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MARK LANNING
Mark Lanning was born on the 17 September 1954. He grew up in the city of Durban and started taking pictures at the a early age of 14.
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Michael Wandelmaier has been drawing since he was a kid and now works as an illustrator, he has just completed his latest illustration Harpooning the Woolly Whale.
2008 Loerie Award Winner
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Adobe CS4
Hand made fonts HandMadeFont was founded in 2008 by Vladimir Loginov and Maksim Loginov. They specialise in developing unique, untraditional fonts. They take inspiration from everything that surrounds them. On there website they offer completed fonts that you can buy and use freely. The fonts they have developed are of such a high standard that they can be very widely used, from business cards to an outdoor advertisement. They are also available
for any requests for developing new and unique fonts for advertising campaigns, packaging, magazine covers etc. They are currently working on a various range of commissions across different budgets. There work has been published in various magazines and journals. They also create different visual communication solutions for a range of clients and industries and have an impressive portfolio on the website. www.handmadefont.com
Adobe has just released Creative Suite 4, a milestone release of the industryleading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Delivering radical workflow breakthroughs that bring down the walls between designers and developers and packed with hundreds of feature innovations the new Creative Suite 4 product line advances the creative process across print, Web, mobile, interactive, film and video production. With new levels of integration and expressiveness for Flash technology across the entire product line, Adobe’s biggest software release to date includes Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design editions, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, as well as 13 point products, 14 integrated technologies and seven services. Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection CS4 combines virtually all of Adobe’s new design and development applications, technologies and services in a single box the most comprehensive creative environment ever delivered. “Designers and developers are shaping the way that people consume information, share ideas, sell products, tell stories and create memorable experiences in print, online and via mobile handsets,” said Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer at Adobe. “Whether you’re creating a rich Internet application, a video or a bestselling magazine, Adobe Creative Suite 4 delivers powerful cross-media technologies that have the ability to elevate products, brands and ideas above the clutter.” We will do a in depth review of CS 4 as soon as we get our hands on a copy. www.adobe.co.za
Canon EOS 5D Mark II The Canon EOS 5D Mark II Digital SLR camera, the long-awaited successor to Canon’s EOS 5D, introduced in 2005. Building upon the qualities that made the EOS 5D camera so successful, Canon has coupled the power of a full-frame CMOS sensor in a relatively compact and affordable camera body, together with groundbreaking HD video capture that opens the door to a much wider range of imaging possibilities for photographers. It has the ability to capture full HD video clips at 1920 x 1080 resolution, Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II features a 21.1 megapixel full frame 24 x 36mm CMOS sensor, DIGIC 4 imaging processor and significantly lower noise, with an expanded sensitivity range from ISO 50 to ISO 25,600. “The anticipation surrounding the launch
of this camera model has exceeded our greatest expectations, and we believe our loyal customers will be awed by the level of innovation and features built into the new EOS 5D Mark II. Once they have the chance to experience the camera, we believe they will agree that it was worth the wait,” stated Yuichi Ishizuka, senior vice president and general manager, Consumer Imaging Group, Canon U.S.A. With the combination of its improved CMOS image sensor and the powerful new DIGIC 4 image processor, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera provides ISO speeds from ISO 100 up to ISO 6400 in 1/3-stop increments, along with two high-speed settings - H1 and H2 - of ISO 12800 and ISO 25600, respectively, as well as a lowspeed setting of ISO 50.
Sony reader Sony’s digital reader was announced this month with an interactive touch screen display allowing for a very intuitive digital reading experience to date. The new model, PRS-700, will join the PRS505 model in the Reader family to give consumers a choice of how they would like to read electronically. This new reader still sports the dimensions of a slimmed down paperback book. The textured black casing and soft black cover contribute to its envyinspiring design. And, at about 10 ounces, it’s the perfect way to carry all of your favourite books with you wherever you go. The reader can store up to 350 average digital books and can sustain up to 7,500 pages of continuous reading on a single battery charge.
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Blackberry
Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group and Research In Motion have released the BlackBerry Storm. It is designed to satisfy the needs of both consumers and business customers, the BlackBerry Storm smartphone combines the communications features, global connectivity and personal productivity advantages of the BlackBerry platform with touch-screen technology that enhances the touch interface and enables easy and precise typing and the world’s first clickable touch-screen responds much like a physical keyboard.
In 1970 student John Pasche designed a logo for the Rolling Stones that has become one of the most recognised pieces of graphic design in the world. He was paid £50. Today, the V&A Museum announced that it had bought the original artwork for $92,500. Imagine this you’re the lead singer in the biggest band in the world and you need someone to design a poster for your next tour, what do you do? If you’re Mick Jagger in 1970 you call up the Royal College of Art and ask them to recommend a student to do it. So it was that John Pasche began a working relationship with the band that produced one of the most memorable and widely-recognised graphic devices ever created. Then the Stones were going to launch their own label and they needed a logo, could Pasche design it? He met with Jagger again where the singer talked about things he liked and didn’t like, nothing too specific, explains Pasche, “and then I just had this idea”. While an obvious reference to Jagger’s features (not especially flattering, Jagger didn’t seem to mind) Pasche says that the main reason that the thick red lips and sticking out tongue seemed so right was because it was blatantly anti-authoritarian and they were still the bad boys of rock and roll at the time.
Honda insight concept Honda recently revealed the vehicle that it hopes will be the ultimate Prius killer. Dubbed the Insight Concept, the vehicle is the latest in Honda’s lineup of nextgeneration energy efficient vehicles. At a proposed asking point of less than $18,000 the five passenger hatchback is being billed as the cheapest hybrid on the market! The Insight Concept uses the company’s Integrated Motor Assist Hybrid Technology, which allows Honda to produce a vehicle that significantly less expensive than
traditional hybrids. The Insight will be a five passenger hatchback, with a sleek shape that evokes the much larger FCX Clarity. The Insight Concept will be officially unveiled during the Paris International Auto Show next month, and Honda has already announced that it intends to sell 200,000 units annually. The vehicle is currently being prepared for release in Japan in Europe next spring, with a US release to follow.
Google phone arriving Google’s answer to Apple’s iPhone, the HTC G1 Android phone, is coming to South Africa next year. The G1, informally known as the Google phone, will be brought to South Africa by Vodacom, the cellular network operator that is also the distributor for Apple’s iPhone in South Africa. “Vodacom can confirm that it is currently finalising negotiations to offer the HTC G1 phone to customers in South Africa,”
Vodacom Group’s chief communication officer, Dot Field told News24 on Monday morning. The Google phone, built by Taiwanese firm HTC, was first revealed in New York on 23 September 2008 by Google and telecom carrier T-Mobile, it offers many of the features of the iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, including a touch screen, high-speed internet browsing, WiFi, e-mail and SMS.
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The creative minds of FoxP2 ANDREW WHITEHOUSE AND JUSTIN GOMES
Cape Town advertising agency FoxP2 We asked them a few questions. really cleaned up at the Loeries this year. Tell us about starting your own agency? They won the most gold and joint-gold It was very tough in the beginning and awards and finished in fourth position everyone advised us against starting in overall, just a hundred points short of Cape Town. We were also both out of the creative powerhouse Net#work and ahead country for almost 5 years which made it more difficult. There was one thing we of Jupiter, not that anyone’s counting. In only its third year FoxP2 has a great did have though and that was and still is number of industry accolades to its name, creativity. Creativity is our marketing tool, starting with Newcomer of the Year, it’s our way of being noticed and we believe Finweek Ad Review 2007. This was it shows in the work we produce. followed by Small Agency of the Year, Why the name FoxP2? FinWeek Ad Review FoxP2 is the scientific name given to the 2008 most notably with creativity and communication gene which an almost unachievable has mutated over thousands of years. Our rating of 10. Rated the business model is based on this, we call eighth most successful it our Freedom To Mutate its actually agency of the year in extremely simple. It enables us to partner FinWeek’s Ad Review, with the best experts on a per head basis the to execute the idea so agency was number our clients get the best one. This was followed creative product. In closely by a First Place today’s ever changing finish at the Creative economic climate that Director Forum’s Ad creative product is Of The Year Awards. becoming more and Managing director more important. When Charl Thom made it done the right way, it’s onto The Advertising a powerful tool that A List, a list described ensures clients get a by Finweek as follows disproportionate return “They’re powerful or Tony Koenderman on their investment. For influential, and some AdReview 2008 example one of our very first clients, Pronto Condoms approached of them manage very us with a R50 000 budget. We created two large budgets. Others are viral tv ads and posted it up on Youtube, people of great personal the videos received two million hits and his stature who work in or website over one million hits in two weeks run small agencies.” thats a disproportionate return on your The two creative minds behind FoxP2 are Creative Directors, investment. Andrew Whitehouse and Justin Gomes. How do you compete with other agencies? Both have spent considerable time working More marketers are realising you don’t overseas, where they honed their mutational have to stick with the traditional, large way of thinking. Andrew spent a year in agencies to get results. We’re a small the army before he went to art school for a agency competing on every level with year and then began his career as a graphic agency networks thirty times our size. We designer. Justin, following in his fathers approach every brief as an opportunity footsteps, studied law but it wasn’t long and we’re extremely proud to have a client before his father told him he was no good like Brandhouse who entrusted us with at it, which he thanks him for now. It was a their Internal Marketing Program. Equally Wonder Bra advert that sparked his interest pleasing was winning an iconic brand like in Advertising and began his career as a Frisco who approached us to inject new life copywriter. Andrew and Justin met shortly into the brand. thereafter and began working together. What do awards mean to you? Eight years later and they’re still working When we started the agency three years together, only now its on international ago, a journalist wrote ‘Net#work BBDO brands including the likes of Dulux, Coca gets competition.’ We thought it was quite Cola, Nissan, Got Milk?, Sony Playstation, sensational at the time but never in our wildest dreams did we think the headline GMC, the New York Times and Unilever. Current clients under FoxP2’s belt include would ring true in such a short period of Brandhouse, Coronation Fund Managers, time. For an agency our size to share the Entyce Beverages, Isca Taps, Masterlock achievement of the highest number of and National Geographic Kids Magazine. gold’s, is testament to the unbelievable Despite being a small agency, FoxP2 commitment, of every staff member to the punches well above its weight, outranking creative cause. Mark Rosenberg all but three of the industries major players.
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3. Moonwalk Much like the real moon-walk this was all shot in studio with a moon-like backdrop shot at night in Standerton. Photographer: VC (Verster Cohen) Retouching done in-house at FoxP2.
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4. UFO Finally an alien abduction caught on camera. Photographed by Bryan Traylor retouched in-house at FoxP2. 5. Biblioteq What does inspiration feel like? Photography and illustration by Andrew Whitehouse.
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Tina Lorien Tina Lorien was born in 1964 in Copenhagen. She describes herself as a child of the happy hippie times who grew up surrounded by ‘crazy’ people, politics, partying and creativity. Her stepfather is originally from South Africa, he left for Denmark and got his citizenship in 1974. “I am real happy to be interviewed by a South African magazine as it has been part of my life for so many years.” After finishing high school and a small break, she started to study fashion design. Tina made a living from having a second hand shop in her teen years, to being a gardener in Hawaii, bartender and even experimented with her own designer clothing label. For the last 16 years Tina has lived and worked in a small artist town in Italy; Pietrasanta, where she is an all round assistant for Danish sculptor Jens-Flemming Srensen and practices her photography. Have you always had an interest in photography what got you interested? I have always had a humongous temptation for photography & images in general. My grandfather lent me my first camera at 11 when I went for a trip with my class, I was so fascinated already then with the thrill of being able to freeze magical moments. What really was my first eye opener in photography was a black and white series of Marilyn Monroe that supposedly was the last photos of her, made by Bert Stern, I just loved them and was totally fascinated with the beauty and magic of seeing her in a vulnerable state, yet extremely beautiful. Do you make a living from iStockphoto? Not yet, but I am starting to believe it is going to be possible for me. I haven’t been focusing on best sellers or traditional stock photography, I have merely done what I liked and slowly seen an interest for my more normal stuff. The last two years I have had some good commissions from iStockphoto. Tell us about being an inspector and winning the Punctum Award? Last year I was extremely lucky to be chosen as the most deserving of a new camera, this is a relatively new award we have. The Punctum Awards are various prizes based on the voting of all the users for best image, video, vector and design of the year, then there is also two prizes, for most improved photographer and one for most deserving of a new camera. These last two prizes are chosen as a result of a rather collective decision from iStockphoto admin staff and inspectors. I tend to believe they where really tired of the technical issues I had with my old camera and that
they trusted my skills would improve with a new camera, this was such a fantastic gift to get that really changed my little world of photography. This year I was contacted by iStockphoto, they asked me to become a part of the team, truthfully I was horrified and afraid of loosing my natural joy and approach to photography. I went through long and very educative training. I have now been working part time as an inspector. At first you get sort of paralysed with all the technical issues but now I think how did I ever have an image accepted. Tell us about your approach and style to photography your favourite subjects? My eyes are my camera, I love to see and catch magical moments in real life, sad moments, happy moments but really, magical reality you could call it. I am not into creating my shots, I am someone who schleps my camera everywhere and pull it out when I see something. My biggest dream right now is to make a series of portraits of older Italian women, but they are so difficult to convince. I love faces that tell a story there is much humble beauty to be found out there. Travelling and catching life scenes, good or bad, also is something that inspires me a great deal. My favourite subject is definitely people. Tell us about your creative process what goes on inside your head? My eyes always film, which is tiresome sometimes cause you might seem a bit distracted and then I catch it when I see it coming. When I do fashion shots for instance I do not like to instruct the model but rather to disappear and be a part of the interaction between designer and model. I like it to seem as real as possible. Lately I have been shooting sculptures which I find really hard to do, its really difficult for me to make it three dimensional, but then I have to look for some kind of form in the art and let that guide me. Do you spend a lot of time retouching? I try to spend as little time as possible, I always hope to have the photo more or less where I wanted it when i took it, but then I do up the photos a bit. I like to use vignetting, the black and white shots take more time to really get the depth in, I definitely spend the most time with them. Its like the old days in the dark room, sometimes you just loose sense of time and experiment with one shot to see all the perspectives of it whether in black and white or sepia or slightly desaturated. Mainly when I trigger, I have already seen it in my head how I want it to be. www.istockphoto.com/t-lorien
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Mark Lanning’s South African photography Mark Lanning was born on the 17 September 1954. He grew up in the city of Durban and started taking pictures at the young age of 14, when his dad lent him his camera a AGFA 2 1/4, to a motor-cross meeting. He soon discovered the darkroom at school and began developing his photos, the bug bit deep. Mark studied graphic design and photography at the Natal Technikon after a year in the army. We asked him a few questions about his career in photography.
How did you get started in photography? With two partners I ran my own small advertising and design studio in Durban and started shooting for some of my clients. Later on in 1987 when I started shooting professionally full time I teamed up with fellow photographer Ingmar Niezen and opened a studio in Johannesburg. What was your first camera? In Matric 1971 my younger brother and I pooled our holiday earnings and bought
a Pentax SP500 which Pentax made redundant 6 months later. Did you always know you wanted to be a photographer? The only thing I ever knew going back to my child hood days was a complete fascination with shape colour and form. Really simple things like the shape of an arum lily outside my bedroom window or the perfect symmetry of the pattern on the bricks on our front veranda. The intense
colour of the green spring shoots. The photography bug took a hold in the school darkroom. To me it was pure magic and I was the magician. You seem to have quite a broad range of styles what’s your specialty your favourite thing to shoot? Coming from an advertising and graphic design background I had been trained to think of concept and design solutions across a very broad spectrum of subject
matter so when I made the switch to full time professional photography I applied the same principals. My favourite things to shoot are people, landscapes and food. What’s the best thing about photography? It pours out of me, I can’t stop it, it’s seen me through countless ups and downs, its like religion, I’m driven by something I have no control over, its magic. What’s your current camera? Cannon Mark II and the Haselblad H1.
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Hosepipe furniture Hosepipe furniture must definatly be a first. This series called bok is created by Sander Bokkinga who was born in 1971 in Stokkum, Netherlands. Sander Bokkinga has been an architect and designer since 1997 he lives in Rotterdam and designs and makes special objects that have not existed before, but needed to be made. He started his own label, bok in 2006 and showed his first
collection in 2007 at the Mobile di Salone in Milano. His new work is a furniture series made of old and new hosepipes for interior and exterior use. Amazingly, water can still run through the designs. The serie currently includes a floorlamp, a relax-chair, a dining chair, a stool in two sizes and a vase. All designed by Sander Bokkinga. www.sanderbokkinga.nl
Michael Wandelmaier Hello Mike could you tell us about yourself and being an illustrator? I never really went to school for anything arts related. I’ve been drawing since I was a kid, but I’d never considered it a viable career path until about two years ago. I went to school at Queen’s University (in Kingston Ontario) to study civil engineering, then geology. While there, I worked part time a a graphic designer. I also work as an editorial cartoonist for the school paper. I guess it started there. I’ve been working as a designer since school and have been gradually working on being a professional illustrator in my off hours. Tell us about the illustration Harpooning the Woolly Whale? I guess it spun off from thinking a lot about monsters for a piece I was doing for the Fantagraphics book Beasts! Book 2. For that I had to illustrate an existing, well known monster from popular myth and folklore. Researching monster ideas made me want to come up with my own. Is it an idea for a story or just a singular illustration? It’s really just the one illustration, but I tend to think of it as depicting a moment in a story. It was mostly inspired by Moby Dick.
I was thinking of a story where the monster was terrible, yet tragic character. The little Robinson Crusoe characters end up looking more menacing than the monster. Really a story about industrious man getting the upper-hand on everything unknown and scary out in the world. Can you explain the process of creating that illustration? An illustration usually takes me a few evenings. I’ll workout the idea in sketches until I have something that works. I’m usually really happy with the rough sketch but have trouble translating the feel of the sketch to a clean final drawing. In trying to make a clean precise drawing I often loose a lot movement, emotion, or impact of the sketch – something I usually try to make up for while coloring afterwards. I’ll then scan the drawing. This is always painful because I only have a small desktop scanner so I have to scan my larger drawings in many pieces and stitch them together in Photoshop. I color using Photoshop, so the final piece only really exists in digital until it gets printed. Do you think you have a particular style of illustrating? A friend of mine who went to school for
illustration once described to me how his professors really pushed students to develop a singular style very early on so that they would have a marketable portfolio ready at graduation. I understand that, but I think that focusing too much on style as a business differentiator really distracts from thinking about how to best treat an illustration. Everyone has their own style that comes out in drawing without conscious focus. Whenever I try to over think it I end up drawing like my favourite illustrators rather than myself. Were do you get inspiration from? I pretty much work out all my ideas by talking them out with my girlfriend Jessica who is also an illustrator, sculptor, toy-maker, (her work is up at www. jessicafortner.com). Usually a bad idea will morph into something good over a few coffees and a lot of back and forth. What software do you use? Just Photoshop for colouring. Who are your favourite illustrators? There are too many good ones, but I’m loving the work of Tomer Hanuka, Moira Hahn, Yuko Shimizu, and I’ve always loved Paul Pope’s work. www.wandelmaier.com
Hercules stool Fat is a London based practice run by Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob. Established in 1995, Fat has developed a broad approach to architecture. Early work included a series of seminal interior projects and art projects. The Blue House in east London has been described as ‘the most memorable new house in London’ since the 1980s. Islington Square, a development of social housing in Manchester, completed in 2006, has received a fantastic response from both its residents and from the press. We have received many awards including the Architecture Foundation New Generation Award 2006, FX Best Public Building Award 2006 and a RIBA European
Award They have also recently produced a stool with a seat in the form of a bust of Hercules cast in foam rubber. The stool was commissioned for From Now to Eternity, an exploration of designers’ use of plastic that opened in London last week. The stool is cast from foam rubber the soft squishy stuff that is usually used to make stress balls. The bust of Hercules, usually something solid both in its material and the culture it represents becomes unexpectedly soft, deforming a recognizable object into stranger shapes when it is sat on. It uses the plasticity of rubber to suggest a more uncertain and doubtful state. www.fashionarchitecturetaste.com
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Cape creatives put design on the table Cape Town’s status as the centre of SA’s creative industries seems assured – all five finalists in one of the most prestigious design competitions in the country, SOLVE 2008, are Capetonians. The joint winners are Design Time School of Interior Design students Jenni Loppnow and Tara Carmichael, and Ntobeko Ximba from the AAA School of Advertising. as seen above. The remaining finalists are Amy Judd and Kim Spyron from Design Time. Key judging criteria were that the tables should suit their environments, could be manufactured locally, be made from sustainable materials and should retail for no more than R5000/unit. Loppnow’s table, made of indigenous wood and glass, will be commercially manufactured by Weylandts Homestores. The judges included Chris Weylandt, CEO and founder of Weylandts Homestores; Sean Weldon from ID Solutions, an importer and furniture supplier who deals mainly with hospitality, leisure and corporate clients; and Adriaan Hugo, who owns Johannesburg design store Dokter and Misses and was the emerging designer of the year in the Elle Decoration international design awards. Art director
Jo Skelton and stylist Doreen de Waal represented Elle Decoration. The awards were held this month at the Green Point outlet of Weylandts Homestores in Cape Town. The Solve awards are now in their seventh year and Weylandt and Elle Decoration deputy editor Lauren Shantall visited tertiary institutions in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban to brief students and answer their questions on the competition and its design requirements. The five finalists were chosen from 79 entries. “SOLVE was established in 2002 when South African design was flagging – there were few self-sustaining designers, it was not a sustainable industry, the country was still isolated and there was not much international interest,” said Shantall. “We recognised the need to support local industry and so challenged students – the next generation – to up their game. “It’s heartening to see how many schools have now incorporated SOLVE into their curricula and we have seen earlier winners go on to further success locally and internationally.” The winnning work will be manufactured commercially for Weylandts.
Fake streetsign art Panos 2013 Fake street signs is a collaborative project that takes the work of artists from around the world, in the form of fake road signs, and turns the streets of Lyon, France into an enormous gallery without walls. The round red and white signs look enough like real European traffic signs that you might take them for granted, but weird enough if you notice them to make you stop and think. This project has a delightful sense of humor, lots playful absurdity and a wonderful scale. Featuring artists
Jeremyville (Australia), Steven Harrington (USA), Superdeux (France), 123 Klan (France / Canada), Cody Hudson (USA), Tokidoki (Italy / USA), Eboy (Germany), Kozyndan (USA), Meomi (Canada), Tim Fishlock (UK), Andrew Pommier (Canada), Mike Perry (USA), Emil Kozak (Denmark / Spain), Boris Hoppek (Germany / Spain), Naoshii (Japan), Kid Acne (UK), Shin Tanaka(Japan), Scott Barry (USA) and Easy Hey (France). www.bopano.com
Young Lovers is the brainchild indie street fashion label of twenty-something design maverick Luke Nuto. From a famous mouse found dead in his basement to a diamond filled hamburger, Luke’s designs in the new range exist in a world of absurdist non-reality. Midnight Twilight is the new highly anticipated third collection from Sydney label Young Lovers. Created to oppose the movements of the un-radical majority, this collection of prints celebrates the madness of midnight love and all that surrounds it. It is for the sleepless ones who dare to not follow. It is the Young Lovers who will take over the city by night. Touted as one of the top new labels to watch in 2008, ‘Young Lovers’ has become the name on the lips of the devotees, midnight marauders and heartbeat-of-the-pavement kids from Sydney to London, New York to Tokyo. Colliding at the intersection of art and music, twilight and midnight, future and past, Young Lovers offers a refreshingly unique vision of modern street fashion. The latest Young Lovers collection: ‘Midnight Twilight’ is its boldest to date. Founded in 2005 by Finnish-Australian designer Luke Nuto, Young Lovers rejects temporary fashion trends in order to create classics – tees that are designed to look even better 10 years from now - as you look back to the heady days and swirling nights from which they came. Made from the finest cotton and strictly limited to 100 of each, every Young Lovers piece is a limited edition classic destined to become your next old favourite. www.younglovers.com.au
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