From vagabonds to physchonauts, Leif Podhajsky has some pretty awesome designs. Leif is an artist and designer from Melbourne, Australia, were she is currently co-running a design studio called And. We love the work, keep it up!
September 16th, 2009
September 16th, 2009
Here at Beautiful/Decay, we receive lots of fun stuff in the mail. Yesterday we got a package of Hello Kitty Jelly Beans made by Jelly Belly! For some time, Hello Kitty as been the subject to much speculation. I mean Hello Kitty stands for nothing, but people adore it because it’s cute (and thanks to hundreds of famous icons and the media for embracing it). Hello Kitty is a full phenomenon that starts with it’s simplicity of design. Yuko Shimizu’s design has a mouth-less face that people can use to project their feelings to define Hello Kitty’s character. This depicts entirely different feelings for each consumer. It’s a win, win. So who wouldn’t want to collaborate with that cute little kitty?
September 16th, 2009
Lets Phantom are two designers from Lithuania who apparently animate and direct for food (& money). They’ve just directed their first music video for the crazy Lithuanian electro,noise,hiphop,etc..etc.. band Metal On Metal. Kind of gnarly!
September 16th, 2009
Since I started Beautiful/Decay while attending the Maryland Institute College Of Art I have a soft spot for artists working in Baltimore. There’s something about living Baltimore (see “The Wire” for more on that) that changes you and your artwork forever. Baltimore is a giant pot of crazy that just seeps into your work and wont let go. Keep up the good work Suzanna and make us Alums proud!
Check out Suzanna’s Flickr account here and her portfolio over here.
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September 15th, 2009
Do you stay awake at night dreaming of the day when you can interact with artists and designers from around the world? Do you get a warm & fuzzy feeling every time you walk by a bookstore or magazine stand? Have you always wanted to work side by side with the an elite group of creative minds who only use the finest office supplies such as golden staples? Do you enjoy nothing more than resizing and cropping a pile of photographs as tall as a 3 story building? If you answered yes to any of these (or none of these questions) then this just may be the internship for you!
Now that you feel excited about our internship opening read the fine detail after the jump!
September 15th, 2009
Great video with M.I.A. protege Rye Rye by our friends at Coolhunting.com. This video visits the rising star in the studio working on her yet as unreleased album and at a WWD Daily photo shoot. The 18-year-old Baltimore native shares the story of how she came up, a few dance moves and what she likes to rap about.
It’s amazing how kids that are still in highschool are making such big waves w/out major record labels. You can thank the internet for that!
September 15th, 2009
Jimmy Joe Roche recently sent me an email with the subject line: A BAT SHIT VIDEO 4 U. Naturally, I opened it up and watched. The best I can describe JJR’s menacing just over a minute long video as, is some kind of hallucinatory digital death metal head-bang mind-bang freak out. It’s like he overloaded on pixel-pushing and is in the throes of some kind of ethernet-ether-ecstasy. Crazy. Check out some of his other vids too- wolves, Peruvian embroidery, gradients, more seizure-inducing psychedelia. Also, in this video is he wearing a fake beard?
September 15th, 2009
"House Attack", 2006
Austrian sculptor Erwin Wurm has been developing an ongoing series of “One Minute Sculptures” since the late 1980′s in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand, prompting the viewer to question the very definition of sculpture. He seeks to use the “shortest path” in creating each piece — a clear and fast, sometimes humorous, form of expression. As the sculptures are fleeting and meant to be spontaneous and temporary, the images are only captured in photos or on film.
