Fakuta
“Al vuelo” (Michita Rex, 2011)
Fakuta (www.fakuta.cl) is Pamela Sepúlveda Ariza, she joined the Santiago indie rock circuit as a bassist in her band Maria Celeste, Golden Baba y El Banco Mundial. Pamela began writing songs for what became his solo project. Pop songs in the words of Fakuta are “deployed in warm and spacious atmosphere, and sometimes more subtle rhythms that hold powerful and contagious vocal melodies” in a world built from synthesizers, programming and voice. … more
English Summary: Barcelona will be from tomorrow till 2nd of June the world capital of videoart. Why?Because here takes place the SCREEN/LOOP festival, which celebrates in good shape ten years leading the artistic vanguard. An unmissable event for anyone eager to find out, about, see and purchase the latest video productions. BaseDesign has renewed the communication campaign, turning it into a more powerful and iconographic one, which invites everybody to look at videoart “in a different way”.
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US is an organization that is a cross-cultural switchboard bringing both countries closer by promoting French culture, literature and education in the US. … more
Graduated at the National School National School of the Visual Arts of La Cambre in Fashion Section, Léa Peckre won the Grand Prix L’Oréal Professionnel at the 25th Festival of Fashion and photography of Hyères, in 2011, with her collection entitled “Les cimetières sont des champs de fleurs”. At the same time her new brand “Léa Peckre” is taking its first steps, little by little. Base Brussels had the privilege to develop its brand new identity and to manage the entire art direction under the supervision of Base Brussels art director, Pierre Daras. … more
To my big surprise I bumped into Dimitri Broquard at the Frieze NY Art Fair yesterday. He told me he had an exhibition at the Swiss Institute here in NY.
Next to the fact that I really like the Swiss Institute’s program, I was really curious to see what Dimitri B. had been doing since he left BaseNY so I popped in and discovered a really great show.
He came over with his two Swiss friends Vincent Sahli and Kimou Meyer to build our NY office in 1999 with my partner Geoff Cook, where he worked for 2 years. A bit homesick Dimitri left NY after his stint with us and got settled in Zurich.
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English summary: Berliner chronicles by Base’s Business Developer Fabian Jean Villanueva. Coming to Berlin is always an experience in itself. Conducting Business Development in this amazing city is a Premiere for Base and thanks to the positive experience of the Haus der Kunst project, we are determined to “invade” Germany with our creativity and freshness. The Berlin Biennale is the perfect moment to meet interesting people and to remind yourself how inspiring contemporary art can be when it treats difficult problems such as the Human Rights. Follow the guide! … more
English summary: Women’s Secret / Summer campaign ’12. Fresh, exotic and colorful is how we envisioned the Women’Secret Summer 2012. Inspired by Henri Rousseau’s painting ‘The dream’, Base has art directed the latest campaign of the lingerie brand. Well known photographer Andreas Larsson was behind the camera’s lens capturing the lushness of the collection. Summer anticipation?… enjoy!
Women’secret ha lanzado recientemente el nuevo catálogo de la temporada verano 2012, en la que los motivos étnicos y los colores vibrantes cobran protagonismo, siguiendo la estela del colour blocking- combinación de colores planos y muy llamativos- que inundó las pasarelas del pasado otoño.
Do or do we not use Photoshop? That’s not the question.
“And so what if we did?” Would be my answer.
© Arno Baudin
This topic has been on my mind for a while.
Especially since you see all these articles about the use of Photoshop and how the pictures would have looked without it. Don’t you agree that you’re happy they did use it? Not because natural beauty isn’t beautiful (check out my favorite photographer: Juergen Teller) but because to me fashion photography is in large part still about fantasy. A sort of escapism. … more
When my girlfriend and I moved to Santiago, Chile last January, we chose to live in the center of the town. As we wandered around to check out our new neighborhood, we discovered posters. Gorgeous black and white portraits of men, arranged in two rows. The posters weren’t announcing anything, but they appealed to me more than any other advertising I saw at that time.
Only one poster identified the project as THE NACHONAL (Good naming! —Nacho is the short-name for Ignacio and ‘Nachonal’ is pronounced by Chileans the same way as ‘National’). Shortly thereafter, I discovered that behind the project was Nacho Rojas, an über-talented young fashion photographer, one of the highlights of Chile.
So we decided to interview Nacho in order to know more about his project.
Following the near immediate and astonishing success of the Children’s Museum of the Arts, we went to talk to its executive director, Dave Kaplan about what he, his dedicated team, and an inspired board of trustees did to turn a community arts program into a thriving institution. In the segment, we touch upon the process that we underwent with CMA to construct a high-impact, lasting visual identity that can for budgetary reasons be adopted and utilized by an army of freelance designers and volunteers.
