• Undefeated x adidas x Estevan Oriol 1979

    January 29th, 2008 |

    The next stop for this remarkable capsule photo exhibition by Estevan Oriol presented with Undefeated and adidas that celebrates the adidas basketball history with 1979, is Berlin with Firmament playing hosts this coming Friday, February 1st which follows all the success of the event in Barcelona at Limiteditions and in Los Angeles at Undefeated. As [...]

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  • Arkitip x Wood Wood Highmath Exhibition Preview

    January 29th, 2008 |

    Tomorrow night will see the opening of the most talked about events of 2008, the Highmath exhibition which is presented by Arkitip in conjunction with Wood Wood. We have been anticipating this event for some time with great expectation and are pleased to provide you with another fairly detailed preview of what will be showcased, [...]

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  • SBTG Be@rbrick

    January 29th, 2008 |

    SBTG’s label Royalefam have teamed up with Medicom to produce a 400% and 100% Be@rbrick, featuring SBTG’s signature ivy camo, as per his SB Dunk. Comes in a matching camo-bound case. More release details soon. Thanks to Streething for the spot.

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  • Original Fake Spring/Summer Catalogue

    January 29th, 2008 |

    Original Fake have released a new catalogue for their forthcoming Spring/Summer range. Flip it over and it becomes a collectible Kaws colour-in poster. Get your Tokyo hook-up on the line because it’s available now, free over the counter, exclusively at the OF store. Thanks to Secretbase for the news and pics.

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  • Urban Collectables

    January 29th, 2008 |

    Chinnychinin is a fascinating website which has a number of interesting items up for grabs from Pigeon Ring Necklaces through to these more tangible Urban Collectable toy cars and much more. Very well put together almost making fun out of the vinyl toy craze which is so high in demand, these toy automobiles have seen [...]

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  • M.I.A. Interview

    January 29th, 2008 |

    Fresh off her release of Kala, M.I.A. sits down with Karmaloop TV exclsuively to talk about the recording and share her traveling stories to produce a great article of this rare talent and individual.

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  • ‘Kicking It With Hiroki Nakamura’ John Jay

    January 29th, 2008 |

    Wieden and Kennedy’s John Jay is this weeks guest blogger at the NY Times, T Magazine, his blog on Honeyee has for sometime been considered amongst many including myself as one of the best reads on the internet, this now gives a further oppurtunity to look inside the mind of John Jay. His latest blog [...]

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  • Urban Art Photography by Jürgen Große

    January 29th, 2008 |

    Urban centres such as Barcelona, Paris and Berlin are places whose landscapes are characterised by anonymously created artwork and signatures that are inventing new visual codes. This street art is much more than mere graffiti. In addition to using spray paint, today’s enterprising urban artists use stencils, wheat paste and found objects to manifest their [...]

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  • Wieden+Kennedy Interview

    January 29th, 2008 |

    The good people over at Honeyee.com have interviewed the much famed independent and creatively led advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy who have become most well known for their work with Nike in this culture, but who also add the likes of Starbucks, ABC, Coca-Cola and so many more company’s to their list of clients. The people who [...]

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  • SiFURY Spring/Summer Collection

    January 29th, 2008 |

    SiFURY have set a very nice tone with their latest collection which is available now at the SiFURY online store. A great mix of subtle and interesting shades with some subtle and simple designs with some of the finest detaing makes this a collection that will impressthis spring and summer time. Recent releases include some [...]

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  • Silly Thing Spring/Summer Collection

    January 29th, 2008 |

    Silly Thing are in the process of turning a corner a really moving in a new direction with a handful of projects in the works for the brand from Hong Kong. Along with the new look website for Think Silly which is in the works come another move, new look branding for Silly Thing and [...]

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  • Deluxe Spring Collection

    January 29th, 2008 |

    Deluxe are the latest Japanese label to preview there offerings for Spring which look very clean and well crafted. The collection provides plenty of classics with a personal touch Roadrunner jacket, Whip Light beanie, Freedom button-up, Project thermal and Weezer sweater are some of the highlights along with the collaboration with Koki eyewear which promises [...]

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  • ‘Prologue’ Group Exhibition

    January 29th, 2008 |

    London’s Nancy Victor Gallery is proud to present ‘Prologue’, a group exhibition by Jay One, Juice 126, LX One, Remi/Rough, System and Timid. These six artists have been plying their trade for quite a while now (their combined careers total almost 150 years), and this show illustrates the way they’ve seen (and helped) street art [...]

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  • graniph Tshirt Design Award.2 Feature

    January 29th, 2008 |

    With all the success of the graniph innagrual design award last year the Japanese t-shirt company are set to launch vol. 2 of this magnificent competition that offers so much for aspiring designers, illistrators and artists. In there short existence graniph have incorperated some of the finest artist from around the globe to produce some of the finest t-shirt graphics. The philosphy of the t-shirt company is simple although their execution is above par as graniph continue to have a huge impact in culture in Japan and around the globe. We have taken a small look into the company and what makes graniph such a great entity in today’s culture.

    artwork showcased; The ten winners of the graniph design award vol.1

    Founded in 2001, graniph was the pioneer in a new era of art and culture in Tokyo with the opening of its first Design Tshirt store graniph, a store specialising in only T-shirts. Currently they have more than 50 stores in Japan, two in Taiwan, three in Singapore and one store in Australia.

     

    artwork showcased, clockwise from top left; Kristian Russell, Lucy Mcleod, Jon Santos, David Foldvari

    Every month about 70 new T-shirt designs are released and produced in limited quantities of up to 1000 pieces. A daily variation of 300 T-shirts is constantly displayed in the stores and on the graniph website with an aim to make sure you find something new everytime.

     

    artwork showcased, clockwise from top left; Peter Arkle, Andy Potts, Rui Tenreiri, Archigram

    In addition to inhouse designs, graniph collaborate with well known and upcoming artists from around the globe.  Collaborations with various companies on movie and music productions and events adds further depth to the graniph collection. graniph is a creative exchange platform aimed to introduce all of their collaboration artists to a wide audience, with regular update on their profiles and news on the graniph website in the artists section and the graniph newsblog. The graniph monthly magazine is a lookbook that showcases the new designs and how they are used to create the unique graniph ambience.

     

    artwork showcased, clockwise from top left; Linn Oloffsdotter, Darryl Waller, Reluctanthero

    The graniph annual T-shirt design awards encourage young and professional creatives to send us their ideas from around the globe. Through this interaction graniph uses T-shirts as the medium to showcase and introduce new waves in design at a higher level.

     

    The graniph international T-shirts design award vol.2 begins on the 1st of February and runs until the 31st of March 2008 calling young artists, designers, illustrators and photographers to send their ideas for T-shirt designs in. Everyone is welcome to apply regardless of age, gender or artistic background. With some great prizes at stack and some even better exposure including being promoted through the graniph website and the international press and have their design printed on a graniph T!

    Detailed informations and the application form are available at  www.graniph.com/award


     

    For more information about graniph please check out there website which includes there online store and details about upcoming collaborations and much more.

    www.graniph.com

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  • Born to be a Maniac Exhibition by Skwak

    January 29th, 2008 |

    Born to be a Maniac opened in Paris at the Addict Gallerie a few days a go and this exhibition of Skwak’s work is so appropriatly named with the painter really expressing a lot of fun with his work. Skwak well known for rendering  meticulously detailed, anatomically correct cartoon character landscapes to provide and almost [...]

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