Hassan Hajjaj is a Morrocan photographer who lives in Marrakech for half of the year (and the other half in London), where he spends time photographing the people he meets. He began taking the photographs for his first series My Rockstars: Volume 1 in 1998. Hajjaj carefully constructs each image, often dressing his subjects in… Read more »
Jenny Kee‘s exhibition of her latest work opens this weekend at the Hat Hill Gallery in the Blue Mountains. A homage to her personal totem the Waratah, eighteen 60 x 60 cm acrylic paintings on board will be on display. The collection is vibrant and rich in colour – in true Jenny style – and… Read more »
[iframe width=”760″ height=”515″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/G-OVrI9x8Zs” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] Want to know what happens when a squid listens to Cypress Hill? They go insane in the chromatophores! This video was produced by Backyard Brains who conducted a series of experiments on the giant axons of the Longfin Inshore Squid (loligo pealei). The colour-changing nature of the squid’s skin is… Read more »
Eamon Donnelly is a Melbourne-based, illustrator and all-round creative, who moonlights as a passionate Australian archivist. He recently launched his new site The Island Continent – a homage to the colour, lifestyle and humour of Australian culture. Featured on the site so far are collections of photographs of Australian subcultures and local icons, including a… Read more »
Faig Ahmed is the Azerbaijani artist reinventing the carpet. Well not really, he’s merely just challenging “its habitual and visually static qualities”. Ahmed explores the traditional craft culture of his country (bordering Iran to the north, in case you were wondering), creating 3-dimensional installations using the patterns and motifs of Azerbaijani carpets.
Isabel Wilson is a NY-based textile designer who has worked for Marc Jacobs, Rodarte, Anthropologie and Calvin Klein. Her home in Williamsburg is full of collectables, including animal bones, sea shells, foams and Madagascan butterfly wings, revealing a true fascination with texture, detail and patterns that is reflected in her intricate works. (Source: Isabel Wilson… Read more »
Surfer girl Julia Nobis looks killer in whole lotta Josh Goot, styled by Jillian Davison for Vogue Australia November 2012. Given his penchant for neoprene and that the prints of his Resort 2013 collection were inspired by The Great Barrier Reef it’s a pretty perfect fit. There’s also some amazing print work featured from Australian… Read more »
Sugar and glitter aren’t the most popular materials for artists, but for Melbourne-based collective Pip & Pop – Tanya Schultz, Nicole Andrijevic and John Kassab – they are the foundations of their universe, or universes… of tiny psychedelic candy worlds. Mountainous sugar piles, cake decorations, origami, found objects and sound, create candy pop kingdoms in… Read more »
Beyonce’s sister (I bet she get sick of being introduced like that), Solange has released a new single, ‘Losing You’. The video features Solange dancing around the projects of South Africa, decked out head to toe in some pretty nice kit, courtesy of Opening Ceremony that is. Print on print on print, she even… Read more »
For the final show to close the season, Miu Miu presented a softer more demure collection compared with those of recent years. 1950s style couture, cut using soft midnight denim, alongside boxy evening coats and jackets were cut from duchess satin. Some were dyed using a tie-dye technique that looked like white wash caps swirling… Read more »
Saluti da Taormina. Mare. Sole. Amore. (Greetings from Taormina. Sea. Sun. Love.) This was the summation of Dolce & Gabbana‘s Spring 2013 collection from the designers themselves. Print is such a literal and direct way for designers to communicate their story – Dolce & Gabbana’s collection is the best example of this. 1950s shapes, embellished with… Read more »