Design Archives • Madame Lolo

Consistency

April 3, 2011April 4, 2011

Sometimes in life, you are blessed with serendipity, and it is from my experience that I have the luck to randomly meet more that extraordinary people jut like that.
Marc Atlan is of course one of them. I didn’t know him until I met him ( duh!!!) but I realized afterwards that I have liked and bought almost every single items he has designed:
I frenetically wear and search the web for my favorite fragrance Helmut Lang Eau de Parfum (discontinued 10 years ago)
If I had pictured a pack of cigarettes in a post it would be with the Yves Saint Laurent one.

Marc Atlan is one of the most consistent designer, all his creations are noticeably stamped by his talent yet, stays always minimalist and uber-clean at the service of the iconic brand ( YSL, Helmut Lang, James Perse, Comme des Garcons, Prada, … )
And recently, for the first time, Marc designed and created his own perfume: Petite Mort that condensed in my opinion all of the essence of Marc:

From the concept ( the most sexual scent you could imagine) to the execution and design bien sur, this is a true UNIQUE and powerful creation inspired by one Woman, of course she had to be some woman, one of kind…

Petite Mort captures the emotion and excitation (literally) of a Woman, l’émoi d’une Femme in French:

La Poule et ses Coqs

January 3, 2011April 15, 2011

Love Letters

February 13, 2010October 23, 2010

love by julia chang — Love Always by Julia Chang

loveme — love me graffiti check for more on flickr

love scrabble — Love a 4 letters word, worth only 7 points

Hi(Pad) Haters !

January 31, 2010April 5, 2011

It seems that the iPad got a lot of hate when announced last week, but my bet is, as usual, all the haters gonna love it . Keep in mind that it will be shipped in less than 60 days, hopefully when the iPhone OS 4.0 will be released, as there is an event scheduled in march for the iPhone developers.

There is (or will be) a camera
You can use as a phone ( See screenshots from the beta sdk below)
It is the perfect tool if you are designer and or you have visual job to DISPLAY your work( it will replace your portfolio, your reel if you do videos, etc…)

So stop the hate & get on it …

Here is below some screenshot form the iPad simulator in the iPhone SDK and some link of vector files to get your iPad mockup game on:

return to call on iPad — Return to Call simulation on iPad

From the extremely talented Cocoia, here are the psd file of the iPad icon template:

A very useful for mockups but baaad quality for design in PROD is the tehan+lax Photoshop file:

You can also get the Illustrator CS2 & CS4, Photoshop and PNG files all in one file here. ( Source: 3rd floor lab )

Flashlights

January 20, 2010February 22, 2011

My first post for 2010 is a quick one on Neon & Typography

Every Word Unmade by Fionna Banner (2007)

rubbish- stefanbruggemann — Rubbish by Stephan Bruggemann

Yann Serandour - I will not make anymore boring art (2005)

google neon — and now Google it for more neon images

Me via this isn't happiness — me (via this isn't happiness)

F… WORDS

November 28, 2009February 20, 2010

All thanks to FFFFOUND!

Inspiration

November 15, 2009October 28, 2010

Yesterday I went to the Anthropologie store on 5th Ave & 16th street and they had the Xmas decoration full on already:

Here is a close up, it is made out of paper cups stick together, and reminded me strongly of a great artist I have seen for the first time at the Met a couple years ago…

Close up at the wall decoration @ Anthropolgy

…Tara Donovan she makes beautiful ‟sculptures” like this one out of thousands of styrofoam cups and hot glue

Untitled, 2003 Styrofoam Cups, Hot Glue Dimensions Variable Ace Gallery Los Angeles, 2005

Close up

In the same spirit I like a photographer named Chris Jordan and his series of mass consumption :

even closer chris Jordan Mont Fiji — Even closer

MoMA with PoPa

November 12, 2009October 21, 2010

Yesterday I went to my favorite museum in NYC, the Moma with my Popa who was visiting me here for the first time. Here are some snapshots taken with my iPhone with the effect of the polarize App, and written on the WordPress App for the iPhone as well.

Apps used for this post : the Polaroid effect is done with Polarize (free App) WordPress (free as well) . Enjoy !

I can’t wait for the Tim Burton Exhibition next week !!

Graffiti New York City

November 5, 2009November 29, 2010

I have always had admiration for graffiti artists, especially for the lettering and typography style more than the cartoon & drawing type.

There is an amazing exhibition at the Cartier Fondation in Paris based on the work of Evan Roth (check his website he always have great art project going on)

I have several shots of graffiti pictures in NYC below :

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some others taken with my phone below :

: Wise

: Skull

: Door on 7th

: Street Light

And finally, some others on my Flickr page:

Update: How could I do a post about graffiti in NYC and not mention Faust ??? My bad, he is amazing, here is below his season greetings and a link to his site, check him out !

Gone Baby gone…

July 9, 2009October 21, 2010

Another downtown NY reference gone this week, after the DKNY mural now the Keith Haring wall on Houston and Bowery is over…

The mural was commissioned by Deitch in 1982 and the new mural will be designed by brazilian graffiti artists Os Gemeos, also courtesy of Deitch…

UPDATE : (also known as too lazy to do a new blog post)

now the mural has changed again just for the time of the big Shepard Fairey “May Day” exhibition at Deitch and I am guessing the Banksy film showing across the street at sunshine theater is a good promo as well. (MUST SEE MOVIE by the way)

And even if I like Shepard Fairey, I absolutely hate this mural, and my favorite part was this just right next to it:

New Iphone today…

June 8, 2009June 10, 2009

I just watched the WWDC conference, and OK i Like the new Iphone 3GS but what really made it to me was the macbook pro at $1999, especially when mine just crashed, and had to run disk utility to reboot… and also it now OFFICIAL, AT&T SUCKS ! after the drop calls, the no 3G in nyc, the black spot ( no coverage at all) now, no MMS… Welcome to the American Carriers Land, they are all old, fat in the middle of nowhere and of course then are on Windows…