Craig Redman aka Darcel Disappoints designed the cover of Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape’s 50th anniversary issue. Click here to download the edition featuring ten hand-picked new finds. mb! met the illustrator in his New York studio in the Lower East Side to discuss art and music.
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Volkswagen teamed up with the Museum of Modern Art for a two year partnership and supports the New York based institution with exhibitions and other related projects. The upcoming EXPO1 is just one example for this new relation. For this Klaus Biesenbach curated a whole exhibition under the title ‘Dark Optimism’ for MoMA PS1 starting in May.
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Cheslo is a Leipzig-based illustrator and musican. Ever since he can remember his favorite activity was drawing. He tells us he is very emphatic with his illustration characters and the same applies to music. Cheslo started his musical progress with flute and piano, later Atari with cubase, the music sequencer QY70 by Yamaha, Mac with Reason and now Ableton Live.
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Inspired by the combination of design and engineering that lead to the invention of the Flyknit technology, Nike selected global design innovators and challenged them to create a sculpture, structure or installation that would display the technology and be inspired by the shoe.
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Rán Flygenring is a 25 year old icelandic/norwegian illustrator and graphic designer. When we stumbled across her playful illustrations we immediately had the wish to introduce her to you guys. To get to know her a little better and get the chance to display her works at the same time, we decided to make a bit of a different interview with her.
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mb! Magazine met Bec Brittain, a newcomer in New York’s design scene to talk about her work, her challanges and obsessions. When you see Bec’s geometric lighting fixtures suspended in her lofty Red Hook studio in Brooklyn, you may think simplicity is easy, but every screw secures a precise angle, conflating all the pieces to a perfect scientific shape.
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Otto Baum, Mike Okay, Lowskii, Kid Cash, Disko Robot and Dani Daphne form KLUB7, a collective of designers and artists, creating their own world by painting murals, customizations and illustrations. Together they developed a collective style that combines the diverse backgrounds of the six members.
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Das Kollektiv rAndom kreiert Kunstwerke und Installationen, die menschliches Verhalten und Interaktion erkunden. Oft kombinieren sie dazu Licht und Bewegung. Das 2005 gegründete Team, bestehend aus Stuart Wood, Florian Ortkrass und Hannes Koch, nutzt Fragmente künstlicher Intelligenz, um Wechselwirkungen zwischen animierter und realer Welt zu erzielen.
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Es sind existentielle Prozesse im Leben, denen sich der Fotograf Yougo Jeberg in seiner Arbeit verschrieben hat. Seine Bilder erzählen vom Erwachsenwerden. Von dem Moment in dem man an einer Schwelle steht, und zurückblickt auf eine Zeit der Unbeschwertheit und Leichtigkeit, in der die Freunde der Mittelpunkt des Lebens sind und man in seinem ganz eigenen Kosmos lebt.
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Sherwin Rivera Tibayan ist viel gereist, muss viel gereist sein. Oder er ist einfach nur ziemlich gut im Umgang mit Photoshop. Das zumindest denkt man sich, wenn man sich seine Fotostrecke ‘Horror Vacui’ anschaut. Mehr als zwanzig Billboards hat er fotografiert, alle irgendwo in den Weiten des amerikanischen Westens.
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The world of iGNANT expresses itself in terms of ideas and creative output. By means of the internet esthetic standards have been spreading faster than ever before, and the conclusions drawn from new ideas are within a new range now.
