Cool Hunting
| 29 July 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
WK Interact
by Josh Rubin
WK Interact, the French urban artist based in NYC, has a new book out. Featuring his street, studio and commissioned work from the last 10 years, the book also includes some shots that reveal the depth of his creative process. Famous for his black and white painted murals of skaters, kung-fu masters boxers and mountain climbers, all of his work incorporates a unique and often eerie sense of motion. If you can't make it to downtown Manhattan to experience his murals first person, this book is a must have. Actually, it's a great one for the library regardless.
US$55 here.
Preferred Prints
by Parker Hutchinson
After a year of holding out for the perfect wall coverings for my down-south bachelor pad, I've started to gain quite the reputation as a de facto minimalist. It's high time I clear my name with the these superb prints from Scott Hansen. Under the moniker ISO50 (after his choice of Fuji slide film), the Sacramento-based Hansen has been slinging his fine print designs and photography since 2000. His posters, some with fierce Soviet blockishness and others with breezy '70s autumnal hues, manage to be both nostalgic and contemporary. And amidst all this design work, Hansen even finds time to print up T-shirts and make a bit of electronic music as the one-man act Tycho. See and hear his wares at ISO50; you'll be glad you saved that precious wall space for something.
Fernando Romero at Ras
by Ami Kealoha
Mexican architect Fernando Romero, the 35-year old founder of the Laboratorio de La Ciudad De México, well-known for designing the Casa Da Música in Portugal while working for Rem Koolhaas' OMA, and who this year founded the firm, LAR, is the subject of an exhibit opening today at Ras, the gallery/bookstore in Barcelona's El Raval. A forthcoming book, titled Translations, is due out this September and the show runs through October 1.
