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- Editor’s Note -
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the
contributors and readers of Ari Magazine for such a
warm welcome. We really appreciate all the feedback
we’ve been getting.
Our second issue addresses the importance of
playfulness and open-mindedness, which serve as a
basis for creativity. It’s a shame that today’s society
doesn’t value creativity as an asset. As a matter of
fact, as we grow older, we’re often encouraged to
stop playing - resulting in less practice of our creative
mind. Playfulness is not the same as being immature
and, if cultivated properly, can open us up to different
possibilities.
We talk to some outstanding individuals in this
issue who have created an exceptional body of work
based upon this principal. You can find more in-depth
interviews with these talented artists on our website,
www.arimagazine.com
GRAPHICS
BOOKS ISSUES
ARTINSTALLATIONS
TOYS
ILLUSTRATIONS
Mike Perry enjoys working and it really shows. His extensive body of work oozes with
positivity and playful imagery and, when he’s not working on a job, he’s busy giving
himself assignments. “I love what I do and believe in it. Working makes me happy, so I
just go for it. I also drink a lot of coffee,” states Mike. He’s worked with Urban Outfitters,
MTV and DWELL magazine to name a few.
งานอนหลากหลายของ Mike Perry ทำใหเรารวาเขารกงานออกแบบมากขนาดไหน ขนาดเวลาวาง
Mike กมกจะหา Project สวนตวทำอยเสมอ “ ผมรกและเชอในสงทผมทำ เลยมความสขเวลาไดทำงาน
และผมกยงเปนคนทดมกาแฟเยอะดวยครบ” Mike เลาใหเราฟง นอกจากงาน Art Direction ททำใหกบ
Urban Outfitters แลว เขายงวาดภาพออกแบบใหกบ MTV และ Dwell magazine อกดวย
Mike Perry
MillerGoodman
“Kids are being taught less and less art in school.
Imagination is not valued as much as knowledge. If we
could help a fraction of children be more creative maybe
those kids, when they grow up, can find creative solutions
to the problems of the world,” says David Goodman.
Their award-winning ShapeMaker is about using simple
shapes to make lots of fun pictures, while PlayShapes are
geometric wooden shapes that can be endlessly arranged
or stacked to produce hundreds of 3D creations. Both
products allow for open-ended play in which children and
adults can freely participate in the creative process.
Editorial AdvisorsPaul PathomvanichPrae Piromya Article Contributors Mike PerrySteve Harrington Hideyuki Katsumata David Goodman Zoe Miller Yuri Miyoshi Tomi Vollauschek Sachiko KodamaGene Mahasmut Paul Curtis Dan PathomvanichJim Bowes Anna Garforth Oscar Diaz
Aside from working for clients such as the TATE gallery, Guinness and the City of Manchester, Zoe Miller and David Goodman of consultancy Silence decided to create ‘50s and ‘60s inspired wooden toys under the name “millergoodman”.
Hideyuki Katsumata
Love, peace and smiles surround Hideyuki Katsumata’s world. Hide, as he likes
to be known, describes himself as an average person with a not-so-average
appetite for drawing. When asked what he does in his free time, he replies:
“Always drawing. This is my life. I am relaxing for drawing time.” He works with
a number of musical talents including Little Dragon, who we also feature in this
issue of Ari. Although he has never been to Thailand, Hide loves listening to GAP
THERE WAS A POINT IN TIME WHEN GENE MAHASMUT, SON OF FAMOUS FASHION DESIGNER AND MODEL PICHITRA BOONYARATAPHAN, SEEMED TO HAVE IT ALL: ExOTIC GOOD LOOKS, AN ACTING CAREER, A BAND CALLED THE SALIVA BASTARDS AND MODELING GIGS EVERYWHERE. BUT WITH ALL THE MEDIA ExPOSURE HE WAS GETTING BACK THEN, IT SEEMED THAT NO ONE REALLY UNDERSTOOD HIM - MAYBE NOT EVEN HIMSELF. TODAY HOWEVER, AS OUR INTERVIEW WITH HIM DISCOVERED, GENE MAHASMUT IS MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE IN HIS OWN SKIN. HE SHARES WITH US HIS THOUGHTS, HIS LOVE OF INDIA AND HIS NEW SOLO ACT UNDER THE NAME LITTLE FOx. You’ve done quite a few things including acting, music and even modeling, but what are you doing now ?
I’ve always been happy to do whatever job people
have for me to do. When there is no outside job
I spend my time working on my songs and new
album. My other plan is to live a simple life. I’m
learning to be a gardener, a yogi and to learn about
the way of native American Indians.
How was your recent trip to India, do you think it changed your perspective on things?
I fell in love with India – I missed it as I was leaving
to come home. Traveling always changes your www.arimagazine.com
Read more of Gene Mahasmut’s interview, plus more images at:
perspective because you meet another culture
and you learn that there are no real right or wrong
ways; people just do things differently. When your
whole world is packed into a bag you realize the
less things you possess the lighter you feel and, like
Dylan said, “when you got nothing, you got nothing to
lose’”. Jesus, Buddha, yogi and Native Indians have
spoken in the same way.
You were in a band called Saliva Bastards and now you’re playing as Little Fox, can you describe the differences?
Saliva Bastards has three main members and many
more sub-members, friends that help and jam,
throwing in ideas but aren’t permanent members.
We all have different musical influences; all of us
combine and make music together. Little Fox is me
alone, limited by what I am capable of performing
and creating alone. Because I’m alone I’m able to
clearly express my emotions freely. I feel like Saliva
Bastards creates music from many brains, but Little
Fox is straight from my heart.
How important is nature to you? what do you think people can learn from nature?
Nature is where we came from and go back to in
the end. She is the mother to all of us and we all owe
her so much. Without her we can’t survive. As I grow
older I become more and more attached to nature.
As I put my feet on the ground I feel her, as I sit on
the ground I think more deeply. I don’t understand
how some people can feel so little that they need
to take so much from nature, yet they’re still looking
for more. What people can learn from nature is that
we are nature, we are part of the whole and it’s silly
to try to go against it. We have to go with the flow
(with nature) and use it wisely. The world owes us
Anna crafts natural media to give it a voice. On projects such as ‘Sporeborne’ and ‘Nourish’ she works with poet Eleanor Stevens to create messages rendered from moss. These messages are then planted on walls around the city. “The wild is out in force, you will find it everywhere: weeds growing out of pavements, trees and bushes growing vertically from brick walls, moss and lichen covering roofs” she says. “My vision is always directed towards the plants and weeds that find their way here. I have learnt to tread more lightly on the planet.” As well as moss, Anna also collects fallen leaves and trash to add to her messages.
นกออกแบบอยาง Anna เชอในความ
สมดลยของการใชชวตในเมองควบคไป
พรอมกบการดแลธรรมชาต เธอจง
พยายามทจะปลกฝงใหชาวลอนดอน
หนมาสนใจในจดน Anna พรอมกบ
นกแตงกลอนทชอ Eleanor Stevens
ไดสรางผลงานอยาง Sporeborne และ
Nourish ขนมา โดยนำเอาหญามอสมา
ตดเปนตวอกษร รอยเรยงเปนบทกลอน
และไปปลกไวตามกำแพง ตางๆทวเมอง
With environmental concerns ever-present, a new crop of artists have emerged taking eco-friendly to a whole new level.
Designer/artist Anna Garforth is on a mission to save our planet. Concerned with the balance between urbanisation and nature, she’s been steadily planting the seeds of consciousness throughout London - literally!
Green GraffitiUnlike the many companies that use environmental issues
to simply raise their profile, GreenGraffiti ®’s principles are
genuinely focused on sustainability.
Revolutionising the outdoor advertising industry,
the company produces carbon neutral messages with the
help of a template and a high-pressure water sprayer. The
result: an advertising message is cleaned out of the dirt,
creating a high impact message and a cleaner street.
Some might deem this an idealistic approach, but with
clients ranging from Universal Music, MTV, Dominoes Pizza
and Starbucks, along with city councils and universities,
GreenGraffiti ® has proven that it really does work.
In addition, four percent of their generated revenue gets
invested back into local community programs and their
We asked Yuutaro from Fujioka City to help us invent a machine that could help the earth, here’s what he came up with:
“CAT TyPE” Earth’s Air Cleaner (A.I.R. 1)This machine not only helps us absorbs CO2 and air pollution, but
also bad feelings (like when we have fights). By using the trees
that are inside its belly, this machine produces oxygen, clean
air and happy feelings and spreads them to us through its tail.
Having a long-legged cat shape makes it easy to go everywhere
around the world. It would be nice if the entire world turn HAPPY!
MOTION GRAPHICS
In 2000, Naomi Klein released No Logo,
a book that tried to free us from the
invasion of brands, billboards and
advertising in our daily life. Ten years later,
H5, a team of French animators decided
to push it further by creating a world
where nothing but logos exist. Around
2,500 logotypes were used for this short
animation set in the decadence of Los
Angeles. Every object, tree and character is
extracted from famous logos.
The story itself, meanwhile, combines a
series of clichés from Hollywood movies,
including high-speed chases, acts of terror
and dialogues a la Quentin Tarantino…
ending in a way that would please Naomi
Klein and every logo creator.
Logorama
หลงจากท Naomi Klein ไดนำเสนอหนงสอทชอ
No Logo ซงเกยวกบการรกรานของแบรนดและโลโกท
เขามาในสงคมของเรา บรษท H5 กไดนำเอา concept
มาผลกดนขนอกระดบหนง โดยสรางผลงานอนเมชนเปน
เมองททำมาจากโลโกลวน ๆนำเสนอเรองราวทออกแนว
เหนบแนมHollywood นด ๆ ไมวาจะเปนการไลลาบน
ถนน ฉากโหด ๆ หรอบทพดหยาบ ๆ
EATS
JABULANI ジャブラニ
アディダス SLVR
ロゴラマ
Don’t let its compact size and friendly appeal fool you. This all-in-one synthesizer, controller and recorder is packed with hi-tech ingenuity. “We want to do inspiring products. To be creative it’s very important to have fun, and that probably shines through. There’s a lot of hard work and serious tech underneath but that doesn’t mean it has to be presented in a dry way. We all have university degrees but we won’t let that stop the playfulness,” says David from Teenage Engineering. Some of the interesting features of the OP-1 are its eight synthesizer engines, a built-in virtual tape recorder and an FM Radio.
Teenage Engineering
When they’re not busy doing research on poultry or creating supercharged engines, you’ll find Stockholm-based Teenage Engineering promoting their current invention, the OP-1.
ทมงาน Teenage Engineering จากกรง สตอคโฮลม
ประเทศสวเดน เกดขนจากการรวมตวของกลมคนทแตกตาง
กนไป ไมวาจะเปน graphic designer นกดนตร หรอวศวกร
งานของพวกจงมอะไรแปลกๆใหเราเหนอยเสมอ
เครอง OP-1 กเปนงานอกชนหนงทนาจบตามอง มนเปน
เครอง synthesizer และเครองอดขนาดพกพาทมลกเลนมาก
มาย David จาก Teenage Engineering บอกวา
“ถงแมเทคโนโลยทเราออกแบบมาจะยงยาก แตเรากไม
อยากทจะเสนองานทดนาเบอ เพราะเราตองการใหผเลนสนก
ไปกบมน”
ティーンエイジ・エンジニアリング
SPRING SUMMER 2010
MuSE Garden Restaurant & Gallery
2/23 Soi Aree ( Paholyothin 7 ) Phayathai BKK 10400.
Opens from 11:00-14:00and 17:00-22:00
Closed on Saturdays.
Tel: 02-619-5107 Website: musegarden.exteen.com
Bladder ( Orange )
Inner Carcass
3D Triangle Panel
Aero Grooves
Blanka Vlašic wears:Core Tank, FT Crop Pant and Handbag.
Robin van Persie wears:Festival Jacket, Tapered Pants, Festival Backpack and Tape Cap.
Allison Felix wears: Clean Blazer, Core Tank and Pleat Pocket Crop.
Available:adidas SLVR shop in Bangkok is at Siam Center, Floor 1, Atrium 1 Zone or call 02 658 1131