Scion’s upcoming show at their LA Gallery, “The Big Idea” features a world-class selection of illustrators, art directors, graphic designers and more.
For this show the artists were given the following brief: Design a billboard that illustrates your interpretation of “The Big Idea” – the term coined by George Lois – one of the advertising world’s great art-directors.
In “Megunica” four friends take a mind-broadening odyssey through Latin America, with acclaimed public artist Blu. With a penchant for drawing and public art, Blu started painting walls around his native Bologna in 2000. His pieces often cover entire sides of building — most recently the Tate Modern. In the fall of 2006, Blu, joined by filmmaker Lorenzo Fonda, and two friends documented an unscripted trip across South and Central America. They entitled the project: Megunica. It’s a combination road trip, cultural exchange, street art exploration, and animated journey designed to stimulate the senses. Blu’s artistic endeavors lead him through MExico, GUatemala, NIcaragua, Costa Rica and Argentina– hence the acronym “Megunica”. With local guides and street artists leading the way, Blu creates his art far from the terrain of the average tourist, but close to the hearts of the people.
In its tenth issue Shook magazine looks at its editors think makes Britain great – the sound systems, the pirate radio stations, the record shops, even its working class clubs in the North. With articles on 25 years of Kiss FM (feat. David Rodigan, Coldcut and Gordon Mack), an exclusive with Milo from the Wild Bunch (the sound system which gave birth to Massive Attack, Tricky and Nellee Hoopeer), Keith Mansfield on the KPM music libraries, Mala, the original digital mystick, Sticky, the producer behind Ms. Dynamite’s Booo! plus a survey of the UK’s record shops featuring recollections from The Raincoats to Kodwo Eshun, Squarepusher; and stories on Lovers Rock, Cymande, this is a guided tour of the UK taking in spots that most other tour guides will drive right past.
The 33.3 Art Show, is a collection of 33 artists (and one 4-year-old girl) who “reinterpret and re-imagine existing album covers.”
John Tripp Creative 