YUCCA art and magic magazine issue #3
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“everything you can imagine is real.� pablo picasso
To the reader: mid afternoon i started my walk. it was a warm and sunny day without the slightest hint the weather would change. after a few hours, i climbed the black mountain and was ascending tooth cliff. suddenly the weather changed. the cold wind from the ocean brought a fog, which lay down on the ground, covering everything i could see. the way back would be hard and dangerous, but i had lived here since i was ten, and knew the area so well, i could make it back blindfolded. this time though, the fog was far denser than i had anticipated. the chirps and songs of the birds stopped, silence descended on me, and i ended up in the vacuum of my thoughts. the reason for climbing the cliff was dissolving as rapidly as it was disappearing into the fog. there was no chance at a scenic view, but i continued climbing anyway. when i pushed myself over the edge and onto the rim, i saw, at the very edge, something i would have never expected. a huge silver disc was hovering just beyond the edge, obscured by the fog. maybe someone had set up a new installation on the top of the cliff, but it was hard to tell the size of distance of the disc. i tried to move closer, but the disc always stayed exactly the same distance away. i looked closer as i moved, but the disrupted perception of the object made me dizzy. after fighting off the dizziness and fear of the unknown, i continued moving towards it. the complete silence, the dense suffocating fog, and only a small patch of visible ground beneath me, and huge hypnotizing disc calling for me. i took one more step and it disappeared, leaving me in the middle of nowhere, alone, cold, and puzzled. i wish i could see it again. i wish i could touch it...
by zan gato
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lieke van der vorst / liekeland
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chris nixon
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monika traikov
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alexandra beguez
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junichi tsuneoka / stubborn sideburn
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lynnie zulu
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andriy prokopenko / new york city street art
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victoria bashilova / my filmed theatre
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david layton
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Lieke van der Vorst liekeland www.liekeland.com
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liekeland is the label of dutch
this company from sweden
illustrator lieke van der vorst,
produces sustainable paper
founded in the summer of 2011 by
products and is trying to effect the
printing the first illustrated postcard.
environment as little as possible.
from her studio in helmond, where
the paper is printed by a local
she works and lives with dave and
company from eindhoven.
cat lino, lieke designs and illustrates her own work as well as work by
lieke gets inspired by the good
order of customers.
things around her. her vegetable garden, cooking, going to the
liekeland pays a lot of attention
market and drinking tea surrounded
to sustainability. all of her products
by friends and family are her major
are being illustrated and printed on
sources of inspiration that she uses
fsc-certified paper by arctic paper.
for her illustrations.
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chr is n ixon www.chrisnixon.net
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i am a multi-media artist based on the west coast of australia. the main focus of my art is the exploration of effective communication through illustration, design and art direction. inspired by handcrafted masters, i enjoy the challenge of working across a wide range
of media and scale from children’s books to public art; illustration and motion graphics. i draw, paint, illustrate and animate with the aim of enlivening spaces with my vision. chris nixon
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twitter: @nixon_creative instagram: @nixoncreative www.chrisnixon.net
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Mon ika Tra ikov www.monikatraikov.com
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www.monikatraikov.com monikatraikov.tumblr.com
the works explore the illusion of
allowing viewers to extract their own
memories and nostalgia, reflecting
personal meaning and be able to
a constant yearning for the past,
relate them to their own memories
often in an idealized or distorted
and past.
form. the way we remember moments are often glossed over, or warped in a beautiful way. often, feelings, colours and emotions are remembered more than the tangible. i used my personal experiences with memories to deconstruct my old family photographs, and create a new, idealized, and illusionary moments. each image evokes a certain mood and emotion encased in a memorywhether it is an eerie memory that
the photographs are scanned into the computer digitally, and are changed through stretching, pixelating, shifting, or layering. using a digital medium contrasts the organic elements of the photographs by adding structure, organization and a more methodological element to the images. the post processing helps to unify the essence of past and present.
you can’t quite put back together,
the fragmented qualities of the
or a dreamy, fantastical memory
images mimic the constructive
that you will never forget. the series
and illusionary processes that our
tells a fragmented story of different
minds use in remembering a specific
emotions, moods, and moments
moment of our past. the images
that translates these foreign family
weave together both truth (the
photographs into something familiar
tangible photographs) and illusions
and thought provoking. i wanted to
(the distortions and fragments) to
establish a familiarity in each image,
create a sense of uncanny memory.
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Alexandra Beguez www.alexandrabeguez.com
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hello! i’m an illustrator, cartoonist and printmaker based in new jersey with a love of extremely bright colors and cautionary endings. i like crafting stories of how and why things have come to be, as well as giving my eclectic crew of characters a common, whimsical universe to inhabit. the themes that typically appear in my stories are obstacles getting in the way of the inability to get what you want/need, loneliness, the fantastical and unrequited sentiments. alexandra beguez
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Jun ichi Tsuneoka STUBBORN SIDEBURN
www.stubbornsideburn.com
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client: live nation. poster design
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client: brouwerij west poster and beer label design
junichi tsuneoka was born and raised
signs pointing back to his strong
in japan and, upon graduating waseda
design background.
university in tokyo, arrived in the us at the end of the 20th century. being
stubborn sideburn:
a graphic designer at modern dog
it is a character graphic project
design co. for six years really made
created by junichi tsuneoka. we
a great impact on junichi’s design
design unique and strong character
career. because of that experience,
based illustrations that can apply
junichi established a style often
to many different graphic design
recognized as “california roll stylie,” the
project such as posters, cd covers,
result of both a visual and conceptual
packaging graphics, logos, corporate
fusion of japanese pop culture and
identities, book covers, web, animation,
american urban culture. he founded
advertising campaigns, etc.
studio stubborn sideburn to broaden
the past clients include: nike, adidas,
his visual communication and to
google, microsoft, yahoo!, publicis,
employ his visual language in art,
686 clothing, complex magazine,
illustration, and design. junichi’s pieces
budweiser, house of blues, creature,
possess highly communicative,
seattle best coffee, idw publishing and
assertive graphics, and contain clear
many other.
the style: it is often called “california roll stylie.” it is a result of both visual and conceptual fusion of japanese pop culture and u.s. urban culture.
creative process: “i often think of my creative process as two parts. it starts as spontaneous drawings. i draw whatever i have in my mind first, based on the concept of the project. this is more like doodling. after doing so for a while, i start looking at the drawing as a design. that means that i digest the drawing, simplify it, exaggerate, add things and so on. this second part of the process is carefully calculated and time consuming, compared to the spontaneous first part. at the same time, these two process are important to each other. if one is incomplete, then i will not be satisfied with the result of the design at the end. everything i design goes through these phases, and i do enjoy both parts of the process in different ways.”
client: cloud city skate shop skateboard design
client: live nation. poster design
client: kobo gallery
client: showbox seattle. poster design
client: adidas. t-shirt design
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chibi pocket is junichi’s side project, limited edition rare art toy brand. the toys are exclusive and produced very limited quantity. production process involves a lot of traditional hand skills such as curving, filing, painting, sanding and finishing as well as modern laser cut technology. most of the materials used to make toys are ecological
chibi pocket
and natural materials. the hand made process and the natural materials bring true unique personalities to each toy. because of this delicate and time consuming process, junichi can only produce very limited quantity at a time thus it makes the each toy very precious piece. more info: chibipocket.com
Lynn ie Zulu
www.lynniezulu.com
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www.lynniezulu.com twitter@lynniezulu instagram.com/lynniezulu
lynnie zulu is an illustrator born
me up show at somerset house,
(1988) and bred in the scottish
acumilating over 17,000 visitors.
borders, with an artist mother who was born in tanzania. zulu’s
her work has featured in
work carries an african influence
publications such as i-d, vogue,
that is revealed in the energetic
juxtapoz and it’s nice that.
mark making and by the exotic characters she creates. her
“lynnie zulu’s illustrations explore
illustrations can be found in
the mysteries of the female in
fashion print, apparel, homeware, lp
the context of nature and it’s
artwork, live art and in exhibitions.
surroundings. creating an exotic world where the female and her
spring 2014 zulu was selected
environment are metaphorically
to be a part of the best up and
enveloped and intertwined into
coming ‘selects’ in the annual pick
highly patterned vibrant images.”
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Andr iy Prokopenko new york city street art www.flickr.com/photos/mistergalaxy
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i started taking pictures long ago, but after moving to new york city i became more of an urban photographer. i never stop exploring this amazing city through my lenses. when taking pictures of a city you will surely have some graffiti shots as graffiti is the most urban kind of art. i love graffiti because it changes so quickly and i can capture the motion of the city, and the life of the city, through these changes. andriy prokopenko
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Victor ia Bashilova my filmed theatre www.bashilova.com
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David Layton www.davidlaytonartist.com
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my oil paintings revolve around our modern technological world. though the subjects i choose are familiar, i capture the qualities of them that are often overlooked. my process is to take pictures with my phone, and sift through them, finding the ones that both distill the essential elements of my subjects and disorients the viewer. they are then hand painted on canvas in oil. presented here are four different series: arcade; cinema; coaster; and car. david layton
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www.davidlaytonartist.com facebook.com/davidlaytonartist
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