Archive for March, 2011
The “Insight Lamp” is a concept project by Belarusian industrial design duo Solovyovdesign. The open form provides “a dissipation light that is usually not found in single point light sources creating a somewhat ambient nature to the light produced”. You can do some cool design with a light bulb as your canvas. Isn’t that right, KAWS? [via designboom]
French street artist Zevs is showing a new body of work, Liquidated Version, at De Buck Gallery in New York. The show continues “his assault on corporate identities and what they represent”. Arrested Motion has a preview.
Chris McMahon buys cheesy landscape paintings from yard sales, then paints in monsters of his own. Prints of two of the three are available on DeviantART. [via geekosystem]
We shit you not. Not only is Gilt Groupe selling vintage Star Wars action figures for up to $8000 a piece, but they are selling out of them!. Jailbreak’s own undercover agent (we’ll call her Z) stumbled onto this sale on Guilt Groupe’s site yesterday. Since it’s for members only, we grabbed some screen shots so we could share the absurdity. One of our core missions at the Jailbreak Collective is to explore the idea of consumer products as an art form. Considering that the prices these figures are fetching would make most working artists blush, we’d say this helps bolster our case (and our cause). Now can anyone enlighten us as to why a Jawa with a vinyl cape is worth five times more than a Jawa with a cloth cape? Jump through to find out how much Yoda and Darth Vader fetched. Read the rest of this entry »
The transition from design student to design professional can be a slippery slope. To help, Doug Bartow of design studio id29 put together this chart of “29 Things Young Designers Need to Know (And Aren’t Always Taught in Design School)”, which originally ran in the January 2011 edition of HOW Magazine. (It’s also available in poster form for $25.00 over on Felt & Wire.) Says Bartow:
Each square was paired with an explanatory paragraph or two, which is pasted after the jump, offering some great advice that’s beneficial for aspiring and professional designers alike.
Whether it’s due to a discordance with our accepted (romantic) ideals about the serious nature of art or because artists don’t want to burn bridges to would-be A-list benefactors , you don’t see a ton of art that specifically skewers Hollywood “incidents”. Luckily, Alex Pardee doesn’t sleep and, thus, keeps this salacious contemporary art sub-genre alive. Case in point: The world may have forgiven Chris Brown, but in 2009, for the republishing of Pardee’s excellent “Secrets of Hollywood” book, he created a very special giclee print with his stance on Brown’s actions. Flash forward to now. At the height of Sheen mania last week, Pardee released this Charlie Sheen giclee. Via Twitter, a platform the Bay Area artist uses frequently, he said this: “It’s not Sheen himself that amazes me, it’s the power of phenomenon that overnight one person can affect pop-culture positive or negative”. I completely agree. It’s that same power that saw Pardee’s image go from digital print to very, very permanent. On Sunday, a Pennsylvania suburbs artist by the name of Ray Petty spilled some tiger blood of his own when he tattoo’d his friend Keith with Pardee’s depiction of Sheen. As for Alex, his art for Sheen was included at the end of the most recent episode of Charlie’s U-Stream show, Sheen’s Korner, which at the time of this writing has been viewed 966,621 times. A powerful phenomenon indeed. Keep doing your thing, Alex! 
[cross-posted on Jeremyriad.com] Jason Freeny just posted these photos from the Fame Master booth at the 2011 Hong Kong Toy Fair. The reveal provides an exciting update to the previously posted work-in-progress shots of Jason’s forthcoming Gummi Bear Anatomy 3D puzzles. I’m super stoked about these, and they should be arriving soon. In the meantime, you can download a brand new set of Gummi icons (Mac only, sorry) by Freeny in the Free Stuff section of his website.
Using a custom software, the anonymous creator of Moviebarcode, a Tumblog, takes each frame of a movie, compresses it and stretches it vertically, and then arranges the resulting slivers in chronological order. The results are these striking and colorful barcode-like images. Shown above are The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Traffic and Requiem for a Dream. Check out some more of my favorites after the jump. See yet even more over on Moviebarcode and purchase prints here.
If there’s two things we definitely dig here at The Jailbreak, it’s dissections and typography, and German graphic designer Andreas Scheiger is an artist after my own heart (almost literally). Scheiger decided to dissect typography in his new 3D series, Evolution of Type.
The typographic sculptures are made with powder-coated MDF, polymer clay, chicken bones, corals & shells, thread, wire, acrylics and clear varnish to achieve the effect of bone and muscle. A few of the letters are available now through Scheiger’s online store. View all of the sculptures (as well as dissected typography prints) on Scheiger’s Behance portfolio. Click through for a few favorites. Read the rest of this entry »
Designed by Barcelona’s Labyrinth Studio, the stackable Palette Coasters are exact (right down to the stickers on the front) 1/10th miniatures of standard Euro palettes. Design Boom is selling them for $36 per set of five.
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