Stylesight's Graphics team recently took a trip to Monaco to spot emerging packaging trends at this year’s Luxe Pack trade show. The premier creative packing show celebrated its 25th anniversary with a record number of exhibitors. Always a key event for discovering innovative techniques and materials, the 2012 edition was no exception.
Stylesight also stopped over in Nice for a research
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Japanese fashion label, Comme Des Garcons, has recently launched Moving Six, an iPad App showcasing selected works from the iconic A3 magazine, Six.
This fusion of modern technology and traditional technique gives the viewer an interactive experience, highlighting the print and photography archive while also exploring auditory space.
Active between 1988 and 1991, the publication lasted only eight issues.
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This installation is visually incredible. It's for the car manufacturer Hyundai and is 8m high and 45m in width and is named a Hyper-Matrix.
The Hyper-Matrix is built using 30x30cm styrofoam cubes and a process called mechatronics. This is the multidisciplinary field of engineering which refuses to split each category into seperate fields. This impressive example of mechatronics in art is
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Stylesight’s Graphics Team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This week we are focusing on the revival of the common book from intricately cut out pages to ornately extracted spines. Warning: contains graphic content. (Click on images for information on the artists.)
Books cannot be judged by their covers anymore...
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Head to London's Hayward Gallery Project Space for an exciting journey through punk culture in the 1970s. Prepare to be immersed into an authentic world of anarchic visuals.
The exhibition is bursting with unseen art, graphics, and designs, alongside an archive of items such as cassette tapes, posters, handbills, records, and clothing inspired by the pre-punk, punk, and post-punk movements. Publications of early fanzines including
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Sound & Vision is the new solo art exhibition from Shepard Fairey - creator of the global streetwear brand, Obey. The show features a range of new works including mixed media paintings on canvas, works on paper, retired stencil collages, rublith cuts, serigraphs on wood, and metal on paper.
The exhibit's title, Sound & Vision, is taken from a David Bowie song of the
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The Frieze Art Fair in London celebrated its tenth edition this year, showcasing old and new art from 175 of the world's top galleries and hundreds of artists. This year's showcase included a sculpture garden open to the public and a new space for art from various historical periods, in addition to its myriad talks, keynotes, panels and parties.
The buzz
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The White Canvas Project III has taken over a new gallery space in Shoreditch.
Hosted by Supremebeing and Endoftheline, the event featured live screen-printing by Hit and Run, live music and T-shirt giveaways - if you were quick enough (we were!). The space was transformed into a creative hub, exhibiting works from Will Barras, Mr. Penfold, Memuco, Buethewarrior, Guy Mckinley, Jim
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This pattern-tastic collaboration between Paper Mag and Emily Shur is the perfect print mood board for anyone in need of some inspiration. Color and ethnic prints collide to create this eclectic photoshoot showcasing labels such as Mark McNairy, Alexis Bittar, 3.1 Phillip Lim, M.C.L. by Matthew Campbell Laurenza, and Carven. We love a print mash-up!
Images from Paper Mag.
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Fontly is a new free App designed for the iPhone to generate interest and appreciation of expressive typography located around the world; from neon signs to hand-painted storefronts.
The idea behind Fontly came from Brendan Ciecko who believed signs were symbols of the past and present, which became visual landmarks of significance and needed to be preserved. There are two main ways
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Stylesight’s Graphics Team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly snapshot gives you a quick fix of our favorite branding projects. (Click on images for information on the artists).
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Stylesight’s Graphics Team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly snapshot gives you a quick fix of illustrations, posters, graphic design and art with a network theme. (Click on images for information on the artists).
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During London Design Week the Stylesight team came across Heretic Printmakers, a London-based design company whose vibrant exhibition demonstrated a collection of abstract illustration and screen-printed designs.
Heretic’s style of work involves blending elements of collage and illustration, while using screen-printing methods for its hand-crafted quality. Themes such as psychedelia, space, folklore and mysticism embody the spirit of Heretic's work, with
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Last week Stylesight attended Premiere Vision, where we spotted the fun, vibrant prints and quirky graphics of Manri Kishimoto. Kishimoto graduated from Central St Martins College of Art & Design specializing in textile design. She has since been awarded the TEXTPRINT Colour Prize as well as joint winner of the LULULEMON TEXTPRINT award, and we can certainly see why!
Kishimoto's final
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Stylesight’s Graphics Team brings you a selection of the most inspirational and directional visuals seen on the web recently. This weekly snapshot gives you a quick fix of illustrations, posters, graphic design and art with an embroidery theme. (Click on images for information on the artists).
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