Music inspires art
Arch has recently donned the design director cap at Shine and the Beck's Music Inspires Art campaign is a recent project to come out of that. Local artists took inspiration from local musicians to create some spiffing limited edition labels. Artists include Andrew McLeod, Gavin Hurley and Rainbowmonkey. Get a 12-pack now while they're still around.
à la Lockhart
Exceptional stylist and friend of Inhouse, Katie Lockhart curated these beautiful still-lifes which are featured in the Dec/Jan 2012 edition of HOME magazine. Photography props to Darryl Ward. If you're interested in eyeing up good-looking and quality products, head over to Katie's online homewares and design store everyday-needs.com.
MM Collection, mmmmm
We love love love the lastest collection from MM Collection aka Emma Hayes. This silk throw is from the River Print series. Check out the rest of the collection here.
Eat Me
A new title from viction:ary, Eat Me is a yummy look at graphic design and packaging in food items. The physical book is super cool, exposed spine, all uncoated with two sections printed on brown paper for a lovely striped effect on all four sides. The cover makes me dream of a white chocolate waffle cone, mmmmm. And as a bonus, Inhouse is featured within it's pages.
Cosmo, take 01
A new friend has arrived in the studio.
Design cups
These take-away coffee cups for the Graphic Design Museum are hot. Designed by Michiel Schuurman, a colour mastermind. www.michielschuurman.nl
Jim Denevan
We love these epic sand sculptures by Jim Denevan. They emerge like a dance and become interactive public spaces when he's done. Surfers walk over and through the elegant patterns he leaves behind. Delighted beachgoers follow the curling spiral work like it's a labyrinth, pacing inwards and then retracing their steps. The incoming tide participates as well, and always has the last word as it erases the temporary artworks with the sweep of each passing wave. www.jimdenevan.com
Dada
We recently comsissioned Katie Lockhart and Darryl Ward to artdirect style and shoot a series of photographs for Dada1 and 2.
Here we give thanks ...
Abandoned
Type in the landscape
A visit to Wellington should always include a visit to the waterfront to see Catherine Griffiths' concrete text sculptures. They look as good today as they did when first installed.
Fight for your right
In the turbulent times of the late 1960s, a printmaking collective called the Poster Workshop formed in a basement in Camden, London, and set about creating the disposable messages of a parade of activists and political groups that came through its door. The posters were printed by silkscreen, using very simple rudimentary techniques. Very striking one-colour posters and fantastic vernacular typography.
The Universal Sigh
At noon today, we made a visit to our favourite record store, Real Groovy, and picked up a copy of The Universal Sigh - a free newspaper from Radiohead in celebration of their new lp. Hope you got yours too!
www.theuniversalsigh.com
McLeavey Sat Here
09:03:2011–06:04:2011.
An exhibition of recent paintings by John Reynolds. See more here at the Gallery's newly launched website.
It's been worth the wait!
Wunderful
Inhouse's good friend and old street chum Mark Crane of Wunderkammer on Ponsonby Rd draws beautiful free-hand patterns and typography, often appearing on his shop window to announce new stock and sales. We turned this intricate illustration into a tesselation to be used as in-store tissue paper. (Detail on roll-over)
NZ’s Haeckel
Some pretty cool drawings to be found in the publication Transaction and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961. Lots of native New Zealand plants, sea life, insects, fossils and scientific stuff like that. The National Library have all 88 volumes up on their website. Illustrator unknown.
Mix & Match
These cute and colourful Czechoclovakian matchboxes from the mid twentieth century have been added to the epic collection of Eastern European matchbox labels on Maraid's flickr page.
Cycling in Chile
Insane vid of a guy in the VCA 2010 Race in Chile. Watch out for the dog. Video here.
Be kind
A wee message to visitors when venturing up the stairs to the studio. Print by Rob Reynolds of Dung Beetle, available at artmusicalchemy.com.
I like it.
The new piece of eye candy in the studio this week is a woodblock poster by Anthony Burrill. In behind is a poster by ex-Inhouser David Bennewith of Joseph Churchwards suggestions for TV2's logo.
Simon Renström
Swedish designer Simon Renström has been making all sorts of interesting things in various areas of design and art. To the left is a video still from an animation for the Nordic Light Hotel.
We heart Walter
Awwwww.
Green screen
Another shout out to Vincent Moon for his film, An Island. We had a screening of the film last night in our leafy loft and it went down a treat. Recommend to all to host a screening while there's still time - go here now.
Messerschmidt
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-83) was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions. He claimed that his character heads had aroused the anger of "the Spirit of Proportion", an ancient being who safe-guarded this knowledge. The spirit visited him at night, and forced him to endure humiliating tortures. At least one of Messerschmidt's most famous heads was apparently inspired by one of these encounters.
Chch
The recent earthquake has our thoughts and sympathies going out to our own families and the people of Christchurch. And to our southern design pals, legendary Luke Wood (National Grid and former Inhouse-ee) and web-design extraordinaires Sons&Co. Come visit us in Auckland any time boys, the traffic may be shite but the only thing shaky up here is the weather.
Respect
We're big fans of artist Wayne White here at Inhouse. His monograph Maybe Now I'll Get The Respect I So Richly Deserve is a new addition to our library.
