How Many Billboards? is a large-scale urban exhibition debuts 21 newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards in Los Angeles in February and March 2010.
The philosophical proposition of the exhibition is simple: art should occupy a visible position in the cacophony of mediated images in the city, and it should do so without merely adding to the visual noise. How Many Billboards? Art In Stead proposes that art periodically displace advertisement in the urban environment.

Billboards are a dominant feature of the landscape in Los Angeles. Thousands line the city's thoroughfares, delivering high-end commercial messages to a repeat audience. Given outdoor advertising's strong presence in public space, it seems reasonable and exciting to set up the possibility for art to be present in this field. The sudden existence of artistic speech mixed in with commercial speech provides a refreshing change of pace. Commercial messaging tells you to buy; artistic messaging encourages you to look and to think.

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This unique deluxe volume Racing Style from Assouline with photos from the Goodwood Revival is packaged in a genuine rubber slipcase to add the feel, touch, and smell of an authentic racetrack.
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The author Koto Bolofo is a Paris based photographer with South African roots working for such prestigious publications as Italian Vogue and Nippon or ad clients like Hermès.

My favourite publisher DIE GESTALTEN produced again a fantastic book, intersting not only the content but most of all the graphic translation!

Presented in an exciting collage with manifold layers of text and photography on each page, this large format academic publication defines the visual identities of luxury brands and examines the attraction and fascination youth culture have with them.


Gepflegt: KRASS
BrandBody & Soul

Editors: Richard Feurer, Jörg Huber, Matthias Michel
Language: bilingual German/English

Release: July 2008
Price: € 39,90 / $ 60,00 / £ 35,00
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Features: 476 pages, full colour, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-227-0

For the fourth season running, Style.com has enlisted The Sartorialist, Scott Schuman, to focus his sharp eye on the stylishly dressed showgoers in New York, Milan, and Paris.

"The Sartorialist has grown so much in just over a year and I could not be more thrilled by the community that it has created and the wonderful associations I have been able to create. If you have told me two years ago I would have a well-respected blog, a monthly page in GQ, recurring guest blogs and videos for Style.com, and countless other exciting side projects I would have kissed you - well maybe not kissed - but I would have really liked you a lot!!"

Why? See photo below...

When contradictory and chaotic forces are at work such as what we find in the fashion industry shake up, we can actually imagine the reciprocal dynamics as a dialog looking for some kind of resolution. Of course, the question is not only who's talking, but who's listening.



READY TO WHERE?
"It will be small bits of information, a stream of consciousness continously trig on you and you are reacting in real time."

FASHION'S NEW DIALOG
"The transfer of designers is not a democratising prozess but a dialog on different levels."






Antonia Leslie: "If money wouldn't be an object, I would use the money to make the regular media take care of the web pool."








Samy Liechti: "I think the blog is a big hype."






Otto von Busch "How can the mystical holyness in fashion be transferred into mass production?"






Mark Harvey: "We can say there is a connection between pure technology and blogs and merchandising?"