Tag: Branding
An artist who goes by the nom de guerre Mercury has pushed the concept of appropriation to its limit by finishing three discarded Peter Halley canvasses. The painstaking works are somewhere between reproduction, satire, collaboration, and theft. They can be seen for the first time at Mercury’s show “In Appropriate,” which opens tomorrow at a […]
Days after it was reported that American Apparel is airbrushing nipples and pubic hair off of its models, ANIMAL has learned that that the millennial retailer is apparently looking to avoid featuring “Instagram hoes or THOTS” in its ad campaigns. “THOT” is a slang abbreviation for the phrase “that hoe over there.” An employee within […]
“It’s here, the destination for New York City’s runners,” reads a sign in front of Asics’ sparkly new store on West 42nd Street, just off 6th Avenue. Inside the brightly lit space, amidst tables of athletic merchandise and a branded POS display, sits a genuine New York City subway car plucked from a scrap heap. […]
Branding Terror — a book by graphic designer Francesco Trivini and former counter-terrorism analyst Artur Beifuss — is a fascinating study on the aesthetics of terrorism. The book is meant to serve as an encyclopedia of the logos and symbols that terrorist organizations around the world use as their calling cards, and an analysis of these images from a […]
Told you. Now, are you going to calm down about the Kickstarter? Marina Abramović does not need your money. Marina Abramović is Jay Z. Also, Marina Abramović is Lady Gaga now. I told you, the Kickstarter for the Marina Abramović Institute dedicated to the performance, preservation, participation of long durational performance art works and marveling at Marina Abramović is NOT ABOUT […]
