With an excellent sensibility for white space, Wang Zhi Hong (award-winning art director and graphic designer based in Taiwan) brought this beautiful book cover design to our attention. The cover for Eye of the Times wraps layers of prints and secures them in place when the book is shut.
Two years after Bloomberg LP purchased Businessweek and gave it a less stuffy, more contemporary look and feel, creative director Richard Turley does the same for the website and relaunches it as of February 28, 2012. President of Businessweek Paul Bascobert explained, “Businessweek wants to be the brand for the new breed of business leader, who is much more global-minded, more curious abut the world.” And what that seems to translate into directly is that this will be the Businessweek.com for the young, entrepreneurial, universally-aware businessmen and businesswomen of today, instead of the crusty, dust-covered, buttoned down financial stereotypes traditionally associated with the topic of “business.” Additionally, Bloomberg aims to use the new website to drive more traffic to their own website with numerous plugs and links throughout.
Fans of Mark Ryden will be excited to know that his new book, Pinxit, will also come with an exclusive book signing (with the usually reclusive artist) at the Beverly Hills Taschen store March 1st, 2012.
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Nike is doing something a little different with projection mapping for the new Jordan Melo M8 shoe, this time throwing in water, in fact the whole thing is projected onto water fountains, which perfectly complement the movement and desired effects to create something pretty special for your eyes.
In an economic atmosphere of downsizing and cutting corners, SPIN Magazine launches a new approach to reallocating resources and costs. As competitors like Rolling Stone and VIBE have reduced their trim size in recent years to cut costs, SPIN puts a new spin on the concept of reduction: reduce to a bi-monthly publication and blow the trim size up to a dimension that harkens back to the music mag glory days of the 90s.
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Floria Sigismondi, director of stand out music videos for artists like Katy Perry, Marilyn Manson, David Bowie and Björk, along with Minneapolis advertising agency Peterson Milla Hooks, has created a new TV spot for Barbie that suggests that time spent with the Queen of Life In Plastic instantly transports little girls into a candy pink and bejeweled universe. Continue reading
"The Two Fridas", 1939, Oil on canvas, Frida Kahlo
In Wonderland: A Journey Through the Fantastical World of Women Surrealist Artists in Mexico and the United States, featuring work by Iconic figures such as Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Dorothea Tanning, Louise Bourgeois, and many more. It will show at LACMA until May 6, so you have plenty of time to explore its offerings.
México kitsch is a book to savor visually, to linger over the details of the photographs and the insightful words that accompany them. It is an invitation to open our eyes and discover the things that have always surrounded us, yet we have never taken the time to admire.
"You try waiving muscular suntanned limbs demanding compassion! It’s a Bloody disaster!"
