At the moment the term Tea Party brings out all sorts of bad vibes.
But this is the sort of tea party that I do like.
How cool is this tattoo!? (click to enlarge)
(design by Julia Pott)
Filed under: Design, Music | Tags: Goose, Gravity The Seducer, Hipgnosis, Ladytron, Neil Krug, synrise
A follow-up on the follow-up.
After seeing my previous post, George Yanakiev got his hands dirty and mixed Ladytron’s new album cover with Goose’s “Synrise”. Proportions turned out to be perfectly equal…
(photo via georgetheniteversion)
Filed under: Design, Music | Tags: Album Cover, Gravity The Seducer, Hipgnosis, houses of the holy, Ladytron, Neil Krug, Storm Thorgerson
A little follow-up post to the previous Ladytron post. Last week Pitchfork premiered the new Ladytron album cover (made by Neil Krug) and quite rightly pointed out that it looks quite a bit like something that might have come from the Hipgnosis design team (famous for their covers for Pink Floyd, Muse,…).
They should have put it next to the cover of the 2010 ‘Synrise’ album by GOOSE album which was actually designed by Hipgnosis. The similarities are quite striking.
Ladytron: Gravity The Seducer
GOOSE: Synrise
While I had a further look at Krug’s work I even found a second Hipgnosis rip-off.
Neil Krug:
Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy
Coincidence or not?
That said, I quite like Neil Krug’s work.
It’s heavily based on the whole Polaroid retro color scheme.
Check out his work here: http://www.neilkrug.com
Filed under: Design, Music | Tags: Gravity The Seducer, Hipgnosis, Ladytron, Neil Krug, White Elephants
Ladytron are gearing up for the release of a new studio album ‘Gravity The Seducer’ on September 12.
Last year we got a first track ‘Ace of Hz’, now there’s a second single ‘White Elephant’s. It’s a bit Ladytron by numbers I’m afraid. I’d like to see them push the boundaries again, like they did with ‘Witching Hour’, an album that was quite a shift from what they had released before.
Listen to ‘White Elephants’ here:
Filed under: Design, Music | Tags: 12 inch vinyl, Grinderman, heathen child
A few weeks ago I picked up a copy of the Grinderman ‘Heathen Child’ 12 inch, in part because of the great cover. Not only does it feature a haunting shot of the bloody eyed and orange-haired nubile from the accompanying music video, the cover also has the text in a gothic gold foil blocked font (see photo below). Nice.
The single is released on red coloured vinyl and also contains a poster of said girl (and her orange dyed nether regions) and the band.
As for the music, the single also features b-side ‘Star Charmer’ plus the bonus track ‘Super Heathen Child’ which is a collaboration between Grinderman and legendary guitarist Robert Fripp who added some sterling guitar work to an expanded version of the song.
And all this sweetness for just a baby fistful of euros*!
* FYI: a baby fist can hold 5 euros**.
** Yes, i know that the plural of euro is ‘euro’ and not ‘euros’, but I’m talking about the actual coins, in which case you have to add the ‘s’.
I somehow ended up at a second-hand book fair last weekend and I got me this little gem:
“Het eeuwige ijs. De Zuidpool-expeditie van kapitein Scott. Een verhaal van den laatsten tocht, Britse Zuidpoolexpeditie van 1910-1913,van kapitein Scott en diens tragisch einde, benevens een beschrijving van het natuurleven in het eeuwige ijs.”
It’s a 1915 book about Captain Scott’s South Pole expedition, and besides the lovely dated Dutch, it has a superb cover, which is actually the main reason why I bought it. Look at the font and the style of the whole drawing, all so very art deco – modernist. And it has a penguin! Penguins are always cool. Sadly the book doesn’t mention who made the drawing.
If only all book covers were like this…
Filed under: Design | Tags: clock, Fredrik Mattson, Habitat, Jon Almond, PXL lamp, Spectrum, Zero
Spring starts next week, so maybe it’s time to brighten up your home. I bumped into these 2 nice and brightly coloured home interior items and thought I’d share them.
Coloured wooden spoke clock designed by Jon Almond for Habitat. The spokes of this wall clock increase in length with each hour. Get one for 50 euro at Habitat.
Two aluminium and steel multicoloured pendant lamps, designed by Fredrik Mattson for Zero. The designer’s own words: “The traditional archetype of a lamp form is sliced up and transformed into rings. The PXL lamps resemble a bit of a 3-D ‘low-resolution object’ with its pixel and edgy character.” They somehow remind me of Lego as well. And I think the first one is the nicest one. Get them for about 800 euro at www.zero.se.
Found this little beauty at a Brussels vintage shop last weekend. Dead cheap. Guess because they’re from 2007, so not really vintage. I hope the missus fits in them as she wasn’t with me and they’re half a size off. Oh well, nothing a little surgery can’t fix. After all remember what the Chinese were able to achieve.
Anyways, they’re Nike Zoom Blazers retro style with black suede and grape shoelaces, swoosh and sole. They’re inspired by the basketball shoe legend Blazer from the early 1970s. The Blazer was Nike’s first basketball shoe with such a huge Swoosh, so really everyone could see it.
This is about as good as a woman sneakers can get. Perfect I tell ya!
Filed under: Design | Tags: BapeSta, ice cream, MY41, puma, PUMA MIHARA, sneakers
Remember these Bapesta sneakers? They just found their rivals.
These brand spanking new ‘MY41′ Puma’s - designed by Yasuhuro Mihara (say thàt 10 times fast) – are certainly as dazzling as the Bapesta sneakers.
And why do I suddenly feel a need for ice cream?
via: Knotoryus.com
