Posts Tagged ‘ Illustration ’

The complex imagery of this trio of artists -Michi, Ruben and Luisjo- gathered together under the name of Rubenimichi is packed with metaphorical vegetables with all-seeing eyes, with intriguing and extraordinary animals wearing bowler hats, with insects and flaming logs. Disturbing, with some dark and dreamlike mood, the trio presents now Sobrenatural, their first solo exhibition...
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Well, so you lived seriously believing you were a true vanguardist till you discover “it Fashion has been here, generating amazing quality content, since 1999. They have recently redesign their look and they have even embarked on bilingualism, so now you can read them both in Spanish and English. What else could we ask...
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Amélie Charroin and Marie Colin-Madan created a couple of years ago this scarf label called Milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre, named after the year they both were born. Their delicate pieces are  like authentic and delicious microuniverses that they create themselves -by using techniques like illustration or collage- and that are produced in France in 100% silk fabrics. You...
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Argentinian-born, Berlin-based, illustrator Pablo Ientile, presents now his project Illustration Around the World, a very original initiative that took him on a journey around different countries in Asia to meet, draw and exchange experiences with different artists of the area. The illustrations that came out of this unusual trip will be exhibited from today...
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I can be quite certain, even before seeing any detail about it, that the new collection by Martin Lamothe is going to be amazing because Elena Martin, the designer behind the brand, has already set some precedents in previous occasions and because hers is, no doubt, one of the most strong, conceptualized and consistent...
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Impossible not to love the net when, all of a sudden, you discover projects like Hauser + Hauser, a Switzerland-based online gallery that brings you, just with one click, amazing exhibitions you can visit any day, any time, with no lines nor waits. Through next September, 22nd you can discover the works by French...
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Since I discovered the new collection created for this summer by Lucía Vergara, designer of the brand Après Ski, I knew I had to get one of her amazing pieces soon. The problem is, as the perfect Gemini that I am, I am still trying to decide between Albion and Cocoa designs. Now, she has also...
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Nice weather is already here, days last longer, you have more free time and the number of summer courses available rises unstoppably. I am becoming a big fan of courses, in here, to be sincere. Any kind of courses: ballet, photography, jewelry… Since I found a lot of information about courses here and there...
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Ana Tichy and Alberto Alto inaugurate today in Barcelona their new shop/studio space open to everybody from 8:00 p.m. (C/Encarnació, 24 Semi-bassement). Ana is the designer behind the label Pinc by Ana Tichy and Alberto, graphic artist and author of ‘El libro de los engendros’, also contributes to Ana’s collections helping with the graphic mood....
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If you are in Barcelona next Thursday, March 15th, you can’t miss ‘Lilit‘, the solo exhibition by illustrator Judit García-Talavera en Arte Aparte (C/Bruniquer, 9 Premise 4) where she will show, till next April, 15th, a sample of her personal work. ———- Si estás en Barcelona este jueves 15 de Marzo no puedes perderte la inauguración...
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Artist Aitor Saraiba opens tomorrow Thursday, March, 8th, in Mutt Gallery in Barcelona, his first solo exhibition: I’m Not Naturally Evil. His drawings, of simple and spontaneous lines, of naïve and nostalgic mood hide, after their first innocent appearance, a strong psychological load that explores the evil side -opposite but sometimes intrinsic- of good and...
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SuTurno is a Madrid-based creative studio founded by Julia Vergara and Javier Gutiérrez Bayo who, among many other things, have already designed prints for brands like Marc Jacobs, Baum und Pferdgarten or Hoss Intropia. On the other hand, id.02 is a project by Hugo Gallego, a fashion designer who, after learning tailoring techniques in...
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Some time ago I discovered Vrag Mag, an amazing independent online magazine that, from London, gives exposure to all kind of visual artistic expressions in thematic monthly issues. You can read my article about Vrag Mag in Absolut Mode Society. *** Remember that you still have time to win 2, the latest fragrance by Comme des Garçons...
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Once again Espai Gallery in Barcelona holds a collective exhibition to celebrate the end of the year and the holiday season. Since gathering with friends and family is the expected these days, they have decided to got there first and invited them all this evening to the opening of the exhibition Nadal 2011 ...
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Eight artists work around the idea of how complex is actually the reality that surrounds it, for simple it may seems sometimes. Pieces by Ahmed, Alexander Dahmen, Clemens Behr, Dominik Wieschermann, Herr Orm, K 110, Robert Matzke and Sabrina Karakatsanis give shape to Simple is Rare, the exhibition that started last Friday in Neurotitan...
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If the work by Icelandic photographer Saga Sig is, on one hand, exceptionally amazing and, on the other hand, the one by her compatriot designer and illustrator Hildur Yeoman is so, too, what could be the result of the union of these two talents? The answer is named Hamskipti, which means metamorphose in Icelandic,...
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Based in Barcelona, artist Marcela Gutiérrez is one of those multidisciplinary figures that gathers in her curriculum a little bit of architecture, a little bit of graphic, some more of fashion and, above all, a lot of talent. After having published her illustrations in magazines like Harper’s Bazaar or having contributed to brans like...
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The urban art fair Stroke gathers together this weekend in Berlin the works by many artists coming from the most varied disciplines, from graffiti to graphic design, including illustration, photography, tattoo and, sometimes, even sculpture. The event aims to free this kind of art from the elitist and exclusive mood that surrounds conventional and...
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The importance of the image- either photography, illustration or any other technique- as a transmitting element in fashion is unquestionable. The exhibition Visions & Fashion: Images of Fashion 1980-2010, that runs until next October, 9th in Kunstbibliothek in Berlin aims to cover the last thirty years of this decisive combination. Far from acting as...
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Spirograph is the latest T-shirt collection by RottenFresh Collective, inspired by the classic geometric drawing game that, by using plastic gears, gives shape to figures made of mathematical curves known as hypotrochoids & epitrochoids. Handmade illustrations, unique washes and hand screen-prints distinguish once again the creations by this London-based brand. ———- Spirograph es la última colección de...
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