REFILL PRESENTS
REFILL PRESENTS
24 renowned Typographers, designers and artists come together as a tribute to the vinyl record. Artists in the line up include, ALIFE, Michael Leon, Jonathan Zawada, Alex Trochut,  Jeremyville, Andy Howell, COLLIDER.. to name a few. (flier attached) With the increasing consumption of digital music, disused vinyl records now gather dust the world over, many of which lie  in scratched piles at book exchanges, permanently abandoned. Relics of bygone eras, old records were emblazoned with beautiful typography and logos unique to a moment in time and genre specific. The inspiration behind the exhibition concept was to focus on the record as a medium and create a renewed functionality. Turning the records into laser etched time pieces added purpose to objects which had otherwise become obsolete. The 24 artists consist of a diverse international and local mix. Each artist was chosen for their typographic ability, original ideas and most importantly unique flare.
THE ARTISTS
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ALEX TROCHUT
ALIFE
ANDREW VAN DER WESTHUYZEN
JONATHAN ZAWADA
JOSEPH ALLEN
KID ACNE
ANDY HOWELL
ARBITO
BEN BROWN
LUCA IONESCU
MAROK
MATT FRENCH
BIGFOOT
CODY HUDSON
DEB
MICHAEL C PLACE
MICHAEL LEON
PHIBS
ERIC ELMS
JEREMY HOLLISTER
JEREMYVILLE
SI SCOTT
TILT
TODD BRATRUD
ALEX TROCHUT
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ALIFE
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ANDREW VAN DER WESTHUYZEN
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ANDY HOWELL
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ARBITO
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BEN BROWN
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BIGFOOT
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CODY HUDSON
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DEB
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ERIC ELMS
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JEREMY HOLLISTER
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JEREMYVILLE
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JONATHAN ZAWADA
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JOSEPH ALLEN
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KELVIN HO
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KID ACNE
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LUCA IONESCU
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MAROK
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MATT FRENCH
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MICHAEL C PLACE
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MICHAEL LEON
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PHIBS
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SI SCOTT
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TILT
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TODD BRATRUD
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RECORD TIME. All Lasered artist time pieces in a limited edition of 24 available to purchase via www.thegoodfolk.com
7 years as a pro skateboarder and during his career co-founded New Deal Skateboards and Element Skateboards. Howell draws on anything from electrical boxes on the street to skateboard decks to canvas and paper. Howell’s work relays an atmosphere of humor, while fusing his attraction to man’s vices with a cynical distaste for them. www.andyhowell.com
PG 08-013 | ALEX TROCHUT Is a freelance graphic designer from Barcelona. He loves type and illustration. He doesn’t favour one over the other, but he particularly likes it when both are present. He’s a big believer in “More is More.” He doesn’t like limiting himself to a particular style. He enjoys communicating through the needs of every project by adapting each situation differently in order to express himself. www.alextrochut.com
PG 032-037 | Arbito Arbito likes to surround himself in fur, mirrors, beer, boobs, hot pink colour, roman ruins, glossy shapes, long hair, mushrooms, American flags, hand gestures, mind games, thick lines, and psych vibrations. He shares a basement studio hideout with his wife Snaggs, in their humble home in the magical northwest USA. www.arbito.com
PG 014-019 | ALIFE PG 038-043 | BIGFOOT With friends like RZA, Common, Lupe Fiasco, Just Blaze and the like, it’s not hard to see why this brand maintains a sophisticated following among streetwear lovers. What started in 1999 as a New York City creative collective has evolved into a high-end, cool-kid line of sneakers, T-shirts and hats. The startling Fairfax space is modeled after one of one of New York City’s Dietch Projects by artist Rob Jest--all the popular wares are encased in Plexiglass along the sides with benches placed in the middle of the store--and checkout is setup like a bodega check-cashing joint. Some of the vibrantly colored goods are strictly Alife, while others are the result of partnerships with designers like Puma, Reebok, Kangol and Canada Goose.Alife also has a music series called “Alife Sessions” featuring artists like Just Blaze and John Mayer. www.alifenyc.com
PG 020-025 | ANDREW VAN DER WESTHUYZEN Designer/Director and co-founder of Sydney based design and film collective Collider, Andrew van der Westhuyzen covers a range of creative fields from typography for print campaigns to animation direction, branding, art direction and web. Andrew’s client list includes MTV Australia, BMW USA, Target, Sydney Film Festival, Sydney Dance Company, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Australian Tourism, Ministry of Sound and Toyota. Andrew is now in the process of publishing a graphic novel four years in the making. ‘Cabal’ is a culmination of years of drawings and paintings created to illustrate a story about contemporary society’s fixation with mass-consumption. The book, hand embossed and embellished, is created as a series of artist’s editions, and is in itself a culmination of van der Westhuyzen’s multi-faceted creative ability and passion. Andrew lectures at UTS and has spoken at Semi Permanent alongside such icons as Stefan Sagmeister, SEA Design, and Danny Yount. www.collider.com.au
PG 026-031 | ANDY HOWELL Andy Howell’s roots are simple: skateboarding, surfing, drawing, painting, punk rock, and hip hop. Howell travelled the world for
Bigfoot the painter depicts his alter ego as an oversize woodland creature zapping bulldozers with lightning bolts, meditating in the forest, and sometimes terrorizing the viewer with menacing growls and grabbing paws. He’s the ultimate tree hugger, but he’s not a hippie. The work seems repetitive in a Rain Man-esque way, but if you look closely, you see there is a secret language being developed and a story building. The art of “getting up” is not lost on the endearingly shy, KISS-crazed artist, however; the demand for his gallery work has kept him out of the streets since July 2004. www.bigfootone.com
PG 056-061 | DAN FUNDERBURGH Dan Funderburgh is a wallpaper designer and artist in Brooklyn, NY. His patterns, prints and installations are varied in content but all demonstrate an unabashed love for decorative arts. With influences ranging from Moorish mosaic to American op art, the work is a repudiation of the fabricated schism between art and decoration. Some of Dan’s work can be found in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum and the Miami Museum of Modern Art. www.danfunderburgh.com
PG 062-067 | DEB Deb, born in Melbourne, is an eclectic artist with a passion for Street Art and is very active in the Australian Street Art scene. She is currently working as a full time freelance artist. Deb has completed commissions throughout Australia, including many public artwork projects, which often involve a mergence of skills; graphic design, commissions, murals, canvas art and aerosol workshops. Inspiration for her works is a combination of her own life experiences fused with a fantasy world.Eric Elms. www.deb.net.au
PG 068-073 | ERIC ELMS Eric Elms is an artist from Brooklyn, New York and the only transparent characteristic of Elms, is, clearly, his talent for design. Working with Supreme, aNYthing, Obey and Surr makes Elms an elite–not elitist–designer that possesses ageless wisdom within a relatively young industry. www.ericadorn.com
Jeremyville has worked with clients such as Converse, Rossignol, Colette, Coca Cola, MTV, Kidrobot, Refill 7, Graniph in Japan, Adio Shoes, STRANGEco, Wooster Collective, Super Rad Toys, Play Imaginative, sketchel, Adidas, Tiger Beer and Tiger Translate, Artoyz in Paris, Domestic Vinyl in Paris, Corbis, Thunderdog, Red Bull, Pop Cling, 55 DSL and Beck. He has appeared in magazines such as Swindle, Vapors, xlr8r, Wallpaper, Dazed and Confused, Nylon, Monster Children, Oyster, Computer Arts UK, Fused UK, Yen, IdN, Territory, Juxtapoz, The Drama, Beautiful Decay, 119, Xfuns, T World Journal, and Faesthetic. Jeremyville splits his time between studios in Sydney Australia and New York City. He collects rare t-shirts, sneakers, toys and denim. www.jeremyville.com
PG 086-091 | JONATHAN ZAWADA Jonathan Zawada is a Sydney based artist who works as a creative director and designer for music, art and fashion clients, such as Modular Records, The Presets, Tina Kalivas, Coca Cola US and China, Fanta, 18th Amendment, Myspace Fashion, BMW, V, Ksubi, General Pants, Universal Music, Westfield, and Silverchair. These commissions have included website design, illustration, fabric prints, art direction of photo shoots, and book and magazine art direction. Being involved in the Modular business for a number of years, in addition to working on album cover and touring artwork Jonathan has also developed a line of merchandise for the label which is sold in boutiques in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, USA, UK & France. He also conceptualized, edited and art directed the Modular Magazine, M is for Modular. www.zawada.com.au
PG 044-049 | BEN BROWN Ben Brown is a Sydney based designer and artist. Ben has been drawing and designing all manner of promotional and commercial material for a mixed variety of clients and exhibitions for over twenty years. His interest in music has led to work for local and international acts including Silverchair, Nirvana, Fat Boy Slim, Frenzal Rhomb and others. Ben has also been employed by major and independent record companies to package and promote music that went right across the board. Clients include Sony, Island, EMI, Universal and the ABC. www.benbrown.com.au
PG 050-055 | CODY HUDSON Cody Hudson is a Chicago based painter, also known for his commercial art and graphic design contributions under the name Struggle Inc. Known for the production of clean, multi-dimensional graphics, Cody’s design aesthetic is part urban modernism, and part organic visual deconstruction. His graphic work and paintings have been exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Japan including Rocket Gallery (Tokyo), The Reed Space (NYC), The Lazy Dog (Paris), & Bucket Rider Gallery (Chicago). www.struggleinc.com
PG 092-097 | JOSEPH ALLEN PG 074-079 | JEREMY HOLLISTER Jeremy Hollister is a visual effects artist living in NYC and working mainly for music videos and television commercials. www.jeremyhollister.com
PG 080-085 | JEREMYVILLE Jeremyville is an artist, product designer, animator and author. He wrote and produced the first book in the world on designer toys called Vinyl Will Kill, published by IdN, interviewing people like Fafi, Sarah from Colette, Baseman, Biskup, Pete Fowler, Jason Siu, Kinsey and Kozik. He has been in a group show at Colette in 2007 alongside KAWS, Fafi, Futura, Mike Mills and Takashi Murakami. He has initiated the ‘sketchel’ custom art satchel project with artists like Beck, Genevieve Gauckler, Gary Baseman, and around 500 other artists. He has a new book out called ‘Jeremyville Sessions’, with collaborations with Geoff McFetridge, Miss Van, Devilrobots, STRANGEco, Lego, Converse, MTV and Adidas. His art has been published in design books by IdN, Die Gestalten Verlag, All Rights Reserved, Victionary, MTV, Magma Books, Kidrobot, Faesthetic, Laurence King, Taschen and Pictoplasma.
Joseph Allen’s life and work is entirely preoccupied with art. Without differentiating between high and low, nor fine or commercial, Joseph works as a curator, gallerist, publisher, writer, art director and somewhere down the list - fine artist. Describing his profession as Mixed Business (like many convenience stores) he created Izrock to house all these endeavours under one roof. He has shown his fine art in Melbourne, Sydney, London, Edinburgh and Germany. The publications and expositions he realises for other artists reach all parts of the globe. www.izrock.com
PG 098-103 | KELVIN HO Kelvin Ho is a Sydney based full time architect and part-time illustrator and hunter. Recent collaborations and projects have been with Refill Seven, Monster Children Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Graniph, Deus Gallery and WWD. www.akincreative.com
PG 104-109 | KID ACNE The MC, graffiti writer and out-n-out chatty bastard first appeared on the Lex radar as an illustrator, designing flyers for local club nights and sleeve artwork for Warp Records’ electronic pioneers,
Plaid. Rolling dues-deep with fellow graffiti veteran Req One - the duo subsequently featured on the 2001 Lexoleum compilation with a raw, lo-fi offering, Rap Dracula. Continuing the partnership, with Req handling nocturnal-beatprogramming and Kid Acne (AKA Ackers, Ken Acid, Kidney Ache) taking care of microphone-grappling and wobble-gob duties, the next few years saw a string of releases on Acne’s own Invisible Spies imprint such as Council Pop (2003), Reality Raps (2004) and various 7”s & long players with in-house collective, Toah Dynamic (featuring a rabble of cohorts including Chips for the Poor, Supreme Vagabond Craftsman & Earl Shilton). A modern day renaissance man, Kid Acne is an internationally acclaimed artist having created his own comic book (Zebra Face 2001), designed numerous record sleeves for the likes of Big Dada & Chocolate Industries, customized spray cans for Montana Colors, an entire T-shirt range for Prada and exhibited in galleries throughout the world. www.kidacne.com
PG 110-115 | LUCA IONESCU Luca Ionescu is internationally renowned for his branding and logo work. Combining his unique style with strong ideas to deliver a message, Luca has worked alongside major brands like Zoo York, MTV America, Nike, Etnies, Reebok, VH1 and Stussy to name a few. Luca founded Refill Magazine in 2003, a much respected niche publication for designers and artists of all disciplines. In 2006, he established Like Minded Studio, with the vision of creating cutting edge design solutions that propel brands forward. He has most recently worked as the curator of Refill Seven, a world first exploring the idea of lasering through the 7 layers of ply on a skateboard deck to create distinctive graphics. www.luca.com.au
PG 116-121 | MAROK Marok was born 1972 in Berlin and is the founder and creative brain behind Lodown magazine, a niche culture magazine based in Berlin, which has been publishing urban avant-garde content in the fields of music, art and Bewegungskunst (expressionist dancing) for 12 years. Lowdown magazine is a trailblazer for contemporary popular culture and a platform for progressive ideas for a non-mainstream creative community. Marok is also a graphic artist however as a priority, he publishes his work in individual book projects. His most recent work was called TRAPHIC and was published by Unagi Books. www.lodownmagazine.com
PG 122127 | MATT FRENCH Matt French: born, raised, and currently living with his wife and three kids, in Lynden, Washington, USA. Skates for Pocket Pistols Skates, Ace Trucks, and Sabre shades. Creates art for Volcom, Lib Technologies snowboards, and is the art director of Pocket Pistols Skates where he works with Jim Phillips and VC Johnson to create art for skateboards and clothing. Enjoys activities. Likes food, and sometimes eats. Part dolphin, part airplane. Slaps five, on occasion. www.grumbacherart.com/gallery/artists/french PAGE 0166 | RECORD TIME
PG 128-133 | MICHAEL C PLACE
PG 152-157 | TILT
He started work at The Designers Republic, Sheffield in 1992 where he worked for 9 years, on a diverse range of work from R&S Records, Satoshi Tomiie, Warp Records, Sun Electric to the Wipeout series for the Playstation to the book 3D>2D Adventures In + Out of Architecture. He left tDR to go travelling in 2000. On September 17th, 2001 he started his own design company “Build”, which is based in London. Build specialises mainly in design for print. www.wearebuild.com
Tilt is an internationally recognised traditional graffiti artist, originating from Toulouse in South France. A self declared “graffiti fetishist”, he learned his trade in the streets and on trains as a youngster. www.graffitilt.com
PG 134-139 | MICHAEL LEON Michael Leon works in a variety of mediums including painting, sculture, photography and music. He is known for the simple, bold, colorful, and hopeful vision that flows throughout his work. After recieving a degree in studio art from Calarts he spent several years as a graphic designer, creating unique images for Girl, Rasa Libre, and other skateboard related companies. His artwork has been shown worldwide, including solo exhibitions in London, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Michael is also the mind behind the concept brand Stacks, which he co-designs with his wife Laura. www.commonwealthstacks.com
PG 158-163 | TODD BRATRUD Todd Bratrud grew up in a small farming community in rural northern minnesota, where football, hunting or throwing things off the bridge was considered the norm. However he was the exception - drawing and skateboarding was his idea of fun. Todd spent many years working on all things art related for Consolidated Skateboards. These days you can find his art regularly featured on flip skateboards, volcom, the skateboard mag, nike, familia skateboard shop. He also operates Teenage Urethane and often contributes to Burlesque design of north america. When he’s not working you can still find Todd skateboarding almost every day. He thoroughly enjoys his work and still sees it as a means of fun… the only real difference now is that he doesn’t have to give up groceries for rent money. www.teenagerunawayurethane.com www.theskateboardmag.com/blogs/todd-bratrud
PG 140-145 | PHIBS Phibs origionally from sydney, moved to melbourne because of its strong support of the arts. He has mannadged to work as a freelance srtist for several years. His work can be s een around streets of the inner city of melbourne and sydney. Origionanting from a traditionall graffiti backround, phibs endevours to promote the value of the art art form throughout outlets such as commisions, murals, youth workshops and exhibitions. Whilst phibs signature is his intricate almost stencil like thick and bold lines and cut back methods his work is visebly influenced by the art and myhtology of many culturs both antient and modern. www.phibs.com
PG 146-151 | SI SCOTT After gaining a degree in graphic design at Buckinghamshire University College, Si Scott used his skills to develop a characteristic style which combines hand-inked and penned artwork with modern typography. That style has won him a prestigious and ever-expanding client, including Volvo, Higo Boss, Nike, Guinness, Orange, MTV and Casio. You may also have come across Si’s work in the pages of Creative Review, Grafik, Graphic International, Contagious Eye and the book 1000 Typographic Treatments. www.siscottstudio.com
CREDITS Art Direction: Luca Ionescu Layout Design: Yosuke Ando Photography: Andy Lewis Refill Magazine http://www.refillmag.com The Good Folk http://www.thegoodfolk.coim Like Minded Studio http://www.likemindedstudio.com
RECORD TIME. AN EXHIBITION OF LASERED VINYL TIME PIECES 24 LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND TYPOGRAPHERS EXPLORE THE NOTION OF TIME BY LASER ETCHING AND CUTTING THEIR ART ON VINYL RECORDS.
ALIFE . ANDREW VAN DER WESTHUYZEN . ARBITO ALEX TROCHUTT . ANDY HOWELL . BIGFOOT . BEN BROWN CODY HUDSON . DAN FUNDERBURGH . DEB . ERIC ELMS JEREMY HOLLISTER . JOSEPH ALLEN . JEREMYVILLE JONATHAN ZAWADA . KID ACNE . KELVIN HO LUCA IONESCU . MATT FRENCH . MICHAEL C PLACE MICHAEL LEON . MAROK . PHIBS . TILT . TODD BRATRUD
7PM . FRIDAY 15TH MAY PALMER PROJECTS GALLERY. 2/238 PALMER STREET, DARLINGHURST
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