This video has been up for about a year, but we’ve noticed that everyone has been posting it lately as if it we new. So we’re doing the same. Not only because we love Cey Adams and Bill Adler, but because, yes, we would jump off a bridge, too, were all our friends.
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Legendary art director George Lois talks about his famous Esquire Magazine covers with the creative director of Wired Scott Dadich
From 1962 to 1972, George Lois changed the face of magazine design with his ninety-two covers for Esquire magazine. He stripped the cover down to a graphically concise yet conceptually potent image that ventured beyond the mere illustration of a feature article. Lois exploited the communicative power of the mass-circulated front page to stimulate and provoke [...]
When the covers for Method Man, Ghostface and Raekwon’s Wu Massacre project began leaking online, bloggers and fans alike were just as open about the artwork as the idea of collaborative album. The illustrated cover—as well as the three collector’s edition variants and single art—are the handy work of comic book kingpin Chris Bachalo, whose [...]
Known for pioneering a more abstract style of graffiti writing, Futura played a major role in the NYC’s graffiti scene of the ’70’s. As the popularity of graffiti art flared in the 70’s and 80’s, Futura’s work was shown alongside artists such as Basquiat and Keith Haring. As his style developed, he began designing, and has [...]
Def Jam’s Cey Adams and Bill Adler will present a video/slide show, book talk and book signing about their new book, DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip Hop, at Young Blood Gallery and Boutique. The book shows how the art from this once underground culture has changed the way everything around us looks from [...]
The Rap-Up conducted an informative interview with Brent Rollins, best known as the visual genius behind ego trip magazine. He talks about his design aesthetic being in the spirit of hip-hop beyond signifiers like graffiti arrows, working with photography, biters, the changes in album packaging and how advances in technology are creating less canvasses for [...]
