Halftone Def Studios are a studio duo specializing in what they love, design, illustration, and screen printing.

They started printing silkscreen posters in their garage and have since branched out into all types of design areas such as CD art, packaging, logo design, branding, clothing, and skateboards.

If you are intersted in purchasing one of their prints or in having them do some work for you visit www.halftonedefstudios.com or www.gigposters.com

Intelligent quirky sense of humor with heavy leanings towards horror films and slight references to phrases and words which carries historical weight in his memory...

Horribly printed newspaper advertisement he tears apart, collage with something else and redraws with reckless abandon. Christofer is a self professed "dried out, bespectacled art nerd in a massive drawing, painting and designing ocean of dried out, bespectacled art nerds." He lives in NYC and besides running his design company, Steak Mtn., he also participates in many shows around the world and currently is showing in solo show at Threadless in Chicago. It's easy to see references in his work to the great Raymond Pettibon but also very unique and totally his own. We completely dig it....

Go read it on FECAL FACE

This is an example of a set of wooden knuckles (or wooden knuckle dusters) made out of cherry. They look like the real thing but aren’t. They're available in other wood and can be made to order

This is a piece of art and is not intended for any other purpose.

For more info go to www.etsy.com

A printer’s nightmare - even the cover is expensive to produce… but a fantastic result - I really want a copy! I need a copy!!
Available from Roaring Brook Press, they don't have a web site yet so try Amazon or something.

This photographer's life work is documenting his mysterious love/hate relationship with the sea. Corey spends 3-4 months of the year working as an Alaskian Crab fisherman all the while documenting it and his ship he works on was featured in the popular Discovery Channel show, Deadliest Catch...

Corey's work has been featured in Rolling Stone, RE:UP, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Giant Robot, Fortune, FHM UK, Humble Arts Foundation, National Fisherman and Popular Photography. He just wrapped up a solo show in 2007 at Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles. Corey Arnold has now taken up permanent residency in humble city of Portland, Oregon.

coreyfishes.com

Do you have a world class Sleeveface picture?
Do you have a heartwarming story or testimonial about Sleeveface?
Has Sleeveface improved your relationships?
Are you Phil Collins?
If the answer is 'yes absolutely' you go to sleeveface.com

José Parlá is back in Europe.

Born in Miami into a family of Cuban exiles, José Parlá moved to Puerto Rico at a very early age before returning to Miami again when he was nine. He currently lives and works in New York, and only recently traveled to Cuba for the first time. His life, like his work, is therefore at once extremely particular and generally reflective of the wanderings of today's urban populations.

Galleria Il Trifoglio Nero in Genova will open on March 29th with the show Memory Documents.

"I call my works 'Memory Documents' because they become fragments of places I've been through. I am not only using paint to create my paintings, but I am also collecting bits of paper from walls, old newspapers, chunks of materials from the street or subway stations to reuse as collage onto my own surfaces and rework them until the colours of mould, rust and deterioration are right for the composition. The process may take weeks or months." - José Parlá.

Autumn in New York, 2 x 4 feet, mixed media and collage on wood.

Via di San Lorenzo, 2 x 3 feet, plaster, acrylic, oil and enamel paint on canvas

The New Grand Tour Manifesto, 4 x 6 feet, collage, ink, oil, polyurethane and enamel on wood.

From movie stars, musicians, and skate-boarders to toys, technology, and history, Giant Robot magazine covers cool aspects of Asian and Asian-American pop culture. Paving the way for less knowledgeable media outlets, Giant Robot put the spotlight on Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li years before they were in mainstream America's vocabulary.

But Giant Robot is much more than idol worship. GR's spirited reviews of canned coffee drinks, instant ramen packs, Japanese candies, Asian frozen desserts, and mar-inated bugs have spawned numerous copycat articles in other publications. GR's historical pieces on the Yellow Power Movement, footbinding, Asian-American gangsters, and other savory topics have been cited by both academics and journalists. Other regular features include travel journals, art and design studies, and sex.

www.giantrobot.com

This a nice and simple stencil demo using photoshop, I can't hear the soundtrack so I hope it's not to bad!

Shadow's first full-length work, Endtroducing... was released in late 1996 to immense critical acclaim.

Endtroducing would make the Guinness World Records book for "First Completely Sampled Album" in 2001.

The only piece of equipment Shadow used to produce the album is the AKAI MPC60 12bit sampling drum machine.

Now available is a limited edition cover artwork print available on a heavy, coated matte stock approximately 15" x 38"

Go buy online a turntable lab

The next in the Morning After series is the London version and this will be available to buy on Thursday 22nd November at the ‘White Noise’ show at the Black Rat Press Gallery.

Black Rat press on Nick Walker

Nick Walker is one of Britiain’s graffiti pioneers. Working out of Bristol for over twenty years, Nick’s work, like many of his peers, most notably Banksy, has moved away from conventional grafitti to stencil art.
Nick’s work employs a good deal of wry humour, treating iconic figures with a refreshing irreverence. The Mona Lisa in particular comes in for some stick – from being morphed into Marge Simpson to mooning the viewer.
Although the saucy over the shoulder image is starting to be a regular feature of Nick’s work so it might just be that he’s turning into a dirty old man and it’s nothing to do with the art at all. Except of course art’s littered with dirty old men. So let’s go with that and just say that Nick Walker is the Paul Gauguin of street art and leave it at that shall we…

For more information go to http://www.blackratpress.co.uk/

Shepard has joined many of Alain Ket Mariduena’s friends in supporting his on going battle with the NYC courts by presenting an Art Benefit for Alain Ket’s Legal Defense. Art will be auctioned off on July 26th and an event will be held on August 1st in NYC with proceeds going towards the defense fund.

Alain Ket Maridueña is a publisher, writer, Hip Hop historian, activist and graffiti artist from New York City. He was charged in New York City courts (Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan) on counts of felony criminal mischief, possession of graffiti tools, and X., all relating to a search performed on his home in New York City in late 2006.

Alain Maridueña’s arrest had come in the context of a growing anti-graffiti sentiment in city government due to the growing gentrification of New York City and as part of the Mayor Bloomberg’s quality of life push, one started by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Alain’s arrest appears to be politically motivated attack for his involvement with Marc Ecko and Ecko’s successful lawsuits against the city of New York in order to hold a graffiti event and repealing a spray paint sales ban to 18 year olds. Many consider the charges against Alain excessive.

Alain’s court cases are ongoing and his family and friends will be raising funds to pay his legal defense, setting up public events to educate people about the incarceration of artists, and providing financial, logistical, and legal support to Alain throughout his proceedings.

For more information visit www.supportket.org and www.thewallsbelongtous.com

JONATHAN LeVINE GALLERY presents E PLURIBUS VENOM NEW WORKS BY SHEPARD FAIREY A SOLO EXHIBITION

The title E Pluribus Venom which translates Out of many, poison is derived from ‘E Pluribus Unum’ (out of many, one) an early motto adopted by the U.S. Government which appears on U.S. coins and dollar bills. In the opinion of artist Shepard Fairey, many becoming one, or a loss of power and influence of the individual in favour of homogeny is a symptom of a society in decline. ‘E Pluribus Venom’ could be interpreted as saying both that there is poison in the American system and that many individuals are motivated by venom and anger toward this system.

‘E Pluribus Venom’ is comprised of artworks designed to question the symbols and methods of the American machine and American dream and also celebrate those who oppose blind nationalism and war. Some of Fairey’s works use currency motifs or a Norman Rockwell aesthetic to employ the graphic language of the subjects they critique.

Other works use a blend of Art Nouveau, hippie, and revolutionary propaganda styles to celebrate subjects advocating peace. The art addresses monolithic institutional power and authority and the role of counter culture and independent individuals to question the dominant paradigm. Shepard Fairey’s new body of work contains politically-charged paint, screen print, stencil, and collage mixed media pieces which use metaphor, humour, and seductive decorative elements to deliver provocative but beautiful results. These works blur the perceived barriers between propaganda and escapist decoration, political responsibility and humour with the intent of stimulating both viscerally and intellectually.

Dumbo Installation Space Reception presented by JUXTAPOZ and SWINDLE Thursday, June 21st from 7-11pm
Installation Space is on view until July 6th 81 Front Street (at the corner of Washington St) Dumbo (Brooklyn), NY 11201

For more info please visit http://www.jonathanlevinegallery.com/shepardfairey/ or www.obeygiant.com

Say hi to this nocturnal Sydney based street artist. He's got a show coming up at Monster Children that you n