B/D was lucky enough to receive two new books in the mail today. Here’s me and Fei in the office with completely anonymous bookfaces hanging out with our boss, who happens to be a wizard and was so excited by them he conjured an ephemeral ball of light for the occasion. Anyways, the first is Keegan McHargue’s “Foibles,” from Seems Books, and the second is “Creative Space” by Francesca Gavin from Laurence King Publishing.
More descriptions and images after the jump!
Anouk Kruithof’s photos are just so weird. It’s like he’s kind of playing with us and trying to shock us at the same time with simple notions…
Did anyone hear about the possibility of the United States opening its travel sanctions with Cuba? I love Barack Obama! Before the 2008 election, the Castro administration stated that they were “very interested” in sitting down for discussion with the United States, but only after there were no Bushs in the white house. No joke. He really said that. And I cant blame him, Bush has been such a dickhead towards Fidel and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez that we Americans had no possibility of becoming friends with our southern cousins. This is a small taste of the amazing Venezuelan graphic design talent that we are missing due to our modern day mccarthyism.
Micachu is a 21 year old musician from the UK. She makes dance and experimental music. Can’t wait to hear them live.
If you are reading this right now, then you stil have time to catch Austin Eddys new work at Thrones Gallerys show Insider Art . 123 N. Jefferson st. in Chicago. It closes the 10th so you better jump on that plane soon, Im not sure what the time difference is.
The fact that my name is also Alex explains my natural affinity for this work, but that isnt the sole explanation of the genius of Yueh Alex Lu.
Jim Callahan is a multi-talented creative who lends his bold pop-icon vibrant graphic style to a potty-mouthed vision of vulgar humor and the macabre. His humorously outlandish take on his subjects disarms their gritty gore visuals of exploding skull & brains, guts and the spray of blood. James Callahan also runs his own fledgling deck company: Nowhere Skateboards, and has illustrated comics, such as Strange Detective Tales and Rotting In Dirtville. He is also responsible for the DVD covers to the daybyday films, among art for piles of records, CD’s, shirts, toys, posters, and beyond.. James was interviewed in issue: D of Beautiful/Decay magazine and designed the three-dimensional stunner “Barf 3d” for Beautiful/Decay Apparel- which featured, of course, a three-dimensional skull puking a cacophony of vile beasts. Most recently he contributed the mind-blowing (no pun intended) graphic “Kersplat” that shows someone’s brain literally exploding from reading B/D!
Read the full interview at our Beautiful/Decay Apparel site.
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Kwadwo Adae: Stunningly beautiful! K Adae: Excellent!
dale: I really like these. Somewhat Alex...
ben: Akira rocks!
Pete: Funny, but wrong. The brain crotch...
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jason hess: The logo turned butthole is...
Yeti: These works were created when Jien...
Barb: This are SUCH rip offs of Paul...
jor: clean style, id like to see less...
