Marcel Schobel born 1976 in Bregenz, Austria. Studied Multimedia Arts at the Polytechnical University Salzburg and the UdK in Berlin. He works as an artist on Installations, Exhibitions, Short Movies, Theater and Live Perfomances. He is part of the Monkeymen collective and Neue Heimatfilm.

http://www.herrschobel.at

Leslie David born 1981 in Strasbourg, France. Working as a graphic designer and illustrator for various Magzines as TOKION, NEOMU and SOFA as well as for companies as Swarowski, Le Coq Sportif and more. She mostly focuses on fashion illustrations and her style varies from arty plein to young elegant with a charming phantasy touch.
http://www.leslie-david.com

Beto Shibata born 1975, lives in Brazil, Sao Paulo. He is the art director of the Brazilian MTV Magazine and his works were published in mags as PEEL, Simples, Trip, Rojo, Playboy, Venice, Wallspankers and exhibited at various events as 2K5 Fest, I LOMO YOU, Attack +, You-Are-Beautiful and Mocotoy, the first brazilian toy art Exhibition in 2006.
http://www.fpuo.org

Poppytalk Handmade is a monthly online street market curated by Poppytalk to showcase, buy and sell handmade goods of emerging design talent from around the world.
Through March 8th you have the chance to submit Sonja Ahlers sweet knitted bunnys! A perfect present for upcoming Easter!

Julia Pfaller born 1975 in Bavaria, Germany. She studied art and illustration in Berlin and in Munich where she is based today. She works for advertisement and editorials with her agents 2Agenten in Berlin and creates a lot of experimental pieces too. In Feb. 2008 she participated in a group exhibition at Hanahou Gallery in NYC. She is a member of the collective www.bilderklub.de
http://www.juliapfaller.de/

Maureen Gubia is one of the artist which shows her extraordinary artworks in the group show "Face Forward" at LeRoy Neiman Gallery New York City. 37 artists show their contemporary views on portraiture. Maureen Gubia shows her works in watercolors, pastels, colored pencils and cut-outs on paper. She lives in Guayaquil, Ecuador and is self taught. Please also view her website at http://gubia.neurasthenic.net/
Exhibition from Feb 18th till March 10

LeRoy Neiman Gallery
Columbia University
310 Dodge HAll, MC 1806
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
open hours mon-fri 10-5pm
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2240/2256486539_7cb170e387_b.jpg

The ecofriendly shopping bags from Envirosax are made of bamboo, linen and hemp.
They are made in Australia and Jo Kuipers has designed beautiful patterns for them!
View their site and start shopping fashionable and plastic free!
http://www.envirosax.com

4 years ago the architect duo Klein Dytham started the Recha Kucha Night at Superdeluxe Tokyo.
This event is running now monthly in over 100 cities around the world. About 3,000 creatives have presented their views of design in 20 slides x 20 seconds. The Pecha Kuche Night Book is now available at http://www.klein-dytham.com/pechakucha/shop/.

The new game "Ryu-Ga-Gotoku Kenzan!" (Ready to face the dragon) for Playstation 3 on sale by March 6th!
To make you feel the power of the dragon, graniph has visualised the original game logo on the T canvas.
This collaboration T-shirt is available by Feb. 29th in the Design Tshirt stores graniph.
http://ryu-ga-gotoku.com/

We are pleased to present our "Hey Japanese!" x graniph collaboration T-shirts, on sale by Feb. 27th at the Design Tshirt stores graniph!
Movie premier will be shown on March 1st at Shibuya Q-Ax and Mivix Hashimoto.

"Hey Japanese!"
The year 2008, Tokyo suburbs along the highway 16. Shoplifters, old guys who like the high school girls like we do ourselves... young guys who call themselves "musicians" keen to go on stage in the far metropole, salrarymen who try to find their fun after their work, "NEET" not going to work, nor having a job, asking the parents for money to party along. Talking "straight", "What's cool" - "Hey Japanese!" A movie about a modern generation, tasting the salty everydaylife, spinned like a net, be annoyed by it, loving it....

Director: Muramatsu Ryotaro
From March 1st (Sat) in Shibuya Q-AX and Movix Hashimoto
please check the official website for more movie theaters.
http://www.nizoo.com/dplu/

With over 50 stores in Japan, graniph is excited to open its first store outside Asia in Sydney on February 28, 2008 at The Galeries Victoria.
To celebrate the opening, there will be 60 exclusive 'Sydney only' graniph tshirts available.

For more information, email sydney@graniph.com.

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Shop RG09, The Galeries Victoria, 500 George Street Sydney, Australia
Tel : +61-2-92615250
Open 10:00 〜 Close 18:00
Thu 10:00 〜 21:00
Sun 11:00 〜 17:00

Emma Hughes

Emma Hughes was born 1978 in Manchester England. She studied at the Surrey Institute of Art and lived in Tokyo for two years. She is inspired by old japanese patterns and transformes those arrangements to "western" patterns, using bread and cake illustrations instead of japanese items! She also creates little dolls and toys which she sells through her website
www.missemmaruth.co.uk
www.missemmaruth.co.uk

Studio Hort hold a special project in 2007: They ask kids from the Hatch Ride Primary School in Reading, UK to redraw their record sleeves! Originals and revised illustrations are shown in a catalogue with 86 pages, available in three different cover colors.
Order at www.hort.org.uk.

graniph collaboration artist Daniel Brereton aka "Dan has Potential" exhibits his sculpture work, colourful wall painting and drawings and is inspired by ancient relics, pyramids and magic triangles at the Concrete Hermit Gallery in London - the first time SOLO!
Check out the article at Amelia's Magazine Blog and see the Concrete Hermit site for pics.
Feb. 8th until Feb. 28th.

The artists Juju's Delivery Service, Julia Pfaller, Tina Berning, Sascha Bierl, Regina Heinlain, Gisela Goppel and Maria Tackmann and others exhibit their experimantal personal sketches and drawings at Hanahou Gallery NYC. The event is organised by www.CWC-i.com.

Australian based artist Jeremyville signs his lilmited edition of posters and sends them over to you!
The piece above called "Shroom Vibrations" and is based on a nightmare after eating ice cream.

http://www.jeremyville.com/webstore2/prints_and_posters/prints_posters.html

Short films can be seen as the entries for the glory era of "Movies" in the 20th century. The greatest Asian and international "Shortfilmfestival" has its origin in Japan and over the past 9 years about 700 various fims have been shown and introduced to the delighted public. However, these films could only be seen a few times every year.
Now in 2008 the permanent shortfilm cinema " Brillia Shortshorts" has opened its doors in Yokohama!
On the cine projectors masterpieces from the previous festivals will be shown, further international films of all genres, specials of movie industry directors and of course works of young japanese newcomers. Sceduled are as well seminars and exciting events. Please check out the official site at http://www.brillia-sst.jp for details.
(Japanese only)

The Taiwanese online Magazine "Design ＆ Life" did a feature on graniph in their new February Issue.
Download your magazine here http://www.designandlife.com

Design & Life is a monthly online minizine published by PH design consultant. It includes design, lifestyle, fashion, and creative news from all over the world. We introduce you the most exciting trends, and bring you the healthiest and easiest recipes.

Liam Moore showed his new streetart atSideroom Gallery in Auckland New Zealand.
All works are on sale now!

http://www.sideroom.com/galleryshow/liammoore/

Even before World War II, fin-de-siecle art magazines such as PAN and Jugend as well as the graphic design work of Bauhaus were already well-known in Japan. In spite of their wide recognition, however, no exhibitions have been held to connect the two eras and present the development of German graphics at the time - or, particularly, to introduce the entire scope of modern poster design.
In the extraordinary exhibition at The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, approximately 180 items including works and other materials that represent the reception and development of German posters in contemporaneous Japan - such as the "Calpis" International Poster Design Competition, the activities of SUGIURA Hisui and the "Nananin-sha" and the "Exhibition of World War Posters" - will be on display, thus presenting the opportunity to inspect the appeal and advanced nature of German posters circa 1890-1933 from various perspectives.

Exhibition from Feb 26th until March 30th 2008
Opening hours: 9:30 until 17:00 (Tickets are available until 30 min. before closing)
Closed: every Monday
Location: The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto