Manchester, UK graphic artist Chris Thornley, also known as his once secret pseudonym Raid71, has imaginatively taken lyrics from The Smiths’ to design Penguin inspired book covers. They feature select lyrics re-imagined from Morrissey’s mind — from tracks like “How Soon Is Now” and “Louder Than Bombs” — and translates them visually, exuding a retro […]

TASCHEN is gearing up to release individual books on influential fashion moguls Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo.  With designs that explore his adoration for women and the female form, Yohji Yamamoto set about creating anti-fashion through fashion. His designs are both intellectual and utilitarian. The book Yohji Yamamaoto features 30 years of the influence his […]

Along with Vespa, the Lambretta became an iconic vehicle of the 1950s and 1960s when adopted by the UK youth culture known as the Mods. Originally manufactured in Milan by Innocenti, the Lambretta competed in cost and weather protection against the more ubiquitous Italian scooter. Dating back to the pre-WWII era, there’s a whole lot of history packed into […]

Moog Music has announced the release of a limited edition Gold MiniMoog Voyager. Handcrafted in Asheville, North Carolina, this iconic analog synth is made with the finest materials and then dipped in 24 Karat gold to celebrate its ten year anniversary. The classic wood housing has been neatly dressed in a custom, high gloss black […]

While not prepping proms or assembling awesome comic books about Los Angeles, Jim Mahfood (aka Food One) likes to draw girls. Either as full illustrations, or simply doodle his art around them. There are worse jobs. His latest gig was doing exactly that for an iheartgirls.com photoshoot, where he lends his ink pen to the […]

Eviscerating text and whitespace from antique books, Alexander Kortzer-Robinson creates entirely new narratives from only pre-existing charts, graphs, illustrations and other visual elements inside of each book. The result is a relatively 3-dimensional collage of relics that have lost their value over the passage of time. Much like Guy Laramee’s Landscapes Carved from Books, the tomes […]

The great Leonardo da Vinci has inestimable traces of his influence within endless realms of artistic and scientific institutions. The Italian archetype of the Renaissance man was not only a painter but a sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist, inventor, musician, botanist, geologist, cartographer, anatomist and writer. He could easily be God. Thus, it’s no surprise that […]

Despite the armies of lackluster taggers and copycat wheatpasters, some artistic misfits put a lot of vision and meaning into their work. You know a street artist(s) paints an accurate portrayal of society when they create a magazine featuring the double-donked Kim K in such a state of narcissism that she eats her own face. […]