Eloie (pronounced ee-lie) was hand-crafted by Garrett Morin in an edition of 50. He stands tall at 5 inches and comes to your door in a lovingly hand-printed box. Eloie also includes two insence cones and a limited edition print. ]]>
Ben Loiz & Carolina Chaves will be showing silk screen prints and photographs at Bent Gallery in Pasadena, CA. on March 31st. The show will be up through April 29th.
10% of the exhibition sale proceeds will go to Welcome Home Ministries, a baby orphanage in Uganda, Africa.
www.welcomehomeafrica.com
The Art of Elysium, a non-profit organization founded in 1997, encourages working actors, artists and musicians to voluntarily dedicate their time and talent to children who are battling serious medical conditions. We provide artistic workshops in the following disciplines: acting, art, comedy, fashion, music, radio, songwriting and creative writing.
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02/03/2007: "everywhere i roam" new works by Carolina Chaves Urruzmendi at Show Pony: 1543 Echo Park Ave. Los Angeles, CA, 90026. 7-10PM.]]>
An auction of fine art + craft to benefit the family of James Kim organized by sisters Lisa Congdon and Stephanie Barnes and their mother Gerrie Congdon. 100% of the auction proceeds will go to the The James Kim Memorial Fund.]]>
Bringing clean water to rural African communities. How it works: Kids Play, Water Pumps! As children spin on the merry go round, clean water is pumped from underground into a 2,500-liter tank which then becomes available to the community. Learn more.]]>
Designers Thomas Brodahl and Peter Reid present their individual works for the first time in a collaborative show intended to focus awareness on the plight of
sub-Saharan Africa.
Friday November 3rd at 7:00 pm
epOxybOx. 602 Venice Blvd. Venice CA 90291
Thomas is a graphic designer and illustrator. Originally from Norway, Thomas grew up in Luxembourg before moving to Los Angeles in 2004. He's a co-founder of Stolen Inc and the creator of Stolenshirts. StatAttak is his latest venture.
Peter is a graphic designer and photographer. He is originally from Marin County, just north of San Francisco, but has been residing in Venice Beach on and off for the last 6 years. Peter is an avid traveller and is currently starting work on a book of his travel memoirs entitled Mazunga.
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GH avisualagency launches independent publishing project, GHava{Press}
New York, NY (September 2006) - GH avisualagency aka GHava have been a force as a creative agency for over a decade and now extend their vision into the curatorial realm with GHava{Press}, an independent publishing project to produce works featuring emerging and established artists.
View more http://www.ghavapress.com/
Their artist series will include quarterly publications in editions of 1200, with 1000 marked for retail sales. Each book will have a unique appearance with varying content, paper, and page count and hopes to evolve towards an environmentally resourceful print process utilizing recyclable paper and natural-based inks. The first book of the series, a collection of artwork from Brooklyn illustrator J.Penry, “Castles and Christians,” will be available September 16, 2006.
GHava has produced a body of work that runs from the art direction and design of Crispin Porter + Bogusky's new book, HOOPLA, and advertising campaigns for Triple Five Soul to projects for NOKIA, Coca-Cola and Adidas. They created the initial corporate identity for Gwen Stefani's mega-label, L.A.M.B, and created the cover art for Prefuse 73's "Surrounded By Silence," which was included in The Greatest Album Covers of All Time (Scott, Grant, Barry Miles, and Johnny Morgan. New York, NY: Collins & Brown, 2005). Their fearless aesthetic and multidisciplinary approach to design resulted in GHava being cited as one of 23 "groundbreaking studios and individuals" in Infiltrate: The Front Lines of The New York Design Scene (Gelman, Alexander, Nic Musolino, Helen Walters. New York, NY: Ginko Press, 2004).
Please visit GHava{Press}online at http://www.ghavapress.com/
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This work really floored us when we saw it. There is more nice stuff on this site, but we were directed there because of this one.
Here are a few additional links:
www.flickr.com/photos/tais
publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/06/rubins
Thanks:
jungle-life
A New Audio Sculpture by Patrick Miller. The Gold Bar is a hand crafted sculpture constructed of medium density fiberboard (MDF) fitted with speaker parts and covered with 23k gold leaf.]]>
Maxalot Gallery presents-
On/Off.
(and everything in-between).
A Build exhibition.
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At Commonwealth
90 Wythe Avenue (at N.11th st),
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
On: Sat. June 3rd 2006, 6-10pm.
Off: Sat. July 1st.
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New work by Carolina Chaves opening April 8th, 2006 at SHOW PONY in Los Angeles.
SHOW PONY
1543 Echo Park Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90026-2670
(213) 482-7676
from 7 to 10 p.m.]]>
AfterModern and Busy-Being present 'GOOD GRIEF' featuring work by Jordan Isip, Rich Jacobs and Rotgut. Opening Reception February 11, 5-8pm. 445 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA. More Info.]]>
This behind the scene for the WET booklet is excellent. Then have a look at the wonderful portfolio of Sergio del Puerto at Serial Cut.
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A 20-page promo magazine for the first non-dry gin in the world: WET by Beefeater. The publication was created by DressLab, designed by Albert Folch, and distributed in the coolest fashion stores and clubs.
PROCESS
To promote this drink, in every WET issue, a creative is invited and given a theme, to develop an idea that links it to the brand. For the first issue, Serial Cut™ was chosen to do so, having the Night as a theme. All photographed elements were REAL, so the final result was a photographic collage, with elements that had been scanned, printed and cut (falcon, deer) and Helvetica typography made from plastic and real elements (pink strips, straws, ice cubes, glasses, diskette...). This collage could have easily been done with Photoshop, but was actually done in a photography studio, and was barely retouched digitally. It’s something like “photographed graphic design”, in a sophisticated blue and magenta atmosphere.
Sixteen artists from across the country (and France) have come together with varying styles, mediums, and perspectives to share their own personal memories and invite you to remember your own encounters, adventures, fantasies, and fears that have occurred while playing out doors at one time or another.
Featuring work from: Fafi, Fawn Gehwheiler, Jesse Alexander, Deanne Cheuk, Christopher Bettig, Ben Loiz, Becky Suss, Bill Farroux, HunterGatherer, Andrew Ross, Thomas Campbell, Florencio Zavala, Stephanie Hutin and Kozyndan.
Reception December 10th 2005 - 6pm to 9pm
December 10th through January 28th