For those of you who doesn’t know about this publication… This is the 6th issue, and I think it’s fantastic!
http://nkzine.free.fr/
Puerto Rico Paradise
When Living in New York, my room mate decided to take a couple of weeks out of the big city, so, we accepted the nice offer from good friends S & V to stay at their family's vacation house in Rincon, south-west in PR.
Purto Rico has: Surf, private beaches, loads of sunshine, giant avocados, friendly locals, cheap cigarettes, and lots of crazy dogs!
12 days in Paradise.
Ace Hotel, New York
Ace Hotel is located in the Theater destrict in midtown Manhattan. Here modern vintage, organic and hip meets with creative hotel amenities and services such as turntables and vinyl, Smeg refrigerators, Stumptown Coffee, and recycled materials.
The design is inspired by the variation and difference of people who has allways been around in this area of manhattan, witch is known for it’s lively crowd from the entertainments business. It’s both sophisticated and bohemian, but most of all does the hotel in spite of it’s modernity, look like something with history.
It was a big deal to the inventors, to offer rooms for everyone, and the hotel has both basic and cheap rooms, that are affordable and replete with cool simple amenities, while the big suites offer all the luxury you would expect from a high-end hotel.
Staying there gives you another domestic and warm hotel experience, where the design and atmosphere in the rooms, lobby, bar and restaurant don’t make you feel like leaving the hotel. And you don’t have to, cause the Breslin restaurant gives you amazing breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and room service to serious affordable prices. Breslin finally opened in the Ace Hotel this fall and enthusiastic reviewers wrote that Breslin was an exception from the many soulless, corporate or exclusive restaurants in the lodging industry, and it serves incredible good food.
Ace Hotel exsist in Portland, Seattle and Palm Springs, and in New York City with rates from $99 a night.
Ace Hotel 20W 29th St, 10001 New York
Breslin Bar and diningroom, 16 W20th St, 10001 New York
Intertate Longboards
Inhouse08_ has collaborated with artists, fashion designers, typographers and graphic designers to create a limited edition of artist longboards.
Interstate longboards are 11 ply pintail decks that feature a unique cut-out handle in the tail. A great cruiser and carver, they will conquer any hill.
The Bear Grizzly trucks are the benchmark in longboarding. Gravity fed die cast in Canada with a 184mm wide axle providing stability. The Grizzly’s come armed with orange Bear Pumpkin bushings.
The decks are individually screenprinted with the contributing artists’ designs and spray lacquered for a hard wearing mirror finish. All boards are an edition of ten.
I want one!
Hugo&Marie
I just worked half a year in New York, for a small graphic design agency, Hugo & Marie. Hugo & Marie was founded in early 2008 by Mario Hugo Gonzalez and Jennifer Marie Sims, and is now a full service, creative consultancy that provides design, illustration, interactive and representation. They call themselves by many names, and the truth is, that they are them all. Artist, art directors, illustrators, designers, agents and artist managers. They act as agents for a very appropriate choice of illustrators and designers, and at the same time, they do small and big design and illustration projects for all kind of clients. I loved to work for them, and the things I’ve seen and done, and the people I’ve met are all priceless, and not to be underestimated. Their passion and drudgery for what they do are admirable, and I think their compulsive desire to work and live in visual communication and art, is kind of comparable to what danish ArtRebels are and do. Enjoy all the beautiful artwork and design from Hugo & Marie – or visit my favorites: Studio Newwork, Micah Lidberg, Merijn Hos and Mario Hugo.
This was a post for Artrebels new blog, where you'll find a lot of interesting blogging about art, design, fashion and music.
100 dots
Black and wise, nice
Hekuzuku is a graphic design studio located in 8064 Zurich and composed of Marlon Ilg, Jill Mattes and Simon Trüb. Hekuzuku conceives and creates products in the field of visual communication.
Check out: http://www.hekuzuku.ch/
New Printed Portfolio
Paranoid Posters
Seams like they've lost all sense of logic and visual reality, but I am extremely delighted to discover something that nice as the result of braking all rules of aesthetics. Some of it reminds me of the early drawing program for Windows, Microsoft Paint, but then again, some of them saves secret patterns and effects, that can only be done like that if you're very high on Photoshop.
It comes from Poster Company by Travess Smalley and Max Pitegoff. The posters are weird, odd, ugly and extraordinary beautiful at the same time... I'm blown away by psychedelic colors, silly compositions and loathsome abstractions.
Though I wonder how expensive they might be, since the colors are a big reason why I want to buy all of them. And these colors obviously can't be printed in normal 4 color print?
Anyway, I might be the only one that exited, but if you take a look, I bet you at least will find a great new desktop background.
The poster collection are displayed and for sale through www.poster-company.net
New Politics
http://www.myspace.com/newpoliticsrock
Met these cute guys in NY, just before Christmas! In the spring 2009 they won the danish award and price, Karriere Kanonen from P3 Radio. The next thing they found themselves doing, was signing contracts with SONY Records – and now they are going on a tour in UK, later playing in Texas and LA. While touring they’ll be working on their upcoming album!
Any how, they had the time to play in Lower East, at a packed livingroom-sized Pianos.
Listen to the 3 songs on myspace and keep yourself waiting for The New Politics!
BLU BLU BLU
The stop-motion videos are pretty well known on vimeo, but the sketchbooks are amazing too, and I have a feeling that pretty far from everything he has done is able to be found on the world wide web. Blu started using his drawings as public art, particularly unauthorized, illegal art. Coming from the graffiti culture he started developing these giant wall pieces and he's now extremely productive all over the world. Weird suicide scenes, giants taking out their brains and open bodies. All surreal, sometimes very scary characters, all depending on and wrapped round each other, born from each others brains, torsos and graves, turning into big eyeballs, and cutting each other and themselves into pieces. You'll recognize his work from the simple choice of tools, pencils, brushes and rolls for the mural pieces.
In the videos you'll discover, how BLU's transforming ordinary and decaying places and showing how creativity may redevelop from urban degradation, by combining the artwork with surrounding architecture. As the places get destroyed or perish with time, so does the artwork.
Check out his sketches and blog at blublu.org, and watch all videos: vimeo.com/blu
