We’re a huge fan of the work of Rotterdam based artist Anouk Griffioen. After her collaboration with Annemarieke van Drimmelen where photography and illustration came together in beautiful collages and oversized prints she continued that that theme and created a series of new works. We very much love the oversized pieces of paper and canvas with thick black lines, smudges and spaces, abstract and layered drawings.
You can see here work at Re:Rotterdam (Boompjes 60-68, Rotterdam, from 08-02 till 12-02 2012), Collectie Imaginaire – BuroRotterdam (Keileweg 26, Rotterdam, from 11-02 till  26-02 2012), Multisolo (EU Office in Brussel from february till april 2012) a.o. For more shows click here >

Reykjavík  based designer Högni Valur Högnason finished the Icelandic Academy of the Arts with ‘To die will be an awfully big adventure’. The project is about the deaths in our life and consist of three pieces: The first one is about childish innocence, black dripping game consoles, a football and more icons from our past. The second one is about love with roses, lipstick and sweet memories and third one about death it self. Make sure to check his website, there’s some more pretty good work.

Portland based artist and printmaker Alyson Provax made this beautiful series of works called ‘The Durations’. A series of hand printed silkscreen monotypes loosely based on perception of time as filtered through awkward language. Beautiful type, washy, aquarelle-like faded words, printed on heavy weight paper. Be sure to visit her Etsy shop, as well as the one of her boyfriend Anthony Roberto.

Ted Parker made a series of wallpapers for Kuvva, the tailor for your digital life. Kuvva styles your Twitter profile and computer desktop with some great images from the best illustrators and artists around the globe. This week it was Ted Parker’s turn to do that with some smiling, strange and weird people, animals and situations. I love that!

The Dutch publisher Roma Publication just published this amazing little book ‘Looking at Trees’ by Irene Kopelman. In subtile dots and fragile lines she puts on paper the essence of a tree in two series of water color drawings over 40 pages. In an edition of 400 copies, signed and numbered by the artist, this truly is a beautiful little treasure!

Just graduated form Brighton University, the London born and Brighton based Rosanna Webster shared with us her lovely collages, photographs and illustrations. The colorful, rough and grainy and sometimes twisted works, with multiple layers and film projections all looks very promising for a 23 year old!

We very much like these hand finished silk and modal & cashmere large printed scarves designed by the French illustrator Coco for the Forget me Not autumn/winter collection. Truly amazing illustrations!
The collection is available online and in stores including Barney’s, Harrods, Colette, tomorrowland, estnation, Harvey Nichols and more. And be sure to see some more works by Coco here.

Last week I was invited to LA to drive the new Scion iQ, a compact and super innovative car that will fit in an average pickup trunk. The car, also known as the Toyota iQ in Europe and Asia, will be released with a huge creative campaign, covering the music-, art-, photography- and fashion-scene with exhibitions, concerts, festivals and the launch of a magazine.
Since we’re not the car blog where we will feature all the tech specs but only want to share everything esthetic in lifestyles across the globe, we decided to do a pre-publication of the magazine which will be released September the 17th in the US. A piece of sic-fi where dogs get jetpacks and books have infinite blank pages to fill with lead pencils that would never go dull. Enjoy a story where metal meets sci-fi and fantasy.

“…a black leather-bound journal with infinite blank pages”

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Pre-publication: Grace Perry in Scion Magazine
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Grace Perry, of Phoenix, Arizona metal band Landmine Marathon, decimates listeners with her incredible roar. Perry is a science fiction fan and incorporated elements of this world when creating her ideal space and envisioning what her life would be like within it.

In a space limited to just 10 x 10 x 10 feet, the walls would need to be transparent for me, but mirrors to the outside world. I would use a futuristic projector to offer an ample amount of possibilities for my artificial surroundings. The walls would have to be made of a material that could absorb and repel gravity at my convenience, allowing for space travel. I would be equipped to combat even the most treacherous intergalactic obstacles.

The contents of the room would be minimal but critical. First, I would want a companion of some kind. Right now the only living creature inside my house, excluding myself, is my tortoise, Kitty. He unfortunately does not provide much entertainment, and to be stuck in such a small room with another person might lead to either murder or suicide. So my companion would be a dog, my childhood three-legged chihuahua named Samson, but with a bionic leg and a jet pack.

Also, there would be a library of sci-fi/fantasy novels and a black leather-bound journal with infinite blank pages, along with a lead pencil that would never go dull. The floor would be grass and the light inside the room would not have a direct source. Finally, there would be no visual door of any kind, only a portal that opens periodically every few hours, leading to an unknown destination.

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From the 17th of September you can check out Grace Perry’s science fiction reading list in the interactive version of this issue at scionav.com/scionmagazine20

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Illustrations by Horsebites

Alexandra Gooch, a 19 year old illustrator from Moscow, is working on her own book “Design of Nature”. A beautiful collection of images, colorful details of exotic  birds, to share the believe that nature is the greatest artist around. Looking forward to that! Satellitevoices did a small interview a few weeks back, more over there >

Spanish illustrator Sergio Membrillas updated his website with some really nice works. Not his latest work, but I completely fell in love with the Folk Tale postcard book about animals and singers. Anyone has a story ready to get illustrated? Because I can’t wait for his first illustrated children’s book after seeing this.

Lenneke van der Groot made these beautiful works for the temporary exhibition ‘Ondertekend’ in the Amstelpark in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The exhibition with works by 7 illustrators/artist opened last Sunday and will stay until the 20th of may (open from thursday till sunday form 12h till 17h). More information on the exhibition at ZET.

Love these colorful works by Madrid based illustrator Ricardo Cavolo. It is ‘the terror of empty paper’ as he describes it while working on his fantastic circus illustrations for Cirque du Soleil that makes it so Spanish, so sanguineous, so beautiful. Take a look at his portfolio and keep an eye on his blog for more work.