Tado's Cannibal series

If you are a fan of Kid Robot you will recognize these pieces. Tado have collaborated with Kid Robot many times. Tado is a team duo from UK who who does cute and colourful drawings.

Mike and Katie, two amazingly talented and imaginative graphic designers who create an insane cutesy world of crazy,funky characters. Their work includes illustration, animation, toy design…the list goes on.
Check them out…their creations will make the mind boggle but the heart glow! – Tado Facebook Fanpage

At first you might think Toki Doki because of the same cute and colourful fun-ness to it, the aesthetic styles are different. Tadu does more compositions, they create grand cities where you can enter and be part of it. It’s more a context of the characters in the whole city. There an extreme amount of detail in their art.

Tabo - city art monorail

Tado extends to many different area of merchandising including clothing, bags, shoes (for Nike and others), and many more. Check out their online shop.

One of their unexpected work is a series called Private Panda Club where they add Tado elements to girls in lingerie. I like the creativity, it’s bringing their art to another medium, and I like it because there are girls in lingerie.

They even extended into commercial with collabo with MTV.

MTV / Sexy x 1000% / Feel Me from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

Keith Haring Radiant Baby

A strong symbol of 80′s pop culture, if you don’t know Keith Haring’s name, you know his work. His simple symbolic drawings are natural, colourful, and full of colours.

Keith Haring was inspired by graffiti art and did chalk drawings in the subways of New York. He have done art for many museums such as Collingwood College, National Gallery of Victoria, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

What I like about his art is that it’s simple, happy, and full of movement. It is amazing on how much he can communicate with simple lines and 1 or 2 colours. I just love how everyone in his work is constantly dancing. It’s a party! Elegance is beauty. The more an artist can communicate with simple lines the elegant it is and therefore the more beautiful. There is a level of symmetry and story behave all his work.

Of course his great art have been translated in clothing by Zara and some K. Haring kicks from ADIDAS.

Keith Haring Tshirts and hoodie from Zara

Keith Haring Adias Kicks

Funny my first memory of seeing Keith Haring was when I started studying Photography and saw this pic:

Keith Haring photographed by Leibowitz

You can see how his work inspired Melina Matsoukas’ Rude Boy video for Rihanna. Don’t stop dancing!

When you are a big star like Rihanna you can pretty much come out with great videos evey time with the money you have to throw at it. And I’ve seen many great videos but her latest one Rude Boy directed by Melina Matsoukas really got my attention. When most people watch it they don’t really see it as better than other ones but I feel from an artistic point of view it’s innovative.

It takes risks and creates an unexpected feeling. And it’s put together very well with continuity and flow. What’s also relevant about this video is that it’s a strong reflection of the printed tee streetwear culture. The splashes of colour and the 80′s feel. What’s I also  like about it is the homage to the iconic pop culture artists Keith Haring and Andy Warhol. The use of graphics and treatment to the images also works great to create the overall high energy tempo.

While there are some controversy about Matsoukas copying M.I.A.’s Boyz and Galang videos I would have to disagree. From the surface one would think they are similar but if you watch it closely and look at the treatment and feel of it, it is absolutely different. One can only say that Mastosukas use a few of the techniques in the M.I.A. videos.It’s like someone unfamiliar with suits to see two people wearing a black suit and to say one copy the other. While someone more familiar with it can say, that’s a $300 and the other is a $2000 hand tailored bespoke suit.

While the director of M.I.A.’s Boyz started with some of the techniques and feel it is not as refined and inspirational as Mastsoukas’ work. This may be due to the budget but the experience, implementation, and the shear creativity of Matsoukas is like comparing a pro baseball player to a little league star.

You can also check out some of her other work which has a similar funky raw style.

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To many denim aficionados, raw denim is considered an art form. Raw denim is essentially jeans in its natural state, protected from the intervention of mankind. As such, it is a reflection of the wearer’s body and possesses the unique ability to tell the story the denim has imprinted over the course of time.

Jing Liu has embarked on a journey with his Naked and Famous denim for the last 18 months, which coincidentally enough is roughly the same time Juzd was created. One could argue the very same pair of jeans he has worn every single day has chronicled the journey Juzd has taken.