fashion, branding, media, photography, marketing and design. The result is 10 frank and open conversations with 10 influential people in modern culture. For updates about the full length documentary, please link with us on Facebook.

facebook.com/​passionofthecraft

Music by: drumrollplease.me

Created with the help of McCann Copenhagen.

Passion Of The Craft [Trailer] from THIS IS BANDIT on Vimeo.

Andy Warhol - What the pop artist would look like if he were alive today at age 83!

Inspiring us right now: this sculpture of Andy Warhol, created by the 23-year-old artist Edgar Askelovic in an attempt to depict what the pop artist would look like if he were alive today at age 83. The life-like piece took three months to complete, just in time for Warhol's 83rd birthday on August 6. Based in Birmingham, England, Askelovic sold his car to raise the money he needed to buy the silicone and clay.
The sculpture, called Andy Walking, Andy Tired, Andy Take a Little Snooze (after a line from a David Bowie song) can be had for $16,355.

Apple Campus 2

Apple Inc. has submitted a development proposal for their new Apple Campus 2 on a 175 acre area bounded by I-280 to the south, Wolfe Road to the west, Homestead Road to the north and North Tantau Avenue to the east. 

 

The proposal includes: An Office, Research and Development Building comprising approximately 2.8 million square feet;
A 1,000 seat Corporate Auditorium; A Corporate Fitness Center;Research Facilities comprising approximately 300,000 square feet;
A Central Plant; and Associated Parking. Cupertino's review process will consist of: Environmental Impact Assessment (including traffic, noise, air quality, etc.)  during which there will be opportunity for public comment Development review  Public hearings at the Planning Commission and the City Council READ MORE

Happy Birthday, Coco Chanel!

 

If art indeed has its basis in life, then Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel has given us plenty to work with. Consider, for instance, the luminous string of actresses who have portrayed her on stage and screen over the course of the past four decades: Audrey Tautou, Katharine Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine. And like the lady of the hour, their talent was unmistakable, incandescent, one-of-a-kind.Chanel's name first transformed, then epitomized, the luxury womenswear market in the 20th century, with thousands of 2.55-toting pilgrims journeying to her quarters at 31 Rue Cambon since her death in 1971. But the designer—born 128 years ago —did not always operate from a position of privilege. 

READ MORE by Marissa Chen

Android Homme releases a powerful new video

Android Homme releases a powerful new video that offers a glimpse into what makes them tick. By borrowing images from designer, Javier Laval's, popular photo-blog, and backed by a haunting track the video acts as a virtual mood board for the Brand. We see mind-altering or heart-altering imagery woven together with subliminal messages such as "creativity takes courage" and "We must bring our own light to the darkness." Android Homme is a system of concepts for individual transformation rooted in the belief that life's direction can be reshaped in any given moment. Hence their mantra "Reprogram Now."

ANDROID HOMME 2011 INSPIRATION from Android Homme on Vimeo.

Minimalist Typography Poster Series by Patrik Svensson

Swedish designer Patrik Svensson has created these clever minimalist posters based on movies and popular TV shows.

Using type to illustrate the movie. I think that the Basic Instinct one takes the cake. See the rest here.

Walls Notebook

Ever wanted to draw or write on your street’s wall but didn't have the BALLS to actually do it?

Think of the just released a great concept product called Walls Notebook. check it...

 

Buy it for $16.95

Capitalism, Unclothed: Art Provocateur Zefrey Throwell on Overthrowing Wall Street With His "Naked Army"

NEW YORK—New Yorkers pride themselves on their blasé — nothing will phase a well-trained city pedestrian. But artist Zefrey Throwell's urban intervention turned even the most stoic of heads: those of Wall Street traders. Throwell's "Ocularpation: Wall Street" saw 50 performers strip down and mime different Wall Street-related professions (traders, yes, but also janitors, secretaries, and everything in between) in a critique of the financial industry, a piece inspired by the plight of the artist's mother, a 60 year old woman who lost her retirement savings in the economic crash, and was forced to come out of retirement to look for a job. READ MORE

Dapper styling with bow ties.

These bow ties from the twentysevennames  collection and they are so cute and they match with the adorable culottes! Maybe it is a bit twee but wear a bow tie with cigarette jeans and an oversized wool coat, which will fit perfectly into the androgynous, minimal look that will play big in to the work wear vibe. I'm now getting very excited about autumn/winter and wrapping up warm. Even though it's a mini heatwave right now!

Olivier Zahm for Yasmine Eslami Lingerie Video

Video directed by Ludovic Zuili / ludoviczuili.com

Music "Sex Pillow" by Rhaft

Photographer : Olivier Zahm

Assistant photographer : Maxime Lefebvre Roque

Stylist : Yasmine Eslami

Models :

Eva Provence

Jeanne Damas

Pierre Rioufol

Make up : Sergio Corvacho

Hair : Claudio Belizario

Advertising Takeover App

Augmented Reality Advertising Takeover in Times Square

 Hate having to look at advertisements everywhere you go? Well, thanks to Will Sherman you can now replace all those adverts with a curated collection of original street art, as long as you're willing to constantly look through your phone or iPad screen… The "Augmented Reality Advertising Takeover" is an initiative aimed at democratising public visual space through the use of augmented reality technology. The app is currently in beta testing, but eventually it will be able to transform posters and billboards in New York City's Times Square into original artworks by the likes of Ron English, John Fekner, Posterboy, Doctor D, and OX. thanx HUH read more

ABSOLUT BLANK

With ABSOLUT BLANK, we want to inspire and contribute to a global creative movement. Ultimately, our mission is to make the ordinary and the world more vibrant and exceptional. For more information, head over to www.absolutblank.com

Video: Björk - Crystalline

After announcing her upcoming multimedia offering Bophilia, Björk has released a Michel Gondry directed video for the album's lead single - "Crystalline". Gondry is a close friend of Björks and has collaborated frequently with the musician in the past. This video sees a bunch of hallucinogenic visuals depicting crystals and laser beams growing from the surface of a distant planet, with the Icelandic singer taking center stage. Björk's new album Biophilia is due for release 27 September via Nonesuch/One Little Indian. Thanx HUH  

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Vintage Photos of Rock Stars In Their Bathing Suits

Vintage Photos of Rock Stars In Their Bathing Suit - Thanx FlavorPill - See more in the next edition of Daydream Magazine

David Bowie (and Iman)  

Rod Stewart