Sep 27

Shepard Fairey brings Eazy-E into the fold

It’s finally time to usher the most notorious of west coast gangster rappers ever to die with a Raiders cap on into the Obey Giant universe – Eazy-E on a Shepard Fairey poster. It’s a collaboration between the print artist and photographer Mike Miller who shot the original image you’re seeing here – and yes, that’s a White Sox cap, but it’s alright, Eazy-E represents the whole of America. You’ll find this image appearing both in print form up for sale at the Obey Giant online shop and through an exhibition at SUPRA Paris.

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Sep 12

TSANG Kin-Wah displays skill in Type Flowering

On Walls and On Posters and On Other Things, Too! The installation work of this wild designer is above average. Fantastic, even. [TSANG Kin-Wah] Text displayed in flowering plants splayed across walls ceilings and floors. The images below show works either up over the past several years or up currently today in museums and public places throughout the world. Revel in the beauty of letters made liquid!

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Sep 8

Light Eyes at the top of MCAD

There’s circles in the ceiling at the MCAD and they make some eyes on the wall sometimes – and here they are right in your face right this minute. [Abi Chase] and [Liz Plahn] modify unnatural nature March 13, 2008, 11AM on the fourth floor of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Don’t let this become something you think you saw somewhere else first – and if you saw someone else draw these eyes, I don’t even believe you.

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Sep 7

Louis Vuitton gas masks fool luxurious lovers

Back in 2008 a project by the name of “Designer Gas Masks” was released by Diddo Velema, and with the perfectly tuned details on each side of each mask and the feel made right from start to finish, the artist fooled the web. You’ll find both Louis Vuitton and Gucci masks here, both of them ready to be displayed right up front of an anchor store even here in 2012 – they’re timeless. Don’t let yourself be fooled – they’re not made by the real brand beasts – but they are definitely fabulous.

Diddo Velema Designer Gas Masks

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Sep 7

Sound/Chair makes a sound byte turn a physical seat

Have you ever found yourself sitting on a fart? How would you like to know what that fart looks like? Now, with the wit and ingenuity of designer Plummer Fernandez, the sound of a fart can be a reality! The Sound/Chair is his first sound to come to fruition. This chair is both an audio recording and a real pointy place to sit – don’t take this one lightly.

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Sep 4

Doorbell sign in Uptown Minneapolis defends the fighting fourth

A sign was seen in a doorway near the Minneapolis College of Art and Design which said that, of the four doorbells to the building, the fourth was to be used for the fourth. When you ring the #4 doorbell, you’ll be getting apartment #4, and if you want to get in contact with #1, #2, or #3 in the building attached to this sign, you certainly shouldn’t be thinking about working with the #4 doorbell. If that much is clear to you with a single reading of the sign, you’re good to go.

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Sep 4

Printers Flowers hit Idea Magazine 325′s special feature

Flowery embellishments have been praised in the 325th edition of Idea Magazine, making the readers of said magazine want to bring a lot more loops to the publication. This edition of the magazine was released in the middle of the year 2008, when these photos were taken, and said magazine sat in the library of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. This college was for a time called the Minneapolis College of Art and Decoration, ironically enough.

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Sep 3

ESPO graffiti artist gives a whois on his work for NYC show

If you’ve seen a work by Steve “ESPO” Powers, you’ve likely taken a photo of it – he does gigantic (and sometimes tiny) works of art in the city of New York with letters – and today he’s giving a run-down of what he’s all about in video form. This video is presented to give a glimpse of the artist before he starts his show on the 6th of September at Joshua Liner Gallery in Brooklyn. Have a peek at what drives the artist and makes him check himself on the train – 8 1/2 x 11 inch pieces of paper folded in four.

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Sep 3

Double-Think designs burn the web’s retina at techno roots

There’s a bit of a hardcore artwork movement going on that’s been hitting the graphic design addicts of this planet for the past several years. Even before the techno dance revolution hit the pop radio spectrum, there was a really hard collection of colors out there beating up people’s eyeballs. If you were looking at the beginning of Tumblr, you saw this madness – here you’ve got a bit of artwork from a designer / artist by the name of Dobbeldenk.

Doppeldenkgesternheutemorgen!!!

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Sep 1

Shepard Fairey Metallica “Disposable Heroes” print re-revealed

If you’re a fan of odd or otherwise rare Shepard Fairey images that make their way to 18 x 24 inch prints, you’re going to have a difficult time saying no to the edition of 250 Metallica version of “Disposable Heroes.” There’s a version that you’ve probably already seen called “Artist Edition” now by The Black Book Gallery for the recent group-show with a basic self-title “Fairey / Hecox / Houser” title on it. The image you’re seeing here was made for a Metallica-themed show in Los Angeles called “Obey Your Master.”

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Sep 1

Pass Out board game assures you it’s not for dranks

With next to nothing in the way of graphics and plain-ol’ text across the rest, “Pass Out” makes you want to drink and drink and drink until you can no longer move forward a series of spaces. This board game was released in 1965 by Frank Bresee and is still in production today – but more than likely Bresee isn’t seeing any more cash from it at this point. When you make a game for a set of inebriated people, you don’t have to worry about much besides the cover of the box and the gameplay inside – believe it!

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Aug 9

Pharrell and Terry Richardson and Aeronautics and a Watch

Oh so you don’t know who Pharrell Williams is? You LIAR! He’s a dude. For basically a billion years now he’s been producing music with his pals in Star Trek, they all make music in the band N.E.R.D., and they all bump up the brands BAPE, Billionaire Boys Club, and Ice Cream shoes. Two of those three are owned by them, or at least Pharrell, and the third happens because Pharrell’s got a sweet deal with Nigo. It continues now! He’s got a new watch, N.E.R.D. is playing some music at an air base, and Terry Richardson took some flash photos of Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco. I know you love these things. Continue reading »

Jul 19

Setsuden poster initiative has Japan switching off all lights

If you’re living in eastern Japan since the summer of 2011, you know good and well that there’s a push by the community to conserve energy – now a group of intrepid graphic designers have chipped in to make the whole process a lot more friendly. A poster collective has begun which is encouraging residents of Japan to “Switch off! Smile on!”, “Save electricity, save somebody”, and “turn off a light, light up a smile,” amongst many other messages aimed at the ending of excessive use of electricity in general. This poster collective is named, suitably, Setsuden, aka “saving electricity”.

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Jul 19

Specter sprays ATM, sits back and giggles

Out in Brooklyn this week you may well be coming across a new mural by the artist known as Specter, complete with “Adios Grocery Deli” signage and a faux ATM. Using a relatively blank wall and an old gray parking garage door as his mural, Specter took it upon himself to spice the area up a bit with a grocery store hood, a sign thanking passers by for using the store that doesn’t exist, and some lovely red white and blue flags up above. His greatest joy seems to be the ATM which he says he had “a blast” watching people go to use.

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Apr 26

OBEY hits NYC with Harmony and Discord show in May

Behold the bomb on the first day of the newest Shepard Fairey art show hosted by Pace Prints in New York City called Harmony & Discord. This show is set to bring a whole new batch of Fairey’s fine art pieces including collage, silkscreens, and mixes of the two as well as a few embossed and relief pieces as well. There will be large metal plates, there will be plain ol’ screenprints, and there will be masses of fabulous hand-painted multiples for the swarms of NYC residents that are sure to descend upon the show. This show is part of a residency Shepard Fairey is completing at Pace Editions studios.

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Jan 16

Pharrell moves with HMI Orchestra to bring “i am Other” composition to life

There’s a fellow out there by the name of Pharrell Williams, and if he seems like just a hip-hop artist to you, or just a guy who likes to get into a bunch of popular art forms, you’ve got one or two of the right ideas – next find yourself in a video of a full orchestra playing a piece called “i am Other” commissioned by him for his next CD. There’s something very attractive about how Pharrell goes about moving through life, starting a handful of year ago when he first started getting powerful in the hearts and minds of young people through his music showing up on the internet and the music television.

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Nov 19

BobbleDroids turns you into a massively awesome Android bobble-head figurine

This week the fine folks at BobbleDroids open their doors to the public so that anyone, even you, can drop a little holiday cash with a picture of yourself as an Android so that the team can make a completely unique 3D bobble-head action figure for you and your loved ones! What you do first is pick up the Androidify app from the Android Marketplace, then you make an avatar of yourself on the screen. You take that avatar and you share it to an email, send it over to BobbleDroids, and bam! You got yourself a perfect little desk mate.

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Oct 22

Diablo III: the Cinematics Begin

We’re now only months from the release of the third installment in any good cold-blooded American’s favorite RPG video game series of all time: Diablo. The video you’re about to watch is a cinematic from this soon to be released game, it containing footage of what Blizzard says is Deckard Cain’s niece Leah as the pours over her uncle’s writings. Cain appeared in the first two games as a storyline character who bore witness to the horror that was the invasion of earth by the forces of evil. Now its time for Leah to take up the mantel, and although it appears that the top devils from the previous games, Diablo, Baal, and Mephisto are dead, Azmodan, Lord of Sin, lives to murder all.

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Oct 21

D-Face paints a pool with skateboards and spraypaint

Since the hip-hop monster first came into being in the 1980′s there’s been some changes to the tenants living in its house. Rap, graffiti, and breakdancing have always been kings in the kingdom – now pay heed to skateboarding as well. Skateboarding has been synonymous with spraypaint graffiti since its own birth and culmination into a street-worthy activity from all the way back in the 70′s through the 90′s where the many different forms of skateboarding were all at their height. Remember when Tony Hawk first pulled off the 900? That shit was awesome. Now let’s take a look at a project by graffiti artist D-Face that ties skateboarding and graffiti together for a new modern age.

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Oct 18

Diplo Express Yourself single shames pop rave

Here in the first few months of 2012 if you turn your radio to a pop station, you’re going to hear a sound that’s not unlike a non-hardcore rave disco fusion with rap rhyming mixed in with mentions of associated labels, drinks, and clothing brands. It’s not all bad, with bands like LFMAO creating such infectious beats as Party Rock Anthem, but here’s a bit of the antithesis: Diplo’s newest single “Express Yourself.” The fellow has been kind enough to release the track to SoundCloud so we can all give a listen at will – so have at it!

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Oct 13

Roger Gastman vintage spraypaint can prints released, Gastman profiled in short

There’s this fellow named Roger Gastman out there, one of those guys whose work you’ve almost certainly seen even if you don’t know his name, and what we’ve got here today is a set of three prints arranged by him for your consumption. These prints are part of a greater project by the name of “Tools of Criminal Mischief,” a limited edition book to which these prints “The Cans” are a companion. Before you start having a heart attack over how lovely these combinations of ink and paper are, let’s talk for a moment about who this legendary everyman is, and why he loves to hang on to rust-collecting cans of poison so much.

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Aug 24

Supreme Fall and Winter 2011 Accessories Lineup – All that Matters

When it comes to modern street fashion brands, you’re only half the leader you could be if you’ve only got wearable clothing. Instead what makes a unique mark on the landscape (again, aside from the main clothing line,) is accessories, accessories galore. Supreme is a brand with a logo so unforgivingly simple and stark that anything they paste it on essentially turns to gold. What they’ve done for this coming Autumn and Winter season is slap that logo on a radically diverse set of items, everything from dice to knives to floaty keychains. Note also that the following contains the F word in big letters, so don’t let your unforgiving boss look over your shoulder while you peek.

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