In LA on May 30th? Come by Rodan vs Griffith for the opening of TYPE 4 TYPE’S SAKE, a group show focusing on typography. Lots of really talented artists are contributing…see details below:
It’s back - the XLarge Design Contest - your chance to gain immortality within the echelons of designers like Angela Johnson, G. Dan Covert, Billy Valdez, Rory Wilson and the winner last time, Winston Acosta.
GET STARTED!Check out the contest entry page and use the design templates to create your own original design. Post them up using the form. On June 30th, 2008 we’ll review the submissions and announce a winner. Entries will be judged on originality and sauce.
The grand prize winner will see his or her print make it into production for our Spring 09 season. They will receive a bunch of shirts and a $100 Gift Cerfiticate to the XLarge.com website. Three runners up will receive $25 Gift Certificates to the website and due props for nearly making it.
Just got a quick snap of our friend Les from Disney/Bloc28representing Xlarge while on a trip to Buenos Aires. Stay tuned for some more Disney/Xlarge collabs tees…coming soon!
We got more styles of NEW ERA 59Fifty fitted caps this season! And 1st off is a West Coast tribute to our Car culture; the Car Club. Featured in Black Pinstripe/Silver and Purple/White with Old English style script on the front panels and as a oversized embroidered hit under the visor. Avialable at all X-LARGE stores and the finest retails stores now.
Our friends at Black Rainbow are celebrating the 1st anniversary of their Paris shop, and they decided to collaborate with some leading streetwear brands to commemorate the occasion. Check out the Xlarge contribution, which will be
dropping simultaneously at their shop and various Xlarge stores worldwide.
Also, check out their site and see our answers to their version of James Lipton’s questionairre. Thanks Greg…always a pleasure!
As a direct result of spending far too much time exploring the vast virtual depths of YouTube content, I stumbled upon this video a while back and with little correlation to my questionable mental state found myself absolutely awe-struck. Since then it has circulated a fair amount appearing in YouTube’s ‘Featured Videos’ section receiving nearly two and a half million views and torrents of well-deserved praise. Produced by a prodigiously talented group of Japanese artists who collectively call themselves The Rinpa Eshidan, this short film features a time-lapse sequence of a week’s worth of art that demonstrates indescribable bounds of fluidity and creativity. So crank back the levers on your office chairs to a deep lean, dim the lights, light your spliffs and prepare to be blown away.
The Rinpa Eshidan (whom I will now refer to as “TRE,” both because it’s easier to type and effectively sounds for a lack of better words, badass) fundamentally focus around the premise that it is in the construction of a piece, not the end result that “art” occurs; “The group’s main activities are performing in live-art events and creating videos of art in action. Instead of focusing on the finished project, we believe the process of creation itself is where art comes to life and our videos aim to engage our audience in that process.”
At that I leave you with another equally beautiful and quite possibly doubly psychedelic video to marvel at out of the TRE collective titled simply; “Room.”
If you’re inclined to learn more about them and access more of their artwork, below is the link to their website.
A happy upcoming Mother’s Day to all of you and a unified “Hear, Hear” for gawking enviously at artistic ability that relentlessly crushes all personal hopes and aspirations of attaining notoriety.
