Back in early 90’s, Levi’s advert spot…Video by Michel Gondry. Deep techno:)

No, no i’m very sorry but, Golgo 13 was a better manga than Edgar, darker and better…

This manga has been one of favorite when i was a kid…the song trailer will be engraved in mind forever:). So french, so cool…

STEFAN MARX :
We have also been very lucky to work with Hamburg-based illustrator Stefan Marx…Back in the day I met him in Paris at an art exhibition …Stefan is one the contemporary illustrator who has (for me) a real unique/personal graphic language. His style can remind childhood or teenage naïve poetic illustrations, sometimes black and white, as some kind of very rough pencil drawings.

He has worked for Sixpack France for our two last collections and the two first as well:), i mean since we started the brand.
Stefan is very closed to street culture, sometines producing zines or arts in the street ( should we call it street-art?) and working with German skateboard brands Cleptomanicx and Hessenmob.

His three news design are pretty smart : “Pleeeease tee ” is a kind of stupid tribute to fetichism, Stefan told me “Breakin tee” has been inspired by Tokyoïd B-Boy generation, and “Life in general…” a tribute to teenage crisis. Big up Stefan!

Check out the tees here.

MORNING BREATH.

We have just received our summer flash collection, and i want to express my respect to the impressive work of creative studio Morning Breath. These two guys have an untypical background. Grewing up in San Francisco, they have absorbed the Cali culture and all the aestetic that comes with: Skateboards, Graffiti, Punk rock, American vintage, Cartoons, Mexican hand-made typographies and Psychedelic paintings.

They bring these influences up to Brooklyn where they have their studio since 2002.

They told me last time i met them in their studio in NYC they used to design boards series for legendary skate brand Think in conjonction with Mike Giant. I’ve been  very impressed of their work especially by their collaborations with music industry designing artworks and packaging for artists i such as Queens of the Stone Age or Kayne West.

Wow!!! the last QOTSA artwork was pretty cool…( and music as well). For all these reasons, I am so proud to have them team up at Sixpack. I did a quick subjective selection of their artworks…and one of their new graphics for Sixpack: “El Borracho”.

We print that one as a screenprint poster ( 50×70cm)  with our swiss friend Lowrider printer.

Check out their work for Sixpack here.

Hajime Sorayama for Sixpack France.

Old track but still sound really cool.

We have been working  with Kevin Carpio  during our two last collections, he did for us some cool “unconfortable” and funny collages, playing with US rappers legend codes. His blog is very funny and interesting, we love his sense of humor. Check out the blog here. Michael Jackson tshirts look really cool and Homer cameltoe mouth surprising:). The tshirts he did for us are available here.

Time has come for me to declare my love to Mike Mills. I know, i know everybody know he’s one of the most influential designer of the last 20 years, sorry if my post doesn’t make any sense and doesn’t bring any fresh “cool” news, but it was important for me to write this post, something like a therapy:). I found in my own collection (see picts below) the famous box he designed for Mo-Wax in 1996, i’m so happy to have this box. That’s why i’ve been inspired to buy his new book , i know, i know im late on that one…It’s absolutely incredible how his work is timeless, nothing get old here…Sometimes it pay to don’t follow any trends i guess, simplicity is the key, he knows how to capture emotions and let the images tell a story without anything in it , i mean with very minimal designs. Whatever, he’s just one of the best…and that’s it.

I keep my eyes on Pierre Vanni work since a couple years…He’s one of the new young guns…his work is really smart and personnal…a mix of graphic design and handmade 3D. He has been comissioned to do a creation for the New-York Times ” Style” Magazine, and i really like what came out…