http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress We slow down when everything is going fast! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:38:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_2444" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Work in progress: painting suitcases for his new show in Berlin."][/caption] The "Beautiful Loser" Aaron Rose is in town. One more great artist rooted in skateboard culture who has a show in Berlin this late summer. After Michael Leon at Pool Gallery last week we can also ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2443 [caption id="attachment_2425" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="One weekend of self publishing goodness at Motto, Berlin"][/caption] First weekend of September has been the weekend of publication madness in Berlin. Miss Read book fair at the well-known Kunstwerke, parallel to this across the street an exhibition of books related to Miss Read at doyoureadme?! and ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2423 Yesterday I met the nice guys Michael Leon and Scott A. Sant' Angelo from Arkitip for a short chat. Michael is preparing his solo exhibition right now at pool gallery and it got me even more exciting about what to see on Thursday, Sept. 2nd. If you have never heard ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2409 [caption id="attachment_2389" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Backjumps 4.2 — Junior Issue … Pictures hanging low."][/caption] What? Already a new issue of Berlin's famous Graffiti and art (that's not supposed to hang in galleries) exhibition? On Friday, August 27th was the opening of Backjumps 4.2 — Junior Issue, an exhibition for kids and those ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2387 [caption id="attachment_2382" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Still from the video "Light, Shape, Color", directed by Matt Irving"][/caption] SKATE&CREATE is initiated by the known TRANSWORLD Skateboarding Magazine where they give four skate teams a couple of days to create a video and a feature article for the mag with photos. This year the teams ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2379 [caption id="attachment_2351" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Champfest Mag, Issue One / The God Bless Cut & Paste Issue"][/caption] On my short trip to Frankfurt last week I went to see the highly acclaimed Dieter Rams retrospective "Less And More" and met my long-time friend Thomas for some beers and an extraordinarily good Schnitzel ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2348 [caption id="attachment_2336" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="© Michael Leon "Vexhall""][/caption] Michael Leon will be in town. Berlin. September 2010. Truly one of my favourite artists and graphic designers coming from the skateboard culture, I follow his work since I first found out about the smart skateboard brand from the US west coast: — ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2332 [caption id="attachment_2305" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Alan Parsons Project: Pyramid, album art by Hipgnosis"][/caption] Here it is, our Disco Design #04. No more announcement is needed, we've been saying much about Give Up Art in the past few days. Now it's the turn of Stuart Hammersley to show his really great selection he ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2304 [caption id="attachment_2296" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Valerie "Valle" Rosomako in The Journey to The Center of The Earth"][/caption] You don't have to be a obsessed with skateboards to like skate flics, they are thrilling and highly entertaining. But not all of them are pleasing as much as the movies by filmer and photographer ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2292 [caption id="attachment_2285" align="alignnone" width="460" caption=""Being good is more important to be original.""][/caption] Big drum roll for the next musicdesign column! Within the next days, To Our Disco (Design) Friends #04 is coming from Give Up Art, the hyperactive design studio from London that has been brilliantly featured in the recent issue ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2283 [caption id="attachment_2242" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Virgo — A seminal house album from 1989, re-released through Rush Hour"][/caption] Inspired and powered by the current issue of Eye Magazine — #76, their Music Design Special Issue, a new part of our musicdesgin column had to be done once again. And after a couple of ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2241 [caption id="attachment_2231" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="North/South/East/West, a project by Give Up Art & photographer Shaun Bloodworth"][/caption] A while ago, we at JB. started to take a closer look at musicdesign with a new column, "To Our Disco (Design) Friends". In the future I try to follow this path more continously as there ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2229 BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. The wait is over, as Juxtapoz magazine wrote. And it is true, every new work by Italian artist BLU feels like being relieved, as we said before about the collaborative work by BLU and David Ellis: ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2218 [caption id="attachment_2207" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="The Dusty Cabinets #09 by John Osborn / © JB. 2010 / Artwork by J.Osborn"][/caption] Today is a good day. It took a while to get new sounds for this. Different from the original plan, but well, good music needs its time … and you got to ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2203 [caption id="attachment_2195" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Enjoy the ride …"][/caption] The summer just started as the date told us, but we are all still waiting for the constant flow and a settled weather that is, at least sometimes, known for this time. (When I publish this, the summer has finally arrived.) Work and ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2184 For all you Berlin people or visitors, hope to see you here 'cause JB. is in the house … THE DUSTY CABINETS @ Horst Krzbrg, Berlin Fr. 18.06.2010 / 12 pm / Horst Krzbrg, Tempelhofer Ufer, Berlin € 8,- Admission One of the lost dates of WMF due to its closing earlier this year. It ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2178 [caption id="attachment_1492" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="For sure: apartamento gets a trophy. Goodness!"][/caption] One of our favourite magazines won a Yellow Pencil. apartamento. We already celebrated this outstanding publication before. That doesn't mean anything to you? That's more or less winning the Champions League of design, actually in England, category: magazine & newspaper ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2171 [caption id="attachment_2074" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Monkeys presenting the new issue of 032c"][/caption] "OUR MOTIVATION: What does 032c ultimately want to achieve? To ENERGIZE the reader…" A simple reason for why I think this magazine is brilliant, I really admire the work and the radical approach of the 032c makers. I guess it is ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2061 [caption id="attachment_2086" align="alignnone" width="500" caption=""Come into my kitchen…" — apartamento #05"][/caption] Some more printed goodness for this week. As we love music on vinyl (showed in our other column) we also love magazines. Art and things and stories printed on paper for the haptic experience, for the sweet slowdown, the focus. Issue ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2085 [caption id="attachment_2102" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Filled with an awesome selection of work — It\'s Nice That #03"][/caption] That's nice, caring for the creative and their art is what the folks of It's Nice That from London are doing with their valuable printed good. They create an archive of work of artists they ... http://www.justbreathe.de/wordpress/?p=2098