Simple fact: every time that we Gophers are not capable of finding something on the Inter-webs the same intense feeling pervades us. We feel like huge, clumsy sea-boats, incapable of capturing the hands of small, marooned people. Or small marooned librarians with PhDs in magazine-making. Or small marooned pastry chefs when we just had three cups of coffee. [...]
_hey! Print Magazine is following us on Twitter, we just found out today, we looove Print Magazine and especially their index of competitions.
_Leif Low-Beer is the art page of Young-Gunner Leif Parsons and it is very cool.
_Jonas Bergstrand is “no lone wolf” – and neither are his illustrations. Very I Dream of Jeannie at times. (via GrainEdit)
_Shigeru Ito is a Japanese-born designer who moved to Bangkok to be with his wife. Romantic, yes, but also very talented.
Philippe Intraligi is a German-born, Brazil-interning, New York-dwelling, Graphic Designer whose impressive client includes Telecom Italia, Adidas (and their Missy Elliott collection that a Gopher Editor who will remain nameless loves) and whose branding work is rooted in aesthetic philosophy and love of Bauhaus. He also just confessed to us that even though he’s a branding rockstar (our judgment, but clearly!) we have the privilege of getting his first interview, where he talks design, TV and even sends us songs he listens to [...]
_as soon as you enter the website you read: we have decided not to die. Bold statements in the Arakawa + Gins website.
_from WIRED’s GeekDad blog, a cute little list: Top 10 Bad Messages from Good Movies. Oh stop it, you know I’m a sucker for lists.
The Sound of Arrows – Winding Roads (Danger/2008)
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The Sound of Arrows is the hard-labored baby of Stefan Storm and Oskar Gullstrand, a Swedish duo with superhero names. (I aaaaam Stefaaaaan Stooooorm… yes? right?) They hail from Gävle “one of the most boring towns in Sweden” according to Labrador, their Malmo-based record label. Notable residents include the Prog-Rock band Beardfish. I love Wikipedia. Labrador quips that the first “Sound of [...]
_we had no idea that the people of Lineto were behind the amazing typo, graphic identity and signage of the Köln-Bonn airport in Germany that we visited in April, thanks to Billy Ben for the link!
_San Francisco Illustrator and Artist Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch has a show at Fecal Face Gallery righthisminute. We wish we could go.
_Tohyto is a good old friend, and his work gets more amazing each day. You should check out the Wall of Light visuals he made @ York with the people of Wassergate, go! go!
_Gavin Potenza makes amazing infographics. We want to be his friends.
_Diana Marie Behl’s work references “memory and narrative… metaphor and humor” She lives in South Dakota.
Born in Fribourg and designer from the cradle, Bénédict M. Rohrer [ a.k.a. Billy Ben ] is much more than your average line-drawing, typeface-choosing feller. To this team of Gophers, he’s a character that pops up regularly when we are on the lookout for music: Records, flyers, concert posters, dj booths and booklets recurrently carry his name on their backs, tempting us -free wheelin’ e-mailers- to contact him. This temptation proved too strong and we just went for it with B. It took twelve [...]
_we want to have a freebies section soon, just like the people of the Subtype Foundry or Font Shop or even Toyota.
After taking a tour through Candice Tarnowski’s works on her website, reading that she was born in the Canadian Prairie seemed almost obvious. Tarnowski’s media – textile and installation – are rooted both in the highly cerebral and in the very basic quest for comfort, it seems. We found ourselved overtaken by this comfort, by soft textile and the idea of home. It is precisely this notion that provides the conceptual and aesthetic foundation for Candice. She eloquently explains her practice in her [...]
_ Affex Ventura is a Danish artist, photographer and designer living in Copenhagen.
_wood that melts in your mouth, not your hands: Marteen Baas.
_not everyday you bump into a “wearable textile sculpture”, so kudos to Nadine Byrne for surprising us, even deep into the XXI century.
_In her website’s own words: Emily L. Eibel wants a cabin in the woods, but for now, she lives in Brooklyn.
Toro y Moi – Causers of This [ Carpark, 2009 ]
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It’s time for our wildly speculative affirmation of the week: we’re pretty sure that you, fellow Gopher visitor, have already heard about Toro y Moi. We just can’t help but be sure about it since the internets seem to be brimming with all kinds of Toro y Moi presence these days. You go window-shopping to blogland and bump into his musings about tour life [ [...]
_last night we were remembering a Pipilotti Rist exhibition while stuck in traffic.
_Michael Paulkner works around “information technology and new media as it relates to branding, communications and design.” We basically think he’s awesome
With all these music and art and design posts, we couldn’t resist waxing philosophical. On a recent trip, I met with philosophy Professor Jesse Prinz at NYC’s Deitch Galleries and was so excited about this interview I forgot my wallet. (Thanks for coffee, Jesse!). There, he talked about art history, the similarity between moral judgment and aesthetic judgment and why porcelain cats can be political. Jesse is a Professor of Philosophy at C.U.N.Y, former Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at [...]
_this is a painting by Jean-Marc Bustamante. [ via Xavier Hufkens ].
_Miss Lotion is a Danish-born artist who resides in Copenhagen. Apparently she has some sort helpless compulsion to draw?
_”and from that moment every time I hear the words funiculi funicula I remember Asako Narahashi“ said Mike over some wine this week.
_ Lumadessa is Josh Brill’s art and design label, where he aims to construct ‘visual reinterpretations of life’. We like his birds.
_Mikey Burton is a midwestern designer living in Philadelphia who “still wants to make beautiful things for awesome people.” This is his dissertation project: New covers for required reading. Double nerd joy!
_we can’t believe we have forgotten to feature our friends of La Más Bella experimental magazine until today. Sorry Diego & Pepe !
_Agan Harahap is a self-taught photographer and illustrator in Indonesia. He plays around with photos.
_finally we know who took this photo: Irina Rozovsky as a part of her series “One to Nothing“.
Continuing with the habit of interviewing bands that find their name inspiration in the Animal Kingdom, this time The Gopher went to talk to Nijae Draine, half of American indie pop duo Elle Lefant. Injecting love and emotion into fresh beats and electronic rhythms, this young duet embark on their musical endeavors with a lot of dynamism. Take your shoes off, sit back, and get to know them, as we did, from a conversation over a college cafeteria table… you’re bound to find something [...]
Our visit to the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection this week (a collection! and you can use it!) has us reeling with an aesthetic inspired by the specimens: “hard angular forms that reflect mechanical origins”. Big and bold, and fun, and (maybe this is just us…) the kind of beautiful fun that smells of popcorn. So… we rounded up some things we liked. A big thanks to the amazing David Shields for the tour!
Wood Type and Wooden Toys. Get [...]
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