Science Machine - Chad Pugh

When the egg heads of the black & white era set about filling entire rooms with vacuum cylinders and magnetic drums to sort out a series of punch cards, the idea of computers as a creative tool couldn’t have been further away. Now there’s probably a billion times more juice in a knock-off Casio watch from the night market and a trillion times that inside whatever sexy box of bits that connects you to the web than in those monster machines.

Luckily some people are both talented and dedicated enough to wield that power with an artists touch.

Chad Pugh’s Science Machine print is a strange and beautiful mash-up of high-school text book and high tech style. The limited edition print run has already sold out, but the story of it’s creation is making waves amongst designers, geeks and anyone interested in seeing a mad professor at work. Condensing some 40 hours of drawing time into seven minutes of video results in a manic, eye watering experience which is no little achievement in itself.

Check it for yourself at Vimeo.

Today, Gary Baseman will be releasing the 6 1/2″-ers tall White Pearl HotChaChaCha (thusly named becoz tis made of White Pearlized Viny) via www.garybaseman.com where 250-units of an edition of 300 will be made available @ 10am PDT at US$110-per. an additional 50 White HotChaChaChas hand-signed by Gary Baseman with accompanying giclee will be available only on December 11th (also at 10am) for US$165-per.

As rare as an albino, the White HotChaChaCha not only steals the halos from Angels but he sucks their pure, rich, red blood too. His lust for innocence and evil is unrivaled in Heaven and Hell and you’ll find his angelic appearance beguiling, but don’t let it fool you…and don’t turn your back on him…

Disposable - By Sean Cliver

Yeah back in the day, everyone at Styleheist skateboarded and it was never a crime. Looking back, the way we treated our boards might have been. Untouched graphics were never cool - the sure sign of a poseur - but damn what the hardcore say: Those graphics were important!

It was a connection. Remember that first board? Not the heavy as lead Toys-R-Us starter, but the first one you picked, bought home and built. Those graphics spoke to you and for you. Remember the time you popped a fat slide, flipped your deck and saw all that smudged paint? You felt bad, we know you did because we felt it too.

But that’s the nature of the beast and Sean Cliver knows it. A long time skate artist, he has put together the definitive paper-bound memorial to all the designs that have been smeared on curbs all over the world- Disposable: 30 years of Skateboard Art.

What makes this book special is that delves into artist mind and what goes in designing art for mass destruction. Featuring contributions from artists and skaters alike - Ed Templeton, Steve Cab, Jeff Grosso and Mark Gonzales to name a few.

Running for 228 full colour pages with over 1000 images this is the ultimate coffee table skateboard museum.

Skate and destroy.

(Text from DigitalThread.com)

We like to call him the man of 1,000 type-faces, Hydro74 is a type treatment wizard who can bring the bling to any combination of letters, from A-Z. Mostly freelancing for a number of companies at this point, Hydro’s work runs the gambit from magazine photo-illustrations to apparel designs, records sleeves and much, much more. His edgy hand-drawn treatments and graphic stylizations are highly sought after, and can be seen in publications and on clothing around the nation.

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Wow, the kid has talent! Hydro is about to release his new book ‘Legacy Of Defeat’. Packed with over 250+ type pieces & illustrations. With pricing around the $30-35 mark, the Style Heist team will each be rocking a copy on their coffee tables! It is a piece of Hydro74 and pretty much covers his catalogue of work. Look for more info soon or visit the man’s blog to keep up to date >here<

Surface Collective @ Electric Avenue Suites, Vancouver, BC.

Paint is played out.

Surface Collective has seen to that. Operating out of downtown Vancouver, this talented group of artists and designers are serving up the cutting edge in interior design; Surface graphics.

Like a living tattoo, surface graphics are adhesive vinyl images applied directly onto the wall to transform any space.

There are a few companies doing this right now, but Surface Collective is the only one we know to offer a bespoke service alongside their pre-packaged line of bold geometric shapes and fresh organic forms, so you can hit up your wall in any way you can imagine.

Roll up the plastic sheets, bin the paint brushes and grab yourself some instant style.

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