Cool Hunting

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.
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