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The film we’re doing the branding / packaging for, LOVE by Angels & Airwaves is playing live around the country this Wednesday night. After the film AvA will play 3 songs & have a question / answer session with Tom DeLonge, director William Eubank and lead actor Gunner Wright. Since I missed the SBIFF premiere due to a tradeshow, I’m really looking forward to seeing the film in it’s entirety.
Check for a theater near you at Fathom Events
Not only is today the day that every store in Barcelona is closed (don’t plan on buying stuff to bring home that day, we learned the hard way), it’s also Go Skateboarding Day! Even if you only get out & push around for a couple minutes once a year, this is the day to do it. Legendary artist (& super cool guy) Jim Phillips did the poster, kinda of reason enough in my book. Go Skateboarding Day
Just got notification from the FPO (For Print Only) awards, seems like our little postercard won an award for the letterpress division. Pretty Excited about it, in with some pretty good company. Check out all the winners at FPO Awards & of course you can see photos of the piece here.
A couple days back we made the trek up to LA for the E3 show. Pretty amazing stuff there, the new PSVita & Nintendo WiiU were there, along with the huge, marked out, lines that went along with wanting to play on them. New games, new consoles, new technology, everything & then some was there. Check after the jump for more pics & a little writeup.
Next Friday, May 20th 2011, I’m going to be in an art show / auction benefiting Stoked Mentoring called Stoked Sessions up in Culver City, CA. A whole get-down is planned for opening night; DJs, drinks, who knows…. maybe even dancing. The whole thing benefits Stoked Mentoring & the great programs they have for kids so if you’re a) bored or b) in the Culver City area or c) need a reason to head to LA, stop in & check it out. The Stoked Sessions has an overview of what’s happening on Friday night, including a slideshow of the pieces that will be there. Check after the jump if you’d like to see my contribution.
Great live street-art even in Hawai’i a couple months back, covered by HBTV: Pow Wow Hawaii 2011 Part I
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Pretty cool deal for the skateboarding / graffiti art world up in LA this week. MOCA LA is showing Art in the Streets, which features artwork from numerous big names in the skate / street art scene including Kieth Haring, Mister Cartoon, Lance Mountain, Basquiat, Ed Templeton, Twist, Amaze and others. Also included are an informative timeline of the history of Dogtown & CR Stecyk.
Transworld Skateboarding has a little write up on opening night as does HybeBeast. Pretty cool deal, we’ll be checking it out in early May for sure.
Also at the event, Nike SB partnered with MOCA to create a skate-able art installation created by Lance Mountain & Geoff McFetridge. They’ve also got some limited edition t shirts by Lance Mountain, CR Stecyk III, Neckface & Futura (which are probably already sold out & on ebay for $500 a pop). Anyways, it looks pretty cool, too. Check it out
Cool live-art battle in the land of OZ between Ken Taylor & Drew Funk.
Thanks to OMG Posters for the heads up.
On our semi-regular list of checks is the DDC site. Draplin & I have been running in the same circle for a number of years & only a matter of time until our paths cross in person. It’s always interesting to see what he has to say In light of his appendix taking him out of commission, We thought we’d help out with some random links that have been collected around recently. A lot of these were either directly or indirectly found through We Love Typography or the site Typography Served.
Anyone who reads this blog even semi-regularly knows how Valhalla feels about Herb Lubalin. Great gallery of his work here or here or here or … The list could go on & on & on… Amazing steel pen box here, circa foreverago.
In the same photostream as some great signage (a weak spot of mine) was an amazing van. Under the photo it says“I have a feeling 1973 was this guy’s best year; there’s every possibility that in the intervening years this has gone from poontang wagon to primary residence. But still, at least he had one good year once. From the looks of this souvie, one really, really good year.” What a year it must have been.
Aaron Horkey & Vania Zouravliov’s Dracula poster is ridiculous. Then again, if you’ve ever seen his work, you should already expect that. Pretty much the best sucker out there, I’ve always liked the Chupa Chups logo, only today did I find out that Salvador Dali did it & also said they should have the logo on the top of the sucker, since it would be hidden if it was on the side. Nice.
Here’s a few great portfolios / collections. One from Jon Contino, a great “process of design” gallery here by Ivan K and rounding it out for today is a portfolio Scott checked out when I spoke at AICSD last month. Daran Brossard brings it with some great typographic skills. I think he said he was moving to Boston, if you live on the east coast & need some great design – check him out!
Pretty cool live-art battle in what’s supposed to be an amazing city in the land down under with Ken Taylor taking on Deb. Thanks to OMG Posters for the vid.
Starbucks celebrated it’s 40th Anniversary today by updating their logo. It’s really just the same old logo without the wording around the outside but hey, it’s new none the less. If you’re an addicted fiend who will be thrown off by such a change, they were nice enough to post a 85 second video on their website so people don’t get too confused – Starbucks new logo walkthrough CNN also has an article on it CNN article on new Starbucks logo I don’t mind it but then again, I’m not a starbucks addict.
