Ideas & Executions

condemnedskatepark.com

Kevin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:14:43 +0000

CLIENT: Change Advertising / Vancouver Skateboard Coalition
ROLE: Art Direction / Illustration / Design

This project came about as a result of the Vancouver City Council’s proposal to shut down China Creek, one of North America’s oldest skateparks.

Being a pro bono initiative, there was a great deal of creative freedom to be had on this. I made it a personal goal to develop a look for the site that was more illustrative that straight design in its execution. There was a story to tell and it needed to appeal to, and keep the attention of, a younger audience.

The design is influenced by graphic novels, in particular DMZ by Brian Wood, and the horizontal navigation of the site is meant to further emphasize this linear storyline style. There is an underlying political statement about the present state of the world to be unearthed, but what the design ultimately came to represent was the classic David and Goliath story — of the little guy fighting against the system — a universal allegory that anyone can get behind.

Self Portrait with LA and Gallery

Kevin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:14:50 +0000

The Collected Links of Raymond Pettibon – #4

Kevin Broome — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:34:00 +0000

The Collection continues with 13 works from over at Regen Projects

Also of note, it was recently announced the Pettibon is the 2010 recipient of the Oskar Kokoschka Prize. As this year’s winner of the biannual prize, the artist will be awarded €20,000. Pettibon will receive the prize in a ceremony to be held at the University for Applied Arts on March 1 at 11:00 o’clock in Vienna.

Here’s to more true mystery

Kevin Broome — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:19:00 +0000

“Lately, I’ve been wondering if sitting quietly in a café, pretending to read a newspaper, and not writing is the most earnest expression in our age: no echoes of language, nothing to reblog, just pure unmitigated self sitting with self. I might, after a time of blank staring, find myself constructing sentences in my head, maybe a paragraph, simply letting the words roll around in my mind. I will not. I repeat. I will not write them down. They are my secret sentences, not yours.”

—Andrew Simone (via Amanda Mooney)

Not doing enough of this as of late…

A New Take on the Mash Up

Kevin Broome — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:27:00 +0000

This struck me as very fresh. A mashup is, more often than not, the sampling of pre-existing media — music, movies, even sport intervews– to create something new. And yet in the case of the Adidas Originals Star Wars ad, the media being used here is entirely new footage shot specifically for the ad itself. What has been mashed up are the cultural narratives of these two iconic pop entities.

Conceived of by the boundary-defying minds over at Sid Lee and directed by new favorite director Nima Nourizadeh, the celebrity house party that has become an infamous element of Adidas’ promotional materials is once again gettin’ busy but this time with X-wing fighters buzzing the rooftops above.

Great Moments in American Hardcore #2

Kevin Broome — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:54:00 +0000

Fugazi at the Wilson Center, Washington D.C. on December 29th, 1988.

The LA Times Neill Blomkamp Interview

Kevin Broome — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:12:00 +0000

“I like where we’re going with technology and global integration but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don’t like it. This isn’t the Hollywood I wanted to be part of. This isn’t the version of it that I saw when I was a kid…”District 9″ and every other movie is treated like fast food. It’s promoted relentlessly and then it’s gone. Everything is a flamethrower-intensity and milked for everything it can give and then it’s just chucked away. Everything is judged instantly, too. You look back at something like “Blade Runner” and wonder how a film like that, which doesn’t do well at first, would be treated today.”

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Cover Versions by Littlepixel

Kevin Broome — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:47:00 +0000

Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books. Brilliant!

Drawings by Emma McNally

Kevin Broome — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:16:00 +0000

The influence of data system mapping is immediately apparent when first confronted with the drawings of Emma McNally. The complexity of lines could represent online chatter, the flight path of starlings, or a new global epidemic. But they are all pencil on paper and any system that is being plotted here exists purely within McNally’s mind.

Great Moments in American Hardcore #1

Kevin Broome — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:13:00 +0000

Bad Brains at CBGB’s, 1982.