WELCOME TO THE FOBE HOUSE | A SPELLBINDING SILENT TALE | PART I
‘I call architecture frozen music…; the influence that flows upon us from architecture is like that from music,’ are Goethe’s words and a concept that seems to be beautifully understood by French architect Guilhem Eustache. He has designed the majestically modest Fobe House in Marrakech, Morocco for Belgian producer/director Dimitri de Clercq. When we spoke...
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: JANUARY, WEEK 04
This week’s Album of the Week is entitled Robots, Bees and Other Ordinary Humans by onesmallseed.net member Daniela Sarinski. Being sweet, adventurous and macabre at the same time, this selection of illustrations will tickle your aesthetic senses and encourage your interpretative skills to come out and play. Have fun!
Album of the Week: December, Week 01
For December’s first Album of the Week we reached back into the archives and found a very endearing illustration album that was published in April this year by onesmallseed.net member, Wonder Meyer . Join onesmallseed.net today and have your own work showcased!
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‘Art is like a Weapon’ | Q&A with LoRo VeRz
Dazzlingly vibrant and playfully grown-up is the work of Brazilian graffiti artist, illustrator and humourist LoRo VeRz. After graduating from the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in 2001, he has exhibited in cities around the world and has customized adidas trainers for the 2012 Olympic Games. And just recently, he was asked to transcribe...
THE ART OF THE HUSTLE | ATANG TSHIKARE
Andy Warhol used to draw shoes in his early creative days and went on to mark an important spot on the cultural timeline – he became a pop art legend. Just like Warhol, Cape Town based artist/illustrator Atang Tshikare claims that he ‘used to have a shoe obsession’, which first led him to draw and then...
FlashBack | Tretchikoff King of Kilsch | Issue 15
Art, like fashion, is subject to cycles it seems. One of the names that is currently being rejuvenated, refreshed and revitalised to audiences across the world – most of whom would not have been alive in his era – is Vladimir Tretchikoff. Tretchikoff was born in 1913 in Russia and lived a remarkable life, full...
San Remo Group Show
Many a Capetonian may have come across the run down yet beautifully mysterious white washed house that has the words ‘San Remo Guesthouse’ written on its walls in Krynauw Street, Gardens. Situated in the hip hub of the Mother City, it seemed about time that it ceased being a crack house and went back to...
THE STALKED
Stalking has become easy in an age of social media. In fact, most of us are quite content to release private information into the whacky world of the www. Christine Hogg speaks to Alice Toich, who examins this phenomenon by painting portraits of Facebook users who she ‘stalked’. “None is so famous than the example...
In Rainbows with Michael Elion
A glimpse of spring hit Cape Town last week on Friday 7th September, and dancing on a rainbow seemed the perfect way to celebrate! one small seed caught up with Michael Elion artist / architect who mainly works on large scale public artworks. On behalf of Creative Week Cape Town he created a man-made rainbow,...
ROGER BALLEN & DIE ANTWOORD’S ‘I FINK U FREEKY’ AT ERDMANN CONTEMPORARY
The second solo exhibition of Roger Ballen, including stills from the ‘I Fink U Freeky’ music video he directed and work from the Shadow Chamber series, which inspired Ninja and Yo-landi to launch Die Antwoord, opened on September 18th. It seems New York-born photographer Roger Ballen always had an interest in outcasts. This is...
Doctor/Patient Privelege – Nastplas
Nastplas from Madrid is an illustrative duo comprising of Dr Franken (a software developer by day) and Natalia Molinos, an interior designer. Using painstaking 3D images, vectors, photography, airbrush and many other media, they take organic textures to a new level with this series of drawings that are quite a sight…
pulp, colour & country – neil krug
Neil Krug’s latest creative offering lies in a series of books, entitled Pulp Art Book, (Volumes One and Two) which he created with Joni Harbeck, model and art director, who he is now officicially married to. Like something out of a Quentin Tarantino movie, his images have an authentically seasoned look with the kind of...
the pen and the lens: Justin Maller & Chris Knight
Fashion, Erotica and Illustration cross paths as Australian illustrator, Justin Maller and US fashion photgrapher Chris Knight collaborate to create some of their most breathtaking visuals yet. Justin is an art director by day, and is also the Creative Director of The Depthcore Collective, an international modern art collaboration he established in June 2002. Aside...
