branding Archive
Art
San Francisco’s Shooting Gallery is showing a new collection of confrontational pop art paintings by Australian artist, Ben Frost. In See Inside Box for Details, Frost lays bare the
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vinyl
Selim Varol’s epic toy art collection has been the subject of two books and a museum exhibition. What do you get for the toy art collector who already
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packaging
Andy Warhol painted his first Campbell’s Soup can in 1962, and in its aftermath, the artist and the brand became permanently linked in popular culture. Warhol lunched on
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vinyl
Just as the UK’s Dudebox announces the creation of its US store, Toy2R, Hong Kong’s longtime purveyors of designer toys, announce the closure of theirs: While the Qeevolution continues,
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interviews
Most people tend to think of Shag as being an artist and active participant in the lounge lifestyle. While these things are both true, Shag is also a
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industrial
A few months ago, I told you about French company Fire Design and their fanciful fire extinguishers made to resemble wine bottles. Well, this just in from Russia: Saint Petersburg-based designer, Timur
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Design
Following Disney’s bizarre and much-blogged misuse (above, right) of Peter Saville’s iconic album art for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, The Gap now takes those iconic waveforms for an unsightly
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Cats
This is one of those polarizing PETA ad campaigns that’s either win-win-win or lose-lose-lose. Chances are, if you like Morrissey, you also like cats, and you may even
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packaging
Wallpaper* magazine commissioned master perfumer Geza Schoen to create a perfume for book lovers. The resulting fragrance, Paper Passion, was produced by Gerhard Steidl with packaging by Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld is
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packaging
Thanks to once-a-year visits from Sergey Safonov, I’ve become a member of the Ozersky Souvenir chocolate covered nut sweets fan club. The candies taste great, but that’s not
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