Mogu's work is one of my favourite discoveries from these past few months. In fact, I love her work so much that I don't look at it too often, out of fear that I will find everything else bland and will always be tempted to make cheap pastiches.
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Keeping up with the ongoing Japanese design theme, I wanted to find a way to make different things collide, much like with past articles featuring art vs fashion or uncanny mixes. In this compendium, pleated textiles meet distorted ceramics, hand-painted spoon holders pair up with hand-dyed silk dresses, and tea cups prove to be as elegant as striped shirts.
A Japanese Compendium
29 novembre 2016
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Tadanori Yokoo
28 octobre 2016
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| The Longest Necklace, 1965 |
Tadanori Yokoo ( 横尾 忠則 ) is the king of japanese graphic design and illustration. Famous since the 60s, his reign is undisputed and his influence global. His tentacular body of work takes root in japanese ukiyo-e and european Art history, from Andy Warhol to Russian Constructivism, Magritte to Hokusai.
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Yutaka Satoh
13 octobre 2016
Japanese artists are the masters of absurdism. From Toshio Saeki to Takeshi Kitano, from painting to cinema, works of art often play with the limits of sense and reality. The same freedom can be found in design: graphic designer Yutaka Satoh's work is a good example of that.
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The discovery of Laurent Kronental's photographic series "Souvenir d'un Futur" (Memories of a Future) left me speechless. I have no knowledge in architecture, merely an avid curiosity: I knew that there were some "retro-futuristic" buildings in France among the "grands ensembles" (suburban complexes) built during the 20th century, but I didn't expect to discover such surreal buildings.
Laurent Kronental
4 mars 2016
