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Jacaranda, Colours
One of my favorite bands from the 1980s is Yes. And former Yes guitarist/vocalist Trevor Rabin has a solo album about to drop, cover painted by Hannah Hooper.
Hooper is in Grouplove with Trevor’s son Ryan. Below, video for Grouplove’s Colours.
Lie
Another Chelsea I know – musician Chelsea Davis – is currently touring with 30 Seconds to Mars, filling in on bass. We’re working on a cool project together, will reveal more in the next month or so.
Above, the 2010 video for 30 Seconds’ A Beautiful Lie.
Follow Chelsea’s own band here.
Mer
Every person I encounter named ‘Chelsea’ turns out to be incredibly cool.
Sacramento’s Chelsea Wolfe is now in LA – and here’s the video for Mer, from her new album Ἀποκάλυψις.
Below, photographed by Anna Dobos for Interview magazine.
More Occupy visuals
As more of the world finds itself occupied, additional visuals are showing up on the interwebs.
Above, OCCUPY U poster created by an anonymous designer friend, whose name is left off for fear of losing another job (click to download printable PDF).
Below, statistical poster from new website Occupy Design. And at bottom, Shepard Fairey does his thang.
Click on images to download and/or jump to respective websites.
Occupy Design found via GOOD
Good 50×70
‘It’s a competition to raise awareness amongst the creative community of the power we have to be a force for good.’
Posters from the Good 50×70 Competition.
Found via Robert L. Peters
Tibor, trubblemaker
‘What role we are playing. Making the filthy oil company look ‘clean,’ making the car brochure higher-quality than the car, making the spaghetti sauce look like it’s been put up by grandma, making the junky condo look hip. Is all that okay, or just the level to which design and many other professions have sunk?’ –Tibor Kalman
I first discovered Tibor Kalman’s work sometime around 1990.
He was doing something that most everyday graphic designers seemed to be avoiding. Questioning things.
His adeptness at social change – being a responsible human being, helping others – happened by working within the system. First at Barnes & Noble, M&Co., then Interview, Colors magazines. And as a teacher.
Before he passed in 1999, Kalman was the facilitator of what I see as a great awakening in our industry. And those who were part of his circle – such as his wife Maira, Stefan Sagmeister, Scott Stowell, Alexander Isley – have made graphic design much more than pretty brochures and generic logotypes.
Good design for good purposes is good. Making shitheads lots of money thru questionable practices is bad. Seems simple, right?
It isn’t.
I posted this because the rest of the world is waking up just about right now. And this past week, Steven Heller wrote up a great piece on Kalman.
Pictured from top down, advertisements and promotions for NYC’s Restaurant Florent. With Alexander Isley, from 1985–88. Found via Tibor Kalman: Design and Undesign and MoMA
Obama, Vibe
Barack Obama photographed for Vibe Magazine by Terry Richardson, September 2007.
Found via Hypebeast
‘After Hours’
‘Karlie Kloss lives up to her reputation as the all-American girl as she dons glitter, sequins and Lurex to revisit New York’s Seventies disco heyday’
Editorial for the November 2011 British Vogue photographed by Terry Richardson.
Donna Summer: Hot Stuff
Found via Fashion Indie
Duck, Barbra
Duck Sauce’s Barbra Streisand, the Official Music Video, above. Other stuff, below.
Duck Sauce: Barbra Streisand (Original Mix)
Taio Cruz Vs. Duck Sauce: Dynamite Vs. Barbra Streisand (DJs From Mars Bootleg Remix)
Duck Sauce: Barbra Streisand (Chipmunk Mix)
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