_Got Wood?

_Couldn't tell you what is is (other than the obvious) but its from this website - www.bricoleurbanism.org. And along my tree house loving theme - its amazing.

_Fjall

_Keep yourself posted for imagery of a new quarterly magazine Im collaborating on, showing incredible seasonal imagery of strange Yorkshire attraction 'BrimhamRocks'. Which are rock formations located on Brimham Moor in North Yorkshire. The rocks stand at a height of nearly 300 metres. The area is owned by the National Trust and is part of the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There are many variations of rock formations, caused by the sandstone being eroded by water, glaciation and wind, most of which have achieved amazing shapes.

Entitled 'Fjall' (which is old Yorkshire, dirived from Nordic, meaning - rocky crags and rough moorland). It will be available at galleries and independant stores around London, As soon as. (Above is a tiny pizelated image from one of the spreads).

_FAC No.

_Peter Saville is famous for the design of record sleeves for Factory Records artists, most notably for Joy Division and New Order.

Influenced by a fellow student, Malcolm Garrett, who had begun designing for the Manchester punk group, the Buzzcocks, and by Herbert Spencer's Pioneers of Modern Typography, Saville was inspired by Jan Tschichold, chief propagandist for the New Typography. According to Saville: "Malcolm had a copy of Herbert Spencer's Pioneers of Modern Typography. The one chapter that he hadn't reinterpreted in his own work was the cool, disciplined "New Typography" of Tschichold and its subtlety appealed to me. I found a paralled in it for the New Wave that was evolving out of Punk."

Saville entered the music scene after meeting Tony Wilson, the journalist and television presenter, whom he approached at a Patti Smith show in 1978. This resulted in Wilson commissioning the first Factory Records poster (FAC 1). Saville became a partner of Factory Records along with Wilson, Rob Gretton and Alan Erasmus.

Saville's album design for Joy Division's last album, Closer, released shortly after Ian Curtis's suicide in May 1980, was controversial[citation needed] in its depiction of Christ's body entombed. However, the design pre-dated Curtis' death, a fact which rock magazine the New Musical Express was able to confirm, since it had been displaying proofs of the artwork on its walls for several months.

Saville's output from this period included reappropriation from art and design. Design critic Alice Twemlow wrote: "...in the 1980s... he would directly and irreverently "lift" an image from one genre—art history for example—and recontextualize it in another. A Fantin-Latour "Roses" painting in combination with a color-coded alphabet became the seminal album cover for New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies (1983),

_Magazine love

_I stumbled across this 'Magazine for Architectural Entertainment' on one of my many walks home from work in NYC this summer. Published out of Brooklyn and now available in only a few UK outlets, its just so beautiful, and I love the idea, kind of an up to date RayGun with the Carson aesthetic still in tact.

So nice. It makes me happy, inside.

_A.Fletcher

_From "Graphic Design: Visual Comparisons", 1963, by Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, and Bob Gill. No one ever shows the back, and fletcher was a rare desginer who thought of everything not just the front cover and interface. This image proves that idea.

_Grafik Insides

_Numeral and Uppercase Insides, 2006.

Nice clean work, I wish the same could be said for thier website (NueRave hell on Mac, never again) - www.taubaauerbach.com

_Dash Snow

_Adopting all the attitude of hip hop posturing, Dash Snow’s 'Fuck the Police' presents a prized collection of newspaper headlines emblazoned with instances cop corruption. Each salacious story is splattered with cum and framed and mounted as a trophy. Wittily combining protest with hard-core bravado, Snow’s installation draws upon fictional connotations to conjure sociopathic images of gangsta persona. In his ballsy statement of counter-culture vehemence, Snow merges Warhol reference with Tarantino sensationalism in humorously pathological display.

F.Y.I - Dash is hot.

_Beautiful Concrete

_I wish I knew who made this chair, I found it on some dodge girls website, But the chair - ace.

Outdoor, indoor, anywhere.

_U.S. of .A

_As part of my ongoing poster work, these are two images from a collection of U.S. themed posters I'm working on. Both A0 in size, the top one is slightly cropped and thinner, where as the bottom one in a full sized red-top media blow up.

Contact me for further details at - RBPMfanzine@hotmail.com

_StreetStyle

As part of my promised on going StreetStyle Bogging, here we are - Rob, 22, Graphics Student, Great Eastern Street, EC1 - simple, slightly off tone, good looking style.

_Medulla

_Done alot of listening to this album at the moment aswell, and it was only upon spotting the CD in my pile that I remembered the incredible covers (see, this is the downfall of iTunes and music downloading).

Created by M/M Paris, its just amazing. Most of Bjork's album covers are, but this is a personal favourite, Flawless.

_Warm Leatherette

_Spent the last two weeks listening to far too much Grace Jones, next time you see me, I may be blacked up, wearing a one piece and abusing strangers.

Lyric of the moment - "feeling like a woman, dressing like a man" - so fierce (literally).

_Chanel Genius II

_Firstly, The only way you'd get me near any form of construction - bring in Chanel cones.
Secondly, The only way you'd get me anywhere near playing such non interesting sports - replace the equipment with Chanel branded Equipment.

Finally, All the above images are boring, someone buy me the mirri-gold wallet?

_BookTowers

_Cant get over these, so so simple, yet totally beautiful, I really wanna have a go. Oh, and I wanna have a go at reproducing well know buildings with books - a challenge, and great fun, kind of like jenga with books.

Nice opening image to the website aswell - www.katjamater.nl

Ace.

_Elshaarani

_Amazing tradition, yet incredibly contemporary handtype / graphics / illustration at www.elshaarani.com (plus it puts ace arabic writing in your computer menu bar)

_FlashBox

_Invites to my 23rd Birthday in October last year, featuring an amazing illustration by artist Anna Higgie (Higgie blog to follow). the invites themselves arrived in mirrored chrome envelopes, with 8395 lazer cut into them (23years in days), if i remember i'll blog some images of the envelopes aswell. The night itself was an amazing cheese and wine night with 22 friends (I was on a 23 theme) with a dress code of 100%Grey - everyone looked ace, got massively drunk, and had loads of cheese induced dreams.

_Too Cute

_Seriously though - talented as hell, as cute as hell to go with it.

_TableDress/DressTable

_I love this stupid Hussein Chalayan piece, it was the most awkward thing on the catwalk, but it was just ace, and a massive inspiration for the magazine Im currently working on. Check out the video of it on the catwalk on youtube.

_Type

_A really quite shoddy looking website but amazing, unusual and inspiring TypeFace's at _ http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Typography/53832

_Stolen Letterheads

_From the magazine Purple to the Iranian Football Federation, daily Liberation to The Royal College of Art. It's so difficult to select the right stationary, the one that represents who you truly are. With these, you may simply pretend to be someone else. Set of 10. $20. At_ http://shopstandingup.us/indexhibit/print/slavs-and-tatars

_Shock 'em

_Set of 5 A0 sized poster prints.

Produced for the first of my final year Grafiks briefs, using the given subject of 'Shock' I went about scouring my darker memories and putting them on oversized public display.

This set is available to buy at £25.00,
Contact rbpmfanzine@hotmail.com

_Kenneth Anger

_'Invocation of My Demon Brother' 1969

Anger is an American underground avant-garde film-maker and author who was a child prodigy. He started making strange occult themed movies at 9years old, and into his teen years his work only got better, these are stills from my personal favourite of all his films, but google him, and find out more.

_Layout

_Simple, Confident, Beautiful, Unappologetic, Committed: How all good graphic layouts should be.

_Everything

_I'd like to think so.

_Scott <3 Haring

_Nice little collaboration video, made me wanna head out to the US,

Again, and again, and again

_1460

_Februrary 11th, mark it in your diaries, my first solo photographic show.

1460,
'Unamed* Gallery',
Central Saint Martins,
SouthHampton Row,
Holborn,
London.

Named after the length of days I will have studied at Saint Martins for by the time of graduation this summer. Little bits of everything from the last four years on display, come along. Its open for two weeks, and the private view (invite only) is the eve of the 11th.

More updates to follow.