You’re 26 today! Photograph by Craig McDean. For paintings, check out UCLA MFA student Juliana Romano. And then there’s this.

Christopher West is a graphic design student in Amsterdam who’s just published his online portfolio (click the images).

01. Talking Heads - Love/Building On Fire
02. Devo - That’s Good
03. Gang Of Four - Natural’s Not In It
04. Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
05. The Cure - Grinding Halt
06. Human Beinz - Nobody But Me
07. Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love
08. B-52’s - Love Shack
09. Modern Lovers - Government Center
10. The Unicorns - I Was Born A Unicorn

HDK — The School of Design and Crafts, located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Check out the student’s portfolios.

Jody Barton was begat of woman in the County of Kent in the year of our Queen 1972. After being a baby for ages and then inevitably a child after that he finally inhabited his adult form. Not a virgin having had sex with a lady, or without a car having a 1985 1000cc Peugeot shopping vehicle with three massive dents, he is an eligible bachelor who would like to be married to a beautiful intellectual lady who is not too short probably. He is a terrible skateboarder. Fortunately the forces of youth apparel have not discovered this fact so have in recent years asked Jody to weave his works into the hooded topped tapestry. The world screams - and Jody feels its pain and cries out mournfully in a terrible chord of Teen Angst. After a period living in Shitsville (London) he now lives in quiet seclusion with his elaborate bicycles in the deep countryside of the County of Suffolk. His dwelling is so remote that there are no roads out at all. No shops, no lights - only the howl of the owl, the inquisitive friendship of the weasel and the mud. It is possible to travel out to civilisation, but Jody must drag himself bodily across lakes of slippery mud, through thorny hedges and penetrate leagues of impenetratable woodland to reach a road. At which point he would be quite torn to threads and having the appearance of primitive man in the natural history museum. This takes so long that leaving the house clean shaven to travel to London he will arrive with a quite long beard and no memory of the journeys beginning.

Mona Moe Holhjem is a Norwegian photographer based in Maputo, Mozambique.
She has studied photography in England (Kent Institute og Art and Design),
Chech Republic (Academy of Arts Architecture and Design, Prague), Norway
(Oslo Fotokunst skole) and South Africa (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg).

Mona has received several awards for her work including the Observer Hodge
Photographic Award (2004) and has been exhibited in Norway, Japan and Uk.

I read on Wikipedia that New Jersey is the sister city (state, whatever) to Stockholm. I also read that I love sisters. And I love Sweden. And of course, New Jersey (”Woodbridge Stand Up”). So it goes without blogging that the swedes Mattias Jakobsson & Peter Ström that make up Konst & Teknik who, along with tech wiz Martin Ström, designed the website Is it possible to make a photograph of New Jersey regardless of where you are in the world?, as well as the identity of the exhibition at Pierro Gallery (which runs from April 6th - May 25) really stoked me. I think I see 4 grammatical mistakes in that last sentence. Laurel Ptak is the person in charge of it. She runs the super nice photo blog I Heart Photograph and is kindly offering PDF versions of the exhibition catalogue there (which are free and physical at the gallery, or a crazy cheap $5 directly from her via email iheartphotograph@gmail.com). I think this entry reads as a struggle but basically Laurel made a great show and K&T made it greater. Or as we say in New Jersey, “wicked pissah”.

Every year, the graduating class of graphic design students at Yale get together to show off their work in a 4-day exhibition. More often than not, this sort of exhibit itself becomes the work, leaving the thesis work and prior years assignments as second class citizens in the setting of art gallery city, population designers. I am pretty excited to see that the upcoming exhibit appears to present an equal balance of conceptual navigation with thoughtful presentation (not to mention some fantastic things by fantastic people).

The show title can be found along this page (This site will be updated more often as the date gets closer - human web-cam style).

YALE MFA GD THESIS EXHIBITION:
Julian Bittiner
Stina Carlberg
Tomas Celizna
Daniel Harding
Dawn Joseph
Jin-Yeoul Jung
Emily Larned
Lan Lan Liu
Thomas Manning
Ken Meier
Kyungmin Oh
Bethany Powell
Nicholas Rock
Stewart Smith
Fan Wu
David Yun
& Roxane Zargham

May 10—14, 2008
Opening May 10, 7pm (Party after? Party.)
Green Hall Gallery, 1156 Chapel St., New Haven, CT

Via It’s Nice That.

Inspired by Kjefta, I’ll upload a weekly The Style Press mixtape at Muxtape.
Here’s the playlist for Mixtape #1.
Enjoy!

01. Shocking Blue - Send Me A Postcard
02. The Strangeloves - I Want Candy
03. The Sonics - Have Love Will Travel
04. Little Eva - Locomotion
05. Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
06. Four Tops - Something About You
07. Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Seven Days Too Long
08. Honey Cone - Girls It Ain’t Easy
09. Prince - When You Were Mine
10. Petula Clark - Downtown

I have always been pretty happy when I went to Jason’s page and looked at his photos. His work exists cleverly in tandem with graphic design, as is evident in his book jackets with Paul Sahre and John Gall or in his own books through his publishing house J&L. Just recently he gave a talk at Yale that showed the depth of his work, and I was taken by his exhibitions (not to mention the performance of his lecture).

Anton Stankowski was born on 18 June 1906 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His most important teacher was Max Burchartz at the Folkwangschule in Essen, where — after completing an apprenticeship and his journeyman years as a decorative painter — he studied for three semesters, starting in 1926. After a short stint free-lancing for the Canis Advertising Agency in Bochum, the 23-year-old Stankowski was invited toward the end of 1929 to work at Max Dalang’s famous advertising studio in Zurich. This marked the beginning of an important time: Stankowski’s photographic and typographical work developed into a prototype for a contemporary advertising style, later called “constructive graphics.” Stankowski quickly made friends with people who later became known as the “Zuricher Konkreten,” Richard P. Lohse, Verena Loewensberg, Max Bill, and others. In 1934 Stankowski lost his work permit and he moved to Lörrach, Switzerland, before finally returning to Germany in 1938. In 1939 Stankowski founded his Grafische Atelier in Stuttgart. Shortly thereafter, he was drafted into the army and had to go to war. After the war, he connected with leading characters of the visual movement, such as Baumeister, Hugo Häring, Kurt Leonhard, Mia Seeger, Egon Eiermann, Max Bense, and Walter Cantz. Thanks in part to Stankowski’s work, Stuttgart became a Mecca for graphic design in the 1950s.

Thank you Charlotte!