Well, even in times of economic crisis people want to distract from their ugly faces and hide their unpropotioned bodies behind new and avantgarde clothes. So forget about the Bible, forget about the Divine Comedy, forget about the Capital and forget about all the other very important books you should read in your live but just don’t have the time, interest and intellectual capabilities for.
There is just one book that all the unperfect and unfortunate but vain people really need. 100 New Fashion Designers not only has a really good selection of designers, it also presents them in a smart and sophisticated way. And there is even text inside! No, but seriously for me the young, just graduated designers are way more interesting than big companies. I never got the vibe with the big names anyway. More pictures out of the book after the jump.
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by Claudio | Misc.
The Makers: Interview with artist ATAK
A mouse chasing the cat, a hare shooting the hunter and an animal tamer jumping through a burning hoop. In his great picture book Verrückte Welt Berlin-based artist ATAK turns the world upside down. Every time I flip through it I discover more and more funny details which I haven’t seen before: There’s Ernie from Sesame Street sitting in a window and there’s a Matisse print hanging on the wall. The remarkable thing about ATAKs book is the rough and handmade look of his paintings. You can even see every brushstroke. And although it looks like a children’s book it surely is also suitable for adults.
ATAK is an all-round artist and always very busy. He’s drawing comic strips, illustrating books and writing columns. Above all he recently became a professor for communications design in Halle. So I really understand why it was so hard to get him on the phone. But fortunately I did catch him for an interview for our series The Makers. After the jump ATAK tells us what advantages Berlin has compared to Paris and London.
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by Guest Author | People
