January 2011
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Mia Jafari and Florence Bamberger in collaboration...
Late last year we gave our readers a special task for the commencement of our first competition. We called all illustrators to create a template for the design of a new scarf by the masterful Central Saint Martins and Goldsmith’s graduate, Mia Jafari, whose majestic scarf range has caught the eye of Vogue, Grazia and Nylon Magazine.
We received a plethora of submissions and with your help,...
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Welcome to Pitti City!
Last week, the magnificent city of Florence welcomed within the ancient premises of Fortezza da Basso, the 79th edition of Pitti Uomo, the biannual men’s trade show that has become the international reference in contemporary menswear. A great opportunity for the exhibiting 1,010 brands to show their latest creations for next winter to about 30,000 buyers, journalists and trend searchers coming...
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CLOWNLAND by MariosAlexander
Finding new talent is always just as exciting as celebrating the old more distinguished in design. We are thrilled to introduce the SS11 Collection by Greek-Cypriot designer MariosAlexander, Clownland.
As a recent MA Graduate from the London College of Fashion, Marios’ collection is inspired by the performing arts, masking the transition of role-play in theatre into an alternate...
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LaBoca design for Black Swan
As one of the most highly apprehended films of this cinematic season, Black Swan has acquired a great deal of media and creative attention.
LaBoca Design is an independent design firm specialising in art and design for a variety of the creative industries. They too have stumbled across the artistic affection that is Black Swan, creating four official teaser posters for 20th Century Fox.
Swan...
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Review- Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky
My dreams of plié-ing along to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake were as swiftly diminished as the parallel love/obsession mentality of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan.
Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and the classically suave Vincent Cassel, Black Swan is one of the most riveting psychological thrillers since the murderous vengeance of Psycho or the nuclear insanity of Jack Nicholson in The...
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New Year, new office!
Well hello guys and girls that read this humble blog. Happy 2011 for you all! It’s a bit late after the festivities, I know that, but there’s still a “fresh start” smell in the air; the one we all get when a new year starts and we feel we have to reorganise our lives and trace the map ahead.
Sketchbook is not strange to this feeling and we have some interesting projects for the months to come....
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Sketchbook at the Design Museum: Design Overtime
The Design Museum is known as the pillar of fashion and design showcasing, exhibiting some of the most prolific in illustration, art and contemporary design.
In December, Sketchbook Magazine was thrilled to announce a collaboration with the Design Museum along with fashion journalist Hywel Davies for our latest pop-up installment, Design Overtime.
The evening commenced with a live tutorial...
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"Hide and Seek" with Mr Clement
In the same studio space once used by Sketchbook Magazine for our previous pop-up in the Newburgh Quarter, Mr Clement -an artist originally from Hong Kong- was recently housed in the Pyrus Store for his Lapin influenced “Hide and Seek” Exhibition.
Describing himself as an illustrator and sculptor under an irregular pseudonym, Mr Clement gathers necessary inspiration that corroborate...