Nov 13, 2008
Anyone who is into video games will be fully aware that Little Big Planet has finally landed in the UK. So we thought it was only right that we should do our bit to big up the guy behind the cover artwork: Rexbox! A freelance illustrator and animator, there’s a good chance you may have seen his e4 sting, his Orange ads, his design and animation promo work for Little Big Planet or any of his highly-acclaimed animated shorts…. the guy has skills! And as you can see above, his artwork was even converted into a Little Big Planet popup shop in London. There’s loads of his work on his site and some really interesting behind-the-scenes stuff on his blog. Well worth a bookmark!
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Nov 4, 2008
Cubeecraft is a site dedicated to paper toys. In a nutshell, these are toys you simply download, cut out and fold. The Cubeecraft site has shed-loads you can download from The Rocketeer to Lion-O… but one of their toys escaped this week (Stewie Griffin to be precise) and tried to get himself in as a late submission to the Turner Prize! You can see more pics and download the paper toy from the Cubeelog. It’d get my vote! Thanks Ben for the link!
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Oct 24, 2008
What do you get when you mix a £120 worth of fake fur, 4 days of hardcore sewing and sweating and an obsession with monster bunnies?
Keaton Henson’s latest in-store exhibition - Journey of Dave! The fabulous draw-a holic John Malcolm Moore also helped give birth to the purpose-built 9ft bunny installation for the über cool Pure Groove shop.
Click here to read the Journey of Dave
Additionally, the shop also boasts an elite 100 items made up of 7″, vinyl or CD’s, each hand picked and selected as music “gold”, casting aside popular acts, back catalogues or visual clutter giving the shop a clean minimalist look. If you’re in the Farringdon area of London check it out today!
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Oct 16, 2008
Danger Danger! Generally smoke signals signify an attack! And if you were in and around Trafalgar square but unawares last week, you may have been given quite a fright! Alien-like light transmissions were beamed across the historical heart of London, in an attempt to mix ancient and modern forms of communication. The ICA, with the help of design & architecture outfit Minimaforms, hosted a special interactive event where members of the public were invited to send an SMS to the Memory Cloud, where it would be displayed as a mixture of light and air smoke signals. Check out photos of the event on the Memory Cloud flickr page.
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Oct 11, 2008
Street-artist Banksy has stepped inside for his latest thought-provoking project. A few years ago, Liverpool was the canvas for Banksy, as he daubed a host of guerilla artwork around the city (including this giant rat!), but this latest project takes his work in a whole new direction. He’s opened a shop in New York called The Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill, which is meant to be a commentary on our relationship with animals and food. It’s pretty surreal and features animatronic animals and food mixing together. The strangest has got to be the chicken nuggets! It needs to be seen to be believed. There’s a good report of the event over on the BBC site.
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Oct 10, 2008
Hot on the heels from their MLP project, Tado are back in style with a new character, Lily The Littlest Cannibal! The illustrating duo created the character for a special exhibition at Magic Pony in Canada and as part of an exclusive range of new vinyl toys called Cannibal Funfair.
“Ready to tear you limb from limb at Lily’s command, these covetable cannibals beg the question, Can’t we all be monsters?”
There’s a load of photos of the exhibition, the opening event and also the Funfair toys on the Lily microsite. If only we lived in Canada!
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Oct 6, 2008
Launching this week is Gallery 1988’s Cover Band exhibition, where 50 artists have been invited to use the greatest LP covers of all time as their canvas. Tessar Lo was one of those 50 artists and was given the OK Computer cover as his canvas (shown above!). What is particularly nice about the final piece is the fact that it’s completely unique yet you still see snapshots of the original artwork breaking through. So if you’re in LA at all this month then you should wander down, as it looks like a great show! Check out Tessar’s site for more of his drawings and paintings as well.
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