Sydney based photographers Lyn & Tony have been shooting a wonderful serie of 20+ pages for the second issue of Nico Magazine, published by Die Gestalten, Germany.
The amazing shooting location, one hour out of Sydney, was a perfect spot for Lyn& Tony's concept: soft skin and floating garments against razor sharp stone.
Nico Magazine is on sale now online and in bookstores around the globe!

Through 20 interviews with 29 key figures in the Tokyo art world and 6 essays by art specialists, Art Space Tokyo fleshes out a thorough exploration of the Tokyo art world and the issues that revolve around these spaces.

The guide is lavishly ornamented with over 50 beautiful pen and ink illustrations by Nobumasa Takahashi, bringing readers intimately close to the voices and spaces within.

Published by Chinmusicpress.com, 272 pages, curated & designed by Craig Mod.

http://artspacetokyo.com/

Since its launch in October 2004 TAB has published information on more than 18,000 events. That's more than 400 events a month. Who'd have thought there were that many art & design events happening in Tokyo each month?!

We recently decided to take a selection of those events and publish
them every 2 months on a printed map. We are hoping to make it easier
for people to navigate the city in their search for exhibitions. This
map will also allows us to reach a broader audience, driving new
traffic to the venues and our website.

The first issue (April-May) features 50 events grouped in 7 areas:
Ginza, Kyobashi, Ueno, Roppongi, Shinjuku, Omotesando and Shibuya.

http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/tablog/entries.en/2008/04/tokyo-art-map.html

A colorful sound, that echoes in your mind with its meaningful words....
graniph roudly presents a collaboration T-shirt for the CD release of Modern Conya:
high class pop played by a high class orchestra!

The Hong Kong based design magazine IdN celebrated their 15th anniversary in 2007. IdN which stands for "International designer's Network" is one of the largest bi-monthly multilingual magazines that focus on publishing design, artworks and new trends in the graphic scene.
IdN and graniph hold from October - December 2007 an international T-shirts design award named "Universe".
Over 900 excellent artworks were submitted by illustrators, designers and graphic designer from around the globe and 14 winners were selected for the release of a graniph design T in the limited edition of 1000 pieces only!
On sale now in all Design Tshirts stores graniph.

-Gold Prize
Jessica Wilson

-Silver Prize
Joe Rogers・Alice Ewen・Andy Forshaw

-Bronze Prize
Budi Satria Kwan・Sonja Ahles・Valeria Anzolin・Rafal Czajka・Peater Oh・Moore Cheng・Luis Antonio
Jan von Holleben・Buero Sheriff・Dimxel

Kate Forrester was born 1982 in Oxfordshire and graduated from the Brighton University.
She focuses mainly on editorial design for magazines and book covers and her clients are in London and Madrid where she used to live. She takes her inspirations from the daily life like fleamarkets and ordinary people. A hand-drawn rough scetchy style, which she finishes up in Photoshop is characteristic for her works.
http://www.kateforrester.com

Tamara Villoslada was born in 1977 in Esquel, Patagonia, Argentinia. She lives and works now in Barcelona as an Illustrator. She does illustrations for magazines, and applied also works for bags, T-shirts and wallets. She shows her own works in exhibitions.
http://www.tamarindous.com

Mikio Saito participates together with his creative partner Younghho Lee from Korea at at the Elevator Gallery(http://www.elevatorgallery.co.uk) London! Relocating Absence is a group exhibition showcasing the work of thirteen internationally emerging artists. Through a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, video, photography and drawing, the exhibition offers a series of artistic interpretations of the theme, often playing with the constants of space and time.

April 18th- May 5th 2008 at Elevator Gallery, Hockney Wick, London, UK
Open: Thursday- Sunday 12-17h

Petter Odevall was born 1981 in Stockholm, studied at Danmarks Designskola in Copenhagen, where he still lives and works now.
His illustrations tell a story and shall communicate, his typography is influenced by his graffiti background. Humour is the most important output of his works.

Paul Ryding was born in Paisley, Scotland in 1981. He moved to Glasgow's West End to study at the Glasgow School of Art. He works as an illustrator of print for magazines and did also CD jackets for local scottish bands. His work was exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions.
http://www.paulryding.com

Happysuicides is a design collective that was founded in 2007 by Mio and Nico. Born in Sydney, Australia and UK, Manchester they found each other in Singapore, where they live and work now and focus on fashion, graphic design, beauty and music.
http://www.happysuicides.com

Elsbeth Leupen was born 1974 in Delft in The Netherlands, now she works as an illustrator in Amsterdam. Even thought he is self-taught, she has worked for a range of famous clients as KLM-airlines, Elle, Ellegirl, TOYOTA, Heineken and more. Her works were published in the Sidney Semipermanent Book 2007.

Jon Burgerman launches new work, including large sculptural pieces, at Concrete Hermit Gallery Following recent exhibitions for Singapore Design Week 07, ROJO Artspace Barcelona and Milan Jon returns to the UK with the solo show ‘Pop Idle’ at the Concrete Hermit Gallery, London from 4th April. Opening Reception on April 3rd, 6-9pm.
http://www.jonburgerman.com/index.php/Work/comments/pop_idle/

London based illustrator Miles Donovan has just released his new "Color me in" 20 page colorbook!
Featuring Blondie, Gary Numan, Hall & Oates, LL Cool J and many more, available exclusively from Peepshop http://www.peepshop.org.uk in an edition of 50.

http://www.milesdonovan.co.uk

YEN brings you an exhibition and book featuring 100 of the most exciting female graphic artists and illustrators in the world.
The CURVY 5 book is a must for anyone passionate about graphic design and illustration that wants to be inspired by a new generation of outstanding female creative talent. Produced by YEN magazine - CURVY kicks off in April & consists of a cool limited edition book and a national event tour.
Order the book from the YEN website.
http://www.yenmag.net/events/2/

Sydney Mori Gallery 168 Day Street Sydney
Launch: Thursday April 3 (8-11pm)
Public: Friday April 4-Sun April 6 (10am-5pm)
http://www.morigallery.com.au/

http://www.semipermanent.com

Semipermanent special event feature:

Sydney's artscene is under fire this week! See the finest selection of international illustrators from April 4th - 9th at the MTV Gallery, East Sydney, 4-16 Yurong Street.
http://www.stupidkrap.com/KIDSTODAY.htm

UK based illustrator Andy Smith just finished a new series of limited silkscreens. Sold on his personal online store among his silkscreen books! Have a look here!
http://www.asmithillustration.com/shop.html

"Who's Next" is an exhibition of artists for the future nominated by musuemcurator, independent curator, art critic and art producer. Our project is to support and promote artists whose value is not yet fixed in the art market and have great potential for the future evaluation by introducing their works internally and abroad so that they will become stars in the international artscene. As its overture, this coming exhibition is to present 23 spirited artists including 5 award-winning artists of Art BANK Award held in February. We would like to welcome you to witness the feast of the sparkling talents that will bring new perspective to Japan's contemporary art scene.

Term: Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 25th April 2008 12:00 - 19:00 Closed on Mondays Opening reception: Thursday, 3rd April 2008 19:30 - 21:30 + Sound Performance byTaisuke Imaizumi+Hiroyuki Sone Venue: Museum at TAMADA PROJECTS (03-3531-3733)

Pure Evil Solo Show at Electriksheep, Newcastle, UK, will open April 3rd 2008, 6pm till late.
An exhibition of original artwork and limited edition prints.
On show will be butterflies, bunnies, babes and situationist propaganda inspired by the May 1968 student riots.
Exclusive print will be released for the show.
Electriksheep is run by the loved and highly respected creativeduo Reluctanthero!!!