Hasta La Ideas

Still a prototype, but hopefully this year the gorgeous Strap Stool by Belgium designer Diane Steverlynck will be in production and available for us to buy!

Adopting its name from the governmental region that includes Williamsburg, Greenpoint and East New York, Eastern District is Bushwick’s latest art gallery and exhibition space, which typifies the New York art world’s shifting focus. After an abbreviated Fashion Week photo show, the gallery is holding its grand opening tomorrow with “Made in Brooklyn,” a exhibition from Marvel comic artist Juan Doe. Noted for illustrating the likes of Spiderman and the Fantastic Four, the show finds inspiration in “superheroes, giant-bio-luminescent sea monsters and hydroponic chambers of restituted imaginations.”

In practice, this results in a unique amalgam of painting and narrative. Doe expands from the miniature panels of the comic world to tell stories depicted with paint and enamel on over-sized canvases. He uses everything from conceptual wordplay, messianic portraiture and wife-abusing robots—along with the obligatory comic book cover or two—to express his conflicted worldview.

“Made in Brooklyn” will run through 22 March 2009 and will be followed by an exhibit on current news-maker, Poster Boy.

Made in Brooklyn
27 February-22 March 2009
Eastern District
43 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206 map
tel. +1 718 628 0400

Jack in the Box a favorite burger joint on the west coast has finally come out and released it’s new logo designed and developed by Duffy Partners. For the last couple of months they’ve gradually introduced the new logo in select locations. Brand New offers a great write-up of the re-design.

Before we pick this particular logo apart, dig this hysterical interlude: Philly folks may find this clip especially amusing:

The new mark for Jack in the Box feels quite unresolved. The primary criticism stems from the separation of the title in and below the ‘box’ which seems to convey two separate ideas and therefore devoid of integration. The techie type treatment of ‘in the box’ is misguided and doesn’t relate to the other elements of the logo. The dimensional box and the script font may work as separate ideas, but the end result is a losing combination.

And let’s not overlook the intimation of a smirk at the tip of the ‘k’ in ‘Jack.’ This new emotive trend that we’ve also seen in the re-brands of Pepsi & Kraft Foods is one we’d like to see end frankly (unless it’s executed with a tad more savvy approach).
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(Photo: UnBeige)

Because sometimes other people say it better than we ever could…

10. “If everyone standing in this line actually bought something from Vena Cava…they’d be much better off.” -Fedora-wearng gentleman standing behind us in the long, long line to get into the Vena Cava presentation in West Chelsea.

9. “The clothes are made for not-perfect people. But they’re pretty perfect.” –Isaac Mizrahi, on his fall collection

8. “What if Barbie had a party and nobody came?” -Showgoer, while transfixed by the giant, hot pink Barbie installation around which the action in the Bryant Park tents revolved

7. “Now I want those shoes even more.” -Our seatmate at the Herve Leger by Max Azria show, in which several models took a tumble on the perilously high snakeskin stilettos

6. “There’s strength in the shoulder, without us looking like we’re in Dynasty.” –Michael Kors, on the ’80s (but not too ’80s) silhouette of his fall collection

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