We can't get enough of the bold, clean work of design master and JoshSpear favorite Matt W. Moore. As the man behind MWM Graphics, we're not entirely sure where he finds the time to get as much done as he does, but we're not complaining.

His latest solo show, MWM 20/20, is up right now at ROJO Artspace in Barcelona. Exploring the collision of geometry and abstract art, his wall-sized works combine sleek lines with in your face color. No matter where you first gaze, your eye is always led on an optic trip to another point of focus. If you happen to be in Barcelona (and if you're heading there, please take us with you) now's your last chance as his show is running until the end of May. All good things come to an end, and you don't have much time left. So go … now!

If you're not able to jet over to Spain, don't despair. His recently released hardcover book, MWM: Vectorfunk, is 160-pages of pure creative vector goodness. Featuring various works from his ongoing Vectorfunk geometric illustration series, the book gives you another glimpse into Moore's world of acid-bright color, symmetry, and light. Plus, it will look damn hot on your coffee table.

In the sea of independent T-shirt companies that have emerged since the proliferation of the online store, there’s a lot more contrived crap to wade through before finding the truly creative stuff. If you’d rather not use chest-space to make light of the Spitzer scandal or quote There Will Be Blood, you might want to check out independent T-shirt designers Turn Nocturnal. In addition to clever emblems like “Beware of Beard”, their type-themed “Huge Type Looks Sweet” and “Sans-Serif” designs show potential for a killer line, one we will hopefully see from these current upstarts.

Those folks at Greenpeace have come up with a new ad campaign aimed at stopping whaling with a sly swipe at the Japanese for their legalization practices. Users can go to their website and make a traditional “paper” origami whale. You must sign your name for a petition (as an Australian citizen, use post code 3000) for the Prime Minister of Japan before making your whale, but after that it is all fun. You get to chose the design elements and even the sounds the whale makes, then the website folds it for you — which instantly makes this better than the origami swans we all tried to make in second grade. Consider the above whale a little gift from JoshSpear.com to all of you.

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Tea is serious business here in England. Even young hip kids that you would think would be over the whole stereotype of a culture, still swear by a good cup of tea. So it should come as no surprise that tea parties have gone Web 2.0 in England. The Website makethetea.com is out to help organize teatime by ending the fuss over whose turn it is to brew the tea. The site takes into account your different tea drinking groups as well as each person's taste, then selects the brewer at random. Thus giving a system to this age old tradition. What will the Internet do next?

So far artists have relied on two senses to display their work: sight and hearing. The current exhibition “If There Ever Was” at Reg Vardy Gallery is expanding art's influence on the senses by clearing out their paintings and sculptures for 14 empty rooms examining the art of the scent. The idea comes from the curator Robert Blackson, who got the idea of creating scents from the section of Fast Food Nation that discusses how flavors and smells could be recreated using chemicals. He gathered a team of 11 perfume and fragrance designers to set about the task of recreating unreachable smells, ranging from extinct plants, to the sun, and even a strand of Cleopatra's hair.

If you happen to be in Northeast England, pop over to Sunderland to see the exhibition before it closes on June 6th. For the rest of us in London and beyond, we support art transcending all the senses. Hopefully the next exhibition of this kind can focus on taste and give us an amazing five-course meal.

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Look at him. Look at your freeloading baby, with his onesie and his carefree drooling. It’s about time someone devised a way to make him pull his weight around here. Or at least give him the impression that he’s doing something productive. Atypyk introduces a working vacuum cleaner on which your child can ride while you clean. Your baby just might grow up with the subtly green notion that cars should clean up after themselves, and that’s something you can’t get with a Hoover.





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