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How Could You Say No.Zine
No.Zine is an independent arts magazine run by London designer Patrick Fry. The zine features variety of young artists, designers, writers, photographers and illustrators from a wide range of contributers including the allonethought favorite Shaz Madani. From the smattering of images on the No.Zine site one can deduce that this publication is a thoughtfully set slice of fried gold to be found in book shops and art spaces all over London. Although it doesn’t say exactly where, this only lends an air of enigma to proceedings, and if mystery and hunting isn’t your forte you can always purchase online from the No.Zine shop for the very reasonable price of a fiver. I am always one for a good find and seek but I am also slightly lazy when it comes to tubing it around London so therefore will be purchasing online this afternoon.
Studio AKA Winterfest
The much respected Studio AKA have come up trumps again, this time for the BBC’s coverage of the winter Olympic Games in Vancover. Marc Craste’s hauntingly cold animation looks like it belongs to a short film festival and not just the idents for the BBC. Craste is also the man behind the recent Lloyds/TSB animations.
alloneapp
Alloneapp is the newly released iPhone app to receive regular updates from allonethought. Access all articles from the blog in full and create an account to favorite articles all within this clean, simple and free app.
Shaz Madani
With an impressive portfolio for some hefty clients, its hard to believe that Shaz Madani only graduated from the London College of Communication in 2008. Working in editorial design, she creates beautiful pieces of print that are well considered and sensitively typeset. I really enjoyed flicking through her work for Topshop this morning and it provided a distraction from my own type based dilemmas (60 articles to fit in a 20 page publication, no one needs that). With media forecasters everywhere saying that print is slowly gravitating towards oblivion, we rely on people like Madani to save us all from iPad induced screen glare comas.
Sawdust
Sawdust are the London Based design and directional duo Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton and have an impressive barrel of work under their belt. The featured picture is the simple and visually stunning artwork for MVSICA. I am always a fan of innovative solutions to music packaging as there seems to be less and less that has yet to be done in this field. Great work guys.
Fernando Volken Togni
Some great illustrations to come from Fernando Volken Togni. The vectoriffic shapes coming from the designer have been utilised for press, wall and bags. The above image is some recent work he has done for 85Four Agency office wall.
TREE:mix
When I first heard the idea of treemixing a few years ago, from the TREE:mix site founder and old studio cohabitant James Robert Fox, I was interested to see what weird organic chains would form from it. For those of you not yet in the loop, treemix is the act of taking an already existing piece of work and putting your own spin on it. The site offers two digital mixes and a scanner mix to get involved with and has already had contributions from some really talented designers and illustrators. The image above is taken from the scanner mix and is the first branch produced by Ben Tallon (who, incidentally, is really work a look). For all those in the ranks who need something to distract them from their good old fashioned work, get yourself on there and download a mix.
Süveyda
Süveyda is the latest offering to come from Ayhan Cebe, the designer and director mainly does work for TV and as some of us know that working with clients can be restrictive at the best of times. Süveyda shows us exactly what Cebe is capable of, the dark haunting short, which has dark tendencies not unlike the work of the much reference Chris Cunningham, is about life cycles, beauty and decay. Taken from his site Cebe says “we know our journey is not random chaos but a journey where every shouting supernova, every trembling cell, returns to the one perfect mystery from which we all come and go”. End result, beautiful darkness.
Shhhh…
Sunday mornings are rapidly turning into a time where I sit at my desk, open my work files and continue to keep them minimized for 2 hours while I doodle. I must have been in a loving mood today to produce this eco-vector. Right then, lunch, a few facebook refreshes, youtube until dark then I really must crack on.
alloneshop is here!
If the allonethought blog isn’t enough to satisfy your desires for all things oneword then why not visit the alloneshop. Currently selling posters and DVDs and also the monthly ramblings of Leroy in large scale print.
De Facto
Nottingham based De Facto caught my eye this morning by pure chance, I was looking for my good friend Fred [Perry]. The crafters of everything, from beautifully classic print campaigns to pixel splitting new thinking TV spots, have got a wealth of eye candy on their site and really have an talent for, amongst many, knowing their audience, example being all their work for Fred Perry (I can say this with some authority as per the fact I was looking for Fred this morning and do most mornings). Pictured about is the 2002 Fred Perry Icon Book, written by Paolo Hewitt, which was created on a framework of “heritage with contemporary relevance”, perfect way to say 50 years of FP. By trawling their site I also stumbled across the Subculture site, a great find and a homepage to any trendies in the room. Cherry on Top? Avant Garde.
Keep It Simple, Stupid
Another risky promotion to come from those trusty merchants Diesel, this time in the form of encouragement of a lower intilect*. The campaign ,which succeeds the famous Dirty Thirty and the viral which made the rounds, promotes the message that the lack of thinking things through results in a better time, something that they have been pushing for years but finally had the balls to come out and say it.
*spelt incorrectly to make me slightly cooler according to Diesel.
Dalek
Maybe I like Dalek because he does designs for skateboards and I’m secretly 14 mentally, maybe it’s because he went to high school in Japan and just maybe its because he slightly looks like Gary Oldman. But more than likely I like the likes of Dalek because his illustrations and photography are second to none, proving once and for all that you can’t fake influence and cool and he has it by the bucketload, from his aforementioned time in Japan, to being a graffiti urchin on the mean streets of the world. I may also be a bit in love with his perfectly working, not shit for once, flash site.
If Folk Music Were A Blog…
…it would look like this. Ghostly Ferns is the writing of Chicago based fashionista and owner of apparel outlet 1918Vintage Meg Lewis. After stumbling on her shop, and then her blog, I’ve been hooked on it. I can’t quite put my finger on whether its the design, the copy or the general feel of the shop and blog but it makes me want to explore and doesn’t feel like I’m being sold anything or goaded into signing up to another great fandango. The blog in particular is just the things she finds and thinks and is good reading, have already made a new discovery in the shape of Owen Pallett from it… so there.
Make Your Own David Cameron
I got shown this great slanderous app at the agency today and found, just like the previously mentioned Speech Breaker, its a great way to take your concentration away from print ready TIFs. Make You Own David Cameron Poster is the brain child of Andy Barefoot and inspired by the brilliantly hilarious My David Cameron, and although some people would see this as yet another visual attack on Cameron et al, I see it as a great way to make politics more applicable to you. 10/10.
…that is well mexico
Leroy returns for his micro queebs, and this month he attempts to introduce a bit of geography to proceedings. Oh Leroy, when will you learn. To see all the Leroy series click here or to buy any of the Leroy Series in print, visit the alloneshop.
Mini Cooper S by Krink
NY based Krink hit again with the trademark dripping icons with this brilliant short for Mini Cooper S. The effect it has on the car is really striking and the whole short is directed well too. If it wasn’t probably massively illegal and utterly dangerous to have a car tricked out in this fashion I think my blue bullet would undergo the same treatment.