If you’re a fan of Liberty London and you’re a fan of the hightop, you’ll be in paisley heaven with the latest Nike collaboration. The styles include the Air Max 1, Cortez and Free 5.0 in sport red, university gold and imperial purple.
Personally, I love the wedge- what’s your favorite?
A native New Yorker, Terry Rosen began painting and drawing formally at the 92nd Street Y when she was six. Her professional career took shape first as an advertising illustrator for Bloomingdales and Macy’s then transitioned into textile design, where she honed her knack for bringing life to the inanimate. She designed prints for Oleg Cassini and was the creator of Nicole Miller’s iconic “conversational print” that depicted familiar and found items such as food labels, fortune cookies, and personal ads which sparked a huge trend.
Recently, however, Rosen has turned her attention to developing collages. The contents of her quilt-like compositions are collected from the artist’s travels throughout Hudson NY, the neighborhoods of Manhattan, North Adams, Great Barrington, Dutchess County, and “somewhere between Portland and Portsmouth.” Scouring the ground, Rosen has scooped up the many discarded artifacts of commerce and daily life such as ticket stubs, sales receipts, and fast-food wrappers for her collection.
Her well-honed artistic skill and fascination with “post-consumer behavior, puns and colorful lingo in the deluge of marketing messages, and their connections to real locations and times” informs her work, as she carefully assembles the pieces. Fascinating to behold, each layout looks like a visual poem.
Lisa Romero is a talented freelance illustrator and designer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. An avid thriftier with a penchant for repurposing and reusing objects, Lisa is a firm believer in finding the beauty in everyday things. Her colorful work is clearly created with love and is incredibly versatile with a portfolio filled with everything from distinct patterns to flowing hand-lettering and beautifully crafted artworks
I find when I’m searching for inspiration for patterns or textiles I often start by looking at objects rather than the actual patterns on things. I love to find a collection of objects with a similar purpose or hand that I can group together to discover a new shape or texture. Here’s one of my recent inspirational collections:
Illustrative Photography:
While I’m not sure if “illustrative photography” is a term, I love how interesting it looks when people draw over photographs. Here’s a recent collection- while I want Bernhard Wilhelm’s image to be my favorite, I’m most drawn to Saul Steinberg’s cats and stools…the others belong to Johan Thornquist and Gennine.
Coverage by Kimberly Hall
We’ve all gotten used to white-washed backgrounds with shallow shadows thanks to Terry Richardson. Interestingly (and refreshingly), we’re starting to see an evolution of this high-low trend that incorporates a wash of color. From Sous Style’s weekly Tip Off shot by Lianna Tarantin where house-hold products become still-life perfection to Christopher Griffith‘s translation of Jill Lapore’s Battleground America to Tim Small’s The Milan’s Review, the sum of these examples simplify the story for a stark message translated through a punchy color backdrop.
Bringing commercialism (and Terry Richardson) back to the stage, Aldo’s latest campaign playfully incorporates type with a flat monochromatic background. Are you a fan?
Mike Perry is a Pattern Pulp favorite and a verifiable artistic dynamo, consistently producing an awe-inspiring amount of work, wide in scope and medium. In addition to his design and illustration work, he publishes zines, runs a magazine and has curated three successful books. Wondering Around Wandering – Works So Far is his latest creation and is his first monograph.
Having carefully designed each and every page, placing old works beside new ones and occasionally updating old work to make it new again, this is a true artist’s book. With explosive fluorescent colors, various paper stocks, and five four-page zines bound into the book, this volume is an object that must be experienced. Artists, designers, hip trendsetters, children, the young-at-heart, and anyone interested in DIY culture will treasure this amazing project. In addition to his work, the book also features: A Conversation with Ed Fella and Introductions by James Victore and Jim Datz.