It’s three in the morning and I’ve just stumbled upon La Roux’s website, which I think is awesome by the way! I found it through http://www.waste-creative.com/ a creative agency based in London. The look and feel of La Roux’s website really reminds me of Bladerunner the movie and especially the game. For quite some time I was obsessed with that film. The amazingly seedy and grimy scenes of future city life are truely amazing. The game which was based on the movie really captured the dystopian atmosphere with excellent animated scenes painstakingly recreated from the movie with brilliant sound effects too. Anyway back to La Roux, when I think about it La Roux’s style really ties in well with Bladerunner’s 80′s perspective on the future. Everything from La Roux’s fashion styles, album artwork and even her haircut seem to be a more popy take on an 80′s view of futuristic, does that make sense? Anyway I think the main reason I like the site so much is because it really capture’s the ‘bladerunneresque’ atmosphere very well. www.laroux.co.uk
Archive for August, 2009
La Roux’s ace website
Friday, August 21st, 2009i-D Soul
Sunday, August 16th, 2009I started reading this book back in July whilst on holiday and I absolutely loved it. If you’re a fan of i-D magazine then you’ll definitely love this book, the idea is simple as stated on the first page: “300 of i-D’s best loved international contributors and collaborators share their ideas and thoughts on contemporary values”. The book has six chapters or theme’s to which the i-D contributors seem to have been asked to respond in a way they deem appropriate. So the book is full of photo’s, quotes, short statements, poems and stories from an array of people from all over the world. As is to be expected most of the contributors are involved in creative industries and fashion in some form or another and I’ve found it incredibly interesting to read through their thoughts and ideas concerning important modern social questions. As an idea for a book it is brilliant. Go buy it! http://www.taschen.com
New Parsonage – House of Art and Design
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Just found these old picture’s from my final year of university, at the time I was living with some good friends in London and it was brilliant! Especially because we were a mixture of graphic designers, artists and fashion designers and the house we were living in (New Parsonage) was massive and a brilliant sociable space. These photo’s were used on my old website to promote the little artist collective we had going on in the house. Below are a couple of pics of some of the New Parsonage housemates.
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Some of the guys have websites of their own now:
Ross Barnes – Fashion designer
Gareth Martin Royle – Graphic designer
Stella Kim - Interaction designer
Caroline Carrig – Fashion/Textile designer
Kevin Brian Howbrook – Artist/designer
The Drums
Thursday, August 13th, 2009I’m really liking the sound of these guys from New York. I also think the above video’s a fun simple idea which works really well too. http://www.myspace.com/thedrumsforever



