Last issue of our Journal de Nîmes Denise van Leeuwen made this beautiful illustration for us to introduce the Union Special. Last week she updated her portfolio website with a bunch of new work. Enjoy!… [ Continue reading ]

Beautiful illustrations by David Callow. Here the cover illustration for Ian M. Hale’s new single Loss. David about the illustration: “I wanted to demonstrate the sense of an eternal moment, the feeling of existing outside the measurement of time.”… [ Continue reading ]

Now showing in Berlin at Jiri Svestka, ‘Relics of the Afterfuture’ by Ioana Nemes. Beautiful works decorated with traditional motives with traditional techniques from historical objects from different parts of Romania, brought back in a new light and in a new story… ‘What we have is no longer… [ Continue reading ]

The movie news of the year―at least on this side of the Atlantic―has almost wholly revolved around Spike Jonze's filmic adaptation of Maurice Sendak's seminal children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, an innocent-looking 48-page essential that no good mother would be caught without. The big screen version of the generation-transcending classic is quite visually spectacular and emotionally moving (I'm not going to get into criticism or review here―The New Yorker's for that), which is, not incidentally, what most Sendak fans assumed it wouldn't be. ("How can you―and why do you want to―inject live-action life into a masterpiece of the two dimensional?" many asked.) The magical transformation from innocuous paperback to grandiose $100-million-dollar-budget silver screen spectacle can be explained by noting the importance of a simple "a-ha" moment Jonze had several years ago upon splitting with his girlfriend Sophia Coppola: The Wild Things embody wild emotions (anger, fear, and loathing; happiness, exuberance, and excitement). The trouble-making director, along with one of this generation's most lauded scribes, Dave Eggers, transformed Sendak's bedtime story into an exploration of the most primordial feelings that unify us all.

Unusually, the film did not come attached with the usual Disney-style marketing package (numerous throw-away action figures, cheap pajamas, lunch boxes, video games, and so on), but rather a sort of grassroots call to (creative) arms. Where The Wild Things Are gave people the bug to simply create in reverential celebration of a seminal work of toddler fiction. Obviously, Jonze et al. had a roll in the development of these "extended value" efforts, but theirs was more of the warm, encouraging father than the demanding, out-of-touch boss. Read on for a rundown of some of my favorite objects that were created in concordance with the flick. [ Continue reading ]

Ed Ruscha’s visual interpretation of autumn. “Fall All Leaves All Fall” (2009). Courtesy Ed Ruscha and Gagosian Gallery. Via NYT… [ Continue reading ]

Lenancker Romain, a French based graphic designer and Illustrator emailed us to show his beautiful work. Love his colorful view, the playful paper cuts & folds and clear graphics. [ Continue reading ]

Jaakko Pallasvuo is studying at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and makes some really nice work. [ Continue reading ]

Last week we met talented creatives and reviewed their portfolio’s at the Blend New Talent Night. We were very excited to meet such passionate and talented people and so we left Pakhuis de Zwijger with a fresh dose of inspiration. Our favorite was definitely last years graduate from… [ Continue reading ]

Studio Jo Meesters creates concepts and products based on the keywords of matter and traditional craftsmanship. The ongoing search for innovation in materials and techniques is the major drive of the design studio, which is considered a laboratory for product concepts. A laboratory focused on the research of… [ Continue reading ]

Axis of Power is an installation by David Spriggs, exhibited at the Sharjah Biennial 9, United Arab Emirates 2009. ‘In a gesture to freeze time, David Spriggs jams the film projector to create a new type of machine that transfers the principles of cinema into the axioms of… [ Continue reading ]

Assa Ariyoshi, our new intern at Anothercompany and Anothersomething, shared some new illustrations she made during the past weeks. just lovely!… [ Continue reading ]

I just received the Urban Outfitters Home holiday preview with some lovely stuff to fill your interior shot by Anne Grandin. Along some very camp items like Holga camera’s, a Tru-Square rock tumbler and a Bob Ross painting kit there are some nice little presents like… [ Continue reading ]

I wanted to post this quite some time ago but lost the story between all the others on my desktop. If you’re in Geneva these days this is a must see. The solo show by Robert Longo at Galerie Saks (until november the 7th). The work… [ Continue reading ]

I very much love this rocking hot dog by Jaime Hayon and Nienke Klunder who are now showing their collaborative work at Spring Projects in London (until october 22nd). The beautiful mix of materials like fiberglass, aluminium, leather, maple wood and chromed metal made… [ Continue reading ]

Olympia Le-Tan grew up in house where the walls were covered in beautiful books. Inspired by the amazing first edition covers of her favorite classics like The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Catcher in The Rye, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Winner Take Nothing, Moby Dick amongst… [ Continue reading ]

Christian Nyampeta, an artist and researcher born in Rwanda, naturalized in the Netherlands and currently based in London, emailed me to share his work and stories with Anothersomething. This very inspiring artist creates installations interwoven with performances, living and working spaces with room for exercise, play and eccentricity. [ Continue reading ]

A lovely birdhouse for your pied-à-terre. ‘This Birdhouse links the balcony to its green surroundings, the inhabi- tants of apartments to the birds outside. Lacking a garden in her LEGO like apartment building, Emilie Cazin created this Birdhouse in order to attract birds to her balcony and thus stand out… [ Continue reading ]

Beautiful work on the quite abstract and minimalistic website of Central Office & Co., the studio of Max Erdenberger. [ Continue reading ]

Beautiful pencil illustrations by West Wales School of the Arts graduate Stuart Whitton. We very much like the illustrated alphabet with clothes draped like characters. Enjoy his Behance and portfolio blog. [ Continue reading ]

T. M. Schmid from Strala updated us with some older work while working on new designs. We specially like this minimalistic wall light called Pompidu. In his own words: ‘Pipes cover the electric cabling of ‘pompidu’, at the same time giving it a firm shape. It is the… [ Continue reading ]

Fred Butler curated the supermarket wall at Supermarket Sarah during the London fashion week. The colorful objects have been featured in Vogue, I-D, Time Out, Super Super and have been used in music videos for Little Boots, The Gossip and La Roux… A lovely collection of… [ Continue reading ]

A fantastic collection of carefully selected goods, colours and shapes, arranged by Faye Toogood and studio. ‘Studio Toogood designs, directs and executes interiors and environments from concept through to creation… Formerly the Senior Stylist of the World of Interiors magazine, Faye Toogood now contributes regularly to Wallpaper, Elle… [ Continue reading ]

Influenced by cubism and constructivism Moscow based artist Evgeny Parfenov creates beautiful illustrations for magazines like Rolling Stone, GQ, Forbes, a.o. Although his influences are quite obvious, his use of color is much more positive than the propagandistic works of the past century… Love it! (via… [ Continue reading ]

Soon at Brooklyn based gallery Like the Spice, the second solo show by Eric LoPresti – Fade. ‘The works in Fade are predominated by the soft colors of the desert steppe – grays, ochres, pinks and dark blues. In contrast, the imagery is dramatic in scope… [ Continue reading ]