Awhile back we posted that Arcade Fire + Spike Jonze = Probably Really F*cking Amazing Flick, which was about a short film titled Scenes From the Suburbs. Well that short film, directed by Spike Jonze and based on the motifs of Arcade Fire’s Suburbs album (and co-written by Jonze and Arcade Fire’s Win and Will Butler), is now […]

The London-based design studio Mash Creative has collaborated with the Design Museum for their latest collection of varied goods. Their “State of the Obvious” collection is a hodgepodge of items including iPhone and iPad skins, marker pens, USB sticks, travel card wallets and keyrings. And like the title suggests, each piece of the collection tells […]

You can never have too much Blu in your life, so today we bring you a couple new test animations he completed in n abandoned factory. As usual, the work highlights the Italian street artist’s unique creativity and cleverness. Good to see Blu making news for the right reasons, and not for getting his  artwork […]

When Spike Jonze first directed Arcade Fire’s “Suburbs” video, the idea was that the piece would play as a sort of “trailer” for an upcoming short film which would expand on tropes touched on in the music video. Well now these ideas have begun to expand and evolve, and the collaboration has put out this […]

Cheeming Boey has taken one of the most disposable, valueless byproducts of Western society and transformed it with substance and value. Boey performs his alchemy on these toss-away with beautiful, at times incredibly intricate pieces of art. Using only a Sharpie and sheer creativity, Boey’s unique choice of canvas has earned him the title of […]

In 1761, German Faber-Castell launched the first branded pencil, and in a sense launched the entire industry of art material manufacturing. By now, Faber-Castell’s high quality pencils are standard issue artillery in every artist’s arsenal. To celebrate the company’s two hundred fiftieth anniversary, Faber-Castell has created a “Birthday Box” set worthy of its heritage. The […]

I’ll be honest with you, I like KAWS’ work but I also think he’s a bit guilty of being one of those guys who rehashes his same idea in different colorways or slightly different design and calls it a collaboration. Such is clearly not the case for this collabo with Standard Hotel, where he takes […]

Seminal British culture magazine i-D is celebrating 30 years of their publication with a Taschen book, i-D Covers 1980-2010, comprised of their entire collection of covers. i-D impeccably celebrates the fashion, music, art and street scenes aimed at youth culture, and since 1980 have featured heavyweights like Grace Jones, Kylie Minogue, Christy Turlington, Liv Tyler, Gwen […]