Oliviero Toscani

#11442 - Oliviero Toscani - amazing set of photos...

NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008

Oliviero Toscani - amazing set of photos showing off these kids as "Eco-Warriors"

Fashion industry signs anti-anorexia agreement

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

THE French fashion industry today signed a charter to promote healthy body images among ultra-skinny models in magazine ads and on the catwalks of Paris, the world's fashion capital.

• FASHION - HEALTH: French fashion industry pledges to fight anorexia - France24

Giant dome made from 1,000 Hula Hoops and cable-ties

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008

Man, this seems like a hell of a good use for a kilohulahoop and a box of zip-ties: last fall, mass studies architecture studio created a temporary installation for the 25th anniversary of storefront for art and architecture gallery in new york city. the installation was created from about a thousand hula-hoops zip-tied together to form a massive dome structure. now, storefront for art and architecture...

• Fifteen Hundred Zip-Tied Hula Hoops With Rem Koolhaas Inside of Them - Autopia

AIGA NY Publikum Presentation, Friday February 22

debbie millman (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008

Short documentary on the making of the 2008 Publikum Calendar, directed by Nada Ray The 2008 Publikum Calendar, designed by Sean Adams, features work by 12 international graphic artists including Chip Kidd, Marian Bantjes, Garth Walker, Luba Lukova, Igor Orsolic, Jianping He, Matteo Bologna, Big Active and others. It is a multi-disciplinary project consisting of a wall calendar, a book, a video

Eve Babitz and Fiorucci

Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008

Fiorucci, the book (1980) Eve Babitz Like the contemporary Italian design movement Memphis, Italian fashion designer Fiorucci helped postmodernism to percolate to mass culture awareness in the early eighties. Sottsass designed some of their shops and their brand was a visual feast. Eve Babitz is an American writer who gained notoriety by posing nude with Marcel [...]

2008 publikum calendar

swissmiss (Free subscription) | 01/28/2008

Publikum Calendar emerged fifteen years ago amidst the turmoil and war in Serbia. Co-founded by George Mill and Nada Ray, it has grown into an international collaborative publication, publishing works by Serbian and international artists, most notably Paula Scher, Mirko...

Shai Agassi dazzles the masses.

Re*Move (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008

So Shai Agassi's Project Better Place has managed to pull it off. It somehow seemed really cool that Shai catapulted into DLD in Munich yesterday straight from Jerusalem, where he had launched one of the most curious deals the auto...

Sir Martin speaks

Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008

On a day when the likes of Paulo Coelho, Martha Stewart, Tyler Brûlé and Oliviero Toscani were peppering us with ideas; it was the capitalist and not the creative type who transfixed us with his thinking. When Sir Martin...

Oliviero Toscani

DLD (Free subscription) | 01/15/2008

Oliviero Toscani, son of a photo-journalist of the Corriere Della Sera, born in Milan, Italy, studied photography and design at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Zurich from 1961 through 1965. He is internationally renowned as the creatice force behind some of the world's most successful magazines and brands, including corporate images and advertising campaigns through the years, for Esprit, Valentino,...

New Key 64 with articles by Paul Laffoley, Jack Malebranche, and more

Technoccult (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008

Find it all here. Nick Pell says: From the people who brought you occulture comes the latest, greatest issue of Key64. Since it's relaunch this year, Key64 has brought you some of the most thought-provoking and controversial names in contemporary occultism, counterculture and fringe thought. Names like Padre Engo, Steven Grasso, and Thirty Seven. Key64 ends [...]

If men could breast-feed!

Arre Kya Baat Hai! (Free subscription) | 12/24/2007

The UK Paddy-Bingo ad showing a man sitting with his exposed tit with a small baby in his arms has been banned by the British tube and the Dublin bus service as "it has the potential to disturb public decency". I think that the company has got more than what it had invested in this ad. Blogs are writing about it, newspaper carry the ad on their front pages as news, it seems like an advertiser's dream....

United Colors Of Tebaldi: Former Benetton Imagemaker Oliviero Toscani To Design Renata Tebaldi's Museum

Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007

Three years without la signorina Renata: on December 19, 2004, Renata Tebaldi ("la voce d'angelo" -- Toscanini's words) left this earth. Teatro Regio di Parma and some private sponsors have decided to honor the magic of Tebaldi's voice by creating...

Peter Knapp, La Passion des Images

I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007

An exhibition taking place at the Maison Europeene de la Photographie from January 16 to March 30th 2008. Born in 1931 in Bäretswil, Switzerland, Knapp started taking pictures in 1945 and continued his studies in graphic arts in Zurich. Having...

Fazed & Amused!-Joaquin Phoenix, January 2008

Brandish (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007

From our guest blogger intern Will:Dark, dramatic and ever-so slightly threatening, this month’s Dazed Confused cover is sure to stand out on the shelves.

Esprit's High Profile Move

The Shophound (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007

Anyone who remembers the 1980s knows how pervasive the Esprit brand was at the time. It was one of the iconic brands of the period; a department store mainstay that morphed into a catalog powerhouse and pioneered the "superstore" concept....