Archive for July 2007
Fancy up your iPod or Macbook
Stella im Hultberg
Stella is a painter and drawer living in New York City. Despite her background in industrial design and toy design, she has recently turned to a more personal and expressive kind of creating, showing her works at galleries since fall of 2005. When she’s not drawing or painting, she likes to eat while thinking of more food to eat, search for the perfect cupcake, eat ice cream at the park, and just walk around her most favorite city in the world.
Jenn Porreca
Some time ago, jenn moved from the edges of the real world to the edges of the underground. From the outside of the inside they look suspiciously similar. In her other life she walked the straight and narrow, and built this avatar picture pixel by pixel, appropriating images and ideas, dr. frankensteining them together inch by agonizing inch. Every minute she can be, she is here, dancing with cartoon characters and elves and sientists and graffiti-writing apostles and astronauts and experimental musicians. Voraciously looking from behind beneath her netted hat and twiggy eyelashes. She likes this better. In cities worldwide, the eyes of the voyeurs are as ersatz as her identity. By popular demand, jenn’s eerie works of urban folklore have been exhibited in both galleries and museums in Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, New York, and San Francisco.
Audrey Kawasaki
The themes in Audrey Kawasaki’s work are contradictions within themselves. Her work is both innocent and erotic. Each subject is attractive yet disturbing. Audrey’s precise technical style is at once influenced by both manga comics and Art Nouveau. Her sharp graphic imagery is combined with the natural grain of the wood panels she paints on, bringing an unexpected warmth to enigmatic subject matter.
Tokyo Web Trend Map 2007
Web trend map as Tokyo subway system:
“In this neatly color-coded and detailed graphic, Information Architects Japan has located the top 200 Web sites worldwide—including everything from Google to Wikipedia to BoingBoing to Fake Steve Jobs—and mapped them to match the Tokyo subway system. Each train line is color-coded by genre, and the “forecast” shows potential for growth and success based on their research. The digits on the bottom right signify whether they’re Web 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0. I could sit here and analyze this map forever, but lucky for me, the makers of the map have done this already. An excerpt from their Web site:
1. Google has moved from Shibuya, a humming place for young people, to Shinjuku, a suspicious, messy, Yakuza-controlled, but still a pretty cool place to hang out (Golden Gaya).
2. Youtube has conquered Shibuya.
3. Microsoft has moved to Ikebukuro, if you know what I mean.
4. Yahoo is in Ueno, a nice place but nothing going on there.
5. Wikipedia now is in Shimbashi, the place for the square and hard-headed Salaryman, like the Wikipedia watchdogs.
6. The Chinese line runs parallel to the “share line” which starts with the main pirates…
7. Paper info designer Tufte is right below the Federated Media, right before joining with the interactive information design circle in a 90 degree angle.
8. “You” are in the Emperor’s palace, in the center of the network.
(from tokyomango)


