January 2012
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Creative&Drinks #1
Thanks a lot for your support everyday by reading us, following us and by discovering great creative people we promote.
We have been running Creative&Live for five years and we wanted to bring it a bit more live! So, we decided to launch the first Creative&Drinks! No talk, no subject, Creative&Drinks is just a way to meet up people interested in the same things in the same city.
If...
October 2011
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Tall Tales From A Large Man by Aaron Draplin
For one night only in London (29th of November), a special evening event featuring Aaron Draplin – founder of Portland’s Draplin Design Company and co-creator of Field Notes.
Draplin will be bringing his hilarious ‘Tall Tales from a Large Man’ presentation to the UK for the first time. Using scientific proof and state-of-the-art multimedia techniques, Aaron James Draplin of the Draplin Design Co....
March 2011
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Book Shelf Absurdity
Is there a lack of imagination to find titles about bicycles? Book shelves need sometimes a bit of diversity, at least in term of titles! @Foyles, London, March 2011.
February 2011
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Ryuji Nakamura
Ryuji Nakamura is a designer of architecture, landscape, interior, furniture based in Tokyo. Octave shared this clever paper work yesterday so I thought it was a good way to restart posting on Playtime.
‘Midget and Giant’ explores our perception of space. It is also a wonderful idea which allow everyone to make his own product at home. I hope you’ll enjoy her work.
November 2010
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Deaf Poets, ‘Cold Cold Thieves’. Music Video Clip created by Mupalia
Rest in Peace Rich, you will be missed.
YAKfilms presents “RIP Rich” featuring NoNoize, Man, BJ & D-real from TURF FEINZ original Turf Dancing from East, Oakland, CA. Filmed & Edited by Yoram Savion.
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Blisters Blackout Opening Night
Print Club London’s annual exhibition BLISTERS is fast approaching! Friday 3rd December, doors open at 6pm and everything is for sale!
This year there will be 40 artists, 40 editions and each print £40 a pop, signed by the artist. All work in the exhibition will include a glow-in-the-dark element and the venue (a rather wonderful old warehouse in dalston - MC Motors, Dalston) will be...
October 2010
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Dress The Part
EveryGuyed presents Dress the Part, a collection of 10 Redesigned Movie Posters Inspired by Men’s Style.
The collection includes American Psycho, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Dumb and Dumber, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Shaun of the Dead, Superman, The Shining, The Usual Suspects, Top Gun, and Wall Street.
Each piece highlights a classic menswear piece from the movies in the...
September 2010
3 posts
David A Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass gilding circles, with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors.
In this short documentary, we reveal behind the scenes work, techniques and visions that Dave uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser - One of the few remaining traditional UK glass...
Keep an eye on...
It is funny how things are matching together sometimes. This week all what I read and talked about was for most of it about the imagination.
It is very frustrating to become repetitive in its work and it is hard to get away from it.
As Robin Friend said “My imagination is all that I had to keep me company…” explaining his process of work when he shot the Slaughterhouse...
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Minimarket
Septembre, the fashion week is coming soon here in London.
I decided to talk a bit about fashion on Playtime this month and I am beginning with the Elvestedt sisters, Sofie, Pernilla and Jennifer. The sisters are designing beautiful collections for their Minimarket project. Created in 2006, the line had a big impact in the fashion world and continue to grow.
The Autumn/Winter 2010 collection...
July 2010
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Sweet video about the Mast Brothers, chocolatiers, by The Scout.
Blisters Blackout 10 by Print Club London
Blisters Blackout, the next Print Club London’s show is calling for entries!
40 Illustrators. 40 Edition and hand signed prints. 40 Pounds each.
Our big annual poster show is here again and its open submission so if you are interested in taking part please do look at the link below for more information! The show will take place this december in M C Motors the same amazing venue as last...
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Public Works 2
It might be the best design show of 2010. Unfortunately, we can not make it so we are supporting it. If you are lucky to live in Chicago or nearby, please pop in! Public Works 2 is a group exhibition of new work by Sonnenzimmer, Seripop, Dan Funderburgh and Mike Perry. Opening on August 6th, the exhibition runs through September 3rd. The show’s run will be punctuated by some amazing Friday...
Untitled A Magazine Issue5 is curated by Hugo & Marie and designed by STUDIO NEWWORK.
Waiting to put your hands on it, you can watch the preview. Featuring Anna Giertz, Fontaine Anderson, Anna Wolf, Micah Lidberg, Cecilia Carlstedt, Von, R.J. Shaughnessey, Sam Greeen, Jesse Auersalo, Heather Culp, Blossom Berkofsky, Si Scott, Mario Hugo, Sam Green, Benbo George, Leslie David, Elias Tahan,...
June 2010
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Daily Drop Cap
Small note to recommend you to follow Daily Drop Cap. Made by Jessica Hische, this every day dose of type is definitely vital.
Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere. To use a Daily Drop Cap on your site or blog, follow the instructions in each post and read about the...
One of each, please!
Let me introduce you the latest album of Jazzkamikaze, a Wim Wenders masterpiece and an essential architecture’s book.
Travelling At The Speed of Sound is one of my favorite album so I was looking forward Supersonic Revolutions. “The primitive forces of rock music mixed with intricate jazz progressions, pulsating beats of electro, the grandiosity of classical music performed with...
Atelic. Interesting film about movement decomposition. Discovery of the Day!
A motion control test film by DuckEye developed from ‘Iatrogenesis’ created for Rambert Dance Company’s ‘Season of New Choreography’.
Choreography Alexander Whitley.
Dancers: Jonathan Goddard, Miguel Altunaga, Eryck Brahmania, Estela Merlos.
Music: Guy Connelly.
Directed by Duckeye
May 2010
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Awesome! I can’t say anything else!
Phonovideo is a homemade visual tool that allows to display and mix short animations in an analog way without computers etc. It’s a mixture of the phenakistoscope technique from 1832 and turntablism. Clemens Kogler for the motionographer interview.
Phonovideo is a VJ tool or visual instrument used to display animations in an analog way without the...
Youth and Beauty
Today I featured some brilliant young photographers on C&L. I am glad to introduce you: Elizabeth Brooke and Chrissie White. Elizabeth Brooke presents an incredible sensitiveness. She is only thirteen years old and her pictures are like tales. Chrissie White is inspired by art and fashion. Her work is deep reminding me Caravaggio paintings.
All of them explore a mystic and dreamlike world...
“We’re convinced that the print is way superior to what you can do with your...”
– Information Architects about Cosmic 140 a part of the Web Trend Map Project.
Moleskine Wine Journal
I discovered, a little bite late, the new Moleskine serie today.
Two of the serie interested me, Film Journal and Wine Journal.
I am not really fancy with the adhesive labels but the different kind of layout are very clever.
The double pocket and the elastic keep everything closed and it is one of the reason I am using Moleskine. It makes the difference.
A good tool for the...
The World Of Yves Saint Laurent, Petit Palais
In 40 years of creating, Yves Saint-Laurent revolutionised women’s wardrobes, by drawing on aspects of the male evening suit, trouser suit and safari suit to dress women, thereby passing attributes of power from one gender to the other.
The designer took inspiration from the streets (1971 scandale collection), his dreamlike journeys (Russia, China, India, Spain, Japan, Africa and Morocco) and...
Zero Per Zero at Kemistry Gallery
Kemistry Gallery is running a new show until June 19. Make sure you don’t miss it if you are in London.
Zero Per Zero is a design studio from Seoul, South Korea, founded by Kim Ji-hwan and Jin Sol. They have previously exhibited their work in Seoul, Tokyo and New York, and their work has garnered awards in the form of an ADC Silver Cube (2009), D&AD in-book (2009) and the Grand Award...
Nice popup book with essential advices by The Rethink Scholarship Langara College based in Vancouver.
Sanne Jansen
Architect of the mind is the new collection Autumn Winter 2010-11 by Sanne Jansen.
Sanne Jansen is a dutch fashion designer based in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Here you can read some words from Sanne and she said: “You can still ride your bicycle wearing the dress.”
Unit Editions Research #2 Space & Structure
As you probably know, Unit Editions recently released the number two of his newspapers serie. Looking at Form, a quarterly magazine of the arts (1966-1969). Tracking back the story of Form magazine, I am particularly delighted by Professor Steadman’s interview. What better way to continue the Van Doesburg & The International Avant-Garde past exhibition at Tate Modern.
First Place Winner of the Film Racing Grand Prix 2009
Reserve Window Design by John Downer
I would like to introduce our new blog with this really nice sign painter made by John Downer for the Reserve store window at 420 North Fairfax LA.
According to Reserve there is only a few dozen people in the United States still know how perform.
Checkout this video where John Downer explain his process in detail.
Notre Oncle
Our aunt gave us “Jour de Fête” and “Mon Oncle” movies as Christmas presents when we were young. Since we are loving all Jacques Tati’s movies.
Tati, as a mime, develops his own universe but invites us to look at our world. Witness to a growing consumeristic society, he warns us about communication lack, privacy exposure and the inhumanity of the emerging modern...