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— Art & Design —

Roman and Williams

Roman and Williams

March 8, 2010

Roman and Willams is an amazing New York based interior designer firm that’s behind such projects like the Ace Hotel and Standard hotel in New York, among other things. Last night I spent an hour or so getting lost in their portfolio and for some reason when I woke up this morning all I wanted to [...]

JR / Paris

March 7, 2010

I just came across the video above, which features JR (and company) doing his thing in Paris. This edit just surfaced recently, but the installation/exhibit/expo is from September 2009. Still new to me though. I’d freak out if I woke up one morning and saw something like this on my morning commute, haha. Via – [...]

Sly Apartment

Sly Apartment

March 5, 2010

Need some more inspiration for your day? Check out Sly Apartment. With a great selection of images and a Defgrip banner in the side bar, you cant go wrong!

Carne Mag

Carne Mag

February 26, 2010

Ricky Adam (see below) has notified me that he’s also just been featured in something called Carne Mag, which I have never heard of. I went to the site, downloaded issue 2 and proceeded to be fully blown away by all the great stuff that’s featured. Carne Mag is a monthly digital magazine (yes, flippy [...]

Caleb Everitt Design

Caleb Everitt Design

February 22, 2010

Our good friend Caleb Everitt has updated his portfolio with a slew of amazing new design work! Keeping the site very simple, everything is displayed on a single page letting his work for clients like Mutiny, Hufnagle, and MTV take center stage. *UPDATE* Check out our previous Q&A with Caleb HERE.

Theo Tagholm

Theo Tagholm

February 16, 2010

London-based video artist and director Theo Tagholm makes some incredible work. Saw a video called Drift on todayandtomorrow recently and was really intrigued.

This Los Angeles Video

This Los Angeles Video

February 11, 2010

Jordan Malama from Say Mayday hit me up with a link to a promo video they put together for the first opening of This Los Angeles. We posted about the show last week, so check out all the info here and keep reading to see the video!

My advice to you? Get a job, sir!

My advice to you? Get a job, sir!

February 8, 2010

To all you Midwestern Defgrip readers with design skills: the house of Verde, Duo and Cinema have a gig for you. Click below to read a full description of the available full-time web designer job at Greenhouse BMX. The bums will always lose.

This Los Angeles

This Los Angeles

February 2, 2010

This Los Angeles, a new gallery opening in LA is having their first show next Friday. With a stacked list of artists, many of which have been featured on Defgrip, like; Shepard Fairey, Estevan Oriol, Todd Selby, RJ Shaughnessy, Michael Sieben, Jeremy and Claire Weiss, and so many more, you know the show will be [...]

New AisleOne

New AisleOne

February 2, 2010

AisleOne, one of my favorite sources for design inspiration, updated with a new version of their website. With a wonderful layout, two options for viewing content – grid or list – and a nice hidden dashboard, the new version is extremely successful and is a great example of a site that could easily just be [...]

Edward Leida on The Selby

Edward Leida on The Selby

February 2, 2010

I’m a fan of the latest photo feature on The Selby: W Magazine design director Edward Leida and his semi-minimalist Manhattan apartment.

Them Thangs are back

Them Thangs are back

January 27, 2010

Them Thangs is back and better than ever. With a new site and new url you can get back to wasting hours of your day looking at amazing images… Get back to wasting your day away at  them-thangs.com and make sure to close that sidebar thing to get the O.G. feel.

Q&A: The Vintage Skeleton

Q&A: The Vintage Skeleton

January 23, 2010

The Vintage Skeleton is a designer that I came across on Flickr and have since looked forward to any new work that he puts up. So with that, I decided to throw some questions his way. Click below to check out a quick Q&A, some of his work and a wallpaper that you can hook [...]

More Wallpapers

More Wallpapers

January 21, 2010

Somehow I misplaced the above wallpaper from Ilyas Z that he submitted for the Nigel Nike 6.0 contest. We haven’t quite picked a winner yet, so I wanted to make sure Ilyas’ entry made it on the site… We also received a few additional wallpapers after the contest deadline. They are not eligible, but you [...]

Delfin–Postigo House

Delfin–Postigo House

January 20, 2010

White floors, white walls, and amazing artwork is what drew me into the house of fashion designer David Delfin and photographer Gorka Postigo in Madrid, Spain. There’s a great feature on Yatzer showcasing the house that is definitely worth a few minutes of your day.

Nazario Graziano

Nazario Graziano

January 19, 2010

I just came across the design work of Nazario Graziano while browsing doubleyouwhy. Good stuff. Click below to check out some samples and click HERE to check his site.

A Look Back At The 00s: ‘Glo-fi’ And The Sadness Of The Advertised Man

A Look Back At The 00s: ‘Glo-fi’ And The Sadness Of The Advertised Man

January 18, 2010

Kev Kharas looks back at a decade where the internet destroyed our channels of discovery, and allowed the rise of glo-fi. (Article via The Quietus)

Morning Breath Inc.

Morning Breath Inc.

January 8, 2010

The guys at Morning Breath from Brooklyn, NY have updated with a new website. The site is more of a blog format with a SERIOUS archive of all their work showcasing everything from their current poster work to their old Jay-Z album covers! Make sure to spend some time on their site and keep reading [...]

Mind Design

Mind Design

January 6, 2010

Mind Design is an independent design studio out of London. I’m really digging the patterns and colors the use in their identity work. (via It’s Nice That)

The Decade’s 14 Biggest Design Moments

The Decade’s 14 Biggest Design Moments

December 29, 2009

Fast Company has a year-end feature rounding up the 14 biggest moments in design from the past decade. While I’m not sure I agree with all of the choices, it’s pretty crazy to think back to the first time you saw an iPod, or the fact that Design With In Reach wasn’t around and everyone [...]

Art Talk With Dirt Ron

Art Talk With Dirt Ron

December 29, 2009

Dirt Ron has a great little video about his art on BMX Wonderland, shot by Justin Kosman. Along with being a bad ass shredder on a bike, Ron can get down with a pen and paper as well. In the video you will lean that Ron was actually born in Hawaii, how he got into [...]

Best And Worst Identities of 2009

Best And Worst Identities of 2009

December 21, 2009

Brandnew, one of the best brand identity websites around has a great roundup of the best and worst identities of 2009. There are some great examples of both good and bad identities like the above beautiful Paul Rand designed Yale logo (on the left) that was dumped for the new version (on the right) and surprisingly enough [...]

Michael Freimuth

Michael Freimuth

December 18, 2009

Check out some great print and editorial design from New York City designer Michael Freimuth.

Private Images

Private Images

December 18, 2009

Just as I uploaded all the images for this post, I had a feeling that I might have already posted on Thomas Troelsen’s blog Private. I did a quick search and sure enough, I wrote about it last February. The first post didn’t have many images to go along with it, so rather than scrapping [...]

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