With each new age, especially ones that come with technological or social changes, aka all of them, there comes some artwork that defines the age. Not so much defines the age as epitomizes the craft. Here it is. The computer age spewed pixels, and in its horrible terror of colors in perfect squares made a thing that was unique. Still is. Here’s a set of illustrations as made by Alex Peverett, all out of pixels in such strange arrangements. All of them have fabulous titles too, like “CtadLSCrambl (2010)” (pictured above.)

In here you’ll see some things that, statistically, you’ll probably think look super horrible and ugly. But let me tell you! It isn’t. Stop yourself from seeing what’s there and see what it all means. What does it all mean? It’s swooshes of waves, even though it looks to be squared off.

To see new works, supposing this post is old as dirt, take a peek over at http://main.softoceanhotel.net/, or if you’re super excited and need to communicate more directly with Peverett, email right up to alex(((AT)))softoceanhotel.net. And good luck! He might be a total wild animal!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies glam category.

Hello 2 U, miss kitty. I see you’ve got quite the worn from wear chainsaw there. How nice it is! The more you use it, the prettier I bet you thought it would not get, but nay! The character adds the interest. In this project from a lady artist who goes only by the title “Shelly”, the paint and kitty accents were added by hand, then worn down by hand as well.

Well played, well done.

We’ve had our small but fair share of chainsaw related posts in the past, but none so cute as this. No ultimate chainsaw collection would be complete without this one, if I do say so myself. And I do say that. What kind of collection would it be without such pop magnificence?

It is important to mention at this point the importance of the online news feed “Kitty Hell”, to be found at http://www.kittyhell.com/ – what a magnificent brand you must be to have blogs dedicated to simply locating and publishing all of the items you’ve got your name on. That is part of the inevitable fallout from having achieved the level of absolute brand dominance.

Can you say KISS?

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies identity category.

This post is a collection of hundreds of Star Wars photos from the set, of the movies, and from the promotional shots of the 70′s and 80′s. Doesn’t matter how you feel about Star Wars, it’s affected the way you work. The world you live in today is the world you live in today because of Star Wars. You’d better believe that. Its basically like this: Luke Skywalker: New York, Princess Leia: Los Angeles, Han Solo and Darth Vader: Minneapolis.

These have been scrounged from all over the internets. If you are one of the photographers of these phantastic photos, shoot me an email or a comment here. If you’d like to take credit for bringing an image here to the internet, I give you a hearty thank you and internet hand shake. If you’ve got photos you’d like to add to the collection, feel free to also contact!

This post is composed of photos from the movies, (the original trilogy,) making-of photos, a few posters, products, and advertisements. MOSTLY it’s photos from cut scenes and promotional photos. Everything is super amazing and very wild.

Star Wars: one of, if not the greatest non-Jesus brands in history.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies outer space category.

What do you know, marriage isn’t so bad! Apparently now you get a nice shag carpet / fuzzy covered ball instead of the normal 1 ton! That’s what I like to hear. This and several other items also included in this post are sculptures put together and constructed by designer Karin Nilsson who goes under the “Crafts” banner at HDK design school in Göteborg, Sweden. Love the deconstructions!

Above: “Ball and Chain” Karin Nilsson 2009

These objects were certainly constructed to destroy or make fun of social amalgamations created to keep businessmen in business and consumers shopping. The ball and chain in pink is of course my favorite, but the carved “diamonds” and the soft version of Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountian” are not to be missed!

Karin Nilsson – Applied Art – BA Level – Grade 1
Crafts – Ceramics karin.son@hotmail.com

Just what we were looking for in the World Famous Design Junkies 3D collection.

Above: “Greetings to Marcel” Below: “Forever”

So it seems that there’s going to be a book coming out soon that’s a photo recounting of the Glow In The Dark tour that happened a year and a few months ago. The tour featured Kanye West as the headliner, Rihanna, Lupe Fiasco, and N.E.R.D.. It was pretty neat. People at the concert were told basically that if they took photos they’d be shot with lazers and chopped into bits. But we did it anyway. Here’s a bunch of lovely colors for you.

Some of the more flashy pictures you’ll see are actually of the crowd (because it was fabulous to see a sold-out arena all making the same hand movements) and of N.E.R.D. who just had one giant long LCD screen with lightening, water, disco balls, fire, everything going across it in flashing lights.

A couple of Rihanna, a couple of Lupe Fiasco, and a bunch of Kanye’s spaceship adventures.

Kanye, if you’re reading this: If you’d like these pictures to be taken down, just click and shout, otherwise take note of how medium-quality they are and see how it’ll more than likely sell some more books rather than hurt the movement of the pages.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies Outer Space

Welcome to this year’s World Famous Design Junkies Halloween Contest! So spooky! This years prize is the very same watch we posted about a few days ago: the Vannen Watches Limited Edition Halloween Exclusive watch by “Dirty” Donny Gillies. It rings in at a fabulous $85 worth of beautiful time-keeping plastic, metal, and ink, and it could all be yours!

CONTEST COMPLETE Winner declared below!

Congratulations to Jessica Trevizo from Los Angeles California! Apparently she is a broke art student, which just fabulous if you ask me.

UPDATE: She’s received her watch and t-shirt and is just-a-jumpin for joy! Thank you everyone who participated!

All you gotta do is tweet!

This year’s Halloween contest is so easy to enter, it will rip your flesh apart. Once you know how simple and enjoyable this contest is, you’ll surely stab your eyeballs out and serve them as an entree at your costume party. But leave your wrists intact! You’ll need them (or at least one) to wear your brand spanking new Vannen watch!

For more info on the watch you’ll be winning, head on over to the [Snot Nosed Arm Watches] post. You get one of those: blind-packaged so you might get the black one, or you might get the Toxic one. Who knows!? Both are fantastically wild. BONUS: Also included in the prize package is a brand spankin new Vannen t-shirt, hot off the presses.

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E. Have fun!

Sometimes you need to design a mark for a Finnish Heavy Metal band. Well you know that the greatest heavy metal logos of all time look basically the same. Metallica and Judas Priest, Slayer and AC/DC, and of course KISS. Look at them all. All basically totally the same. Sharp and shiny, a 3D version and a flatfaced version. And today we’ve got RECKLESS LOVE by designer/artist James White.

Now this sort of madness is simple to do once you’ve got a nice typography set in place, but you’ve got to know that the type is vital. The type is like the metal in heavy metal. If you don’t have the metal, all you’ve got is the heavy – and then you’re Marty.

This band we’re talking about here is Reckless Love. It’s reckless.

Olli (the lead singer) and I started hammering through the logo style, which went through a few different versions before we settled on the final design. We both wanted something big, like Metallica or Judas Priest, but still captured the fun of the group’s sound. I posted a few of the different iterations above to show how the process went, from the stripped down vectors to the final renders. As for the cover of the single they wanted something bright and colorful, which I was happy to hear ’80s metal goodness.

Check all the different iterations below and decide if you can see the one that’s final. Hint: it’s the one at the top.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies Album Art category.

Above and below are a couple examples of fabulous inspirations for the Reckless Love title mark design. Note that they’re from different ages in each of the bands’ histories, but they’re all part of the overarching identity.

Ok so look at that photo there, above these words. That photo is pretty good. It’s a pretty cool thing to look at on it’s own. Those colors on the lady’s top are really nice. Like they’re totally getting ready to pop right off, right? Maybe. Designer Adam Dedman’s vision for the photo took a fabulous literal interpretation of just that. Jumpin up. You must look at it.

Remix for Kalina Magazine.

Kalina is a magazine that features photography projects by Noah Kalina, the whole thing being designed by a designer who designs under the name Jeffrey Docherty. Each issue has a theme, the one this photo distortion is featured in was/is called “Remix.”

Now look at this thing. It’s AMAZING. It’s seamless, and that’s amazing. Take a look at some other works by Adam Dedman below also. Really tight stuff!

HERO: a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Typically caped. I just made that up. I stole a little bit from the Apple dictionary. But it’s all true. What we’ve got here is a project on heroes by photographer Dulce Pinzon. This project projects the fantastic nature of the Mexican Immigrant Worker as a true hero. What makes the project spectacular is the costumes (duh), but more importantly: attached to each photo of a hero is their occupation and the amount of money they send back home each week (from the USA to their family in Mexico.)

Above: Bernabe Mendez from the state of Guerrero works as a professional window cleaner in New York. He sends 500 dollars a month.

This is a super amazing set. Pinzon hits the nail on the head with the perfectly direct message. Her original inspiration came way back in 2001 after the WTC attacks in NYC – it took a while to come to fruition, but she’s got it right: heroes are working all the time. In events of catastrophe as well as in events of long, drawn out hardship.

Big ups for those who do well for others.

SUPERHEROES

This project consists of 20 color photographs of Mexican and Latino immigrants dressed in the costumes of popular American and Mexican superheroes. Each photo pictures the worker/superhero in their work environment, and is accompanied by a short text including the worker’s name, their hometown, the number of years they have been working in New York, and the amount of money they send to their families each week. — Full Statement

This post bursts through brick walls and flips over giant buildings in the World Famous Design Junkies photography category.

OSCAR GONZALEZ from the state of Oaxaca works as a cook in New York. He Sends 350 dollars a week.

ALVARO CRUZ from the state of Mexico works as a cook and runs with Los Compadres team. He Sends 300 dollars a month.

LUIS HERNANDEZ from the State of Veracruz works in demolition in New York. He sends 200 dollars a week.

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.

Below you’ll find an extended collection of the portraits Shepard Fairey’s done inside and outside the Obey Giant street art campaign. The portrait making of Shepard Fairey started all the way back in 1989 and continues till today. Some portraits have the person as the subject matter (like Jay and Eminem above, Joey Ramone and the Notorious B.I.G. below), while some others have the portrait “hidden” in the poster (the Pretty Vacant poster below has a portrait of musician Marc Bolan (source being a record album with him on the cover: T. Rex’s 1972 “Solid Gold Action.”)

Check em all out!

This post from the World Famous Design Junkies Celebritarianism category.

Marc Bolan and others on Pretty Vacant Posters

Joey Ramone and the Notorious BIG

Subcomandante Marcos and Tupac Shakur

Michael Jordan and Barack Obama

Huey Lewis and Jimi Hendrix

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Hello and welcome, design world, to the first ever World Famous Design Junkies sticker giveaway! You see those stickers in the photo there? The ones that say a little something about Obama on a certain Unicorn? Yes. That is what we are giving away. You, yes YOU! could be the lucky winner of a 12pack of World Famous Design Junkies “Obama Ona Unicorn” stickers courtesy of our new best friend in the world, Sticker Robot!

So here’s the deal. Sticker Robot is running this competition thang where you think of a clever saying and submit it, hoping that it’s chosen, at which point you’ll win 500 stickers with that saying on them. WELL guess what happened? Writer Chris Burns (that’s me) of World Famous Design Junkies won on the very first week the competition was open!

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So I went forward into the year 2000. Forward into the FUTURE. And I found this amazing bit of jewelry made only for the future. You will never see this kind of fashion again! Or you might see it again if we ever get to the year 2000. Maybe then. I’ll tell you how much I bought it for, too. I bought it for one Future dollar. From the future. Believe it.

When I was in the future, I found this particular bug pin in the greatest future store in the world. That store is Ax Man Surplus and Future Supplies. You should check that out too if you’re in to amazing things and whatnot.

Meanwhile, let’s discuss this amazing object! It could change the world. It was made in China. That means it’s quality product (from the future). It’s © Weingeroff Enterprises. You know what that means. Quality. And what kind of bug is that, exactly? It’s a beetle. I don’t know much about beetles, but I know this one is gold, and was probably worshiped in ancient Egypt. But now it’s the future, so it’s got a computer chip on it.

AND THAT IS FASHION.

This post is picked by hand from the World Famous Design Junkies Accessories category! You know you need accessories if you are going to be part of the fashion scene…

OF TOMORROW!

The paint on the face move that struck the fashion world like a cat strikes a slab of butter! “A Friend Of Mine” design member and photographer extraordinaire Lizette Bell created this amazing concept that’s just so simple it’s amazing. This “paint by numbers” is applied to fashion photography but I think it should be applied to every facet of life.

Paint your LIFE, everyone!

Paint it by NUMBERS!

This project was made basically in celebration of the 1950s tradition of paint by numbers. At first the lady has the excellent numbered spaces outlined in blue, then she’s got what appears to be very nice looking paint that really looks like it belongs there on her body. What does it all mean?

It means that GOD is in fashion. GOD has got a paint by numbers for all of us to follow, and in order for that to happen, we’ve got to be as fashion conscious as we can be.

AS WE CAN BE!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies process category. There is a first step to everything. Sometimes there’s only a first step, but there’s also always a last step. Sometimes they are the same thing. And that’s what design is all about.

Luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton is more than just a clothing line. It is a social manifestation whose tendrils twist and turn into our mind-grapes. Louis Vuitton is an oddity whose effects on the world are uncontrollable mark-mutants: guns, tattoos, paintings, wild things! The LV brand is not just a bag, not just a brand, nay! It is a very real metaphor for the desire of the western world to become a class it is not, a class lost, classless.

On the other hand, the products made in the process are priceless. Behold the World Famous Design Junkies Louis Vuitton Obsession Collection.

The LV Bullet by 21-19 is part of a campaign kit for director Bita Hairdarian’s autobiographical documentary Finding Bibi; which explores her unique identity as an American born Iranian. This bullet is one of probably less than 5 prototypes made specifically for the photo shoot for the press release material for the film. P.s. can’t wait!

Designer Gas Masks by Diddo Velema (only the LV mask is shown, it is part of a set of three designer masks). This project is known especially for its high rate of misconception. AKA lots and lots of people believed these were “real.”

LV Electric Chair and Chainsaw, part of an exhibition of such objects by the name of “The Revolution Will Be Fabulous: A Weapons of Mass Designer Show.” This show was made entirely by artist Peter Gronquist – this exhibition was photographed by Jean Aw of Notcot fame for, what else, Notcot.

The Louis Vuitton skateboard case and skateboard. Seems pretty amazing, and hot, right? That’s because it’s real. It cost $8250 and was sold at the SOHO, New York location official LV store early 2009. The difference between most art pieces working with the LV and the real deal LV is the quality. A lot of the ideas on both the real and unreal side are good and terrible, but almost all the time, the quality is exclusively real.

LOUIS VUITTON graffiti in big orange letters on a real Louis Vuitton store. Like writing a name on a nametag that was already labeled, right? Real. 116 Greene St. (between Prince St & Spring St) New York, NY 10012 An actual official LV facade early September, 2009, photographed by Sang Bleu. The painting was part of preparations for a Stephen Sprouse Collection released early 2009. Stephen Sprouse “was a fashion designer and artist credited with pioneering the 1980s mix of “uptown sophistication in clothing with a downtown punk and pop sensibility.”

Then there’s this painting by graffiti artist SKAM for Louis Vuitton Toronto. This one’s photographed by Think Contra.

Then there’s this extremely unofficial painting on the other hand. Spanish fashion site Hazme el Chingado Favor stole the pics from a Facebook profile they aren’t giving up the name of. But the house is somewhere in Mexico. It’s the real deal, as in it exists, painted by the owners in a show of brand power.

Whoa shei if I didn’t know the location of both I’d think this car belonged to the custom-LV house owner. This is a car sitting in Echo Park, Los Angeles, photographed by Victoria Bernal, who at the time was basically just rollin on a stroll.

In a slightly more “LV Acceptable” manner, tricked out car shop Detroit Customs was contracted to do this 1962 Cadillac Louis Vuitton’ Custom Convertible. It sold for 5k less than the starting price at a recent auction, going for 35k instead. Find out more at ICollector.

“Recently constructed by Detroit Customs, this 1962 Cadillac convertible is unlike any other. The most outstanding feature is the liberal use of Louis Vuitton fabric design throughout the car; including the folding top, upholstery, soft boot and dash insert.”

One of Prince Marcus von Anhalt‘s 26 luxury cars und autos. He is rich on account of he was adopted by Zsa Zsa Gabor and her ninth husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, who is, incidentally, the owner of 20+ brothels and nightclubs in Germany. This car is driven to promote von Anhalt’s “Royal Race.” It’s a fact: you don’t have to be poor to want to make yourself look like a fool for want of an LV mark.

A simply super acrylic painting by photographer designer painter Danny Schissler. This guy usually does photography, primarily. He takes pics of all the lovely wonderful things in the world and suddenly he makes these guns in a painting. Fun!

This terrifying amalgamation is called “LV Child.” It’s a screenprint (one of several different versions, plus a couple sculptures, all pictured below) designed by graffiti artist Beejoir. He explains on his now-defunct blog that he was inspired by real beggars sitting in front of the LV store just down the street from where he lives.

This is what inspired the LV, its just up the road from where we live, I’d just got back from the UK and was walking home from the supermarket with bags of shopping, when I passed these two beggars, guilt stuck I gave them a few coins and carried on, that night I remembered seeing Mantas’s iNeed stencil in Shorditch, and being struck by the same feeling of utter guilt.

The next day the stencil was cut, and sprayed across the city.

This print was sold (out) at Souled Out Studios.

Oh the dirtiness of the culture! These are piggies. These little piggies (and one more, pictured below) are tattooed with the LV, the whole flower pattern, and a few embellishments by Belgian tattoo artist Wim Delvoye (if you click that link, find the tattoo shop sort of in the middle if you’d like to see more of his tattoo art.) These pigs were supposed to be shown at the 2009 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, but were not allowed because they were considered “outside the categories of display.” BONUS check that link for more info on a tattoo Delvoye sold right off a man’s back!

Another gun for those in the luxury death business. “LOUIS VUITTON AK-47 7.62x39mm” from the entirely lovely armory of the “ARM•ME” project.

Justin Melnicks “ARM•ME” Project “Justin Melnick is an avid photographer, digital artist, and has spent time oversees in the Middle East. All of these influences have come together in his latest project, titled ARM•ME Melnick imagines — quite vividly — what Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Pucci, and Chanel would add to standard ammunition. The exhibition starts September 2nd at Gallery 385 in New York City. The outcome is a compelling statement that questions how we — individually and as a nation — spend our money, contrasting the abundance of weaponry with the scarcity of high-end luxury goods and some pretty amazing imagery.”

Made by Justin Melnick. In the gallery you’ll find several weapons from this project, including the TIFFANY & CO. M-67 HAND GRENADE, the LOUIS VUITTON RPD 7.62x39mm, the YVES SAINT LAURENT .380ACP, and of course, the MARC by MARC JACOBS MORTAR (all these are sitting there below.)

From the wild piggy heart and hands of artist Meryl Smith, who specializes in paper mache animal creations. More pics below.

Materials: metal screen, paper mache, leather, gold paint, zipper I made “excessory baggage” for a group exhibition at The Honey Space, where 5 curators asked artists to create sculptures that fit the measurement requirements for international carry-on luggage. – Meryl Smith

Supreme is a skateboard / streetwear brand that’s got a history of big time hype. This particular “collaboration” is a parody of the LV pattern used on several “box” t-shirts and the stickers you see above.

Tasty! Artist photographer Massimo Gammucurta makes “Sweet Fashion – lick your way to success” set of candy pops, lollypops, luxurypops I’d call em. Gammucurta‘s got amazing eyeballs and a good clicking finger, too.

Artist Michael Levy takes a total left turn bringing the history of luxury brands into the light with this LV menorah. Concept for the sake of eye opening.

The worlds of haute couture and religion have a long history that too often gets ignored. The papal rings, sacramental wine chalices, torah yads, and a whole assortment of robes, sashes and head dressings have littered the landscape of western religion for as long as it has existed. This Louis Vuitton menorah brings that intersection to the forefront. Let’s not give a wink and a nod anymore, let’s put it all out in the open. We already have torah yads (the pointers used to touch the torah so as not to damage it) made of silver, why can’t they be Tiffany’s?

Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction had been rockin and rollin using a faux Louis Vuitton guitar strap up until June 18, 2008 when he received a cease-and-desist notification from the brand’s lawyer squad.

In probably the cutest and best-made counterfeit of them all, doggy-toy makers Huate Diggity Dog made this combo bag set for puppies… and was also thustly sued by LV. They were inside the law though, and are still producing!

Another LV Piggie! This one’s sprayed by OZI! Ozi is a Brazil-based street artist spraying a campaign called “Glamour for All”. – thanks Ozi!! I love this concept indeed!

This post is, of course, from the World Famous Design Junkies Bad Taste category.

Yes, it’s time to go back into outer space. I know it’s tough reading every single post on World Famous Design Junkies because you’ve got to go to so many different plants and ultradimensions, but I know you’re into that sort of thing, so here’s planet Bruno 9 l i. You’ve maybe been to a mind state with this arteest before so let me mention: these are the new works. The bad boys. The 2009s. AKA the ink’s still wet.

Each of the works is a similar format, such as the work above:

ZN na Meta (2009)
Acrylic paint and ink on paper
150cm x 55cm

Work exhibited at TRANSFER – Museu Santander Cultural (2009)
Porto Alegre, Brasil

But as you can see, each one of them is very, very different. You’ve got to be KIDDING me if you’ve got no idea of the depth in these totally insane illustration paintings.

This wild thing is part of the World Famous Design Junkies BRIGHTNESS category.

Recorda (2009)
Acrylic paint and ink on paper
150cm x 55cm

Work exhibited at David B. Smith Gallery
Denver / Colorado, USA – Group Exhibition Part II (2009)

Concentra (2009)
Acrylic paint and ink on paper
150cm x 55cm

Work exhibited at David B. Smith Gallery
Denver / Colorado, USA – Group Exhibition Part II (2009)

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!)

The duo “Hudsonbec” I did not recognize at first. However upon further inspection I turned up their most recent project: http://itsnicethat.com/ ! Well you’d have to be a fool not to know what that is!

The actual object is letterpressed and postcard-sized. Gold ink on a dark, mysterious charcoal color paper stock. So mysterious that it makes the gold basically explode! Right off the page.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies ephemera category.

How many times do we have to say East Meets West before we’re fully understanding of the fact, the FACT that we’re all in dis togetha? Well it isn’t true, is it? East continues to meet West, day in and out. Here we’ve got an example, no, a collection of examples of the most fantastically simple and lovely false connections made between Everywhere America and what appears to America to be a frightening, terrifying Iranian world. Made by designers “21-19″, these pictures are part of a campaign kit for American/Iranian filmmaker Bita Hairdarian’s brand new east/west documentary “Finding Bibi.”

21-19 designed the communications campaign kit for director Bita Hairdarian’s autobiographical documentary Finding Bibi; which explores her unique identity as an American born Iranian.

Lovely and fantastic! My favorite is Jihad Coca-Cola. Each of these is a fake item, but surely they’ve been rendered in real life, and thus, as it often stands: if anyone wants to pick one of these thangs up and send it to ME, that would be just fine and dandy.

This post is straight out of the World Famous Design Junkies Custom Culture category.

PS! The film looks amazing!

This is one of them fashion shoots. It’s a couple of lovely ladies who have spider legs just as much as they do torso, and they’ve got only black and white on, all over. This set of photos was arranged, lit, and photographed by non other than the sveeeeedish fashionista Jenni Porkka. Discover the dread looks upon the ladies of the monotone room.

This post is from the World Famous Design Junkies fashion category, and if you’re in to this sort of stuff, that fashion link is the link you aught to click. Discover what the Swedes are doing with their time nowadays. Looking super lovely and creeptastic at the same time! That’s what!

Hey. Let me tell ya. I’m sure you remember the Erik Inkala Rock and Roll Party announcement from a few days ago on here, right? Well the opening night was last night, and here we’ve got a buch, no, a craplost of pictures from the event. So many photos. Artists up the wazoo and back again. Peek at it.

These photos were taken at basically the beginning of the show, so it was mostly what I assume was parts of Inkala’s family. Let’s just say the people at the show didn’t seem like the normal hipsters, punks, and bikeriders that I’d expect at a graffiti show. But it was fun to see that, as I’m a fan of the proliferation of “underground” cultures, especially when they are literally in a room that’s under the ground, in the basement.

Saturday September 19th at First Amendment Arts
1101 Stinson Blvd (corner of Broadway and Stinson in NE Minneapolis), 55413
7-10pm
all ages
free admission

Show runs September 19 – October 20, 2009
First Amendment’s regular gallery hours: Weekdays, 12-5pm

First Amendment Gallery will host the send-off party for Minneapolis-based / Brooklyn-bound artist Eric Inkala, who was previously featured in shows, Almost Famous and Almost Homeless. The exhibition will feature new paintings by Inkala along with the work of 47 local artists that have inspired him during his time in Minneapolis. Join the party, see a lot of great art, and take the chance to wish Eric luck before he makes his move to New York.

This post is straight out of the World Famous Design Junkies burlesque category. If you’d like instead to take a look through all the posts we’ve got on Burlesque Design, feel free to do dat too. Also I bet this constitutes another one of our super-famous, maybe even WORLD famous Mini Tours. Be there for those and that.

Creatures of the Night! This lovely fashion photo set was arranged and shot by Alexandra Zaharova & Ilya Plotnikov. They’ve got the eyes. This shoot was done for portfolio ammo only, not for a specific fashion brand in particular (though I bet you recognize more than one item here.) Just imagine a brand being assimilated onto the person holding it, yes! Yes! My brand is best! These bags and shoes, they are me!

It is shopping paradise!

It is fashion paradise!

Fashion Assimilation is the alternate title for this post, but I was feeling for the Rocky Horrorocity of that golden shoe there. The project’s title itself goes by the name “Magic Touch.” Lovely, isn’t it?! I must mention that although these are primarily photography and paints, aka analog features, there is a tiny bit of “photographic retouching” done. I’m sure your intarnets super-trained eye can pick out the pixels.

But for now, bask in the lavishness!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies fashion industry.

Have you been to Tokyo? How about Rome? How about anywhere the short distance between those two places? If you have, you’ve seen the super cell phone mobile accessory fantastigasm! What we’ve got here is a giant collection that only scrapes the surface. Look at the thought and effort that goes into each and every one of these little guys.

So cute! So so super kawaii!

*First I’d like to thank the person who’s trinkets are seen above: Kawaii Frenzy!

This is not the first big huge collection post on World Famous Design Junkies, and it sure isn’t the last. The alternate (and some might say “Official WFDJC”) title for this post is “World Famous Design Junkies Gigantic Super Kawaii Cell Phone Charms Collection!”

Gotta catch em all!

Lovely collectors contribute! Stariearth, pkoceres, Jem81, Kawaii_Japan, star.anise, ♥Sachi♥, pkoceres, Cottonbud Design, Lady Saotome, Kla♥Modeliniaki, era mi txikitin, Mother Ducker, seraphkz, Erdbeerfroeschchen, Kaleidoscope Jewelry, glolou, pbrigitte zombuki, hada luna, bowaddict, pbrigitte zombuki, Wild Sage Lampwork, Erdbeerfroeschchen, Iris Mishly – איריס משלי, Yume Photo, Cutie_Gadget, εïз*｡✿Coccole ♥ di ♥ Fimo✿｡*εïз, Flowermouse Design, ~M!chelle~, heart_in_kawaii, pbrigitte zombuki, KawaiiFrenzy, Andrew_Currie, Luz, annelibabe, *ire*, pbrigitte zombuki, Peace of Pi Studios, .irit., pkoceres, Mau Studio, melancholy mermaid, thetinyfig, estanciadesigns, Kisa S, Mimi ♥ Chocolat, Hagit Shechter Hurvitz, Jane in Ottowa, migzhots, fiona655, pinkbishie, zara, sillypucci, and Chu❤!

Pay special attention to several things! In this collection there are officially licensed items (a lot of Hello Kitty, Mario, those sort of things), hand made items, and items that DO things. Some of my favorites are the bangles that play music whenever they receive the signal that the phone is ringing, with flashing lights and everything! Horray!

Then there’s the hand-made items. It’s a strange, strange culture this Do It Yourself revolution, especially those who love the brands they collect so much, they create their own. Experience it all!

On with the pics!

This post is part of the super-kawaii, big time cute accessories

BONUS Soy Bean Popper cellphone strap commercial from our pals Strapya!

And Street Fighter omfg!

AND my favorite: Strapya Theater! This one is called Two Dudes Meet Darth Vader! Holy craaap what a video I have never seen the likes of this before!

MOBILE PHONE TEXT COFFEE TIME!!! OMFG!

Hard to pronounce, lovely to behold, Tjep Design does it hard. What we’ve got here is a bona-fide power necklace. A real bad pendant for your big chain. Real b-word in the flesh. That’s what it’s called: the “Bling Bling medallion.” Frank Tjepkema is the main mind behind this lovely conglomeration. Brand on top of brand inside behind and next to brand. Silver alloy / gold plated – 8 x 9 cm of power.

Frank Tjepkema: ‘This medallion is the most branded object in the world, (hint: imagine the money you can save on brand clothes by wearing just this item).’

Precisely! Brand is not something we don’t take lightly around here! Brand is a joke, and it’d better be, because anyone too far up in the clouds has a brand “lost” in my book. Brand is something you whisper, something you wear, something you see and something you talk about but when you go to sleep at night, take the brand off. Sleep in peace.

Thank you, Frank Tjepkema for this fabulous creation! If you want to send me a free copy that’d be just excellent!

Because of this lovely bit of pendant, World Famous Design Junkies now has a real live accessories category. If when you read this, this post is new, there wont be much there yet. But patience! Surely it’ll be full before long.

Yes, oh yes. Vinyl is given the courtesy it deserves. The one true format, the gorgeous, the perfect, the giant: the 12″ record album. The following is a photo collection made by the wild-eyed artist Horacio Salinas. He has draped the cloth, added the apples, and slipped on the shoe. Glare at the elegance of this collection of your favorite rock and roll music.

Pinpointed! You know here at World Famous Design Junkies we’re so very extremely info-oriented, detail oriented, and slap-happy-fact oriented. So what’ve we got here! A shipload of album covers photographed in lovely ways, yes, but which ones?

Bob Dylan’s explosive pop-art “Shout of Love” shot up!

The Greatful Dead’s untitled live album aka “Skullf***” draped in drapery.

Jimi Hendrix’s psychedelic godliness wrapped in underpants “Axis Bold as Love.”

All four KISS solo records “Ace, Paul, Peter, and Gene” all hooved up.

Queen’s promiscuous ladies of the “Fat Bottomed Girls” guild.

The Rolling Stones “Hot Rocks” with a hat on.

The Beatles “White Album” with the very very very literal translation of the four.

And the Yarbirds?

Fear not! You collectors of albums. Even though this set of photos will certainly shoot the popularity of classic rock albums through the roof, you can rest easy knowing I already own most of them. I hope you do, too.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies album art collection.

Today my colleague / friend Takashi and I were speaking on the pros and cons of the design fair. The one he was attending (Good Design Expo Japan) was different from the one in this post (Fuorisalone Milan), but the conversation would certainly have been the same. We spoke primarily of how even though it is wonderful and really right that when we’re at a gathering such as this that we get to see, touch, hold, and sit in the design, and yes, speak with the designers, it’s also a bummer that one cannot possibly see everything one wants to see. What is the solution to this? Photographer Giuseppe de Francesco may have an answer.

Fuorisalone
While the whole is difficult to see, the particular is always up to us. Made a cut, made a choice: Japanese touch during the Milan’s Furniture Fair collateral events. Thanks to Lavazza, Toshiba, Canon, MH, Elitis, Giuliano Fujiwara, Lexus, Archivolto, Driade, Yamagiwa…

Finding your way through here with an eye like Francesco and a little clicker and a lens (maybe even a camera) allows you to bring this Design Fair thing into an entirely separate space. I missed the fair, but I got to see beautifully captured. I was at the fair, but I didn’t see it like Francesco saw it.

This post is but one piece of the World Famous Design Junkies photography pie.

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.

The two sets are as follows: Set I is called “Mike Tyson and his abandoned mansion.” and Set II, being all greenery photos, is called “Mike Tyson and his choice of decor.”

3737 State Route 534, Southington, Ohio — Don’t Get Caught!

UNIMPORTANT FACT! This mansion was owned by the champ from 1989 until who knows when, at which point Paul Monea (think Tae-Bo) purchased it. He was found guilty of money laundering basically instantly after he bought the house though, so it’s still got that “Mike the Uncheckable Television Smasher” look to it.

+++ this place was documentation-style photographed several years ago by a Russian rag magazine and were thustly distributed amongst the internets. These photos aren’t them. What you’re seeing below are new photos shot within the past year of this post being made. Done by a dude with a real good eye, one of a real photographer, if you will.

This post is straight out of the World Famous Design Junkies bad taste files. But, as I read somewhere else amongst the massive amount of Mike Tyson research done for this post: this place would look amazing with a TRON makeover.

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!)

Get gold out!

DCH002_GOLD FINGERS
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gold fin*gers (noun)

1. Jet gloss Black Acetate
2. Gold metal highlight “hand” temples
3. CR39 resin UV lens in graduated warm grey color
4. Colab signature dots laser etched onto lens
5. Limited Edition – 1000 individually numbered pieces worldwide

Then take a peek at these Cheuk facts that you aught to know, especially since World Famous Design Junkies is bound to be posting Cheuk again in the future.

Deanne Cheuk is a New York-based art director, illustrator and artist from Perth, Western Australia (the most isolated city in the world).

She got her first job as a magazine art director at the age of 19 — the same year that she graduated with a degree in graphic design from Curtin University. Since then, Cheuk has art directed or designed numerous publications, including most recently, Tokion Magazine. Cheuk’s art direction has been heavily influenced by her illustrative work and she is renowned for her illustrative typography. She has been commissioned by top international companies, including American Express, Dell, Lane Crawford, Levi’s, Nike, Converse, Sprint, Swatch, Target, MTV, The Gap, Urban Outfitters, The Guardian, T Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. She has worked with David Carson, Doug Aitken and Conan O’Brien.

In 2005, Cheuk released her first book, Mushroom Girls Virus — which sold out worldwide immediately. In 2006, Target launched a line of “Deanne Cheuk” products. Cheuk sometimes self-publishes a non-profit contributor-based graphic ‘zine called Neomu. She has also judged competitions for the Art Director’s Club NY and the Type Director’s Club NY, and is on the Board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA/NY.

Hold up nice! She’s got the golden fingers!