Artist Geoff Mcfetridge recently started his own wallpaper company called Pottok. Originally intended to be a liason between artists and retailers, Pottok now offers customers a chance to throw up their favourite designs on their walls. All of the wallpapers are hand screened in LA and printed on recycled paper, using water-based inks without the use of any chemical waterproofers, making them and eco-friendly decor choice.
[Image: Pottok]
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“abcdefghijklmnop qrstuvwxyz” is a sweet little movei about Job and Gradus Wouters – two brothers who are deeply into creating letters. Spontanious jam sessions in their studio inspired them to make this video about the fun of drawing letters. Anyone into handtype should really check this out.
Denis Darzacq’s The Fall is a photo series capturing French youth defying gravity for a moment. These images weren’t the result of tricky computer rendering. Instead, Darzacq turned to break-dance choreography to make it all possible.
[Image: Denis Darzacq]
Chuck Anderson’s work was spotted on ESPN at the Winter X-Games in the form of this super slick Burton jacket. Shown here, halfpipe winner Kevin Pearce donning the NoPattern X Burton collaboration.
[Image: Burton]
Catch over 30 different artists in the Alice in Wonderland themed art show. Zach Johnsen, Aya Kakeda, Scrappers, and OGI are among those bringing their art to the walls. It will take place at Compound Gallery in Portland, OR. This is a great space and sure to be an amazing show.
[Image, Compound Gallery]
The third and final day here at Magic folks. The Green Label Art Lounge was the place to be, with some more exciting visitors rolling through to check out the bottles and say what’s up to Troy Denning. Thanks to everyone who came to the lounge while they were here in Las Vegas! More pics after the jump-off!
Day one of Magic is a wrap, and the GLA booth was a crowd favorite. With Green Label Artist Troy Denning in the lounge celebrating his “Concrete Dragon” bottle, the Magic crowed flocked to the booth to take a break, blog on our blogging consoles and collect the GLA bottles. Tons of people stopped by the booth, and we snapped ‘em all. Take a look after the jump…
If you’re in NYC this week, you have to check out photographer Juergen Teller’s exhibit entitled Ukraine at the Lehmann Maupin Gallery. Teller was commissioned, along with four other artists, by the Pinchuk Art Centre to interpret the Ukraine for the 52nd International Venice Biennale 2007. Many of you many know him for his Marc Jacobs commercial work, but this time around Teller chose to employ the city as a setting for a W Magazine fashion shoot, mixing fashion, still-lives, and portraits of ordinary people as a way of representing his fantasy of a country marked by a brash youthful energy and an obsession with capitalism. Should be an inspiring showing.
[Image, Lehmann Maupin]
It’s day one of Magic Las Vegas, the countries biggest apparel tradeshow, where GLA is holding court over the streetwear section with our Green Label Art Lounge. We’ll be keeping you posted on what’s going on out here in the crazy world of Magic this week. Check a few snaps of the Lounge after the jump…
Prolific LA graf artists AUGER and REVOK created an unsolicited collaboration with famous Japanese artist Takashi Murakami in LA last week. Although Murakami was not expecting it, word on the street is that he loved their “additions” and had the billboard shipped back to his Tokyo studio.
[Image, LA Weekly]
Each year PS1 in Brooklyn opens up their courtyard to a design competition. This year’s winners have designed a layout that will turn the courtyard into a summer garden. New York Magazine details their inspiration for the summer occasion, where the designers site influences like urban immigrant gardening and the trend toward local food sourcing. We’ll be excited to see it in the flesh this Summer, when PS1 invites some great musicians and DJs to play in the courtyard at PS1 Warmup.
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