A New York Rep

New York Magazine Look Book by Spencer Heyfron

New York Magazine Look Book by Spencer Heyfron

Heidi Chisholm - Hooray for the President!

Illustrator and graphic designer Heidi Chisholm has designed a line of fabrics for Shine Shine, a company that make great things that are perfect gifts. Who would not want the to wear this cool apron as a tribute to our President while grilling up some juicy organic hot dogs or garden burgers (actually, some people I know...but they are not very cool)? Or toss a few of these pillows in the couch at home? Our fabulous First Lady Michelle Obama was actually spotted wearing the apron at a BBQ upstate New York a while ago.

All the products at Shine Shine are available in 5 different fabric choices , all designed in Heidi´s signature style.

New York Magazine Look Book by Spencer Heyfron

New York Magazine Look Book by Spencer Heyfron

Obama's people

 

 

Nadav Kander is exhibiting the images he shot for the New York Times Magazine in Birmingham this April. If you have not seen this brilliant portrait series, click on link above.
The person behind this exhibition is Rhonda Wilson, a dear friend that I got to know in Toronto last year. Rhonda is the force behind Rhubarb Rhubarb which is the most celebrated photo workshop in the UK.

Here is a statement from Rhonda:

"the whole series of 53 images in 'obama's people', 27 of them life sized,
opens to the public on 18 april 2009 in birmingham museum
and art gallery and will remain there for 5 months, through
the educational holidays, the tourist season and the rhubarb
international portfolio review, when our guests from around
the world will come and share in our great pride and delight.

like the obama administration itself, a team of people, unknown
to one another, have come together to make the show possible.
some unlikely partners. some with small but precious gifts
and others with quite large sums of money, have made the leap
of faith to join with myself and rhubarb in this extraordinary
adventure. we would like to thank them all."

Wish I could be there, how great to see the images life sized...

Way to go, Ingo!

Ingvar Kenne, Swedish photographer from down under, won the Photographic Portrait prize at the National Portrait Gallery i Canberra. This is a great honor for Ingvar, an outstanding portrait photographer. Link to his site can be found under I Like, to the right...

"Mr Andrew Sayers, Director, National Portrait Gallery announced today the winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 is Ingvar Kenne for the submission titled Cormac and Callum. The photograph depicts two boys standing beside an indoor spa pool. The atmospheric qualities of the interior space are powerfully conveyed. VISA has generously sponsored the exhibition and will provide the winning prize money of $25 000. The winning work is featured in an exhibition of fifty-six portraits from the finalists' and will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery until 17 May 2009."

"Kenne says he applies the same principles to his work whether he is shooting celebrities like film director Baz Luhrmann or a tribesman in Papua New Guinea.Predominantly working with film, he only recently bought himself a digital SLR camera after months of borrowing one, but he says he hopes to continue working with film for a long time.

"It's hard to get hold of film sometimes, but I have a dark room and I do my own work," he said.

"The capturing of film, I think, is a very different thing to shooting on digital and I prefer it."

Mr Kenne says there is a danger of the art of photography becoming diluted as it becomes more readily accessibly through technology such as camera phones.

"I think you still have to do the hard yards to take good photographs ... regardless of if you shoot digital or film," he said."

Quotes from Portrait Gallery website and ABC Canberra.

Wonderwall

The folks behind Wonderwall, who sells high quality prints by well knowns Swedish illustrators, like Ingela Peterson Arrhenius and Stina Wirsen above, and photographers have come up with a simple yet effective concept - sell good stuff. Take a look here.
I relaly like that you can see a picture of the print in an environment too.

Michael Corridore

Michael Corridore (from Australia!) has a campaign for Toyota Landcruiser on his agency website. I actually laughed out loud when I looked at this. Like guffawed. I can't believe how funny this is.

Jim Bastardo for DWR

From T: The New York Times Style Magazine last Sunday.

Fabulous at Fifty - the chair by Norman Cherner was designed in 1958. Some things just get better with age which we all know. Hang on to something long enough and...

Jim has a brand new website where he shows off more of his work for Design Within Reach.