Founder of toy-label Stereotype, creator of the Unchi Leisure Center and a fabulous French designer in his own right, SuperDeux talks to Defunktion’s Adrien Dufond about his history in the creative industries.
Defunktion talks to… SUPERDEUX
in Interview, Editorial, Illustration, France, Product Design and Graphic Design.
Published by Adrien May 9th, 2008 2 Comments
Defunktion talks to… POLYGRAPH | Suwa nyon-nyon
in Interview, Music, Games, Nintendo, Japan, Illustration, Exhibition, Tokyo, Retro and Graphic Design.
Click the Continue Reading link to read about home-made retro merchandise, Japanese RPG’s and Suwa’s favourite video-games.
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Published by Adrien December 1st, 2007 0 Comments
Interview & Exhibition: Tom Muller
in Interview, Music, Design, Warp Records, Comics, Illustration, Ninja Tune, Exhibition and London.
Defunktion have been enjoying Tom Muller’s work for several years now. Originally coming to our attention back in 2002 with the impressive ximeraLabs and his work at London design agency Kleber, over the past five years he’s worked on a range of exciting projects and, most notably, joined forces with Mam Tor™ - an independent comic-book publisher which has garnered attention for teaming up great artists and writers to tell beautifully rendered and utterly fascinating original stories.
Click the Continue Reading link to read about Muller collaborating with acclaimed comic-book artist Ashley Wood, Kleber working from a virtual office and more.
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Published by Olly October 28th, 2007 1 Comment
Interview & Podcast: Robert Lippok - Tenori-On Special
in Interview, PodCast, Music, Design, Art, Electronic, Tokyo, Installation, Techno, Berlin, Set Design and Classical.
Robert Lippok is a musician, composer, aspiring-percussionist and, if that wasn’t enough, Stage and Set Designer for many prestigious productions. You may have heard him collaborating with Barbara Morgenstern (Tesri, 2005), making minimal music as part of Berlin-based trio To Rococo Rot, jamming with an organist at FutureSonic festival or seen one of his immaculately executed stage designs whilst attending an opera (Tosca, Volksbühne, Berlin).
It’s clear that, for quite good reason, Lippok gets around. And it came as no surprise therefore that Media Artist Toshio Iwai and his Yamaha-based collaborator Yu Nishibori, approached Lippok several months ago to get involved with the launch of the Tenori-On instrument. Defunktion’s Olly Farshi sat down with Lippok at the Tenori-On world launch event to chat about the instrument and delve a little deeper in to Lippok’s creative life.
Click the Continue Reading link to read about Lippok’s Punk Rock past, his collaboration with Barbara Morgenstern and more.
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Published by Olly October 5th, 2007 1 Comment
Exhibition: Gastón Caba
in Music, Illustration, Buenos Aires, Exhibition and Avant.
Hailing from Buenos Aires, Gastón Caba is an illustrator with a decidedly surreal and colourful bent. A quick visit to his website, gastoncaba.com.ar, confirms this, as his creations positively gush with inane and adorable character and would be just as comfortable representing in a kids cartoon as on the bottom of a skateboard.
Caba doesn’t just illustrate though, he confidently produces work in a variety of mediums. Working together with Nicolás Cohen under the collective pseudonym of Flavia & The Motonets, Caba creates tremendously mellow music - perfect lullabies for grown-ups. The fictional band’s second set of recordings La Pelicula de Flavia, originally released on Defunktion back in 2005, is available now over at www.flaviamotonet.com.ar.
In another corner of the Internet one can also find a selection of hand-drawn illustrations focused solely on mobile phones. Particularly salient is the image of a smiling man stranded in the middle of the ocean, phone clutched to his ear, the caption simply reading, “I’m quite busy now.” Is Caba trying to tell us something? Possibly. With such a diverse range of talents, he’ll be quite busy for some time.
Published by Olly September 25th, 2007 0 Comments
