Rest In Progress, Lee Alexander McQueen (1969-2010)

Lee Alexander McQueen (Photo by Alexander McQueen label)
 

On 11th of February 2010 the world has lost a great designer, visionary and beautiful mind.

We deeply feel with his close ones and beside a tragic loss of a wonderful individual, it’s also a big loss for the world of fashion and the world of creatives in general.

What made his work interesting for us as visual designers and VJs is the fact, that he didn’t stop at putting some of the most amazing designs on his models.

He is also responsible for wonderful and inspiring structures, textures and prints on fabric and every show was more than just walking beauties.

Looking at some of the prints and textures alone immediately switches our brains into creative mode and inspires us. It lets our minds wander and fly.

And he always pushed the boundaries of showing fashion by imagining new and often shocking ways to present his work.

We want to recall just a small part of his vision, spirit and (more recent) work here.

Rest In Progress, Lee Alexander McQueen.

Photo by Alexander McQueen label

Photo by Alexander McQueen label

Photo by Alexander McQueen label

Photo by Alexander McQueen label

Photo by Alexander McQueen label

Photo by Marcio Madeira

Photo by Marcio Madeira

Photo by Marcio Madeira

Photo by Marcio Madeira

Photo by Marcio Madeira

Photo by Marcio Madeira

Photo by Marcio Madeira

Photo by Marcio Madeira

Photo by Ken Towner (Evening Standard / Rex / Rex USA)

“Plato’s Atlantis” Fashion Show, Spring/Summer 2010 Womens Collection

An innovative use of industrial robots on a catwalk

A Retrospective of Alexander McQueen by Net-a-Porter

Kate Moss for Alexander McQueen

Deconstruction

Björk vs. Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen Revolution

Best collections (Part 1)

Best collections (Part 2)

Best collections (Part 3)

Links:

Alexander Mcqueen (Label and biography)
Lee Alexander McQueen (Wikipedia)
Alexander McQueen Fashion Shows: Designer directory on Style.com
“McQueen, The Showman” – Article and interview by Sarah Mower (Style.com) about the staging of his shows
 

Add comment February 16th, 2010

Sleek Interactive Project For Volkswagen By Onesize And Heerko Groefsema

“In cooperation with Onesize, I [Heerko Groefsema] worked on Volkswagen Efficiency and BlueMotionTechnologies interactive movie. While taking a thrilling ride with a roller-coaster all different efficiency and BlueMotion technologies are explained to the viewer. The viewer can decide on which subject he wants more info. This meant making a lot of different movies which will seamlessly blend together. In the movie above you can see some excerpts from the whole interactive movie.” Heerko Groefsema

Links:
Onesize
Heerko Groefsema
Heerko Groefsema on Twitter
Final, interactive (flash) project at Volkswagen UK

Add comment October 26th, 2009

Illustrations By Justin M. Maller

Mr. J. M. Maller has some serious illustration business going on! Be sure to check his page for more great work and information (after the jump).

Links:
Justin M. Maller
Justin M. Maller on Twitter

Add comment October 25th, 2009

Cuisine Horror Show From The 1960’s

Vegetarians and vegans beware! This is NSFW!

As this blog is about everything visual we really had to post this, because it’s one of those things that are visually attracting and disgusting at the same time (an effect that simply causes standing still and staring).

Flickr user Jello Kitty has a very interesting, but also very disturbing set of pictures, mainly taken from french cookbooks from the 1960’s (link after the jump).

Most of these creations remind of monsters, bugs or scenes taken from horror movies and others simply show a lack of respect for those creatures who had to die in order to prepare the meal.

It’s also an interesting start for a discussion, because we live in a time in which most people don’t really (want to) know what they are eating and also many eat meat, but don’t want to face the facts where it’s coming from or how it’s “produced”.

But before I fall into a philosophical monolog … here are some of our “favourites”.

Pullet Flammarion

Squab Dressed as Toads

Crawling Horror Salad

Mudbug Avalanche aka Crayfish Bush

Links:
“You gonna eat that?” collection by Jello Kitty (Flickr)

Via Frau Liebe weblog (german)

Add comment June 25th, 2009

Firekites – Autumn Story – Chalk Animation Directed By Lucinda Schreiber And Yanni Kronenberg

Links:
Lucinda Schreiber on Twitter
Yanni Kronenberg on YouTube
Firekites (official)

Via Design*Sponge

Add comment May 24th, 2009

Making Of Puma: Lift Commercial On BoardsMag.com

BoardsMag.com has an interesting insight given by production designer James Chinlund on the Puma “Lift” commercial/campaign by New York based creative agency droga 5 and director Rupert Sanders from the LA production company MJZ we’ve posted an article about earlier this month.

Production designer James Chinlund illuminates Puma “Lift”

Behind the scenes of Puma “Lift”.

Find the previous post and the commercial (video and pictures) here: Puma: Lift Commercial on blog.decollage.tv

Links:
droga5
MJZ
BoardsMag.com

Add comment March 28th, 2009

Daito Manabe’s Face Visualizer

Inspired by the fact, that electric signals can stimulate muscles and move whole body parts, Daito Manabe has been working on this idea since some time now. He also was influenced by the work of the French researcher Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (1806-1875) and the Australian artist Stelarc (Performance “Ping body”, 1996-1998).

He uses the Max/Msp programming plattform to create the electric shocks based on the music. The impulses stimulate the face muscles (or any other muscle if needed) and cause different facial expressions. These externally influenced expressions stand in contrast to a human smile caused by real emotions.

Daito Manabe also uses the “Face Instrument” as part of a live show and has already performed at festivals like the annual ARS Electronica Festival in Austria (where also Stelarc was a regular guest during his active period — I still remember the scandals cause by his great performances shown on Austrian TV).

The face visualizer videos known as “Electric Stimulus to Face test” are experiments contributing to the whole project … starting with test0

Electric stimulus to face – test0 by Daito Manabe on Youtube

He now has posted a new test video playing as kind of a “Face Visualizer” quartet with three of his friends (test4) …

Electric stimulus to face – test4 by Daito Manabe on Youtube

Links:
Daito Manabe
Daito Manabe’s Face Visualizer & Face Instrument
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) on Wikipedia
Stelarc
ARS Electronica Festival

Via LeCollagiste VJ (french)

Add comment March 18th, 2009

Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

Sometimes it’s the simple ideas, that make something really great and beautiful. And also sometimes this simple (stop motion animated) ideas cause a hell lot of work ;)

Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie on Youtube

Add comment March 6th, 2009

Triple Motion Beauty By takom™

Takafumi Tsuchiya alias takom™ lives and works in Tokyo. He mainly does video art, live video performances, AV performance collaborations and sometimes print and mixes recorded sources and handmade animation with generated material.

Beautiful motion, beautiful sound … just sit back, look, listen and enjoy!

With Rain from takcom™ on Vimeo.

apoptosis from takcom™ on Vimeo.

Music by caelum (released on Aroundtherecords, JP).

Spen za nite wiz dis sit from takcom™ on Vimeo.

Music by Himuro Yoshiteru (released on File record, JP)

Add comment March 5th, 2009

AV Singles For DJ Downloads

decollage.tv has produced 3 so called AV Singles for London’s VJ label and content production studio Ne1co and the DJDownloads online platform. These AV Singles are aimed mainly at DJs that want to bring their own visuals and who use hardware, that takes DVDs. The clips can be downloaded via the DJDownloads page.

2 comments March 4th, 2009