Tim Burton @ The MoMA

This should be awesome. Tim Burton’s exhibit just started this past Sunday, the 22nd, at the MoMA. We’ll be there this weekend, come by for a good time and some creepy art. Here’s a behind the scenes look at the exhibition and how it all came flying out of Tim Burton’s head:

Witness a Little Graffiti Rebellion

The Anti-Advertising Agency along with the Graffiti Research Lab have started a new movement targeting subway ads in New York City. City-dwellers are being exposed to an exponentially increasing number of advertisements per day, we’re talking THOUSANDS of ads punching you in the face. So this is just their idea of a little “fuck you” to the people behind this. Check it out:

Wallpaper

Here is a preview of our website wallpapers… New ARTEK website coming real soon

Artist Spotlight: Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger is an American artist who became famous for her placement of bright text on top of her black and white photography. It’s usually declarative phrases that cricize “sexism and the circulation of power within cultures.” She’s been an influence for many, including Shepard Fairey’s work with Obey as well as popular fashion companies like Supreme. See some work below:

HAZE Art Show

HAZE is a legendary street artist who moved on to become an acclaimed art director. We were fortunate enough to get to see some of his work in person and meet the man himself! Check out our photo gallery:

Viva la Pornographics!

There’s this funky graphic agency in Spain (literally, their general contact email is funky@pornographics.es) called Pornographics Studios… And it’s awesome. I wish I could read anything on their website but, Baxter…you know I don’t speak Spanish. Thankfully their work speaks for itself… cool, colorful typography, check out their homage to vintage porno logos (see these motion graphics in action here):

James Blagden’s Short Animation: Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No

“I didn’t see the hitters, all i could care, was if they was on the right side …or the left side” – Dock Ellis

No Mas hired the funky, intelligent painter James Blagden to do an animation based on Dock Ellis’s 1970 no-hitter over the Padres. The result is amazing, Blagden does an incredible job re-imagining what might have happened that day on the mound. The accompanying voice over comes from a 2008 NPR interview in which Ellis describes being “as high as a Georgia pine” hahaa, worth a watch, the animation is hilarious:

25 Ridiculous Photoshop Mistakes

One thing people tend to forget about design, it’s ALWAYS up for review. Attention to detail people, come on now. Check out these 25 Photoshop errors from TutorialFreakz.

Forgot that love handle shadow... oops!

Check the car reflection

For more, go to photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com.

Artek Collaborates with Secret Society

I think it’s time for us to get back to showing off what we do over here. Here’s a selection of apparel we made for Secret Society here in NYC, go pick em up at their online shop.

Complex’s Top 100 T-Shirts of the 2000’s

We picked our top 5 shirts from Complex’s Top 100 list, which is definitely worth checking out, and just to ruin the surprise for you… here’s their number 1 pick:

Yeah that’s Kate Moss… And here’s our top 5:“T-shirts with messages are, for the most part, pretty lame. If you feel the need to walk around with some self-important proclamation on your chest, you should probably just get on Twitter ASAP. But this tee using magazine names and their typography is one of the most original, both in message and treatment.”
“This t-shirt started as an inside joke pertaining to the use of violence to solve problems. The tee took off as people got the joke (or didn’t), and the success of the shirt brought about many incarnations of the tee and led to the familiar brass knuckle becoming the logo for the brand.”“Absurd designer Angelo Baque founded the brand in 2002 and cooked up a hometown classic by creating this image of Knicks great Patrick Ewing with his arm around the twin towers.” “The NYC nostalgia kings scored in the summer of ’06 with this Jordan tribute tee that features the brand’s signature stars and gradient design, originally released in three colors…by Lemar & Dauley.”Haaa, backstory on this one: “Los Angeles skaters jokingly struck back at hip-hop’s sudden infatuation with their beloved sport by rocking this memorable comment about the one and only Skateboard P. The Ice Cream skate team struck back with their own tee: Pharrell CAN Skate. Take that!”