‘Freshco’
Amsterdam designer and illustrator ‘Freshco’ (a.k.a Friso Blankevoort) works mostly in black and white and creates playful illustrations. There’s not a great deal more to say about it other than to check it out for yourself, really great work, and a beautifully crafted website with a nice solid idea behind it. All in all, I’m...
Michael Kiwanuka
On Wednesday evening I made it to Rough Trade from work just in time to catch the last 3 tracks of Michael Kiwanuka. He’s a young guy with a soulful voice and beautifully written songs. His first album’s just came out from what I understand and he is definitely one to watch. Below is one...
Ben Newman
On Thursday night I went along to the opening of Ben Newman’s ‘Masks’ exhibition in East London. The work was brilliant and worked incredibly well as a series, the basement was full of Newman’s mask illustrations which were carefully crafted and printed to perfection as well as some physical versions (my personal favourites) and the...
Beach Fossils
Beach Fossils are a young band from Brooklyn that could easily accompany your summer. Catchy songs made up of fairly simple but great repetitive guitar parts and lyrics as cheerful twangs of another guitar separate sections of the songs. They love their reverb too, like everybody should. ‘Sometimes’ is a great track. Worth looking at...
Héctor Serrano
Product design isn’t usually something that interests me all that much, but Héctor Serrano stands out from most other things I’ve seen. Playful ideas are turned into stylish and simplistic items, such as the napkin/tie combination. Transformers are also something that don’t really interest me, but I’d quite like to own one of these cute...
Graphic Nothing
Gary Andrew Clarke is the man behind ‘Graphic Nothing’. He makes beautiful vector images that carefully combine block shapes and colours to create intricate surreal landscapes, bold stand-alone images and lovely patterns. ...
WU LYF
WU LYF are a Manchester based band who spent the last couple of years playing tiny unknown gigs and for a long time the only image of them was on a rooftop with bandannas around their faces and smoke everywhere. Well now they’ve decided to let people watch them and started to tour around. I...
