Dear followers of List by Jon, it has come to my attention that some of you are watching the World Cup instead of reading my blog. I understand that this is your personal choice, but it does concern me a lot, why? Well watch video below.
Enjoy, whatever you choose to watch!
Mr.J
Rachel Thomas is virtually peerless for the unique position she occupies in the creative landscape. She sits somewhere between art director and designer and her work spans many media from print to installation and film.
Rachel Thomas' work is at the most seductive, glamorous end of craft and its strongly hand-made character, and energy that leaps from her visuals, make her a powerful ally within a creative team.
While playful and light-hearted at times, her work is also sophisticated and intelligent and her in-camera visual tricks delight as an antidote to digital manipulation: a magic combination that makes her a truly original and innovative image-maker.
Rachel Thomas' background is in fine art, film making and photography (which she studied at Goldsmiths), these remain strong influences. Effortlessly transcending boundaries she has worked with a diverse range of clients in fashion (Acne Jeans, Topshop, Colette, Giles Deacon & Comme des Garçon), editorial (Acne Paper, Another Magazine, iD and Dazed and Confused) and the wider commercial market (Cadbury’s, John Lewis, Shelter and Visa).
See more work by Rachel Thomas HERE
James Joyce is a London based artist and designer. His work is a mixture of simple typography, bold colorful colors, and crisp geometry. Joyce designs are very bold and eye-catching. I enjoy the simplicity of it but, like the “Chemical World” poster, it has a not so simple message.
A short film about man's misunderstanding and mixed relationship with mother nature (barf!)..
This is my graduate film from IADT National Film School.. Its a bit of a mix of stop-motion, live action and hand drawn animation, shot in my attic on a Cannon EOS 5D, Cannon 450D and a 7D too (basically any camera i could borrow from friends and siblings). i hope you like it!
Check out Conor on Vimeo HERE
This work is by designer Chris Nixon, who, although still only a student at John Moores University in Liverpool, develops his pieces through in-depth conceptual processes; analyzing the content thoroughly and developing forms that create strong and lasting impressions. Although he is certainly adept at taking on just about any objective, its Chris’s work with type – in particular, creating experimental type-forms – that truly captured my attention… and delivered that much needed inspiration!
In my most recent work I explore notions of singularity, concepts of time and patterns of change. Today, modernity requires that each of us navigate a blizzard of information. How this maelstrom of data is interpreted and synthesized constructs an individual’s paradigm. However, the qualities of the data are subject to a Catch-22: while the data works to describe an individual’s paradigm, an individual’s paradigm likewise works to describe the data.
With so much accessible information, yet so little certainty, are our interpretations of the world more complex or confused, more varied or more refined? Is the course of progress more accessible, or more elusive?
See more work by Nick HERE
Haroshi makes his art pieces recycling old used skateboards. His creations are born through styles such as wooden mosaic, dots, and pixels; where each element, either cut out in different shapes or kept in their original form, are connected in different styles, and shaven into the form of the final art piece. Haroshi became infatuated with skateboarding in his early teens, and is still a passionate skater at present. He knows thoroughly all the parts of the skateboard deck, such as the shape, concave, truck, and wheels. He often feels attached to trucks with the shaft visible, goes around picking up and collecting broken skateboard parts, and feels reluctant to throw away crashed skateboards. It’s only natural that he began to make art pieces (i.e. recycling) by using skateboards. To Haroshi, his art pieces are equal to his skateboards, and that means they are his life itself. They’re his communication tool with both himself, and the outside world.
The most important style of Haroshi’s three-dimensional art piece is the wooden mosaic. In order to make a sculpture out of a thin skateboard deck, one must stack many layers. But skate decks are already processed products, and not flat like a piece of wood freshly cut out from a tree. Moreover, skateboards may seem like they’re all in the same shape, but actually, their structure varies according to the factory, brand, and popular skaters’ signature models. With his experience and almost crazy knowledge of skateboards, Haroshi is able to differentiate from thousands of used deck stocks, which deck fits with which when stacked. After the decks are chosen and stacked, they are cut, shaven, and polished with his favorite tools. By coincidence, this creative style of his is similar to the way traditional wooden Japanese Great Buddhas are built. 90% of Buddha statues in Japan are carved from wood, and built using the method of wooden mosaic; in order to save expense of materials, and also to minimize the weight of the statue. So this also goes hand in hand with Haroshi’s style of using skateboards as a means of recycling. Also, although one is not able to see from outside, there is a certain metal object that is buried inside his three-dimensional statue. The object is a broken skateboard part that was chosen from his collection of parts that became deteriorated and broke off from skateboards, or got damaged from a failed Big Make attempt. To Haroshi, to set this kind of metal part inside his art piece means to “give soul” to the statue. “Unkei,” a Japanese sculptor of Buddhas who was active in the 12th Century, whose works are most popular even today among the Japanese people; used to set a crystal ball called “Shin-gachi-rin (new moon circle)” in the position of the Buddha’s heart. This would become the soul of the statue. So the fact that Haroshi takes the same steps in his creation may be a natural reflection of his spirit and aesthetic as a Japanese.
See more work by Haroshi HERE
The Strata project by Quayola consist of a series of films, prints and installations investigating improbable relationships between contemporary digital aesthetics and icons of classical art and architecture. A combination of 3d render/processing application, the film includes Processing delaunay triangulation conversion applied to photographic stills with 3D mesh output which was then fed into 3D software application and rendered separately.
The term Strata defines a geological formation made of multiple layers of rock. Each one of these layers has its own individual characteristics and history, which combined produce beautiful and unique formations…
Commissioned by Evento and Lumin for the Bordeaux Art & Architecture Biennale.
Credits
Concept: Quayola
Sound: Plaid
Photography: James Medcraft
3D Animation: Robin Lawrie
Custom Software: Mauritius Seeger
Assistants: Kieran Gee-Finch, Colin Johnson
Audrée worked on a data visualization enhanced packaging. 
