istanbul TURKEY

suckerPUNCH:describe your project:

zeynep bb. HARUNOGLU : we are an istanbul based design company, developing projects and manufacturing products in collaboration with graphic artists and illustrators. pag playing cards is our latest project. the idea is creating a brand of good designed collectible playing cards as an alternative interpretation to the traditional decks. this is as an ongoing project where a new deck will be designed every six months by various graphic artists and illustrators worldwide.

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meguro-ku TOKYO

the female form distorts and bubbles through the digital temple feature by nam collaborative. vibrant colors create textured surfaces that weave and drape throughout the image field. new geometries emerge from the distortion and conceal and expose the figures within the compositions.

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sendai JAPAN

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

kazuk TAKAMATSU: to describe the depth and distance in 2d painting

sP: what or who influenced this project?

kT: the work of salvador dalí and georges seurat

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new york NEW YORK

jeremy blake memorial exhibition
through january 19

the memorial show at kinz, tillou + feigen includes a selection of wall works, a retrospective of daily screenings of his 21 short animated films (schedule), as well as documentation of his unfinished last film [glitterbest].

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minneapolis MINNESOTA

the prolific duo of michael cina and michael young form the creative collaborative of weworkforthem. by dabbling in diverse fields from architecture to performance art as well as entertaining a myriad of clients, weworkforthem has created an aesthetic that moves beyond that of the simply graphic. line overlaps pattern and image melts into symbol in their complex creations. weworkforthem’s method is that of excess in both the density of their work and the amount of work that they produce. their creations and overflow have found a home in their offshoot site youworkforthem where they sell the various manifestations of their designs.

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walnut CALIFORNIA

while we were busy smoking cigarettes in the rafters at age 17, eric sin has created an impressive collection of colliding geometries. his is a futuristic world where the curvilinear morphs into the orthogonal in exploding landscapes that defy both reality and gravity. combinations of hyper-saturated colors, patterns, and lines from which the recognizable forms of text and the human figure emerge distinguishes sin’s work from that of his peers.

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vienna AUSTRIA

vienna based advertising agency staudinger + franke, founded by robert STAUDINGER and andrea FRANKE, uses strange juxtapositions to create interesting and creative images. like a magritte painting, one image shows a cow’s spots transformed into the landscape behind it, while another shows a bear trap where the safety belt should be on a car seat. they have worked for clients in vienna, milan, zurich, london, new york, and more.

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