mike meiré

absurdly deep and well thought out presentation of a extensive (and almost frustratingly) impressive body of work. lose some time flipping through it here.

Mike Meiré, born in 1964, works and lives in Cologne with his wife and three children. In 1987 he founded the agency Meiré und Meiré together with his brother Marc and in 2001 he established the cultural production company NEO NOTO.

Having a great deal of experience with crossover projects, Mike Meiré constantly switches between the roles of brand and art director, designer and artist.

grotesk at the fool’s gold store in brooklyn

via the fool’s gold blog:

The Fool’s Gold Artist Series in-stores give us a chance to turn our store into a gallery, show off some new work and exclusive items from talent curated by FG art director Dust La Rock, and invite everyone to come and hang.

Following exhibitions from Cody Hudson and JK5, Daniel Albrigo and HAZE, the latest creations to grace our walls come from Grotesk, who will be displaying a collection of brand new mixed media pieces (check his Instagram for some work-in-progress teasers).

Come through to the opening on Friday, March 2nd from 7-9pm at the FG store on 536 Metropolitan Ave in Brooklyn. Artist will be in attendance, refreshments will be served, and limited edition shirts featuring Grotesk’s art will be available for purchase. (Cop tees from past exhibitions on the FG webstore while sizes last…act fast!)

TGIF

Nails—”Annihilation”. taken from the split with with skin like iron. available for purchase here.

K-Swiss Blades by Kenny Powers

the only company doing advertising right.

Kenny Powers, MFCEO of K-Swiss, combines all the fastest shit he’s ever seen; cheetahs, ballistic missiles, Bruce Lee to make the fastest shoe you’ve ever seen. He calls them Blades.

ww2 n-1 deck jacket

this frame in particular is a favorite of bill ray’s photos of the hell’s angels. its exactly why i spent a painstaking amount of time tracking down a mint ww2 n-1 deck jacket—not that i ride or anything. the arms are slightly longer than normal with full alpaca lining and a hard-as-nails windproof cotton exterior. worth every penny i spent for it on ebay.

check out more of bill’s amazing photos here.

West Texas

a couple very good friends of mine—jeff thrope of cold splinters and kalen (½ of upstate, and taker of that gorgeous photo above)—are spending some time in marfa and west wexas right now. ive been living vicariously through the posts that jeff has been putting up on cold splinters as of late. i highly suggest you do the same. dont sleep on the ultra-crucial post about fluff.

visit cold splinters here.

gavin potenza updates

gavin refreshed his site, and as expected, it is loads of fun to flip through. lots of great updates—i am a particular fan of his editorial illustration work.

click here to view.

boston globe big picture 2012 world press photo contest winners

By the numbers: 5,247 Photographers, 124 Nationalities, 101,254 pictures. Three hundred and fifty images by 57 photographers of 24 nationalities were awarded prizes in nine categories.

obviously beyond incredible stuff. go here to see the full slideshow.

john francis peters

i had the pleasure of working with john at the FADER. i couldn’t have completed much of my creative director job without his steady hand at photo editing. from his bio: “John Francis Peters is a photographer based in New York’s Hudson Valley. John’s diverse body of work ranges from the portraiture of influential personalities to essays on emerging culture and environments in transition. His personal and assigned photo projects have taken him throughout the United States and internationally to China, Haiti, Mexico, Jamaica, Grenada and Morocco.”

he has a great understanding of the use of light, a sensibility to subject matter that he cannot help but to take personal, and is a total road dog (as you can see from his travel essays on his site). check out his well presented body of work here.

cutting room floor, vol. 1

unused type concept. thanks, stevie.