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Art/Design Featured Gallery Industrial Strength Art at the Dock 6 Design and Art Series

May 9, 2012 - 8:09 am

Stepping into Dock 6’s 30,000 square-foot warehouse, it’s hard not to appreciate the impact of this space. It’s not just the mammoth size of this Northwest side Chicago workshop that’s notable, but it’s the art found within its industrial-strength walls—particularly this past weekend.

On any given day resident Dock 6 furniture designers Navillus WoodWorks, -ism furniture, and Thomeworks (to name a few) can be found at work at the warehouse. But twice a year, the doors of the space are opened up to the public for the Dock 6 Design and Art Series. Now in its third installment, the show held May 4th and 5th, featured an intersection of in-house Dock 6 furniture designs and fine art from a wide-ranging group of guests.

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Art/Design Featured Gallery Titmouse Mook Part Deux

April 16, 2012 - 11:02 am

Titmouse Inc. celebrated the release of “Mook Vol 2” with an art show at Nucleus Gallery in Alhambra, CA. The book is a follow up to Mook Vol. 1 and, according to the Titmouse crew, “is not a cartoon. It’s not a comic book, not a magazine, and not a book – It’s a MOOK, a magazine-book.” Titmouse Mouse President, Chris Prynoski, best described it as “an anthology of art, comics, and interviews which is printed on nice paper and includes the work of some badass artists” which he personally approved.

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Art/Design Cool Like The Case you Carried In: The BoomCase

February 27, 2012 - 11:21 am

The BoomCase is decidedly clever, and unconventionally cool. Essentially it’s an old suitcase, lunchbox, briefcase, case of any kind really, that got turned into a speaker system for your iPod. In fact, not only are these one of a kind, but you can send them your own favorite old nostalgic suitcase and they will turn that into a speaker and return it to you 10x better.

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Art/Design And Now Onto An Entirely New Subjekt

December 27, 2011 - 10:26 am

I’m hard on headphones. I wear them daily at the office so I don’t disturb the folks who work nearby. I wear earbuds almost daily too, walking to and from work. Over the past few months I’ve been trying out a few different brands in the quest for a nice pair that feel comfortable and I have to say its been a bit harder than I anticipated.

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Art/Design 5 Favorite Finds for Christmas at Jonathan Adler

December 2, 2011 - 10:20 am

Last night I got to meet one of my all time favorite designers, Jonathan Adler. You may recognize him from such television reality series as Top Design (which sadly won’t be coming back). But well before “See You Later Decorator” fame, he was, is and always has been a talented and gifted potter, designer, and entrepreneur.

With 16 actual stores, and an amazing online store you have no excuse to not buy yourself or your loved one something with a bit of whimsy this year. Each year I end up dropping vast amounts of money in his shop on Melrose and I thought I would share with you all my 5 favorite Jonathan Adler finds this year for the holiday season! Trust me, when you give a gift as sharp and fresh as these, no one could possibly be disappointed!

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Art/Design Featured Gallery Now and Future City – Toying with Little Tokyo’s Design Week

July 19, 2011 - 4:50 pm

From July 15 to the 17th, downtown LA hosted Future City – Little Tokyo Design Week; a four-day festival celebrating innovations in design and technology. With the evolution of sustainable urban development as its chief goal, this first installment of LTDW showcased container exhibits, film screenings, fashion shows, dance parties, product demos, performances, music, and awards ceremonies. And a caravan of LA’s finest food trucks, of course.

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Art/Design Featured Gallery Artifact Gallery is a Hit with Burlesque

April 20, 2011 - 10:27 am

Two weeks ago it was time for San Francicso’s comics convention, WonderCon – and what’s a giant, gleeful nerd-out without its afterparties? The party selection was plentiful this year, but, as always, time is the enemy. Decisions had to be made, and one of my choices for after-con-fun-time was the Burlesque reception at San Francisco’s brand-new Artifact Gallery. A choice I shan’t regret, despite getting lost walking to and from the party. These things happen, and I am grateful to the kindly hobo who helped us find our way home.

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Art/Design Gallery Everything but the Kitschen Sync – a Cornucopia of Wonders

April 12, 2011 - 10:42 am

La Luz De Jesus recently hosted the 14th installment of Everything but the Kitschen Sync – a mammoth group art exhibit with no theme, that showcased over 225 pieces from over 100 artists.

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Art/Design Artstar: Sorrel Smith

April 6, 2011 - 11:07 am

Sorrel Smith is one of the most glamorous creatures I’ve ever met. A painter and costumer working in Paris, Sorrel is a fixture at the Carnival in Venice, runs Dr. Sketchy’s in Paris, and never leaves the house without being fully decked out in vintage finery. Her art is equally awe inspiring- meticulously historical paintings of pinup beauties stripping their flesh off rather than their stockings.  In our interview below, we talk about glamor, influence, and what to wear to a costume party in Constantinople.

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Art/Design Alex Queral: Not Phoning It In

April 5, 2011 - 12:25 pm

Alex Queral gives new meaning to the phrase “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” With modern technology and the growing popularity of Internet-accessible smartphones, bulky phonebooks are becoming increasingly obsolete. Most of the Yellow Pages that arrive on doorsteps end up a) thrown in the recycling bin or b) presented as a curbside gift to the neighborhood garbage man. This might seem wasteful, but what else can be done with them?

Being the resourceful artist that he is, Queral has found a creative ‘plan c;’ he collects phonebooks and uses them to create celebratory pieces of art. Queral takes an old trashcan-worthy phonebook and, with the use of a pen, exacto knife, and razor blade, transforms it into an intriguing work of art. The finished product reveals faces of some of the most notorious public figures sculpted into a phonebook. Queral has created his phonebook sculptures of everyone from Bob Dylan to Clint Eastwood and President Barack Obama.

In an exclusive interview with ChinaShop, Queral explains his obsession with hoarding phonebooks, his process for choosing his subjects to sculpture, and how he single-handedly may be elevating the market value of the paper phonebook.

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