Sock Check - Kruella D'Enfer

I literally cannot get enough of her design work. I love the stark use of bold colours and patterns that seem hap-hazardly thrown together but with such ease you wouldn't even have suspected. It's fun and exciting and makes me wanna dance in the rain whilst wearing protective rain boots that are most likely going to be made out of plastic but just as brightly coloured and fantastic as this. I feel like whenever I describe things it always digresses into a bit of a ramble but hey, Just live your life (eh eh eh eh eheh)

Don't under estimate Rhianna - She means business.

This is some of ( and I really mean some, because there is a load of amazing stuff in her portfolio) of Kruella D'Enfer, a Portuguese designer and artiste'. Please enjoy and check out her other cool stuff here

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I love love love her illustration style and cool techniques and also those pens that make glass way more interesting:

Maybe Ill save her poster stuff for another post. Ha!
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Cant We Be Royals? - American Royalty - Sam Spatt

Sam Spratt

Looking through his portfolio its hard to believe he's only 25. Amongst his many works in portraiture, illustration and game character design.

He was personally commissioned by Donald Glover - Childish Gambino - for his new Album, Royalty. 

"American Royalty"

Excuse me while I try and make something of my life.

Read more about how much I like Sam Spratt's Art Works here.

Make sure you listen to Childish Gambino's music, I've linked it here, because he's really cool, and one of the best underground rappers around.You could also just watch Community, where he's an actor and frequently raps in Spanish.

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Half the Pipe - Creative Thinking

The truth is I can only ever wish to design stuff this cool and this interesting. I hope I'll be as cool as this one day, hawt dayme.

This is Half the Pipes amazingly quirky business cards to promote their little studio. the business cards are like a domino game where you match up the different sides of the cards. How fun! They use their business cards to promote their new and exciting way of doing business.That's why they have made the list of awesome things and had enough coolitude to grace the pages of this here blog - That probably no one reads, which is kind of unfortunate, but let us not dwell, friends. 

I give you Half the Pipe and their cool cards:

Yup a doodle.
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Teen Angst and Other Stories

Petra Collins has just started her first Solo Exhibition in Manhattan, and while that's a really faraway reality for me as a South African I've seen a bunch of her works all over the internet in recent weeks. By 21 she's done so much and is making a big name for herself and its kinda making me feel inadequate and has sent me spiralling down that all too familiar road of Self Doubt and Existential Crisis's. I am Jacks own self hatred.
It hasn't helped that we've been studying the Gendered image of people in the media - which included a lot of weird movies with people either being really violent or creepy.

I've read a lot about what Collins has to say about her work, which has been in the making since she was 15 and so depicts the trials and tribulations of growing up as a woman and struggling with sexuality and identity in a world that has already made up your mind for you in a sense. It really is hard being a girl, and especially one that doesn't meat the 'Norms' of society.

"Discharge", her first Solo Exhibition is a documentation of what it's like to be a young teenage girl growing up in a Social Mediated society and what it means to be struggling with your sexuality and with the idea of womanhood in modern life.
*Click on the images for a better viewing mode.

Collins has been met with much controversy over her works (like her Vagina TShirt design for American Apparel and her Instagram pictures) and has been trying to make a way for Women in Art to really be heard and have their works showcased in a predominantly male dominated sect of the Cultural world. She has started an initiative, about 3 years ago now, called: The Ardonous. You can read more about it here, and see some of the works by featured female artists as well. Its flipping fantastic to see the different interpretations of what it means to be young and female in this world and in a society that has pretty much been based on hiding away from the world as soon as you've reached puberty.

I pretty much wanna be her because she has no fear and I wish I had that quality within me.
Yup.
Petra Collins e'rybody.

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Sorry, I'm Allergic...

Marta Grossi. 

"She eats her art for breakfast"

She calls it Banana Graffiti, and every night she'll paint on her banana before eating it the next morning. Her need for Banana Graffiti came from her understanding that inspiration is all around you, you only have to chose to be inspired by it. These are only a few of my favourites, you can see more of her wonderful creations here.

Too bad I'm allergic to bananas...
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