This is an animated optical illusions book, and this video is a full on guide to the book. Just watch, do a little reading at the top, and then be slightly amazed while trying to figure if you should get this for yourself or a child or if you have kids buy it for your kid and use it for yourself. It’s nothing better then buying a gift for another that’s really for you, like getting a wii for the kids or buying your wife/girlfriend that cook book she wants (so she can make that dish YOU like). Get the book for 9 bucks here.
Louis Vuitton not only wants you to travel in style with their luggage but now they want to help make sure you’re taking that luggage to a proper European Vuitton approved destination. Just pick up the Louis Vuitton City Guides and it will help you reach that full on Vuitton vacation experience. LV City Guides avialable here.
Hamburger Eyes, a gritty, in your face, cut not cards, have no limits, photo magazine is a rarity in itself. It mixes images, blends various styles all under one cover, giving you a truly unexpected feeling before you turn the pages. XLR8R mag got with the founders of Hamburger Eyes and did a nice video feature on them and the magazine they produce. A glimpse inside the world of Hamburger Eyes and it’s workings.
I’ve already declared my love for pop-up books once before on TTS, but here I am again telling you how much I just love pop-ups. This time its, ABC3D, an alphabet pop-up book, the book takes you the letter ‘A’ to the letter ‘Z’ with each letter having it’s own intricate designed pop-up. Great for kids, even greater for adults, ha, we like to have fun too.
You know how when you go to people’s house’s you can tell what type of person they are when you see the books and magazine spread around the house and on the coffee table. We all know you’re a little nerdy when we see a GEEK mag stuffed between your TV guide magazines, but it’s ok. And if you see the entire collection of Harry Potter novels in a group set accompanied by collectables, well, lets just say you have A LOT! of free time on your hands and probably have a harry potter costume in the cloest. But if you want to let people know you’re creative and artsy, then having a copy of artist Jeff Soto’s new book, Storm Clouds, is what you want. The book is 154 pages of the last 3 years of work Soto has been doing. Plus staring at amazing imagery is a great source of inspiration or at least it is to me, and also a nice reminder of how much I’m not artistic. If you want some glimpses inside the book just click here. The book is available at Murphy Design.
One of the most creative publications in the world, Visionaire, hooked up with one of my favorite fashion publications, JC Report. Justin Campbell of JC Report caught up with Cecilia Dean, editor/co-founder of Visionaire magazine, and put together a really good interview. It talks about the beginning of Visionaire, how thay’ve managed to stay independent for 17 years, and their crazy creative process. They’re one of the most creative pblications in the world, and they are a steady flow of creativity and inspiration, just take for instance their next issue will be the very first Pop-Up magazine issue ever, at least to my knowledge.
The Visionaire website is pretty amazing right now, for it’s issue 54 in collaboration with Lacoste they put together a series of limited shirts. The shirts are photo-centric images applied onto Lacoste polos, this there 54th issue, is supposed to be dubbed as a wearable publication. The artwork on the Lacoste polos are from artist, photographers, designers, musicians and a filmmaker, the likes of which are Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Phil Poynter, Thomas Ruff, Karl Lagerfeld, Pedro Almodovar, David Byrne and Michael Stipe to name a few. The shirts are broken down into 4 different sets and within the pages of each of them you’ll find 3 shirts. And people say print will be dead soon, not if they putting out work like this. Also loving the song on the website, I wish I knew who sings it.
Alison Jackson has photographed countless celebrities, Madonna, President Bush, the Queen of England and many more, and there all fakes, yep. Alison photographs look-a-likes of famous people, very good look-a-likes but look-a-likes they are, and she puts them in positions or situations that we either know the person does but we would never see or something just funny if that person was caught doing it. Like Mick Jagger doing gymnastics and the most famous of them all (in my opinion) Queen Elizabeth sitting on the toilet. With the money you’re saving on gas now the prices are finally going down a little you can go ahead and order Alison Jackson Confidential for $40, but if you like you can take a look at more preview images of the book at Kanye’s blog.
Remember as a child how much you loved pop-up books, how you could spends hours just closing and opening the book on your favorite pages. And then your parents did the unthinkable they told that you were too old for pop-up books; from that point on it just seems like all your hopes and dreams in the world just shattered to pieces. You were doomed to a 2 dimensional world with things you could only look at but not touch. But ha, how all our parents were so wrong we aren’t too old for pop-up books we just needed age appropriate pop-up books and thanks to Anton Radevsky and David Sokol for making “The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book”, we have that book now. The book has 20 notable architectural structured pop-ups including works by famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Frank Lloyd Wright. You can buy the book at Rizzoli or pre-order for much cheaper at Amazon.
Hi Fructose has been a little low key mag I’ve been reading for about a year now, the publication cycle isn’t that frequent, I think it’s something like 4 times a year. So I make it a point to look out for every new issue that drops. And with there art covers its easy for me to find them on those crazed crowded shelves at Borders. The magazine is on the same plateau as Juxtapoz but can you really have enough art magazines? Nope. The art in the magazine can be describe and put into many labels but I’m not big on labels, thankfully the good people at Hi Frcutose have come up with the best way to describe the magazine and especially the art, “Under the Counter Culture”.
WRG? mag has launched its Black history month project a croosword puzzle with the answer’s being 20 of the black pioneering pro skaters. I love this type of participation by WRG? bringing that print feel by allowing its readers to join in on some fun by playing a game just like if you had it sitting on your lap. They also put together a series of Skateboards dedicated to the same 20 individuals who make up the answers to the puzzle. Celebrating Black history month just got a little bit more fun.
