ART & DESIGN | uncanny ambiguity: Toilet Paper Magazine

Toilet Paper Magazine is a bi-annual, photo-based publication by Marizio Cattelan, an artist, and Pierpaolo Ferrari, a photographer. They collaborated on a photoshoot for W Magazine in 2009 and worked on a new publication for themselves, inwhich Toilet Paper Magazine was born in 2010.

ART & DESIGN | shading optional: Ellsworth Kelly

Without an education in Art History, I find discovering artists difficult with no starting point to delve into. There are art movements to explore, but within a certain art movement there is a plethora of artists. So many artists, so little time...anyway for my first artist post I'm talking about someone I had discovered just late last year: Ellsworth Kelly

Hailing from New York, Ellsworth Kelly is a painter, sculptor and printmaker. His style is often hard-edge, colour-field, or minimalism painting.

Colors for a large wall, 1951

Nine colors, 1951

ALBUM ART CRUSH | Björk, "Voltaïc"

In my first post of 2016, I hope to dedicate a segment to a that holds alot of inspiration for me: album art!


Kicking off the first album art crush is Björk's 2009 release, Voltaïc. It's a limited edition LP/CD/DVD boxset comprising of related material from her studio album, Volta. I'm not the biggest fan of Björk, but I always enjoy the unconventional approach of the designs of her album releases.

MUSIC | 2015 music round-up + 2016 releases

Music this year has been a rather eye-opening one for me. I discovered more artists both new and (rather?) old, and became more open to genres such as rap and pop (I was kind of a snob to pop in recent years, haha). Without further ado, let's get started on Music 2015.

ALBUMS

WELCOME TO SHAPESANDSLUMBER

Hello and welcome to shapesandslumber!

This is probably my nth attempt at trying to keep a "proper", "professional-looking" blog, given my short attention span in styles and interests. But now I feel like I've sort of settled into my tastes and interests. Yes, things may change up a little here and there and might even (eek!) fall victim to trends, but I feel like I've come to a stage where there will always be "go-to" styles and aesthetics. I've been at Blogger since I was barely nine, but I haven't been one to diligently blog about things. Tumblr took hold of me for five years or so but didn't offer text-heavy posts. So here I am, more than a decade later, on Blogger once more.

This blog is going to be a place where I talk about Graphic art & design and music, two things that continually inspire me and keep me chugging on as I navigate my way around life. Being a Design communication student I also hope to keep this as consistent as possible as a process journal of sorts. I hope you'd enjoy my creative process/inspiration updates, as I do running this blog!

More to come soon...