Archive for November, 2004

Shilo

shilo.jpgShilo is a collective of designers, animators, and directors who share a common obsession to forge a new perspective in storytelling. Creating compelling work, both client-driven and personal, Shilo strives to not only push the boundaries of contemporary motion graphics and direction, but also strike a nerve in an ever-numbing audience. Combining live action, 3d, classic typography, illustration, music and sound design. Shilo creates projects with boundless emotional impact. Links: www.shilodesign.com

Mark Holthusen

mark_holt_thum.jpgName: Mark Holthusen What: Photographer Company: Freelance Where: San Francisco USA Born/ Age: 35 Looking at: IDN Magazine Listening to: Peaches Links: www.markholthusen.com 182_image1.jpg182_image2.jpg182_image3.jpg182_image4.jpg182_image5.jpg182_image6.jpg

Matt Pyke

thum5.jpgName: Matt Pyke What: All-over-the-place-creative-director-designer Company: Universal Everything - a modular team of designers, programmers, musicians Where: Sheffield, UK / other members from all over the globe Born/ Age: 02/02/75 Looking at: Bodys Isek Kingelez (artist from Democratic Republic of Congo) Listening to: MF Doom / Jimmy Edgar / Freeform / Sufjan Stevens Links: www.universaleverything.com 168_image1.jpg168_image2.jpg168_image3.jpg168_image4.jpg168_image5.jpg168_image6.jpg

Joseph Holmes

thum4.jpgName: Joseph Holmes What: Photographer Company: Freelance Where: Northern California Age: Fifty Two Looking at: As much as possible Listening to: iTunes, Air America, and National Public Radio Links: www.josephholmes.com 169_image1.jpg169_image2.jpg169_image3.jpg169_image4.jpg169_image5.jpg169_image6.jpg

Fafi

59_thum.jpgName: Fafi What: Street painter, graphic designer, illustrator Company: Freelance Where: Toulouse, france Age: 27 Looking at: Get inspired by girls around me Listening to: nude dimension label, metal, no doubt Links: www.fafi.net, www.leclub70.com 59_image1.jpg59_image2.jpg59_image3.jpg59_image4.jpg59_image5.jpg59_image6.jpg

BLINK

Blink PhotgraphyRecently released in paperback format, this cool blue cover of BLINK contains some very hot photographers. By seeing what this elite selection of photographers sees (or wants you to see) reveals to you an imaginative vacation to worlds you never knew existed but wished you had time for. BLINK provides an up-to-the-minute, global overview of contemporary photography. BLINK contains the enormous breadth of ideas, forms and approaches influencing photography today. It covers all types of work, from art to photojournalism, fashion to digital photography. A landmark event in the photography world, BLINK presents the work of 100 rising stars. They have been selected by 10 world class curators, each proposing 10 photographers who they consider to have emerged and broken new ground in the last five years. Each of the photographers (arranged A�Z) is featured over two double-page spreads, which show numerous examples of their work alongside an explanatory text by the selecting curator and biographical information about the photographer. The curators have also chosen texts by 10 writers, ranging from fiction to journalism, which they feel illustrate the cultural context surrounding the photography. BLINK: 100 Photographers, 10 Curators, 10 Writers published by Phaidon Press, distributed by Bookwise International, RRP AU$69.95 (including GST). Available now in good bookstores. Links: www.phaidon.com