The D&AD award winners were announced last week. Among these was the music video for Bjork's song Wanderlust. It received three yellow pencils, one for the music video category, one for art direction and one special effects. Don't Panic spoke to Isaiah Saxon from Encyclopaedia Pictura, the collective that made Wanderlust.
Matt Barnes' photos are slick. Whether shooting for Durex, Snoop Dogg or Playboy, his work exudes confidence. Oh, and sex. Matt's images are drenched in it. He doesn't solely attract clients known for sex appeal though - he's photographed David Cronenberg, Justice and, um, Ikea.
Scott Rhodes, a fine art graduate from Batley School of Art and Design believes that “a children’s annual is for life not just for Christmas, a fun packed adventure that can last a lifetime”, and prints over them in much of his work.
Thomas Herbrich is a skilled manipulator, primarily of photography but recently he has turned his hand to tweaking history as well.
Last week I went to an exclusive couture trunk show held at The Collection on Brompton Road, West London. It was full of women being pampered; drinking cocktails and trying on exquisite Zandra Rhodes dresses. Zandra was dressed head to toe in her own creation of colourful prints. I spoke to her and Noelle Reno, who organised the event.
DPTV went down to Battersea to check out the launch night of Doodle Bar. The bar has been completely whitewashed and punters are armed with maker pens and chalk and given the freedom to draw anywhere and everywhere. The idea came from Serge Seidlitz and Jules Cocke of Squint Opera.
Erik Johansson is a man operating on the furthest and sharpest edge of reality. He creates manipulated images that shock with their casual juxtaposition of the mundane and the otherworldly, for which he has already gained universal acclaim at the tender age of 23. We interrupted his tennis watching for a few words.
Cristina Guitian is a contemporary illustrator whose love of drawing on walls has become a healthy obsession. Her elaborate illustrations have adorned the walls of Shunt, Nike, Design Week and have been featured in IDN magazine.
Would you like to see your work in print? how about printed at 10m by 13.5m on the front of cordy house, in the heart of shoreditch, london? and not without some prizes either – £500 cash and 2 vip bestival passes! not to mention, you’ll have your work printed on the don’t panic poster another 80,000 times.