Prada Spring / Summer 2012

Totally loooooving the styling on Prada's current Spring/Summer 2012 advertorial campaign for print. 

It's this whole Über modern, highly polished woman meets rockabilly at the local 50's style gas station - complete with hot rods and all! 

"Bathed in sunlight. Fuelled by optimism.

Girls and cars stop and stare at the future in the technicolour mise-en-scene of desire" 

That's Prada's little sum up of the campaign. Either way it's stunning! 

 I couldn't find who styled it but it was shot by Steven Meisel, I love the use of low angles looking up at these glamours that are so preened you could almost mistake them for mannequins! 

Oh and aren't the shoes with the little flames just to die for...

Love Danielle

William Miller's Polaroids

William Miller is a photojournalist out to show the world what he is capable of shooting with an old, semi broken Polaroid SX-70 that he picked up at a local flea market.

Miller claims that ever since his first use of the camera, it malfunctioned... Spitting out two polaroids at a time, producing blurry abstract images and such.

Miller fell in love with the results, and refused to return the camera and instead chose to treasure both the camera and the artworks that it popped out with every click! 

The photographs are completely abstract yet dream like and completely hypnotising. It feels like you've taken acid and are watching some spectacular sun rise/ set in some kind of melting, Technicolor utopia.

More of William's photographs can be found on 

www.williammillerphoto.com

Love Dan xx

Lego Land

Yes that's right, it's a table made from Lego... 

Not entirely though! 

Parisienne design team Munchausen were looking to design a one of a kind piece to fit their very own kitchen. So off they went to Ikea where they purchased your average Ikea standard kitchen island, and then they went to town, covering it in 20,000 pieces of Lego and well they came up with one very cool looking kitchen bench, that you sure as hell ain't gonna find at your friends house. 

Love Dan x

Eight Hour Day

I've had this sweet little image bookmarked for ages and have finally got my butt around to researching the talent behind it, Katie Kirk.

Katie Kirk is one half San Francisco based design / illustration team otherwise known as Eight Hour Day, which she runs with her husband Nathan Strandberg. 

They do a load of vintage inspired designs and patterns for numerous uses; cards, books, websites, advertising and the list just goes on. 

I could harp on and on about how gorgeous they all are, but i'll let the pictures do the talking this time!

Oh and don't forget to check out all their other goodies at

www.eighthourday.com

Amor, Dani x x 

Jason Munn

I'd like to introduce you all to possibly one of the coolest graphic / poster artists around at the moment... Jason Munn.

Munn, whom is based in California is most famous for designing his one of a kind silk screen printed indie rock posters.

Munn's designs have a simple aesthetic that echo the work of the greats; Saul Bass, Charley Harper and Jeff Kleinsmith. 

His work has a distinct retro-esque style that is utterly simple yet stunning. His use of bold simple geometric shapes, and simple seventies colour palettes are so strong and striking, I can't see how anyone could help but like his work!

You'll notice that Munn's work often has recurring images such as feathers, guitars, birds, records etc.. that are all manipulated in one way or another to produce some form of meaning to represent the band. Munn claims this is his way of creating continuity in his art work, and hey it seems to be working wonders!

Munn currently designs under the pseudonym : 
"The Small Stakes" 
- also the name of his design studio in Oakland, California. Rumour has it he is gearing up to collaborate with fellow graphic artist, Dirk Fowler. 

So do you want the good news now? 

Head on over to www.jasonmunn.com where you can purchase your very own original, silk screen printed poster for US$30 + P&H.

And i'll finish on that note with my favourite of the bunch, this awesome Surfer Blood poster.


Love Danielle 

Indie Rock Poster Book

I recently bought this book on a whim, and how glad I am that I did. 

Frank Chimero's interpretation of;
So Far Around the Bend by The National

The Indie Rock Poster book is jam packed full of 30 originally designed posters by a collection of today's most innovative and cool illustrators. 

Andy J. Miller''s interpretation of;
Chicago by Sufjan Stevens

Each of the 30 prints in the book are inspired by a cool indie rock song, with a short blurb on the reverse of each poster written by the illustrator about what the song / poster means to them. 

Mark Weaver's interpretation of;
Your Protector by Fleet Foxes

It's really interesting to see how songs that you've heard have been interpreted into works of art. 

Dynamo Montreal QC's interpretation of;
Your Ex Lover is Dead by Stars

The posters are all printed on quality stock and are meant to be ripped out and slapped on your walls. But if you're anything like me I don't like the idea of ripping my books up... so at $29.95 maybe i'll have to buy another one to pull apart! 

Jeremyville's interpretation of;
Skinny Love by Bon Iver

Toby Trumph's interpretation of;
Iron & Wine by The Trapeze Swingers

Oh and I almost forgot, all royalties from this book go to the yellowbirdproject, which was created by Andy J. Miller in order to raise money for numerous charities with the help of awesome indie rockers.

Julia Rothman's interpretation of;
Dancing Choose by TV on the Radio

Love Danielle x

My Mario

One of my favourite photographers going round, Peruvian born Mario Testino. Possibly one of the 21st centuries most acclaimed and influential fashion photographers - easy to see why!

Testino, whom is currently based in London is notorious worldwide for his fashion photography and direction. With major clientele such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Versace, D&G, Calvin Klein and Gucci under his belt, and that's only naming a few!  

Galleries worldwide have featured his solo exhibitions and his pieces can be found in many collections all around the globe, from the National Portrait Gallery in London to the New York University Gallery. 

His photography and art direction are second to none when you see the spreads in magazines, however it's his talent for capturing portraits that gets me every time, I guess it's that little bit easier when you are photographing beautiful people. However he has this knack of capturing moments that are off screen and have this 'snatched' kind of feel. It's this whole voyeuristic kind of thing that fascinates people with celebrities I guess, and Testino has it down pat, in this highly contrasted, beautiful yet stunningly elegant kind of way.

His signature black and white, highly contrasting photographs are simply stunning and I think it's pretty self explanatory why this man is still in such high demand to this very day! 

                                              

                              

 I can't even say how difficult I found it to select only a few images to add here, so I went a bit Testino crazy, I partly blame the devilishly good looking Ryan Gosling GQ advertorial ones!

More at 

www.mariotestino.com

Love Danielle xx