I have become a perpendicular fiend lately. The spirit leveller is my new best friend and I am constantly cursing the wonky walls of my newfound house for not co-operating with this 90 degree angled fixation. That said, my obsession with straight lines doesn’t even touch that of French artist Jean Pierre Raynaud, who is… Continue reading On the Grid
Category: Art
All Drawn Out
As some of you might have read, I’ve been bleating on about the return of logomania both here and for other publications and linked onto this current wave of positively branding oneself is the general popularity of visual motifs. They’re eye-catchers that make an item of clothing stick in your head easily even if you’ve only… Continue reading All Drawn Out
You Give Me Butterflies
>> I'm remember flicking through Heat Mag round-ups of celebrities spotted wearing Alexander McQueen's popular skull scarves like it was only yesterday. In fact, it wasn't yesterday. It was ten years ago that Alexander McQueen, as the company began their profitable journey to black, designated the human skull as a brand motif and placed it… Continue reading You Give Me Butterflies
Wallflower
>> "My pictures walk a tightrope. They never know. The photographs are like the women you see in them. A little out of balance with their surroundings, waiting anxiously for the right person to find the, and thinking that perhaps they are out of their time. They move forward clutching their past about them, as… Continue reading Wallflower