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Christopher Lee Sauvé

A blog of visual interest. By Graphic Designer Christopher Sauvé. www.chrissauve.com

May 28

» In Defense of Print Magazines

A terrific article about print magazines by Felix Burrichter, a New York-based architect. Burrichter, who was born in Germany, is also the founder and editor of PIN-UP, an independent biannual magazine launched in the fall of 2006, whose unlikely editorial foundations are architecture and sex.

Source: T Magazine

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May 27

Midtown is about to get a little bit more Japanese, and no we’re not talking about MUJI.Macy’s stores will be getting their very own Apple vending machines to speedily distribute everything from the iPod Touch to Canon Digital Cameras to tourists who maybe were too busy taking pictures at the Apple Fifth Ave store to remember to purchase anything. Long popular in Japan, using a vending machine for things other than snacks is not new for Apple. Despite Macy’s claim on their website that the Apple e-spot is “only at Macy’s,” we definitely tried the thing out months ago at Terminal 7 at JFK and found it mainly sold out save for accessories. We’re banking that the Macy’s machines will meet the same fate of eternal emptiness, given the novelty of the process and the fact that it makes an awesome photo op.

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Letterpress print on paper by Matthew Brannon, 2008. (Friedrich Petzel Gallery)

The artist Matthew Brannon’s screen prints and lithographs of banana peels and barbecue grills are deceptively straightforward. The Idaho native and T contributor, whose second solo show, “the question is a compliment,” opens at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery tonight, takes simple 50s-style advertising iconography and turns it
on its head. The artist, who is also represented in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, pairs his simple cut outs with his own strange and ironic haikus about consumption and excess. For a recent work, “Alarm Clock (2007),” he showed a showerhead and a bar of soap with the accompanying text: “And when he’s home at night trying to sleep/ he sees himself as a gross pig that everyone hates.” His depictions of luxury objects from champagne to sushi, is not at all about the good life, but rather the darker, desperate side of keeping up with the Joneses. You can bet the question is certainly not a compliment.

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