On Thursday the 25th our good friends from South London, Off Modern celebrate the launch of their first full colour, risograph printed journal at London’s finest gallery the ICA.

The publication explores and illuminates the most exciting aspects of the ICA’s programme, and turns an inquisitive eye on the arts as a whole. It also showcases young creative talent and highlights emerging artists and creatives who are already shaping the cultural landscape and will definitely influence the way we see tomorrow.

Along with all the usual excitement Off Modern bring to the table, they’ll also be some deadly Dj sets from New Cross’s Nasty McQuaid, man about town Ronojoy Dam, collective Zineswap and the illusive Fervent Moon. So get down early, get yourself a limited edition publication and get your dance on.

For more information check out the event at the ICA website here or the Facebook event here.

Perusing the internet for some creative inspiration I happened to stumble across these beautifully intricate, yet remarkably simple, animated gifs by David Ope. Check his blog for what seems to be an unending transfixing experiment of monochrome movement.

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Twitter, yep we all know what it is and whilst the vast majority seem to think the world has an interest in their outlet of insignificant verbal diarrhoea some, such as Liil, explore it’s creative possibilities. Known as twitclipart each post features a different lo-fi graphic pattern created within the character limit. Nice to see someone using the platform in a unique exploratory way…

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To welcome in the new year for the Art & Design side of The Slutty Fringe, I thought I’d crack open some great new work from emerging Brighton born talent Joe Bichard. Currently breading in the wrath of Kingston University London, everything about Joe’s work is seriously exciting and promising.

With a growing collection of outstanding illustration and animation work there’s no doubt Joe is one to watch for the next decade.

For more of Joe’s current work and a few videos of his check out his blog here.

Above are some stills from the interior of Hackney’s latest pop up interior for The Patrón Silver Reindeer restaurant. Created by set designer Gary Card in collaboration with the due behind Bistrotheque (Pablo Flack and David Waddington) and tequila brand Patrón.

Unfortunately the eatery is only open this weekend but you can still get your hands on bookings for Sunday over at their website, patronsilverreindeer.com.

Photos courtesy of Creative Review.

The powerhouse that is Mat Maitland has just released some of his latest and greatest work, this time round a 10 page editorial for the December/January issue of Paris based fashion magazine l’Officiel.

Featuring items of luxury thrown in with some disembodied body parts, pop symbols and flamingos he create’s an element of surprise and the unknown something sure to cause a stir from the norm.

See more of the illustrations over at the Big Active Blog.

Landfill is a new collective of artists, designers and general finger on the beating pulse of life types. Their first project being a series of posters designed by the likes of  Shoboshobo, Jim Stoten, Tommi Musturi, Sister Arrow, Colin Henderson, Steak Mtn, Micah Lidberg, Chris Pell, Scott Barry and Adrian Fleet.

Each A3 print is 2 colour, in an edition of 100, and priced at an absurdly affordable £10. All the money raised will go towards improving the facilities of MANYMONO – a Risograph based printing service they’ve set up for anyone who wants to make cheap but colourful zines, books and prints (launching Spring 2010).

As you can see at the moment they only have green and black cylinders, the proceeds from this sale will help buy three new colours. This is vitally important if the lurid print version of the Fringe is ever to see the light of day. Go, buy, without delay!

Thorough family friends Off Modern have reached round 10 in party history and this time round they’ve recruited up the Plugs, Acres Acres, Jam City, and Joe Howden for a party spectacular. Along with all of that there’s the usual Off Modern residents Tomfoolery vs Nasty McQuaid and some live art from Hounds of Hate.

Get down south, get your drunk on and try and hide from the Vice paparazzi (or not).

For more information check out their little Facebook event page here, or their website here.

Workerman have blown me away this week. Firstly they hit out with some really crisp print and aparel design, then to top it off they threw their handlebar and bike design at me. Check out more from the brilliant Workerman here.

For the most contemporary example of what happens when visual media collides with musical expression look no further than Sport Hit Paradise.

Up and coming illustration talent Elizabeth Arkhipoff asked a clutch of excellent musicians such as Munk, Discodeine, In Flagranti and Gavin Russom to record a track for her imaginary band Sport Hit Paradise, providing the general direction as well as song title and also came up with some original art to accompany each track.

This art will be shown at Arkhipoff’s forthcoming exhibit at Paris art space 12 Mail from December through to February next year and some 300 copies of the musical results have been pressed up on CD to give away.

The nice people at D*I*R*T*Y / 12 Mail have cocked a snoot at the elitist norm of high art though, and offered all tracks to spread across the internet.

Some are better than others and you’ll find the better ones here. Full details of gallery run after the drop.

Sport Hit Paradise - Christel graffiti (feat. Villeneuve)

Sport Hit Paradise - 221 hours of fear (feat. Henning Specht)

Sport Hit Paradise - University of jeans (feat. In Flagranti)

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Seen those Grecian-rings filled with abstract satanic looking stars / triangles? Silas Adler aka Soulland who’s been designing the artwork for Tomboy & Fredski’s Tartelet Records is behind the creepy symbols, better known for his menswear collections, photography collaborations with Nicolaj Holm Moller, and now even makes music videos.

So what is this, the Jennifer Lopez of Denmark? Or a surprisingly ok attempt at crossing over i. e the Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen of tech-house? The fashion is no gobsmacker, but the art fantastic, and the music videos for When Saints Go Machine’s Spitting Image is well luscious yeo.

What more can I say?

A wonderfull friend of mine Joe, introduced me to a really refreshing piece of animation over the weekend from Jon Klassen & Dan Rodrgues who have both arrived from Sheridan College’s Classical Animation Program.

Everything is hand drawn and coloured digitally with lovely textured backgrounds and idilic music from the artists themselves, with a take on Louis Armstrong’s “Jeepers Creepers”.

To check out the animation in full head over to YouTube, and for more great work from Klassen check out his blog here.