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KVADRAT / RAFSIMONS SIMONS KVADRAT / RAF
ADIDAS ORIGINALS X KANYE WEST | YEEZY SEASON 1
Photography : Charlie Dickinson
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Illustrator studying at Isle of Man college (soon to be Leeds College of Art) talks about her work.
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art : annie merrick
Annie Merrick
art : annie merrick
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String and plant printed on lino by Annie Merrick
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String printed on lino by Annie Merrick
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Annie Merrick
Annie Merrick is an Illustration student with a ‘stylised but folkish’ style of work, currently studying Art & Design at the Isle of Man College, soon to be studying Illustration at Leeds College of Art.
What is your medium of choice? Linoprint is quite new to me but is definitely my favourite, I love that with printmaking most of what happens is by chance, making everything individual. Who or what inspires you? My two biggest inspirations are Sara Fanelli and Lauren Child. They both use layers of texture and pattern to collage their illustration, I love rich images! I like how their books shouldn’t work for kids, by having so much visual information, but somehow they do! How do you generate ideas for your work? I like listening to music! I find that some songs concjure up colours, images and feelings that create a world for my characters. I find bjork’s music to be inspiring. How do you think where you live influences your style? Living on the Isle of Man definitely influences my style! There are quite a lot of naive artists around like Eileen Schaer and kathryn mitchell whom I love. Manx people are fascinated with folk law and fairytales which definitely inspires me. What have you learnt from doing your Foundation Art & Design course? I have learnt so much! I think it has been a really good opportunity to do my own thing and work in my own style, which I have never really done before. I have also learnt to love printmaking! How do you want viewers to respond to your work? I want them to see it as contemporary but also traditional. I like my work to be stylised but also to be folkish and made to look like it has been around for a while.
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‘Self Portrait’ reduction print by Annie Merrick
‘Underwater Adventure’ short story written and illustrated by Annie Merrick
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fashion : whistles SS15
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In house editorial for Whistles Spring Summer 2015 collection Modelled by Amy Callister
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Frayed Denim Vest Top by Marques’Almeida X Topshop
Frayed Denim Vest Top by Marques’Almeida X Topshop Frayed Denim Skirt by Whistles Slip-on Leather Sneakers by COS
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Wedge Sandals by Whistles
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Frayed Edge Denim Jacket, Wide Leg Jeans and Slingback Platform both by Whistles
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photography : ivana bobic for whistles.com
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Ivana Bobic
An exclusive backstage look at Whistles Spring/Summer 2015 Collection. Directed by Ivana Bobic and edited by Laura Dunn page 40
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London based Ivana Bobic is a director and writer whose award winning work encompassing short films, music videos and live visuals, has been show cased at film festivals around the world.
Watch the film at vimeo.com/121227794
fashion : whistles SS15
Her most recent film for Whistles’ Spring Summer 2015 Collection goes behind the scenes at the Whistles underground London Fashion Week Show, before taking to the catwalk to capture the latest Whistles designs.
Having previously directed Whistles’ 2014 films Ivana joined the brand deep below Kings Cross Station where a tube underpass was turned runway for their London Fashion Week presentation. With this film, Ivana peeks behind the curtain before taking to the catwalk to capture the delicacies of Whistles’ designs.
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music : jamie xx
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One-third of minimalist pop trio the xx, Jamie xx will release his new fulllength album, In Colours this June. page 42
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In Colour, the xx member’s first proper fulllength album, will be out in June via label Young Turks.
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The producer has been drip-feeding solo tracks for several years, and rumours of his solo album began to circulate in 2014. According to a cover story in the April issue of Mixmag, Four Tet and Romy Madley Croft of the xx will appear on the album, and the tracklist will include recent singles Girl and Sleep Sound, and new tracks Gosh, Loud Places and Seesaw. Jamie xx, whose real name is Jamie Smith, has been carving out his name in the world of electronic music for some years, with remix projects and production jobs. In addition to his solo tracks, he has remixed music for Radiohead and Florence and the Machine, and released We’re New Here, his album of Gil Scott-Heron remixes. He has also produced music by Drake and Alicia Keys. Jamie is also gearing up for the release of the follow-up to the xx’s 2012 album Coexist. “We’ve got quite a lot of songs that are not finished, but I’m excited about it,” he told Fader in 2014. Speaking about the release, which includes contributions from his xx bandmates as well as Young Thug and dancehall prince Popcaan, Jamie says: “In Colour doesn’t feel like my first album because it’s the end of six years’ work. It’s about all of the music I’ve been inspired by in that time; the people I’ve met, the places I’ve been. In Colour is about transition and transformation — going away, coming home, going away again, coming home again — and how that journey changes me every time. I love touring, and the places I’ve visited, but when I’m on my laptop I’m always thinking about home or music. This album is about all of that. In Colour isn’t the end of an era, it’s the start of what’s next.”
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music : jamie xx
photography : jamie xx for the bbc
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DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2015 EXHIBITION 25 MARCH - 23 AUGUST 2015
events : designs of the year exhibition
76 NOMINEES OVER 6 CATEGORIES Architecture
Digital
Fashion
Graphics
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Now in its eighth year, Design Museum’s Designs of the Year exhibition celebrates design that promotes or delivers change, enables access, extends design practice or captures the spirit of the year.
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Product
"FIND OUT WHAT THE WORLD'S GENIUSES HAVE BEEN UP TO FOR THE LAST 12 MONTHS."
Transport
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Osma Harvilahti
photography : osma harvilahti
‘New Colour’ series in Kenya
Osma Harvilahti is a man in high demand. The young Finnish photographer has made a name for himself shooting dreamy shots of beautiful women, ethereal landscapes and enviable interiors. His impressive 120mm images have led him to regular commissions from the magnificent Apartamento magazine. Shooting on film has become something of a rarity in the digital age and all too often photographers rely on post-production to create the desired effect in their pictures. But Osma has crafted his own unique style by perfecting the use of a limited range of hardware and maintaining a purity of vision throughout all his work, personal and commercial. Osma Harvilahti’s personal work ‘New Colour’ was presented and exhibited at the 29th International Festival of Photography, Villa Noailles, Hyères. Since then it has been featured in magazines and medias such as The Room, The Plant, Huffington Post and IMA Magazine. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur sit amet lorem erat. Nam a leo odio. Vestibulum id metus semper, imperdiet orci egestas, ornare purus. Integer dictum imperdiet lacus, at feugiat ante bibendum a. Morbi tristique risus non varius mattis. Duis vitae scelerisque dolor. Pellentesque sollicitudin sapien vel porttitor convallis. Aenean purus justo, sagittis eu quam ac, sagittis feugiat odio. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Donec a tortor ornare, dictum sapien in, maximus sapien. Integer posuere tellus et neque hendrerit fringilla. Aenean blandit ornare mauris a sollicitudin. Nullam libero lacus, rhoncus at neque id, facilisis efficitur elit. Sed rhoncus porta metus in finibus.
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photography : osma harvilahti
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art : academie x - lessons in art + life
Akademie X is an ideal curriculum for the aspiring artist, a hardcover book assembled from the wisdom of 36 legendary art teachers. Here, each of the book's "tutors" has provided a unique lesson to provoke, inspire and stimulate.
Inside you'll find: Technical advice (e.g. don't make a sculpture bigger than your studio door), assignments (some of which will take five minutes to complete, others five years), tips for avoiding creative ruts (including suggestions for mind-expanding materials to read, watch or listen to), principles of careful looking (demonstrated with images of artworks, photographs, films or even billboard advertisements), advice on the daily practice of art (how to balance time alone in the studio with building an artistic community), career pointers (how to prepare for a studio visit from a curator or gallerist) and personal anecdotes (e.g. stories from the instructor's own humble beginnings). Taken together, these lessons offer the reader a set of tools for thinking, seeing and living as an artist. Published by Phaidon Press.
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B LYS Z A K EYEWEAR Blyszak Eyewear, which will be released May 2015 is the first foray into accessories for Andrew Blyszak, a creative director in London. But he is not exactly a newcomer: Mr. Blyszak has spent a decade as a consultant for niche luxury brands. His glasses are made of steel and horn from an ethically certified supplier; the round frames available in seven variations, call to mind those that appeared in the spring shows for Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton and Salvatore Ferragamo.
-Andrew Blyszak
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fashion : blyszak eyewear
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“Blyszak Eyewear is a super-refined product using the highest quality materials. Mixing horn with metal to create something standout that naturally won’t be for everyone but which feels really good.�
fashion : blyszak eyewear
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photography by paul jung
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fashion : blyszak eyewear
photography by paul jung
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“Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from black people who are that dark because it has always been stigmatised.”
Small Pin-up (Finger Wag) by Kerry James Marshall (2013)
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art : kerry james marshall Marshall’s paintings draw attention to ideas about female beauty, and who decides who’s beautiful or not. “I bought a Taschen book called The Great American Pin-Up and it’s full of titillating images of girls with their skirts flying up but not one single black or Asian figure in it. When I started making pin-up images it was a response to the absence in books like these, or early Playboy magazines, or Miss America or Miss Universe pageants. All those pageants, at one time, didn’t put a black female body in the competition for who is the most beautiful or who is the most desirable.”
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photography : kelela for bad day
music : kelela
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Kelela
music : kelela
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photography : Christelle De Castro
music : kelela
“My music sounds like one synergised thing, one message. The goal is to blow the audience's mind."
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Kelela Based in Los Angeles, Kelela Mizanekristos is a mesh of contradictions. A trained vocalist in love with club culture, she fuses 80s synth pop with cutting edge production, an American sensibility but with European tastes. Twisted R&B is perhaps the most accurate term we’ve heard so far – especially with regards to Kelela’s excellent debut mixtape Cut 4 Me. The songs are twisted both sonically – warping 90s R&B melodies with club beats – and emotionally, thanks to her ability to undercut mainstream pop tropes like love and seduction with such dark devotion
The main reason why Kelela’s music has resonated with our critics this year more deeply than that of her contemporaries – Blood Orange, Jessy Lanza, AlunaGeorge – is because it sounds as if there’s a vulnerable human behind the sound. A lot of twisted R&B can sound robotic, cold and hyper-sexualised. This just sounds raw: across 13 tracks Kelela travels from angered to paranoid, horny to high. She will sound fine, then terrible, then merely quite unhappy until finally, for a while at least, she sounds at peace. Text by Harriet Gibsone In April, Fade to Mind released a deluxe edition of Cut 4 Me, complete with remixes
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The label always wanted Cut 4 Me to have “more visual power,” and while that meant new album artwork, it also meant toying with other digital formats. The reissue also saw the launch of cut4. me, an interactive site that not only streams the remixes, but animates Kelela as a digital avatar, shows the lyrics and lets users alter the environment. - Text by Chris Kelly Even with a deluxe version of her breakthrough mixtape Cut 4 Me and an eagerly-anticipated debut album on the way, Kelela is not slowing down: the Fade To Mind singer-songwriter has announced Hallucinogen, a six-song EP that explores a cycle of love and sexuality, from “rejection and amputation” to “feral lust and longing” through to “the payoff.” The EP is comprised of songs originally intended for her debut album, which is due this Fall. Heartbroken lead track ‘A Message’ kicks off the cycle with “rejection and amputation,” and was produced by man-of-the-moment Arca, with additional writing and production by Boots and Mocky Salome. Kelela says “‘A Message’ is one of 6 demos that were born out a three day session and it speaks to the despair that I was experiencing at the time. The initial version of the song spilled out of us in about 25 minutes. Since then, it’s been like a sculpture that I’ve come to and refined over time, adding a lyric here, refining a melody there, adding a bridge, etc. It’s a process that is now finally complete with its release.” ‘Hallucinogen’ the EP is due out on May 5. Watch the striking video for ‘A Message’, directed by Daniel Sannwald at: vimeo.com/124307250
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Cut 4 Me was released in the middle of autumn, becoming an apt soundtrack to the orange glow of 5pm streetlights and night bus windows streaming with raindrops. A collaboration between electronic sister labels Fade to Mind and Night Slugs, Cut 4 Me was an experiment for the production team, the first time the production crew had used vocals on their club tracks; in Kelela they had found their voice. As a result, DJs such as Girl Unit, Kingdom, NA and Bok Bok took meticulous care to pinpoint each track’s unique sense of sadness. Their aim, Kelela told the Observer in October, was to form a “pairing of scary and comforting, jolting and easy”.
by Kingdom, Jam City, Girl Unit and others. Kelela’s songs, remixed and re-edited, have long been staples of Fade to Mind sets and mixes; the deluxe edition seems to close a chapter, both for the label and for the singer, who has a new EP and album in the pipeline.
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Mirror Carousel (2005) by Carsten Hรถller Photograph by Attilio Maranzano
“Decision will ask visitors to make choices, but also, more importantly, to embrace a kind of double vision that takes in competing points of view, and embodies what Höller calls a state of 'active uncertainty' - a frame of mind conducive to entertaining new possibilities." - Ralph Rugoff
Upside Down Mushroom Room (2000) by Carsten Höller
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film : graphic means documentary
It’s been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works. For decades before that, it was the hands of industrious workers, and various ingenious machines and tools that brought type and image together on meticulously prepared paste-up boards, before they were sent to the printer. The documentary, Graphic Means, which is now in production, will explore graphic design production of the 1950s through the 1990s—from linecaster to photocomposition, and from paste-up to PDF. A curiosity for the profession’s diverse set of hand tools, machines, and traditional processes that have since been replaced by the computer led graphic designer and educator Briar Levit to start collecting oldschool design production manuals from the ’70s and ’80s. “We love to talk about the great mid-century designers, but no one really talks about the people who were putting all this stuff together for the designer.”
“You can be a good designer and not even know about this stuff,” says Levit, “but it’s going to enrich your understanding of the discipline and instill a sense of pride when you discover what folks did before you.”
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Support the production of this independent film, by pre-ordering your copy at :
graphicmeans.com/pre-order
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film : xavier dolan
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Xavier Dolan The young cinematic mastermind
Born in Montreal to a French-Canadian teacher and an Egyptian bit-part actor and musician, Dolan appeared in his first advert at four years old, and spent his childhood starring in Québécois movies. He made his directorial debut with the openly autobiographical I Killed My Mother, which premiered at the Cannes film festival in 2009 when he had just turned 20, and received an eight-minute standing ovation. He has since become a festival fixture, returning the next year with Heartbeats, in which a pair of best friends fall in love with the same man, and in 2012 with Laurence Anyways, about a woman coming to terms with her transgenderism. Then came the sharp genre noir Tom At The Farm, in which a boy is tormented by the brother of his dead boyfriend. For Mommy, he shared Cannes 2014’s jury prize with Jean-Luc Godard, the 83-year-old godfather of the arthouse. “Orson Welles was lazy,” Dolan quipped in an interview during the festival. “He was a late bloomer.” Mommy depicts the relationship between Steve (AntoineOlivier Pilon), a troubled teenager with a dangerously compulsive behaviour disorder, and his tough single
mother Diane (Anne Dorval), who decides to try to home-school her son, despite being afraid of and unable to control him. Events are very quickly turned up to 11, where they remain, for two hours and 20 minutes; shouting and fighting and laughing and crying in a brash array of primary colours, shot with a shaky handheld camera and a Céline Dion soundtrack. It’s a relentlessly showy and often absurd spectacle, both audacious and uncompromising. Text by Tom Seymour Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur sit amet lorem erat. Nam a leo odio. Vestibulum id metus semper, imperdiet orci egestas, ornare purus. Integer dictum imperdiet lacus, at feugiat ante bibendum a. Morbi tristique risus non varius mattis. Duis vitae scelerisque dolor. Pellentesque sollicitudin sapien vel porttitor convallis. Aenean purus justo, sagittis eu quam ac, sagittis feugiat odio. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Donec a tortor ornare, dictum sapien in, maximus sapien. Integer posuere tellus et neque hendrerit fringilla. Aenean blandit ornare mauris a sollicitudin. Nullam libero lacus, rhoncus at neque id, facilisis efficitur elit. Sed rhoncus porta metus in finibus.
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photograph : ryan pluger
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Xavier
“I create what I care about, what I understand, what I relate to, and then I put it out there and start on the next one.�
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Xavier Stories of adolescence — young adult novels, coming-of-age movies, teenagetargeted television series — are usually the work of adults, and therefore often temper their emotional immediacy with nostalgia, condescension or grown-up wisdom. But “Mommy,” the story of a troubled young man and his mother, seethes and howls with unchecked feeling. Shot in the square, narrow dimensions of a cellphone video, it is a pocket opera of grandiose self-pity, a wild and uncompromising demand for attention.
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As such, it courts dismissal, misunderstanding and perhaps even anger. Why does this movie have to be so noisy? So inconsiderate of the needs of others? Can’t it, just for a minute, mind its manners, clean up its room and behave responsibly? But the film’s ability to provoke such strong negative sentiments and at the same time — even within the same viewer — equally strong feelings of sympathy, solidarity and identification is testament to Mr. Dolan’s talent. To take “Mommy” as an undisciplined outpouring of aggression and angst is to underestimate its artistry. He has both advanced beyond the romanticism of “Heartbeats” and “Laurence Anyways” and regressed toward a more primal and confrontational mode of storytelling. “Mommy” may seem out of control, but it knows exactly what it’s doing (Text by A. O. Scott)
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art : clara nathan
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Clara Nathan continued to this day. Anselm Kiefer has greatly influenced my style as I found the appearance of his work to be awe-inspiring. His use of natural materials to create humongous pieces can truly take your breath away. Having seen his work in London just this year I can honestly say that I was completely taken aback by the beauty of his pieces.
What can you say about your style and creative process? I’d like to see my work as tactile as it makes the viewer wish to touch it and to explore it not only with their eyes but also with their hands. When creating work this element plays a huge part in the process of developing a textured piece. I enjoy seeing a piece develop by every layer added and would describe my process as layering. I find that layering gives the impression of adding depth. To, me it feels as though I am adding ‘layers’ to the story of the piece.
How do you think where you live influences your style? I would say that what always inspires my work is landscape. Living on the Isle of Man and in a small seaside town I can truly say that this Island not only influences my work but also inspires it. I often take photographs of the coast or hills and create works based on these views. If such beauty surrounds you it is a waste to not let it play a part in your work.
Who or what inspires you? The first time I ever painted was in the kitchen with my dad where we set up our easels and painted from our imagination. I always painted landscapes, and this funnily enough has
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Fine artist studying at Isle of Man college (soon to be Loughborough University) talks about her work.
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“I like to see my work as tactile as it makes the viewer wish to touch it and to explore it not only with their eyes but also with their hands. When creating work this element plays a huge part in the process of development.�
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Clara Nathan Do you enjoy collaboration work? I’ve never really been given the chance to work collaboratively. Honestly, I’m not sure how I would find it. I find that art is quite personal and I enjoy having time to myself to work on pieces as I find that I go into my ‘own world’ when I work. However, I wouldn’t reject the idea of working collaboratively as I think it would be a great learning experience and it would also give me an insight into other artist’s creative processes. So, Kiefer, if you ever want to work collaboratively then I am more than willing to oblige! Where do you see yourself in 10 years? In 10 years time I would love to have my own studio with all the equipment I need to create my own pieces. I would love if I were to be exhibiting in major cities such as London, New York and Paris and for my work to be appreciated by viewers. But most of all, I hope that I will continue to find happiness in creating art because the important thing to me is that I enjoy what it is that I am doing. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? In 10 years time I would love to have my own studio with all the equipment I need to create my own pieces. I would love if I were to be exhibiting in major cities such as London, New York and Paris and for my work to be appreciated by viewers. But most of all, I hope that I will continue to find happiness in creating art because the important thing to me is that I enjoy what it is that I am doing. What is your medium of choice? Personally, I enjoy working with various mediums in order to create a piece. Layers and textures are hugely important in my work and this is why I enjoy incorporating many different techniques and mediums in to one piece. I work primarily in mixed media, often using plant matter and clay but I also add layers of paint and sometimes resin to my pieces. I have recently been working with textiles and I find that this medium works well for me as it adds a unique texture.
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fashion : maria van nguyen
Maria Van Nguyen Maria Van Nguyen was born and raised in Oslo, Norway but has recently been settled in New York since 2012 since studying Fashion Design at Parsons New School for Design. Besides being a design student, Maria also works at Acne Studios and runs a successful blog where she shares her minimalist lifestyle and designs. Maria’s style is clearly characterised by neutral basics and essentials, while incorporating a subtle feeling of a powerful presence. Mary translates her personal style into her own designs; minimalist with an effortless feel. This is evident in her most recent ‘MVN x Paik’ collaboration for her thesis project.
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photography by christina paik
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“My goal is for people not to have to worry about clothing anymore: they’ll have their 'ideal wardrobe' with all their favorite garments, so that they can go on, live life and spend their energy on what matters to them. Fashion is fun but there are other things in life that truly make you happy.�
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Here London 2015 Curated by It’s Nice That
events : here 2015
Here is an annual conference with a difference, a fastpaced day of insight and inspiration from an international array of art and design talent. It is curated and organised by It’s Nice That, a publishing platform that champions creativity online, in print and through a series of live events. Since the first symposium in 2012, Here has taken place in the splendid surroundings of The Royal Geographical Society in Kensington, west London.
Here brings together 600 delegates from across the creative industries. Over the past few years they have welcomed Paul Smith, Erik Kessels, Adam Buxton, Marina Willer, Kate Moross, Christoph Niemann, Eike König, Ewen Spencer and CANADA among many others. Here 2015 is proud to present digital guru Iain Tait, artist and designer Scott King, SHOWstudio editor Lou Stoppard, photographic duo Blommers Schumm, karlssonwilker’s Hjalti Karlsson and ManvsMachine founder Mike Alderson. They will also be welcoming set designer Anna Lomax, illustrator Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, graphic designer Charlotte Heal and Nathan Cowen and Jacob Klein, the brains behind Haw-lin.
Here 2015: Friday, 12 June 2015 from 09:30 to 18:00 Buy tickets at: bit.ly/1G0QRdL
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