Dimitri Tsykalov
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
MK Bruce Lee Magazine - Peet Pienaar
I read somewhere a little while ago that a magazine is no longer defined to the pages it is printed on, it is a vehicle to drive explosive material to people. (I can't remember who said or wrote it, but it sounded good and wise. Now this is obviously true, with more and more publications becoming multimedia formatted with the internet and Iphone apps etc etc. But no other magazine makes use of the different printed materials available to them than BruceLee.
BruceLee is a quarterly publication for the South African music channel MK aimed at 18-24 year olds; designed by Peet Pienaar who is part of The President. Each issue comes in a completely different format, from envelopes to cereal boxes stacked inside each other, all of which contain a jumble of stickers, posters, booklets and postcards. The publication is split into Bruce for boys and Lee for girls, splitting the advertising demographic and making life much easier.
In an interview Hannerie Visser the Business Director of MK BruceLee states how aware they are of aware they are competing against "mobiles, websites, TV, books, games etc for attention," and says to combat this they "need to be in touch with our market and what's out there. We have to offer them a product that can compete with the best that is on offer internationally at any given time." It's interesting to see people still sticking and pushing a printed format rather than immediately diving into a world of technology, because it's always nice to have the real thing in your hands, whether it's a book, a DVD or a magazine.
Monday, 6 September 2010
Saskia Edens
Saskia Edens is a French performance artist. In an 18 minute video titled 'Make-Up,' she paints herself black creating a skeleton in negative space and slowly dances.
Make-Up has clear Mexican influence; Edens explores and celebrates her body with humour and macabre in an odd Tim Burtonesque way. She says that Make-Up is a way of discovering and taming her skeleton in which it joins the realm of the living attempting to thwart death and laugh alive. (paraphrased from her French on google translator. A PDF of her work can be downloaded from her website.
Alexandre Herchcovitch
Alexandre Herchcovitch's winter 2010 collection was featured on the Creators Project. He brings a 1950's smart gangster style into something urban and modern with amazing make-up. Although a little similar to Fever Rays; the shaven headed, ghoul faced men in smart suits enforcing this gang aesthetic.
you can read a little interview with him here.
Friday, 3 September 2010
The Universal Now - Abigail Reynolds
The Universal Now is a set of collages by Abigail Reynolds, in which she uses to found photographs of the same place at different times and folds them together into one surface. Creating a new visual landscape which spans across decades.
Reynolds states that, "The Universal Now works operate as a resurrection of the unregarded book plates and forgotten photographers that have stood in the same places at a different times, bringing these moments into a dialogue and into the present. The Universal Now takes its title from debates about time continuum in quantum physics."
It's incredibly interesting and a really amazing way to show two viewpoints or two images at the same time. Despite triangles being super trendy and cool for the last year or so, you can really imagine them unfolding in an animation of being featured in a print publication. This is something I need to look into more, how different images can be shown together, or more exciting and creative ways to frame and incorporate images into my work.
More images and work can be seen on her website.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Marc Turlan
Marc Turlan's collection of titles 'Torn Mag' creates new images re-using old magazines. He cuts and tears through the pages juxtaposing two images which contrast and compliment each other. The bottom page acts as an illustration to the top; giving the collage more depth and emotion, completely changing the feeling of each piece.
He also does some rather nice illustration work, again over old imagery. You can see more of his work at serial-art.
O-Check Journals
Would someone like to buy me one of these journals by a Korean design company called O-Check. They are dead lovely.
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