Changethethought™

I would love to take a walk through the Shoreditch studio of ‘object’ artist Tithi Kutchamuch. She rethinks objects and their purpose and is interested in giving consumers a pause to consider what it is they are engaging with and why. There is a lot of thought put into each of her projects and each must be considered for the purpose it fulfills and how the viewer/user/consumer interacts with it. She is a bit of what you might call a ‘design engineer’. To gain a little insight into her approach, there is a nice little interview here.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Design, London, Objects, Shoreditch, Tithi Kutchamuch

Hi everyone, my photo blog Them Thangs is back at a new URL, if you’re into that sort of thing. Maybe you didn’t even know it was gone.. either way …enjoy!

written by Justin Blyth | tags: Art, Design, Image Blog, Music, Photography, Pop Culture

Some stunning Art & Design work from Mike Creighton. Check out his work here.

written by Michael Lonergan | tags: Art, Art Direction, Design, Flickr, Illustrator, Mike Creighton

There are some very interesting things going on in the portfolio of New York based Denise Kupferschmidt and I highly recommend browsing through all of her varied works. Great use of materials (especially paper) and excellent design throughout.

written by Ryan De La Hoz | tags: Design, New York, Painting, Paper, Paper Mountains

I’ve just updated my site with a bunch of new projects, including this cover I created for Computer Arts Projects - issues 131, which has just hit the news stands in the UK today.

www.mrbowlegs.co.uk

Happy Holidays

written by Jeff Bowman | tags: Animation, Design, Illustration, Jeffrey Bowman, mrbowlegs

Illustration and design representation agency Colagene has a unique roster of talent generating some beautiful examples of design, illustration and typography work just waiting to inspire.

written by Christopher | tags: Colagene, Design, Illustration, Rep, Representation

There is some pretty fun and inspirational visuals collected within the visual diary of Salva López. It’s only 3 pages deep so far but shows a lot of promise.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Blackline Posts, Blogs, Design, Salva Lopez

Studio Output have update with so many new projects to keep your soul warm this winter. It’s nice to see a new direction forming for Studio Output in these updates, including a wealth of hi-end branding, there’s still the hard hitters in there though with some amazing new prints for Ministry of Sound (above picture). Its a joy to see the work they produce and its always good to see a studio go from strength to strength in these times!

written by Jeff Bowman | tags: Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Music, photogrpahy, studio output

FISK is brought to you by the design students of Cal Arts. A great new resource for students.

written by Jeff Bowman | tags: Blog, Design, FISK, Illustration, students

The guys over at AnyForty have a brand spanking new flash new site, built by the splendid Matt Booth.

The product range is ever fresh and ever expanding with the likes of Ilk, Waste and McFaul hitting it up with some rad tee’s. Go check it out.

written by Jeff Bowman | tags: anyforty, clothing, Design, Fashion, Illustration, Merchandise, Tees

Grafik have finally put up a new site, its been a long time coming!!

written by James Gilmore | tags: Design, Magazine, Website

Diggin’ the overall look of what NO MODA puts out. Very nice zines as well.

written by Ryan De La Hoz | tags: Design, Los Angeles, Oscar Vasquez, Zines

San Francisco based Danny Espinoza  creates clean compositions that give me that happy go lucky feeling. Very carefree and pleasant. More on his Flickr.

written by Ryan De La Hoz | tags: Design, Drawings, San Francisco

This chair by Vladimir Tsesler (the combined works and studio of Tsesler and Voichenko) is nothing short of hot hot hot. The chair is just one tiny piece of their large and rather indescribable body of work.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Design, Furniture, Vladimir Tsesler

It’s Nice That – Issue 02

Following the success of our first sold-out printed publication, we are pleased to announce Issue #2 will be released on Thursday 1 October. Inside the publication you’ll find 128 pages of advertising-free content, documenting the best of the work we’ve featured on the site in the past six months in more depth, alongside a series of interviews and features written by current practitioners that have never been seen before.

If you pre-order a copy before midnight on 30 September, you will not only guarantee yourself a copy sooner than anyone else (dispatched the week of 28 September), but will also receive an exclusive, free screen print (260mm x 195mm) by master illustrator Rob Ryan, pictured above.

written by Jeff Bowman | tags: Art, Design, Illustration, Its Nice That, Magazine, Music, Photography

Messina is a four piece progressive rock band that formed in early 2008 to create and perform ‘Opora’ the fictional story of Carducci. The band consists of Matt Broadbent (formally of Dugong) on vocals, Ian Smart (Milloy) on Bass, Ray Tovey (Diasonic, Everybody Is Going To Die) on Guitar and Alvin Ryan (Arms, Everybody Is Going To Die) on Drums. Together they have worked tirelessly to create a set of songs that document the plight of Carducci and his fellow men. The story starts in the summer of 1923 in Toarmina, Messina, Sicily and ends in June 1924 in Rome, Italy. ‘Opora’ is a journey of sadness and revenge and each song is a map to the enlightenment that befalls our protagonist Carducci.

Their debut S/T, 03 track single comes in the shape of 1000 bespoke, handmade CD singles. Contents include two reversed printed transparencies sandwiched between a super thick slab of eskoboard, sealed in a 229×162mm anti-static metallic envelope.

Designed by Paul Heys at Dtam™

Listen & Buy : Click!
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written by Jeff Bowman | tags: Design, dtam, messinna, Music, paul heys

I have read about this program and expressed my interest in helping and/or contributing as it is here close to home. I was hoping to teach a class this fall for CU’s advertising program, but was unable to commit since I am taking a long vacation in Europe. Fall is also usually when things ramp up for me both at my job as an Art Director at Cactus and with my work for Changethethought. I am hoping maybe I can teach in the spring of this upcoming year.

Nevertheless, this looks like it could be a really good program and there are some really intelligent people involved in making it happen. I was asked to help spread the word since this is a great contribution to our advertising and design community here in Denver/Boulder. Here is what I received as a description in my inbox:

“Opening in Boulder, Colorado this August is Boulder Digital Works (bdw.colorado.edu), which is a digital program that will teach the integration of technology, business, and creative fields. This is a unique program that is the first of its kind in America. BDW has and is working with: Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA), Hyper Island, Modernista, IDEO, Goodby, AKQA, Google, Microsoft, EA, Facebook, Amazon, Hulu, R/GA, Twitter including FL2, The Foundry Group, Spiremedia, Effective UI-whom will recruit from BDW. At BDW business people will experiment with the technology side, creatives will embrace the business end and technologists will pitch ideas.”

written by Christopher | tags: Advertising, Boulder Digital Works, Colorado, Design

AnyForty is a UK based streetwear brand that are hitting people over the head with a giant Crayola by unleashing there new range of Versus tee’s.

Collaborating with artists like McFaul Studio, Jam Factory & Waste from the UK, to Niark 1, iLk & Gorey from France, Loworks from Japan and Russia’s The SickSystems, AnyForty are creating some stunning graphic tee’s by world famous artists.

You can hit up the online store to save 20% by pre-ordering!

www.anyforty.bigcartel.com

written by Jeff Bowman | tags: anyforty, Design, Fashion, Ilk, Illustration, McFaul, Tees, waste