Setting allies with Phu!, SBTG presents to you, a kamikaze mission "Death from Above". A fictitious battle between 2 rival airborne squadrons. The Death Seeker AF1s and the Phantom Mirage AM90s. This will also be SBTG's debut on releasing a run of AM90s. A one time show down, 8 fighters per squadron. Bombs drop March 30th, 10pm NYC time.
issue: Death Seeker Air Force 1 code: Thunderbolt / Spitfire price: USD$500 qty: 8 individually numbered on shoes and box.
Featuring a weathered fuselage as an armor and cloaked in a urban desert storm camouflage. A suicidal maniac masked with the warhawks teeth ready for battle.
issue: Phantom Mirage Air Max 90 code: Blackburn / Hurricane price: USD$550 qty: 8 individually numbered on shoes and box.
Armored with metallic olive drab, battle dressed in desert storm and accented in a venomous acid green chompers. This woodland warrior is ready to cross enemy lines. issue: Phantom Mirage Air Max 90 code: Blackburn / Hurricane price: USD$550 qty: 8 individually numbered on shoes and box.
Armored with metallic olive drab, battle dressed in desert storm and accented in a venomous acid green chompers. This woodland warrior is ready to cross enemy lines.
Only available @ Royalefam , March 30th 2008, Sunday 10pm NYC time.
Artists Lazy and Darbotz worked on a custom Ubiq eL, something one does not come across too often. The end result is impressive. Darbotz worked on the drawings on the case as well as the inner sole screen print and Lazy worked on the carvings on the strap, which turned out to look similar to a laser graphic.
The shoes will be available at Know It Nothing in Singapore. Have a detailed look at them
Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with twenty-plus contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering.
Interviews within include conversations with pan-European type design collective Underware, Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi, American graffiti writer and fine artist Barry McGee/Twist, German graffiti writers Daim and Seak, American lettering artist, graphic designer and design educator Ed Fella, among others. Parallel Strokes is an enquiry into the history, context, and development of lettering today, both culturally approved and illicit.
Full list of interviewees:
Akira Kobayashi Underware Ed Fella Delta Jerry Inscoe/Joker Jens Gehlhaar Daim Seak Jonas Williamsson Handselecta Tauba Auerbach Lady Pink She One Eklips AWR/MSK Eskae Renos Mike Giant Chaz Bojorquez Barry McGee/Twist
The result of six years of research in the combined arts of lettering, graffiti, and typeface design, Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews some of the best letterform creators in the world today.
Chaz Bojorquez talks about the origins of barrio graffiti in Los Angeles and the evolution of the craft. Fellow Angeleno, vernacular graphic designer Ed Fella, speaks about his history in lettering and how he earned the title ³The King of Zing² in Detroit design and illustration circles. Famed Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi discusses Roman and Japanese letterforms while showcasing a lifetime of type design work. European graffiti writers Daim, Seak, and Delta share their thoughts on dimensional graffiti lettering while American graffiti writer Mike Giant talks about vernacular lettering, typeface design, and the evolution of graffiti handstyles.
Parallel Strokes is richly illustrated throughout, featuring copious previously unpublished work by the interviewed artists, as well as supplementary illustrations and photographs detailing contemporary and historical trends in graffiti and type design.
The first 100 orders come with a two color 17" x 20" Parallel Strokes poster printed using recycled paper and soy inks at Portland, Oregon's Pinball Publishing.
Parallel Strokes is 244 pages thick and available for $25 with free shipping worldwide.
Posted: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Why are there so many songs about rainbows And what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions, And rainbows have nothing to hide. So we've been told and some choose to believe it I know they're wrong, wait and see. Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, The lovers, the dreamers and me.
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on the morning star? Somebody thought of that and someone believed it, and look what it's done so far. What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing? And what do we think we might see? Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.
All of us under its spell, we know that it's probably magic....
Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name. Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors? The voice might be one and the same. I've heard it too many times to ignore it. It's something that I'm supposed to be. Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.
