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A streetwear collab and sneaker legend, Jeff Staple is known the
world over for his work with brands including Nike, The Fader, and
Hypebeast. This deluxe monograph documents the past twenty-five
years of Staple’s most iconic work, complete with additional
interviews from streetwear legends and a limited edition T-shirt.
In 1997, Jeff Staple walked into a boutique in New York City
wearing a shirt he printed in his silk-screen class at Parsons
School of Design. What started as a small, handmade T-shirt line
grew organically and began to garner a serious following in New
York. In the process of building this burgeoning brand, Staple was
asked by Nike in 2005 to create a special commemorative sneaker
that would represent New York. The Staple Pigeon Dunk SB was
conceived and led to much fanfare upon its release. It exposed
Staple—as well as sneaker culture—to a mass audience. In
Staple’s words, to understand is to
see     and to see is to have
clarity of mind. That clarity has helped develop his iconic Pigeon
logo (and brand) into a global force that has graced the heels of
almost every major footwear brand imaginable. This book offers
readers a history lesson in his enormous contributions to
streetwear and the sneaker industry while also uncovering design
context to a series of Staple’s most crucial projects. A
beautiful visual reference, this book invites the reader to travel
down an intricate maze of streetwear history told through an
insider’s point of view. Archival sketches, drawings, magazine
covers, and contributions by Hiroshi Fujiwara and Futura make this
an indispensable volume for lovers of streetwear and design.
A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist
and graffiti pioneer Futura is a living legend-a world-renowned
painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti
art and New York City's "subway school." His radical abstract work
in the street and on canvas established him as a central figure in
an important art movement that included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith
Haring, Rammellzee, Lee Quinones, and Dondi White. Futura-isms is a
collection of essential quotations from this fascinating artist.
Gathered from four decades of interviews and panel discussions,
this memorable selection illuminates Futura's thoughts on legal and
illegal art, his influences, fellow artists, and the past, present,
and future. He also offers colorful memories of his adventurous
life-growing up in New York City, serving in the Navy, touring with
The Clash-and reflects on how his experiences have shaped his art.
Select quotations from the book: "Graffiti was a way for me to
exist. I wanted the world to know my name. I wanted to be
somebody." "The essence of what graffiti is . . . is creating this
identity and taking it to the public." "My whole life, I think,
I've been a nomad." "I was always at home in the subway system."
"People say, 'Let's play within the rules.' I say, 'No-let's break
the rules a little bit.'"
Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the
late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown
in contemporary galleries in the early 1980s, where his paintings
shared space with works by Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and
Kenny Scharf. As the commercialization of street culture in the
1990s inspired collaborations with fashion and lifestyle brands,
Futura s work moved toward a more refined expression of his
abstract graffiti style. Commissions from era-defining brands such
as A Bathing Ape, Stussy, Supreme, and Mo Wax saw his artwork
canonized as an elemental component of the street aesthetic.
Collected here, among never-before-published reproductions of
earlier paintings and drawings, is an archive of personal
photography and ephemera that reveals how integral Futura has been
to the evolution of street art and culture. Guided through more
than forty years of work, and with interviews with key players in
Futura s career, this is at once a definitive monograph of a legend
of contemporary art and an indispensable chapter in the history of
graffiti.
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