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Who Does Your Artwork? 1. Akroe
This is a question we get a lot. And it's cool, considering how unhealthily design-obsessed we tend to be. So here is the first of a series of posts attempting to answer that question. I'll try and be thorough by covering not only the designers but also the photographers, illustrators or artists they worked with. All art direction at the label is done under the aegis of House of Kids, under the influence of the music, with input from the artists of course (who so know what they want most of the time).
It's only fair to start with Akroe who designed our logo and did all of our early sleeves. Recently, he delivered the ghetto-psych meltdown for Cuizinier's latest street-tape. He's currently at work on Tacteel's forthcoming record.
Murakami Hits LA
Is it '"art music?'" Or "music fashion?" Or is it all the same? TheTakeshi Murakami exhibition at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) fuses these three aspects together into a blur of excited neon colors and little digestable bites of merchandise. We dig it. The exhibit is running now until Feb 11, 2008.
On Oct 28, the Murakami MoCA Gala bash went down with a live Kanye performance for $1000-a-head. If you didn’t want to dine with celebs you could’ve just gone for cocktails for $500. Come on, it was for a good cause…
What's the connection? Kanye went to Murakami’s Tokyo studio and asked him to do the Graduation album cover and his video for "Good Morning". Murakami’s reply: “…kinda, yes!” Tokyo’s DJ Krush also played for Murakami at Saturday’s opening party in downtown LA. Guests had previews to Murakami’s art - a manga-like, Warhol-esque, Keith Haring-inspired cacophony of paintings, statues, and video. Inside the MoCA store Murakami skateboards sold out. Queues formed for the Louis Vuitton store as fashionable punters scooped up LV Murakami coin purses and tote bags. Murakami is today’s embodiment of art, fashion, music. Let’s hope he doesn’t get burnt out with the success.
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