Mitsuko likes it hairy. At least in the photos of her latest photo shoot. Miss Nagone grew up in Owase, a small southern city in Japan. She moved to Tokyo and studied photography at the College of Tokyo Visual Arts. In 2002, her work took part in an exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. She then moved to New
Read MoreManyStuff is one of the best blogs about graphic design. It welcomes you with the following sentence: „Every day I check many stuff“. The author is Charlotte Cheetham and apparently by many stuff she means architecture, photography, illustration and mostly graphic design. If you want to take a closer look at her brain or just listen to her thoughts on
Read MoreThe Swiss design duo Norm will arrive for a lecture at Sofia Design Week. Their trade mark is the experiment in the sphere of graphic design. The great typography of Cologne Bonn Aiport is one good example of their work. Check out the rest of their projects here. Isn’t this typography of the airport beautiful?!
Read MoreValentin Vodev is a Royal College of Art graduate and hе is one of the founders of Pixar Studio. He has already won many international awards, including the prestigious Red Dot Design Award in 2009 for his electronic bycicle Biquattro. We are happy to announce that he will be one of the lectors at the Sofia Design Week forum. Besides
Read MoreYou have 24 hours to contribute to the very first (zero) issue of 48 Hour Magazine. The manifesto of the guys standing behind the crazy project is simple and yet innovative for the market and traditions of print and web: “No long commitments. No pitches. No grinding editing process. You make good stuff fast; we publish it with other good
Read MoreTenderoni is a slang used to describe y boy or a girl you’re interested in but who is too you for you to get involved with. Kele Okereke obviously has one or at least had one to get inspired for the first single off his new album “The Boxer” (out 21 June 2010 right on time for my birthday) called
Read MoreAlex Turvey is on a never-ending quest to save the world from bad design and black-and-whiteness. His passion for unusual forms, craving for couture and awesome directing skills turn folklore into futuristic style. Alex is not your usual artist who concentrates on only one technique or means of expression – every time he surprises with new mixes of illustration, design,
Read MoreWe are your new Headmasters and we are here to teach you a lesson. Lots of lessons, actually: social studies lessons, language arts lessons, phys ed lessons, science lessons and art lessons. If you’re lucky there may even be spelling and handwriting lessons. And we are not afraid to assign homework. Sounds kinky doesn’t it? The headmasters will be a
Read MoreAussie multimedia artist Kit Webster likes to push back boundaries. Especially those of your senses and your perception of reality, space and time. With his installations Kit pays a kind of high-tech homage to DaVinci, Holbein, DuChamp, and many other artists dating back to the middle of the Renaissance. Enigmatica acts as an experimental platform for the combination of light,
Read MoreJwan Yosef is 23 when he shows his work for the first time right after finishing his art studies in Pernbys målarskola in 2006. Born in Ra’s al-Ayn, Syrian Arab Republic, the talented artist chooses Sweden for his home, studies and inspiration. Meanwhile he is 26 and has been featured in 6 group exhibitions – most of which in Konstfack
Read MoreThis is more or less the official start of Sofia Design Week on GRATEFUL GRAPEFRUIT. The Bulgaria bible for creative agents One Magazine organizes for the second time the design get-together Sofia Design Week: 4 – 11 June 2010 in Sofia. More or less? That is the question this year. “The more it goes, the more it goes,” Winnie the
Read MoreDo you trust bearded men? And I mean not only the random guys you meet in bars and clubs. Do you trust more the beardy consultant in a shop or the other one who has a mustache? According to Matt McInerney (pixelspread) and his “Trustworthiness of beards” info-graph trust is all about facial hair. Although I didn’t need a graph
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