Mondrian Swimwear by Sarah Schofield

These Piet Mondrian inspired swimwear pieces are so cool, that I'm wondering if anyone's gonna make the men's collection? (and are these available?)

Created by Sarah Schofield and photographed by Tracey Lee Hayes. (Ahh... these Australians again...)

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Old Spice - Questions

I kinda like the other one better, but this is great too!

iPhone Fashion Shoot by Lee Morris

"Owning an SLR does not make you a photographer"

This is the name of an italian group I once saw on facebook, and I thought: how true! I mean, in this time of vastly available digital enhancement and inventiveness, being stuck up with equipment debates and the infatuation with things bearing the "PRO" label is plainly stupid, if you ask me. Maybe it's the resourceful nature of the graphic designer who lies in me that speaks, but when the final result is the way you want it to be, who gives a "duck" about how you got there?

So, these guys at F Stoppers (hats off by the way) made a full fashion shoot using the (confessedly crappy) camera of the iPhone 3GS! They used great lighting, their model had professional makeup and hair styling done before the shoot and some retouching was done afterwards. The result is simply amazing!

From FStoppers
A few weeks ago I did a full fashion photo shoot with my iPhone 3gs. I posted a few of the images and asked people to critique them (never exposing that they were shot on my cell phone). I couldn’t help but laugh when a few of our readers claimed that these were “the best images I had ever taken.” Nobody ever claimed that they were too grainy, too soft, or lacked detail.

Okay, I admit that using the iPhone camera was an extreme way of getting their point through, but this comes to prove that one doesn't need the top "pro" (and very pricey) equipment to come to an awesome result. I wouldn't shoot with an iPhone (3GS or 4 for that matter) and expect the results to save my life, but shooting with my Powershot G9 instead for my DSLR, never seemed as an "off" idea to me.

(via ISO 50)

Ektoise

A couple of months ago, I mentioned Purity Device in a post on Bola, saying that he would be remixing one of their tracks in an upcoming release. 

Well, a "little bird" told the that Purity Device changed their name to Ektoise, and that their Remix/Reform album will be released around the end of August with "retouched" tracks by Bola and The Black Dog among others. Both the Bola and The Black Dog versions of their track The Thought Police can be heard on their myspace page.

By the way, I just love the accompanying imagery as well... Those Australians can be so impeccable...

Apple, Adobe, Get a Room, Please?

Apple, Adobe, please go get a room... and don't come out until you resolve all the things that need to be resolved between you.

I have spent more than 24 hours of my life, let alone the time I took off work, trying to figure out how to install Adobe PDF 9 as a printer on my Snow Leopard running MacBook Pro. Freaking impossible! Apparently, Apple's security updates consider the Adobe PDF printer to be something untrustworthy and blocked it all the way out of the system! When I finally managed to do install that, (don't even ask me why, I went through so many forums, blogs, websites etc.) the PDFs would save at a secret place engaging a great amount of space on my disk. Thank God a good friend of mine (who hadn't updated her iMac to Snow Leopard) was able to help. 

Also, Adobe, why on earth would you remove InBooklet from InDesign? Oh I see; so you can sell  it as a separate product!

Midnight Juggernauts - The Crystal Axis

I probably mentioned this before, but I discovered the Midnight Juggernauts about a year ago through an Alex Moulton DJ Mix in which Road To Recovery was included. I loved this Australian band even more when I heard their whole Dystopia album and saw their Surface 2 Air - directed video for Into the Galaxy.

To be honest, this does not fit into the typical genres of music I usually listen to, but there's something about their synth/electro-infused organic sound that is so appealing. It's been about three weeks since I received their (limited edition 2CD +t-shirt +pin) album titled The Crystal Axis, and have been listening to it since then.

What is your Summer 2010 soundtrack?

Interpol - Lights Video

I'll start by saying that Interpol aren't exactly my cup of tea. Not even remotely close, actually.

However, this amazing video, created by Charlie White, is the reason I now (kind of) like Lights. Impeccably styled and edited.

Java 4 Ever - Trailer

This is hilarious! 

Now who's working on that Flash vs HTML5 version?

(Thank you "Eleni-Sue")

Blogger's Blocks & Other Obstacles

I haven't posted anything since last Friday. I now know how the writer's block can affect blogging. 

This past week or so I've been juggling between designing and illustrating publications, trying to setup my portfolio, finish up the Anna Koumoushi project and taking care of some pending creative and some not-so-creative errands. 

Now, hopefully, posts should be rolling out on a regular basis!

Tetsuya Ishida

My fascination with all things japanese has been previously proclaimed on here, and it sometimes renders me biased in certain matters. Not this one though. 

These surrealistic paintings by japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida (his website is all in Japanese) are stunningly detailed, and the use of random quotidian objects and elements make them even more eerie but in a very interesting way. It feels like they're begging to be explored closely. All the faces in his paintings are hauntingly the same and are, most probably, self portraits.

Ishida, born in 1973, unfortunately died in 2005 when hit by a train, (it is believed that he had committed suicide), leaving behind a great amount of work. (via)