Scott Hansen is a California-based musician (Tycho) and artist (ISO50) who collaborates on the iso50.com blog with: Jakub Alexander, who runs the Moongadget record label; Alex Cornell, who is a student at The Academy of Art in San Fransisco; Sam Valenti IV, the founder of Ghostly Records International; and Beamer Wilkins, who runs a software firm and creates electronic music instruments.
Hansen describes his view of design as, “the search for efficiency. Efficiency in conveying a message, efficiency of form. In this way I see some of my own work falling into the category of design, while some of my other work falls under the umbrella of illustration. With the more illustrative pieces my primary goal is to create something beautiful or striking in a visceral sense. These goals remain intact when I create a purely design-driven piece, but there is the added goal of minimalism and efficiency which constrains the process and limits the content. It is these constraints that force us as designers to reveal the core of the idea we are trying to express and to seek the most direct route to it.”
We unanimously agree at Brasky that Hansen’s music, style, and design is excellent, though he makes it clear on his blog that he doesn’t want anyone to take his work too seriously. +Continue Reading
Guys and girls alike can enjoy this collection of 35 Steampunk costumes showcased by geeky model girls.
View the Steampunk Community to find more photos like these.
Annui Sui is an American fashion designer whose Fall 2010 collection was recently showcased during New York Fashion Week.
She described this collection as highlighting a “witty layering of vintage prints shot with shimmering metallic thread; deco tulips, cubist flowers, woodblock peonies, chrysanthemum paisleys, floral fireworks … often in my signature combo collages.”
In lieu of posting the usual ‘weekly fashion finds’, we’d like to pay tribute to Alexander McQueen, whose designs won him the British Designer of the Year award in 1996, 1997, 2001, and 2003.
Pictured left is the ‘Oyster’ dress from the Spring 2003 collection, which is now on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From the Met’s blog: “The premise of Alexander McQueen’s spring/summer 2003 presentation was of a shipwreck at sea and a consequent landfall in the Amazon. Critics lauded McQueen for his designs because they retained the theatrical and transporting impact of the presentation but also yielded wearable and desirable fashions. The ‘Oyster’ dress, while dramatic in its sweep and red-carpet authority, benefits even further by close examination. As Women’s Wear Daily noted, ‘Fabulous though this presentation was, the clothes are better up close, revealing a mind-boggling degree of creativity and work.’ Attached to a beautifully fitted and boned corset, the voluminous skirt is comprised of hundreds of graduated layers of ivory organza. Like a mille-feuille pastry, each layer both conforms to and detaches itself from every other layer of silk. With a post-modernist’s irony and deconstructivist’s preference for worn effects, the silk is left with an unfinished, raw, cut edge. Elsewhere on the gown, silk chiffon is conscientiously pieced and applied to create a slightly matte surface to the bodice and left unfinished as it extends at the shoulders to curdle along its edges like kelp or skin after an exfoliating burn.”
The Oyster dress is only one of several stunning designs by McQueen, who recently passed away on February 11, 2010.
He is also known for his zany ensembles for music artists such as Björk and Lady Gaga.
In memoriam of McQueen, Björk wrote:
“i would like to thank you for all your inspiration
it was so important to me to get to work with you and your team
a real mashup of fertile minds
it was vital to my development
i’m grateful”
Scott Hansen is a California-based musician (Tycho) and artist (ISO50) who collaborates on the iso50.com blog with: Jakub Alexander, who runs the Moongadget record label; Alex Cornell, who is a student at The Academy of Art in San Fransisco; Sam Valenti IV, the founder of Ghostly Records International; and Beamer Wilkins, who runs a software firm and creates electronic music instruments.
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