Photographer Hedi Slimane is an obsessive chronicler of youth culture, and with assistance from MK2, he's releasing the American Youth boxset, which includes eleven of Slimane's films and a series of photos, this November. (Via Hypebeast)
Julana Beasley's City Heat series captures some very awkward, very real moments from the beach.
Cheeming Boey draws on styrofoam coffee cups. It's as simple as that, and yet it's awesome.
Sometimes you decorate your walls with pictures of people you love, but Berkley Illustrations wants you to decorate your walls with pictures of animals dressed as people. You can choose from birds dressed as businessmen, T-rex dressed as a cowboy or settle for some magnets or buttons.
Ever watched a look come down the runway and wonder "How the hell did they come up with that?" With a simple equation, Trust Fun breaks it down for you.
Mind Surfers is the latest exhibition to open at Space 15 Twenty, and it's billed as "A mass-mind vision quest of extra-sensory post-cool Californiacation and stuff. Optical Delusions for the New New Age." Far out.
100 Abandoned Houses is the project of photographer Kevin Bauman, who's been documenting empty houses in Detroit for more than 10 years. Bauman captures falling-down mansions to dilapidated shacks in a city that's had a hard time catching a break.
Urban Camouflage illustrates how to make a trip to Ikea a little less mind-numbing.
With pieces from multiple puzzles fitting together, Kent Rogowski's Love=Love series illustrates that the whole is more than just the sum of the parts.
In his series "Last One Out, Please Turn On The Lights," photographer Richard Nicholson turns his lens on a vanishing landscape—the darkroom.
Tim Barber has more than his fair share of pots simmering on the stove. Photographer, curator, publisher, designer and the brains behind tinyvices.com, it makes you wonder how he finds the time to be a cat-lady. Oh yes, he’s a cat-lady, too. Read on here to hear him talk about it, even though he’d probably rather just skip over the cat part.
As one of our graphic designers said, "If there were two subcultures I wouldn't want to fuck with, it'd be Norwegian Black Metal and Dirty South Rap." In 2008, Peter Beste released a book called—what do you know—True Norwegian Black Metal, and 2009 promises to bring his monograph of Houston Rap Culture. It's his world and we just live in it.
Imperfect Articles curated-cotton roster (Royal Art Lodge, Cody Hudson, David Shrigley, Cat Chow) makes it easier than ever to wear your art on your sleeve. Or your chest. Whatever.
Commissioned by creative director Kris Van Assche, Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito created 9,000 black butterflies to swoop through the Dior Homme flagship store. Pretty fly. (Via HighSnobiety.)
Angela Boatwright does hessian better than any other photographer out there, and her zine with Mount Saint Mountain, Six Pack of Sorrows, is a collection of some of her true-to-form work in a black-and-white, pocket-sized edition.
When the L.A. outpost of non-profit 826 Valencia opened down the street from Poketo, it was inevitable that someday a collaboration would arise. And lo and behold, it has: Poketo had L.A.-area artists illustrate short stories written by kids in 826's after-school programs and applied the results to their famous limited-edition wallets. The illustrations are on the front, and kids hand-written stories on the inside, and the profits help continue to fund 826's programs.
This Friday, Kiosk—a shop/gallery/party space/whatever it wants to be—becomes a lecture hall, albeit a very cool one. As part of their Mini-Exhibition series, Kiosk hosts artist Jonathan Berger as he curates a night of talks by artisans and entrepreneurs about how, when it comes to business, it ain't easy being independent.
We were pretty overwhelmed when we perused Alyssa Zukas' portfolio page. It's not enough that she designs rad t-shirts, but she also produces copious amounts of fine art, design, housewares, jewelry (see above), poetry, photography, sculpture, sewing and textiles. Phew! (PS...you can check out the tees she designed for us here.)
We've posted Zoo York artist series decks before but when they're this stunning how can we not? According to Matt and Mark Owens, their "Urbane Jungle" series represents "the socio-cultural realms of Literature, Architecture, The Arts, Transit, Food and Tourism". Shred-ready and heady.
Cassandra Rhodin seems to understand what many people do not. You need a boombox to make sexy dancing. Check out more from Cassandra, plus other great artist series tees here.
