There’s nothing I love more than drawings with plenty of cross-hatching + when I came across Elvira T’Hart, I was floored! Rather than drawing technical patterns, she literally draws her designs or use sketches as her patterns + cuts these out directly by laser. In doing so, all characteristics of the drawing are left in the […]
‘See. Imagine. Play. Create. Go Forward,’ With Ionut Radulescu
Romanian designer + illustrator Ionut Radulescu’s personal motto of ‘See. Imagine. Play. Create. Go forward.’, speaks volumes on how he knows how to have fun + tap into his smallest creative cell, to produce great work. Radulescu uses mixed media which for him, is a mix of scanned textures, watercolors + photography, with tremendous success. Work […]
Tom Of Finland Postal Stamps Too Good To Actually Mail
What better way to celebrate an artist’s worldwide recognition than having their work on postal stamps, especially if it’s artist Touko Laaksonen (a.k.a Tom of Finland)? Well that’s exactly what his native Finland did in creating commemorative stamps featuring Tom of Finland’s homoerotic BDSM drawings. Graphic designer Timo Barry had the challenging task of picking the right […]
Tavi Gevinson x Minna Gilligan on Nowness.com Wake up with the visual one on one between ROOKIE‘s Tavi Gevinson + Illustrator Minna Gilligan‘s, for the fifth printed issue of ‘Printed Pages’, from the totes amaze online platform, ‘It’s Nice That’. In 2010, Tavi herself created ROOKIE, the teen-focused online zine, now with a second issue of it’s […]
Nudists Retreat To Designer Looks By Laura Pannack
Photographer Laura Pannack sought subjects at nudist retreats + shot their day-to-day, while illustrator Micah Lidberg brought them to life in several designer looks. Present were looks by Marc Jacobs, Jake & Dinos Chapman’s collaboration with Louis Vuitton + Comme des Garçons. One group play boules in restrictive get-up from J.W. Anderson below while another eat […]
A GIFferent Type Of Riot Ensues In These Living Punk Posters
Once again, photographic duo Meinke Klein + stylist Anna Trevelyan use GIFs brilliantly, in ‘Riot’, part of SHOWstudio’s ‘Punk’ series. With the help of illustrator Magnus Dekker + sick fashions by designers synonymous with ‘punk’, including Westwood, Hogg + McQueen, the dynamic images beautifully become living punk posters, channeling themes of anarchy through obvious ‘consumption’ of […]
Check Out The Amazing Illustrations By Hubert Kolodjeski Of Some Of Fashion’s Finest
Anna Piaggi Hubert Kolodjeski‘s illustrations of famous fashion notables and one famous author, created for Polska magazine, truly ‘raise the bar’ in a whole new direction. Although stylized, I love how they all have a primitive feel with all the dot shading, patterns and organic shapes. The fact that he chose to do them only […]
Quentin Jones: Naked with Paint on Nowness.com. The Genius That Is All Quentin Jones Is Realized Here With The Artist Using Herself As Canvas. London Fashion filmmaker, illustrator, animator and basically, master storyteller, Quentin Jones shows us again how gifted she is with her personal project above, her latest animated short. Created on a whim, during […]