In 2005 Martin Lowenstein and Diego Vaisberg set up the design studio DGPH. Mixing different techinques and media as illustration, photographs, traditional drawings and digital images, they create their own and unique style. The result are illustrations for all kind of 2dimensional print, a world of characters and creatures that became 3dimensional volume as toys and push dolls. They toured with their work in Russia (Freaky people Exhibition), France at Artoys (Un diner avec des taupes) and the USA (USA Mole Tour) and love to collaborate with musicians, artists and for events.
http://www.dgph.com.ar

Lucy Vigrass, UK illustrator and member of the design collective Peepshow designed the Cover of Casa Brutus May issue.
She created the cover for the main theme of the issue: new trends in furniture and a feature about the Salone Milano furniture fair.

A new photography book by IdN Hong Kong presenting the most diverse and provocative new photography from Australia and America.

Shunning repetitive and predictable structures, Hijacked’s aesthetic is directed by the mindset and energy of young and emerging practitioners. Embracing the prevailing wanderlust, their work exhibits a fascination with international subcultures, fragmented trends, alternate life styles and urban landscapes.

288 pages, US$80 on sale now
for more info http://www.idnworld.com

The creative charity D&AD is presenting a series of President Lectures. Speakers are
Nick Bell, Robert Greenberg, Sir Christopher Frayling and on June 5th the Dutch Graphic Design Trio "Experimental Jetset". Tokyo based Klein Dytham has organised a Pecha Kucha Night.

http://www.dandad.co.uk

Seamlessly merging his interests in design, fashion and art, Kosuke Tsumura has consistently mined the intersections between these disciplines through his fashion brand Final Home and his custom-made “Fantasy Mode to Order” apparel for female artists. Tsumura’s show at Nanzuka Underground, itself an experimental home for cross-genre creative projects, features his layered sculptures, cobbled together from a mix of existing, finished products and raw fabrics, extending the clothing metaphor of “wrapping” to the realm of fine art.

Opening Reception: May 30th (Fri) 20:00 - 22:00
at Nanzuka Gallery, Shibuya Tokyo
http://www.nug.jp

The next Victoria & Albert Museum late event "The Art of Confession" is on Friday 30 May and is curated by BAD IDEA magazine. ContainerPLUS has been invited to create four confession booths, each attended by a mysterious character thoroughly trained in their East London studio, to relieve you of your sins.
The Art Of Confession at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Friday 30 May 2008 18:30 - 21:45
Cromwell Road, South Kensington London SW7 2RL, UK
http://www.containerplus.co.uk

Bob London born 1976 in London, studied at the University of Life and works as an artist, illustrator and exhibition curator. To his clients belong Carhartt Clothing, The Illustrated Ape, The Guardian and more. He exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London and worldwide. He's inspired by the beautiful and grotesque.
http://www.boblondon.co.uk

Happymunmun was born in the year of the Rabbit in Ipoh, Malaysia. She is a freelance graphic designer and works on a range of packaging, poster, logo and brochure designs.
She loves the experiment of colour and techniques and is inspired by what she sees & listens.

"Last Friends" started as a TV drama on Fuji TV on April 10th featuring a selection of most popular & gorgeous stars today.
It's a realistic human story of a group of people in the midst of their youth who are too frightened to fall in love but begin to live their own lives positively. It focuses on a variety of modern issues such as DV(=Domestic Violence), sexlessness, genderlessness and so on. Michiru (Masami Ngasawa), Ruka (Jyuri Ueno), Takeru (Eita), Eri (Asami Mizukawa) and Sosuke (Ryo Nishikido) who have their own problems learn the importance of friendship and human relationship through their lives in a shared house.

Collaborative T-shirts with "Last Friends" will be making appearance! The motif that is seen on the mugs in several scenes in the program is used for back print.

＞"Last Friends" collaboration(Sky Blue)

A drama on Fuji TV, "Last Friends"
On air from 10PM on Thursdays, highly acclaimed!
Actors: Masami Nagasawa, Jyuri Ueno, Eita, Asami Mizukawa・Ryo Nishikido and others.

Alexandr Voloshyn born 1978 in Kiev, Ukraine. He is self taught and works as an illustrator and designer. He runs the visual design collective Decorlab, does web and video designs.
http://www.decorlab.com

Erin Petson born 1980 in Middlesbrough and studied at the Liverpool John Moores University. She lives now in London as an Illustrator and works in a cutting edge style by combining textures and various media to powerful and provocative images. Erin's illustrations are mysterious an have a touch of vintage glamour. She has worked for Lancome, Cheerios, Madame Figaro and Aquascutum and has exhibited her work widely.
http://www.erinpetson.com

A joint exhibition with the renowned Art Brut Collection in Lausanne and works by Japanese outsider artists, organized by the Borderless Gallery NO-MA in Ohmihachiman, Shiga, which is the first art gallery in Japan dedicated to outsider art. First exhibition of its kind in Japan.
Open from May 24th till July 20th
at the Shiodome Museum Tokyo

Anthony Burrill born 1966 in Manchester. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London and lives now at the Isle of Oxney in Kent. He is a designer, illustrator and artist and works on Advertising campains, design commissions as well as art installations. He is a member of PAM
an audio-visual collaboration.
http://www.anthonyburrill.com

We are having an exhibition from design and creative unit K+Me titled "Weirdos" on this coming Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th.

This exhibition presents 18 original collages made as weirdos characters.
The show also includes animation and fashion designers Encadreurs' 2008 Autumn/Winter collection which also use weirdos characters as a pattern.
Make sure to be here on May 24th for the opening party!

K+Me is a creative unit comprising Kaoru Sato from Japan and Jeremy Sanson from France.
After starting the collaboration in 2005 while in London, they moved to Tokyo in 2006, and now work for various clients.
For more info, please visit - http://www.kplusme.com
Please come and enjoy with us.

Exhibition times:
OPENING PARTY SAT. MAY 24th FROM 18:00 until late
SATURDAY MAY 24th & SUNDAY MAY 25th
from 13:00 to 19.00

at hybrid so+ba gallery
Kyodo 5-29-20, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Tel+Fax: 03 3706 2360
GALLERY MAP:
http://www.creativehybrid.com/images/hybrid-MAP_ENG.pdf

Isabelle Mayuko Lebreton was born 1975 in Saint-Monde, France. She graduated from the Chelsea College of Art in London. She works and lives now in Paris and an Illustrator and Artist. Inspiring for her works are the people she met and the the three cities she lived in: Tokyo, Paris and London. Gifted with an amazing skill to use various brushes and pure black ink, her drawings are reflecting characters of the different countries and cities in a pure and simple but deep and impressional way.
http://izzy.mayuko.free.fr

As part of the Berlin DMY week, the product and interior design duo muskat18 and the illustrator Ines Halbedel are opening their creative studio with an exhibition of graphics, illustrations, ordermade furniture and the cloak-stand project "neonhorn".
location: Luebbenerstrasse 23, 10997 Berlin
opening hours: 10:00 - 22:00 Uhr.

Virginie Helie was born in Nice, South of France in 1975. She studied graphics and photography, and worked as a freelance photographer and stylist for 6 years in London UK, Including working for LODOWN magazine.
She then arrived 　in Sydney , where she found a passion for drawing and painting on wood pieces she found in the streets. Her work is a cross between 　realistic portraits 　and abstract patterns, using watercolours, pencils and fluro pens.
She exhibited at the Artroom Gallery, OUR SPOT Gallery, MonsterChildren Gallery, ZOE MOU Gallery, Spacejunk Gallery, Fat Stores, Dobry Den store and CURVY Book (p69)/Yen Show in Sydney.
She is now back to her South of France roots and lives on a moutain top where she concentrates on her band MILENKA (which means LOVE in Czech) .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9497289@N05/show/

Daniel Brereton born 1981 in Kendal, UK. Studied at the Camberwell College of Arts in London. He's inspired by outsider art and likes to cut out and color in. He has drawn pictures for Modular Records, Shitdisco, Stussy and Fenchurch Clothing. He participated in exhibitions in Gothenburg, Sweden and Derrunoose, Northern Ireland.
http://www.danhaspotential.com

The Bosque project (Bosque = engl. Forest) is a collective art project of Bernardo Henning and his partner Bolsa de Osos.
Ever changing interpretations of a modern forest will be shown in illustrations and installations.
The opening party starts on May 30th, from 23:00h at the Espacio Trimarchi, Fabrica de Bananas Arevalo 1445 in Buenos Aires, Argentinia

http://www.hellomaybe.com.ar

The annual Berlin Design Festival opens its doors this year for the first time as DMY
Design Mai Youngsters(previously Designmai).
With a 7.000 square meter exhibition space and more than 150 designers, the DMY Youngsters exhibition has succeeded in establishing itself as a not-to-be-missed event in the international scene for young, creative and innovative design in Berlin.
Additionally to the exhibition at Arena Berlin, 35 locations spread all over the city are showing open studios, group exhibitions and theme based special events.
May 21st- 25st 2008
http://www.dmy-berlin.com