Hypnotic gifs animate traditional Japanese joinery techniques

Timber joints slot together in these Tetris-like gifs – the work of a young Japanese man so obsessed by joinery techniques he set up a Twitter account dedicated to the cause. Named The Joinery, the account bills itself as the complete 3D guide to Japanese joinery styles. 渡り顎二重枘仕口 Watari-ago-niju-hozo-shikuchi pic.twitter.com/4U3hrvFMGt — The Joinery (@TheJoinery_jp) September 1, 2016 Its creator has […]

KAMAGURKA OVER CHARLIE HEBDO

Kamagurka stelt vanaf zaterdag samen met Herr Seele tentoon in Galerie de Zwarte Panter in Antwerpen. Cobra.be ging filmen, maar was ook benieuwd naar zijn mening over de aanslag op de redactie van Charlie Hebdo. Kamagurka had eigenlijk geen zin om iets te zeggen over deze gebeurtenissen omdat er al teveel mensen over gesproken hebben, […]

Het grote afscheidsinterview met Peter van Straaten: ‘Ik kan toch niet eeuwig doorgaan’

Van november 1968 tot mei van dit jaar tekende Peter van Straaten elke week een politieke prent voor Vrij Nederland. ‘Tja, ik word volgend jaar tachtig’, verklaart hij. In Vrij Nederland kon hij iemand als Wilders te kakken zetten zoveel hij wilde, zonder er ooit problemen mee te krijgen. Toch verwijderde hij op aanraden van […]

Zaha Hadid’s New Antwerp Port House Looks Like a Giant Spaceship

Since Zaha Hadid’s sudden death in March, the studio that bears her name has had its hands full finishing the prolific and trailblazing architect’s roster of some three-dozen works in progress. The latest is perhaps one of her most striking creations, the newly inaugurated Port House in Antwerp, Belgium—Europe’s second-largest port—built on the back of […]

Crack & Shine – Death is Home: Horfe

For the past 10 years, Horfe has dedicated his life to getting his name up in Paris. Through this public development on the streets of his hometown, a unique talent has evolved and developed to the point where his work is considered to be the most interesting, innovating and original graffiti on the planet at […]

William Eggleston on Words and Pictures

By his own count, William Eggleston has taken somewhere between one and two million photographs, though only ever one of each scene. “I have a personal rule: never more than one picture,” he says, “and I have never wished I had taken a picture differently. It simply happens that I was right to begin with.” […]

DAVID SHRIGLEY — WELCOME TO MY STUDIO

What the Hell Are you Doing? — The Essential David Shrigley is the funniest, yellowest, biggest, bestest art book of all time ever, by our Funniest Living Artist David Shrigley. A three hundred and fifty page ‘greatest hits’ hardback with a baffled cow on the front, it represents a landmark in the career of the […]

Legendary Street Artist Horfe Discusses his New Works and “Imaginarium” Exhibition

For our latest Hypebeast video, we caught up with legendary street artist Horfe just in time for his “Imaginarium” exhibition at Topsafe London. Hailing from the city of Paris, Horfe’s playful comic-style of graffiti can be easily recognized as he has been steadily covering trains, streets and rooftops for over a decade. Expressing somewhat a […]