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Jay-Z, Eminem Now Part of the Shepard Fairey Collection

Posted by Chris Burns | 10.11.09 | Permalink

This duo of images is officially part of the “Hero” craze, they being the cover of a “collectable” case for DJ Hero’s Renegade Edition. Eminem and Jay-Z have tracks on this edition of the game, and they hired Studio Number One to whip up a lovely image of these two legendary music making faces. No word on if the images will be produced anywhere else but on the DJ Hero ephemera, but DO expect them to maybe make an appearance in some fine art in the future, as Shepard Fairey like to explore all options with images once he’s done the illustration work. Colors, mediums, rubyliths, everything and anything.
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Black and Gold, Brightness, Cards, Celebration, Environment, Ephemera, Event, Glam, Identity, Illustration, Ink, Kawaii, Letterpress

Infinite Demand

Posted by Chris Burns | 09.28.09 | Permalink

Here’s a pretty little thang by the name of invite. A typographic solution for Will Hudson and Alex Beck aka “Hudsonbec” for a recent UK exhibition that included a giant figure-8 skateboard ramp. This particular typographic show-of-skill was designed and executed by designer Mario Hugo of France (somewhere in France, location hidden!)
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Bad Taste, Black and Gold, Black and White, Blessings, Brightness, Celebration, Celebritarianism

Michael Jackson Space Oddity

Posted by Chris Burns | 09.06.09 | Permalink

It’s that time again. Time for a World Famous Design Junkies addiction to rear it’s strange, twisted head. If you’re a designer, it’s not called being a pack-rat, it’s called collecting. And that, of course, explains this collection of Michael Jackson oddities perfectly. Michael Jackson: the icon. The dude who became no longer a dude, but a mythical figure in his own time, etc, etc. Here he is, the great branded one; A collection of visual markers.
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Gigantic Color Post Number One

Posted by Chris Burns | 08.22.09 | Permalink

As Emigre turns 25, FontFeed celebrates with a big huge post (you’ve gotta click that), and World Famous Design Junkies gets buckwild. I saw this fantastically red book cover that you see above* and said OH my goodness this is a good cover. The colors. The colors are so lovely I can scarcely believe it. This doesn’t happen just every 10 minutes, so I said to myself then that it was time, OMFG!

Time for the very first World Famous Design Junkies color retrospective!
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Tyler Stout Absolute Madness

Posted by Chris Burns | 08.20.09 | Permalink

Hail all you Basterds! It’s the first ever World Famous Design Junkies Tyler Stout post! This dude is spectacular. He’s splendiferous! He does screenprinted movie posters like no other! And tuh-dah, he’s just done one for the newest Quentin Tarantino movie “Inglourious Basterds!” Take a peek at the ingloriousness of it all, then explore the whole Tyler Stout collection ala the gallery right down there below!

Yelling!
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Bad Taste, Black and Gold, Celebritarianism, Chrome, Custom Culture, Destruction, Dirty, Environment, Furniture, Glam, Industrial Design, Outer Space, Photography, Pizza Party, Under the Influence, Unnatural Nature, Wall O Stuff, Weird

Mike Tyson’s Abandoned Mansion

Posted by Chris Burns | 08.19.09 | Permalink

First, you know who Mike Tyson is. He’s the boxer. He’s smashed a few faces in his day, and one day he even smashed a whole mansion and just left it there because he was totally just jamming with ferocity. It still stands there as he left it, in homage to his superior anger, and it’s been photographed by a real pro, Danny Wills, in two sets.
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3D, Black and Gold, Brand, Collaboration, Environment, Fashion, Glam, Kawaii, Moving Parts, Product Design, Wearable

Gold Handlin with Cheuk

Posted by Chris Burns | 08.10.09 | Permalink

We still rollin hard with Cheuk! This time its about the hands on the head. These glasses are ones that sit nicely on the head with hands holding the frames. Distributed through Colab Eyewear, limited to 1000 pieces worldwide. Very fashion city up in the underside of the world (Cheuk is from the most isolated city in the world, did you know that? She’s got a real cool story about her travel from Australia to New York, get visuals on it!)
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