China is frequently reknowned for it’s cheap luxury knock-offs, Shirtflag aims to change that perception. Hailing from Shanghai, the fashion brand have remixed Mao-era propaganda art with modern cultural icons to create some inspiring designs. There was news that they were planning to open a store in London but that hasn’t seemed to have transpired, [...]
Spanish designer Hexagonal, has created a project of distilling film posters to their fundamental elements. Some of them are absolutely brilliant, unsurprisingly I’m quite a fan of his adaptation of Akira. I leave you with a selection of his work below.
Akira belongs in my list of top ten films of all time, straddling somewhere near the very precipice, it’s certainly my favourite animation ever created.
When I visited Tokyo, my good friend Darren informed me about this curious little character called ‘Gloomy Bear‘, a quick trip to Kiddyland lead me to the purchase of a number of Gloomy Bear related items.
