This blog is all about those cold nights we sit in front of the fireplace and give in to all the useless but joyful stuff. As Oscar Wilde stated in the preface of his book The Picture of Dorian Gray: “We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”
Join in if you feel like being useless for a while.
A few days ago I promised there would be some fresh stuff in 2013 and I
didn’t lie.To start off I invited Bruno Albuquerque to make a Best of 2012 Album Covers List, a task he accepted with
enthusiasm. Those who don’t know who Bruno Albuquerque is might want to check
this link.
Bruno Albuquerque:
Taking into account my musical taste and the discs I came physically in
contact with I came up with this list of my personal favourite album covers of
2012. This selection not only bears in mind the album covers but also the object
as a whole and its packaging.
Two different ways of expression, two different people, one motif.
As said before this collaboration is a little different from the
previous one. This time I challenged Bruno Albuquerque to make an illustration
based on the documentary film Man On Wire,
but Bruno is not the kind of guy who does what he is told to so he decided
he would rather do a poster instead of just an illustration and the result, as
always, is incredibly good.
Man On Wire is a passionate journey through Philippe Petit’s, a French
high-wire artist, plan to high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World
Trade Center. The idea of doing this is, by itself, mind-blowing but Philippe
Petit’s passionate speech makes it even more special.
A few days ago I announced through the blog’s facebook page that soon I would start a series of collaborations with a couple
of dear friends of mine. They accepted the challenge and as far as I know
they’re already working on it.
And now it is time to introduce you to one of them:
Bruno Albuquerque.
Bruno Albuquerque was born in 1989 in Barcelos,
Portugal, and is now attending a Master in Design at Faculdade de Belas Artes
da Universidade do Porto in Porto. Lately he has been working a lot with rock
bands like Black Bombaim, Killimanjaro and Maize.He also designs posters for music fests like CellosRock or Lovers & Lollypops’ events.
However, his most popular work has to be the one he
created along with Ilídio Marques and his fellas from the blog Rock Rola em Barcelos.
This is a free distribution publication dedicated to the best alternative Portuguese
bands. While his design is brilliantly clean, his illustrations have a gruesome
vibe and Rock Rola em Barcelos is where the two ends meet.
