This season, artist David Trumpf collaborates with design and apparel brand Star Electric Eight Eight (SEEE) on a series of graphic tees and posters.
David Trumpf aka Datrumpf was born in France and worked in a jail for a few years before coming to NYC in the 90’s to begin his career as a designer and illustrator. This summer he collaborates with SEEE on a series of graphics entitled “X-Rated Romps” which showcases a selection of illustrations based on newspaper photographs. Each of these collaborative designs are available in men’s and women’s t-shirts and limited edition of 50 signed and numbered screen printed cotton rags.
To date Datrumpf’s work has been exhibited at Atlanta’s Design Museum (MODA) and Colette, Paris.
Launched in 2004, Star Electric Eighty Eight aka SEEE, is the creation of Harlmem-based designer Jennifer Garcia. An annual limited edition t-shirt and zine project, SEEE has been featured in several publications including the NY Times style section and Complex Magazine.
The ongoing series, TRASH: anycoloryoulike, began transforming trash in Harlem on June 13. Through the participation of local residents, artist Adrian Kondratowicz is continually replacing standard piles of trash throughout New York with a vivid new design that beautifies the city and calls attention to waste.
TRASH is an exercise in perception, showing how design serves to camouflage waste within cities. Individuals contribute by creating their own trash sculpture or commissioning a city block installation by visiting www.anycoloryoulike.biz.
The viral installation has been documented in the Lower East Side, Soho and the West Village and will continue citywide through September of 2008.
“There is nothing new except what is forgotten,” stated Rose Bertin, known as France’s first celebrated fashion designer and famed milliner, who transformed a young Marie Antoinette into a cultural icon during her reign in Versailles. Over 300 years after Antoinette‘s grim end, a forgotten art form has resurfaced with the help of Austria’s youngest milliner creating over-the-top hats that will make any church-going lady turn green with envy.
Julia Cranz may just be 26-years-old, but her hats have won over today’s stylish starlets, making her designs the ultimate accessory. Before Sarah Jessica Parker drove photographers crazy at the Sex and the City premiere in May with her Philip Treacy’s garden-inspired hat adored with monarch butterflies, she turned to Cranz for a personal heart-shaped cap made of silk and leather just for nights out. Cranz even managed to entice burlesque performer Dita Von Teese at their first meeting during the recent Vienna Opera Ball, which resulted in a towering piece made of glossy patent leather, goose neck feathers, and colored pheasant on English linen. Yet, the daughter of artists, who felt fashion was “too-dimensional,” wanted to turn heads with pieces that can make any bad hair day an excuse to become glamorous anytime.
Cranz, who originally studied agricultural economics for four years, chose Mother Nature as her muse. Her Spring/Summer 2007 collection included spread bird’s wings in an army-green hue decked with tiny emerald Swaroski crystals. For a more demure look, Cranz’s “Redroom” contains a scarlet-red hat, resembling a giant crushed rose with small rubies resting on its petals. The designer, who never fails at making each collection more dramatic than the last, manages to leave shoppers in awe with a woman’s miniature bowler hat, once a man’s must-have accessory during the Roaring ‘20s, stitched with delicate lime-yellow lace inspired by cascading leaves.
Her latest hats, which debuted at Berlin Fashion Week this month, proved bolder than anything else she’s done. Some of her most talked-about pieces consist of a flat fuchsia starfish, a bombshell hat wrapped in canary blue feathers, and a men’s hot pink bowler hat that could have been influenced by blooming Gerbera daisies, a fitting image for Spring 2009.
From Vienna’s underground graffiti artists to famed opera diva Anna Netrebko, Cranz’s expertise of hand making flora coming to life in hats has made her one of this year’s most beloved designers.
Tonight, Tuesday, July 29th- LinYee + Queen Majesty invite you to celebrate the summer with BIG BAMBOO! TUESDAYS A weekly rotation of special guests selecting Jamaican Ska, Rock Steady, and Rub a Dub! Tonights Special Guest Selectors: DJ Ayres and DJ Eleven from THE RUB!! Every Tuesday, 8PM-Midnite! No Malice Palace and Garden 197 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and B. DrinkSpecials.Backyard.DancingMood.
Also tonight- Tacos Again! MISSBEHAVE MAGAZINE vs. PITCH CONTROL PR. Taco Tuesday. 7pm-late @ Rewind. 137 Essex Street (Between Stanton & Rivington) Music Provided by: DJ Panther, Cash & Prizes, DJ Chopps, And Danny Estrella of Ladies Night! $2 Tacos (Carne Asada, Chicken & Veggie) $4 Margaritas
Wednesday, July 30- At 205 Club. Taste in association with Ashes57 proudly presents…LICK, Downtown’s all female artists showdown. Hosted by Jasmine Solano & LaMazing Presenting: a live set by JOI (Dungeon Family / Outkast / ATL), DJ CAT NYC, DJ Wildcat Ebony Brown, The Agytators (photo installations). Coole Swan cocktails & Wine Cellar Sorbet 10-11pm. Goodies provided by Kill Shop Kill, Audible Treats, and more.
A couple months ago during at a quick stop in Fred Segal I came across some exciting stacks of t-shirts that instantly became my faves. Depictions of Andre Leon Tally, Barack Obama, and supermodel Agyness Dean were all part of a hand drawn graphic tee discovery called “Deer Dana”.
In 2002 Dana Veraldi was a high schooler working at a screen-printing gallery space called The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, PA as an assistant screen-printer who also helped develop fabric designs. This was the job that fueled her career as a photographer, artist, and t-shirt designer who currently does “several creative things all related to each other”. Veraldi makes t-shirts and tote bags out of her apartment, her designs mostly of hand drawn images taken straight from her photographs that she then screen prints and sells on her website and in a few stores in LA, NY, and Paris. The tees are executed simply with a one-color black print on a white t-shirt, her subjects become part of a neat collection of hand-drawn hipness.
“All of my designs are of friends”, referring to Jackson and Agyness, “or of people I admire- Hamish Bowles, Andre Leon Talley,” she explains. Her latest designs are of Tory Burch (her best friend’s stepmom) and NYC super twins Dee and Ricky- “my friends who made the lego jewelry in the last Marc Jacobs collection.”
If the saying- “birds of the same feather flock together”- is any indication, Veraldi is well on her way to being the next creative buzz.
Deer Dana is available online at www.deerdana.com, Fred Segal (LA) and Oak (NY).
from Tompkins Square Park by Q. Sakamaki, published by powerHouse Books
Before there was an East Village and Alphabet City, Tompkins Square Park was a hotbed for both creativity and crime. Captured by an area resident, Q. Sakamaki, powerHouse’s latest book shares the grime and grittiness through black and white photography.
For many years Tompkins Square Park was a makeshift home for the homeless and a center for social unrest. In the summer of 1988, it erupted in violence when the New York City Police and hundreds of protesters clashed over ideological differences. Residents of the Lower East Side, historically home to diverse immigrant communities but facing gentrification, united to protest the 1 a.m. curfew the city was attempting to enforce on the park, in effect banishing the homeless and closing off many areas of the park that were once public. Over the humid night of August 6, protestors carrying signs that read, “Gentrification is Class War,” and chanting, “It’s our fucking park, you don’t live here!” clashed with police armed with riot gear. The violence lasted until the next morning.
As New York City’s Lower East Side faced drastic gentrification in the late 1980s and mid-1990s, photographer Q. Sakamaki was documenting the community’s resistance and literal struggle to exist. It is the subject of his latest book, Tompkins Square Park. Focusing on the eponymous park as a symbol and stronghold of the anti-gentrification movement, Sakamaki, an area resident, witnessed the neighborhood’s change from the beginning to the end. With striking black-and-white images, he captures the scene of one of the most political and avant-garde movements in New York.
Along with an essay by Bill Weinberg, Tompkins Square Park presents a glimpse of the park before 1991 when the estimated 300 homeless people living in Tompkins Square Park were gone and the park was forcefully closed for renovations. Twenty years after the August 6 police riot, the park now boasts one of the best dog runs in New York City.
Book Launch and 20th Anniversary Commemoration
August 6th, 2008 from 6:30-8:30PM
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn
Through July 13th: The 4th Annual Afro-Punk Festival is bringing some of the most exciting young artists and bands from the US and abroad, presenting live music and films every night throughout the festival and hosting free skate clinics and demos from skate and BMX pros in the BAM parking lot. Visit AfroPunk.com for more information.
Sunday, July 13th: Bastille Day Skate Jam 2! noon-8pm on Smith Street & Dean in Brooklyn. Sponsored by Homage, BK.
Sunday, July 13th: No Ordinary Monkey, your favorite late night disco jamboree, is back this summer for their annual party in the park! Apparently the park has been redone and is ready for us to ruin the new grass. As always refreshments will be available and this year the food will be provided by Roberta’s pizza! Your regular NOM djs: Phil, Anton, Carlos. Grand Ferry Park Grand + East River, Williamsburg, BK. 2pm-9pm
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Up to 80% off Samantha Pleet, Spring & Clifton, Vanessa Barrantes, Laura Dawson, Madison-Hardng, Honey In the Rough, ClaraBella, Sophomore, and Verte! Complimentary refreshments. Friday 3pm-8pm, Saturday 11am-8pm. 201 Mulberry Street btwn Spring & Broome.
The mysterious and alarming disappearance of honeybee colonies has inspired a collaborative installation entitled “A New Hive” hosted by Earnest Sewn Co. at their flagship store in New York City.
A New Hive will include collaborative works by New York’s Derrick R. Cruz designer of the Black Sheep & Prodigal Sons collection, Caroline Priebe of Uluru in collaboration with Natalie Chanin from Alabama Chanin, Cory Gomberg of Bureau/Greige, designer Monica Byrne and artist Ryder E. Robison. This important and timely event draws New York’s attention to the honeybees’ plight through apiarian inspired sculpture, drawings, couture, limited edition accessories, curated antiques and live specimens. With this combination, Cruz hopes to begin a visual dialogue that will foster a desire to coexist with natural systems rather than exploit them to oblivion. “It’s an optimistic place with dark energies that will help us consider our role in what is shaping up to be a precarious future,” Cruz noted.
The installation and its supporting media create a dynamic place for visitors to contemplate the importance of even the smallest members of our delicate ecology. Cruz’s hope for A New Hive is that it will help society regain respect for these amazing creatures; “after all, almost everything we eat is made possible by bees.” Proceeds from A New Hive will support A New Hive Non-Profit for the establishment of new beehives in public gardens, educational programs focusing on the importance of bees and the art of beekeeping, media and literature, as well as research to develop sustainable beekeeping practices.
For more information on A New Hive and Colony Collapse Disorder visit ANewHive.org
Opening reception July 9th 7pm-9pm
RSVP Carlosq [at] earnestsewn.com
Installation is on view July 9th – July 31st
Earnest Sewn Co.
821 Washington Street
“Worker Head” by Ryder E. Robison, Sweater by Uluru
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Saturday Afternoon, July 12th: Missbehave Magazine & Nikita Clothing Present…
POCO LOCO Feat. Radio Rose (Around The Way Girls), Queen Majesty & Ni**sky (Nina Sky)!!!! Bask in the sunshine! $2 Red Stripes! Free Tacos! Hawt Girls and Boys! Wind Ya Body! 3pm until 9pm. Union Pool 484 Union Ave at Meeker Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Take the L Train to Lorimer. Click here to RSVP.
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P.S.1’s Warm Up 2008 kicked off last Saturday with the Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris. This year’s Warm Up will be housed in an urban farmland, P.F.1 (Public Farm One), featuring live and blossoming vegetation created by the winners of the 2008 Young Architects Program, WORK Architecture Company. Each Saturday through September 6, 3pm-9pm at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens.
Following in the phenomenon of the collaborative and interactive entertainment ground breakers- American Idol, Wikipedia, and Threadless- RYZ launches an interactive design space where participants are invited to create their very own footwear.
Founded by footwear industry veteran Rob Langstaff, formerly President of Adidas America and Adidas Japan, RYZ is a progressive, web-based and social-community sourced footwear design brand. It provides an online platform whereby consumers can have their unique sneaker design ideas brought to life via internet-based design competitions and community-based voting.
Consumers log on to RYZwear.com, download a template of a high-top canvas shoe, add graphic applications, and then upload the template back to the site. Each competition remains open for a four-week period; once closed, the designs are voted on by the web community with the help of an elite industry artist panel, including Worship Worthy’s own Saint Agnes, David Gensler, President of The Keystone Design Unit (KDU), and Chris Vidal, a well-respected member of the sneaker world, who will provide feedback on design submissions. The winning design gets produced with the designer awarded $1,000 plus a $1 royalty for each pair sold.
“We are excited to provide a stage for young designers to showcase their creativity, and allow the real trendsetters to dictate what gets produced,” says Langstaff.
The first winning shoe design to be featured and sold on the site was selected last week through a Portland-based design competition that paid homage to the fact that Portland is considered ‘sneaker universe’ to many (the Nike and Adidas headquarters are in the area). Over 150 artists, designers, musicians, sneakerheads and young professionals converged to celebrate the launch of RYZ.
Jason Ehlers, a well-known graffiti artist of Portland, otherwise known as ‘Caveman’, was the winning designer with his unique shoe design titled, ‘The Creep.’
To view his design and upload your own, visit: www.ryzwear.com.
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ON A SIDE NOTE
Treat your boy with a trip to Air Traffic Control, the new authority on limited edition sneakers in Miami. While you’re man’s scoping the consignment sneaks, treat yourself with the apparel featuring Married to the Mob and Hellz Bellz. Air Traffic Control, 1601 Washington Ave. Suite 114, Miami Beach, Florida.
