Graphic children's books

by Bruno Munari

Vision Magazine Feb. 2004

20. and 21.

20.
we travel slower with constants by our side
unknown to us all rests a giant
gently breathing in anticipation
and curled so it fits into our hearts
there's nothing to fear as long as he's there
breathing, dreaming, wandering
always searching
like a patrol of summer children surveying busy streets
they make noise and watch walls come crashing down onto glass ceilings
with lungs and legs to chase after
mirages of ice cream trucks and secret hand shakes
outside this window
away from tumbling laundromats
the new york skyline offers me wings to stand on
to catch lightning bugs in the park
swallow them
and watch my belly burn bright
an incandescent glow
a hunger for longer subway rides home
and shorter walks to bodegas
this morning my feet spoke to me
as i lay there half awake
we're each armed with more than we will ever know they said to me

21.
there's something visceral and unpolluted in warm tortillas
a network of modal train stations
spray painted on the walls of each four chambers
that arrive not a minute late
a sea of tofu and bacon collide
marking white t-shirts
an empty canvas for fashion nightmares
orange tangerine soda bottles pop and lock on my table
as a pitcher of horchata leans on a broken counter top
and waits for the picadillo to catch the next flight home
egg yolks late for track meets
walk sideways over foil
past the mountains of red beans steaming in preemptive salsa volcanoes
rupturing from shifting ceramic plates and attacking plastic butter knives
under full moons of metallic grins
that are hungry for this meals evening harvest

(poems by dirty b and the pig sty posse)

Remote Control Dress

The concept for this spring/summer 2000 collection focused on the relation between mankind, technology, and nature, and the designs in the collection represent those various forces. The “Remote Control” Dress was operated by a boy who came onto the catwalk with a remote control. His electronic instructions opened up the panels of the dress to reveal the soft tulle inside.

The idea of directing living beings with a simple remote-control system was a lighthearted hint at the human tendency to want to control life as well as our sometimes exaggerated expectations of technology.

—Hussein Chalayan

BathRooms

Marie Claire Maison January 08

Cote Sur December 07

Marie Claire Maison January 07

If I ever get a chance to have a say in the way my bathroom's designed, I'd go for something more nature-like. The colors are so harmonious that it creates peace.

Lego, watch out for Mr. Pen!

Young artist

Kinokuniya Bookstore at 40th and 6th is having their annual "Japanese Young Artist Book Fair." All books are hand made, bound, and illustrated by the artists. I picked up a little book called "The Collected Poems in Travel" by Yasui Haruna. The details she draws in just one page is so shockingly beautiful! It's like an aquarium.
Below are two poems in the book.

Architecture

One of my biggest inspirations is architecture. The lines and silhouettes provide such a great foundation for everything, especially fashion. When color and architecture is combined, the results are beautiful.

Aqua Tower by Studio Gang Architects

VM Husene Building

Conceria Gaiera Giovanni

Above Magazine Issue # 8

Dris Van Assche A/W 08/09

Watch case

Tea Market

Tea Market in Naam'a Bay, Egypt


"Camel's Toe" Egypt

(Courtesy of JD and PH)

Beautiful colors from the streets of Asia

Popsicles from Bangkok, Thailand

Osaka, Japan

Hanoi, Vietnam

Spring

As spring approaches, I too, begin this new space, a space for me to share, inspire, record, and connect. I invite you under my world, my stars, my space.