Saturday, May 31, 2008
Kinetic Refil Bottles
Refil bottle designed by Kinetic, Singapore, these won an Epica award in 2007.
http://kinetic.com.sg/
HELLO, WORLD! SoftBank
A special website “HELLO, WORLD! SoftBank” for the SoftBank telecommunications group (SoftBank Mobile, SoftBank BB and SoftBank Telecom) has been launched. The website proposes a new and fun place for the group to communicate their growing services and offers.
A website to go well with a new website launch of http://tha.jp maybe.
http://www.softbank.co.jp/helloworld/
http://tha.jp/
http://www.rightning.com/
Otaku Kaidan
Otaku Magazine is a Romanian publication which aims to promote visual artists both national and international and KAIDAN is the term used for the Japanese ghost stories, and, extensively, for the J-Horror culture. The Buddhist moralizing stories were rapidly transformed into international shockers; people wanted more frightening monstrosities and oddness, with no direct connection with the Western horror. Manga, anime, movies and the subcultures developed around them competed in shicks and panic.
Only 100 copies are available for international orders.
http://otakumag.com/v4/
Friday, May 30, 2008
Jonathan Crisp
Packaging design are always so interesting.
http://www.jonathancrisp.co.uk/
via http://www.thedieline.com
Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd (born in 1964 is an American author, editor, and graphic designer, best known for his innovative book covers.
http://www.goodisdead.com
Thursday, May 29, 2008
My Magic a film by Eric Khoo
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My Magic is Singapore's first contender for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm), the top prize at the prestigious festival. It is among the 19 films in the running, chosen from 4,000 submissions worldwide.
After the film's official screening in this southern French city, the director and his two first-time actors Bosco Francis and Jathishweran Naidu basked in the spotlight, posing for pictures and signing autographs within the festival's showpiece 2,300-seater hall.
Lead actor Francis, also a professional magician, performed a few tricks, conjuring up flashes of fire and producing a special wallet which burst into flames as he opened it.
An exuberant Khoo, 43, who received the Cultural Medallion last year, said: 'It's been a magical ride. It's been totally beyond anything we could have imagined.'
Added Unity Secondary School student Jathishweran, 14: 'I'm still asking myself if this is a dream.'
Francis, 48, said: 'The crowd just went on and on (clapping). It was exhilarating. It's a day I'll never forget.'
His magician background and personal life had provided inspiration for the film's co-writers, Khoo and Straits Times senior journalist Wong Kim Hoh, 46.
They crafted a 75-minute, mostly Tamil drama about an alcoholic magician (Francis) struggling to redeem himself and repair his relationship with his son (Jathishweran).
It was made for an estimated $200,000, and was partly funded by the grant given to Cultural Medallion recipients.
Three years ago, Khoo's film Be With Me, also co-written with Wong, played at the Directors' Fortnight here.
But this latest offering is vying for the grand prize alongside the works of leading international directors such as Clint Eastwood (The Exchange, aka Changeling), Wim Wenders (The Palermo Shooting), Steven Soderbergh (Che), Atom Egoyan (Adoration) and the Dardenne brothers (The Silence Of Lorna).
Khoo expects My Magic to be screened in Singapore before the year-end.
The film has already been picked up for distribution in France by ARP Selection.
Earlier in the day, just after 4pm, the My Magic team walked down a sun-drenched red carpet in front of the theatre entrance, facing an enthusiastic throng of curious onlookers and press photographers.
Khoo, Francis and Jathishweran were joined on the red carpet by cinematographer Adrian Tan, co-writer Wong, executive producer James Toh, and producers Tan Fong Cheng and Freddie Yeo. Khoo's family, including his wife and four sons, were also there.
Khoo, who admitted to having cast envious glances at the red carpet on previous visits to Cannes, did not want to speculate on My Magic's chances of making history by winning the Palme d'Or.
'No, I haven't prepared any speeches. I never count my chickens before they are hatched - it's bad luck. I'm just honoured to be able to get on that red carpet.'
Wong, who felt 'quite gratified' by the reception to the film, added: 'The very fact that we are even here (in Cannes) is almost too unbelievable to be true. Anything else is a bonus.'
The festival jury, led by American actor Sean Penn, will award the Palme d'Or during the festival's closing ceremony this evening (early Monday morning, Singapore time).
http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_240895.html
http://www.zhaowei.com/mymagic/mymagic_synopsis.htm
http://www.sinema.sg/2008/05/23/eric-khoos-new-film-premiering-in-cannes/
Jacques Olivar
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Just to keep the social circle going and nothing else, I have created this and feel free to add/join.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-artist-and-his-model/15510106397
SMAP Campaign by Kashiwa Sato
His pop-psychedelic style and knack and he has worked with everything from environmental design, graphic and product design, art direction and video.
http://kashiwasato.com/
Neon Noir by Sean Marc Lee
David Choe
Tokyo, December of 2004, David Choe knocks out an undercover cop and is subsequently arrested and imprisoned. He spends the next four months in solitary confinement. Through his unrelenting resourcefulness and need for self-expression, he sources some materials from his severely limited social environment (a tiny prison cell) and creates the following work.
Mediums used: envelope, napkin, tea, urine, soy sauce.
http://davechoe.blogspot.com/
via http://thepublics.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/hard-time/#more-441
Lauren E. Simonutti aka lauren.rabbit
Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander is a world renowned photographer living and working in London. He is probably better known for his campaign in Nike, Placebo, Absolut or Levi's but here are his other intereting photography sights.
http://www.billcharles.com/kander/nadavkander_1.htm
http://www.nadavkander.com/
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Gaze by Desiree Dolron
I am always into art photography or anything that are conceptual or surrealistic and the last time I have posted many themes from a single photographer was from http://www.johnclang.com">John Clang.
http://www.desireedolron.com/work.aspx#
Levi's Art Sessions 3
:phunk studio will be holding a solo show at the rue Etienne Marcel Levi's Flagship shop in Paris. Do drop by if you're in there, the show will run from 30th May to 24th June 2008.
http://www.phunkstudio.com/
Dual City Sessions 2008: Art with Sound™ in Berlin
Art with Sound, is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between designers and musicians from Japan and Singapore. The exhibition brings together the complexities of the two disciplines, both innate and compelling to each other.
The result will be an installation and 10 LP-sized albums, each with the designer's artwork and musician's piece.
This project revisits the collaboration of Shun Kawakami (artless), Felix Ng (silnt), after the highly regarded Dual City Sessions: Null in 2007. The installation will be designed by Shuzo Okabe (upsetters).
Designers are to create a monochromatic artwork of A1 sized (594 x 841mm] and custom that artwork for LP size [315x315mm]. The musicians are to create a piece of any length.
The theme(s) of this project are:
1) Tradition & Modernity
2) Influence & Change
2) Monochromatic
FEATURING
JAPAN:
artless + noiselessly
Adapter + The Samos
Merry + Leo Sato
Raku-gaki + Soothe
Tycoon Graphics + Merce Death
Singapore:
4femmes + Fugu.san
Djohan + Fezz
Phunk studio + Victor Low (The Observatory)
SILNT + MUON
Steve Lawler + AntiGravityChocolate
Curation : artless + SILNT
Exhibition design : upsetters architects
http://www.dualcitysessions.com/
http://www.artless.co.jp/
http://www.wktokyo.jp/blog/?p=565
http://www.cbc-net.com/article/2008/05/dual_city_sessions_2008_art_wi.php
http://antenna7.com/root/dualcitysessions-2008.html
Kimio Itozaki
Created from photo prints of real-world scenes, cut and assembled into 3D collages, Fotomo are the work of Kimio Itozaki, a Japanese photographer with a unique perspective on life and art.
http://www.itozaki.com/
http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2004/05/fotomo_x_city_exhibition.html
via http://www.startdrawing.org/browse/article/kimio-itozaki
Jon Gray
Jon Gray is a far-too humble designer working out of East London. He operates under the monicker “gray318” and is creating some of the most memorable and recognizable book covers.
via http://covers.fwis.com
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Cecile Bortoletti
Cécile Bortoletti studied cinema and photography at the University Paris VIII and her work is published in DAZED&CONFUSED, SELF-SERVICE, PURPLE, JALOUSE, ABOVE, CRASH, STUDIO VOICE, NIKKEI.
Below are some of her editorials.
and she also works for ISSEY MIYAKE realizing their advertising campaigns for men and women.
http://www.cecile-bortoletti.com
Masahisa Fukase and his unpublished works
The negatives from which this current body of work was produced were recently discovered at a country home where Masahisa Fukase spent time away from the pressures of Tokyo. These eclectic images, never exhibited before, represent a playfulness rarely found in this artist's work.
Masahisa Fukase is considered to be both a legend and an enigma in his native Japan. For a culture that is traditionally reluctant to expose emotion in public, the expressionistic character of Fukase's work was, in part, the result of the development of the generation that evolved after WWII. 
All above are gelatin silver print.
http://www.wirtzgallery.com/exhibitions/2001/exhibitions_2001_06/exhibitions_mf_2001_06.html
'Talk to me, Boy' on V Magazine # 37
When M/M Paris meets David Sims.
Chiara Baschetti by David Sims
fashion editor Joe McKenna
hair by Guido
design M/M (Paris)
via http://community.livejournal.com/fashion_screen/
Sergei Sviatchenko
Sergei Sviatchenko, himself, sent me these on a few emails we have been on and of what I call it great with well appreciation.
Sergei Sviatchenko stands out as an artist with a unique vision; encompassing our ever-shifting creative vocabulary whilst maintaining a precise, individual voice which underpins his work to stand both conceptually and creatively above the tide of visual messaging in todays visual culture. For the first time LESS,will present a collages collection of Sviatchenko´s rich portfolio,revealing the unigue creative vision of this truly contemporary artist.
http://www.sviatchenko.dk/
Check out more of the new ROJO® monographic book limited edition here.
No doubt he deserves his D&AD Yellow Pencil Award he won in 2007!
