Halloween costume inspiration 2: Art Lover

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:11 pm, filed under Art, Craftsmanship, Dematerialization, Fashion, Folk. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Hip hop album covers

This post is made possible by Jonathan Puckey. (ps: Special thanks to Selby for the Crazy Fetus tip.)

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 23, 2012 at 4:35 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Folk, Ghetto gold, Glam Chaos, Graphic design, Music, Various, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

creative jeans

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Hans Brinker Campaign for KesselsKramer

Over long years of tireless campaigning, The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel Amsterdam has striven to become the worst hotel in the world. Its stance of proud incompetence has led to great success, especially among those with an appreciation of brutal honesty. Six hundred guests daily can’t be wrong.
In fact: they’re right.

Because of the guests’ decades-long devotion, we can add a new superlative when describing the Brinker: it’s Amsterdam’s No.1 attraction.
The truth is that the Brinker collects the best of Amsterdam’s popular attractions in one place. The beds are as cruel as any rack in the Torture Museum. The staff stare as vacantly as any dummy in the Wax Museum. And you just nip to the Brinker’s overflowing bathrooms to experience your own personal canal tour.

All these attractions under one hotel roof are especially attractive to the average Brinker guest, who rarely regains consciousness early enough to make it outside in daylight hours.
You’re invited to experience Amsterdam’s No.1 attraction, the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel.

Agency: KesselsKramer
Art-director: Gijs van den Berg
Copywriter: Niek Eijsbouts
Creative director: Erik Kessels
Graphic design: Pinar&Viola
Producer: Daphne Linthorst

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:25 pm, filed under Amsterdam, Craftsmanship, Ecstatic Surface Design, Folk, Friends, Glam Chaos, Graphic design, Pinar&Viola, Poster, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Apaçi car pimping

Apaçi is quite a cool Turkish word. Its commonly used among men, and its meaning comes close to something (especially cars, hair, outfit and manners) that is pimped-up with an admiration to the West, yet customized with a Turkish, folk, traditional and sometimes Islamic touch. Apaçi car pimping can be considered as a small subculture in Turkey.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on October 2, 2012 at 10:25 am, filed under Craftsmanship, Folk, Ghetto gold, Subculture. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Fabio, a.k.a Mr. Romance

Artwork we made for Bullett Magazine

Custom-tailoed artwork for Bullett Magazine’s Romance issue. The ecstatic image recursively displays Fabio Lanzoni, an Italian fashion model, spokesperson, author, actor, who appeared on the cover of hundreds of romance novels throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For their September 2012 issue, Bullett Magazine made Fabio, a.k.a Mr. Romance answer their readers’ questions about love, relationships, intimacy and romance.
Hereby an example to these questions:
Dear Fabio, what is the secret to true love forever? My friend, you have the heart of a romantic. This is a question that only you can answer for yourself. In my travels I have found that honesty, friendship, loyalty and mutual respect are essential elements. Enjoy the journey!

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on September 24, 2012 at 8:08 am, filed under Craftsmanship, Digitalization, Ecstatic Surface Design, Pinar&Viola, Published, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Celestial Soul Portraits

You can visit Erial’s website to make your celestial portrait done. If anyone is keen to offer us a gift, this is the hint : ) XX

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on September 21, 2012 at 3:49 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Digitalization, Folk, Internet, Other ecstatics, Things 'n Flings, Various, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Madonna Inn

Madonna Inn is already our favorite hotel, ever!
We’re planning an extended NY & LA trip in May-June, where we’ll be going to OTIS as a guest teacher at the end. Currently fantasizing a few days of stay at Madonna Inn and make another in-situ blogpost.

This blogpost is made possible thanks to Selby Gildemacher

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:56 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Decadence, Folk, Other ecstatics, Various, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

2013 Collection: Scandal Aqua

Exhibition of Pinar&Viola’s Ecstatic Surface Collection 2013 at Pilevneli Project, Istanbul

Ecstatic Surface Design duo Pinar&Viola are generators of commentaries in the margins of visual culture. Every year they launch an autonomous collection that explores excessive events in politics, culture and economy. With their Ecstatic Surface Collections, Pinar&Viola aim to encapsulate the beauty and horror of the contemporary in flat singular surfaces. The duo is strongly focused on the aestheticized and commercialized designed surfaces that surround us. With their works, they seek to investigate the latent violence and the power structures behind today’s idealized surfaces.
Pinar&Viola have collaborated for three years, their previous collections were The Credit Card Collection, Diva Opaque and the love message service 4eva.

This year’s collection, Scandal Aqua - Thrill Seekers Leaked, is a visual scenario inspired by the latest political sex scandals. The collection expresses the mediatization and tabloidization of politics. The hyper detailed collages explore the influence of real-time transparency of social media in politics, therefore narrowing the gap between politicians and citizens. Pinar&Viola’s over-filled hyper detailed surfaces in Scandal Aqua are attempts to conquer empty space in a metaphorical sense: empty (political) rhetoric and tabloid journalism, that by its sheer abundance becomes meaningless.

Scandal Aqua comprises a series of teenage style, girly pink beach towels that display overly self aware portraits of a fictitious politician. Alongside these towels are a series of mirror self-shots of teen girls in their bathrooms, wrapped in these ecstatic pink towels.
The portraits display the confusion about women’s sexual liberation and sexual objectification fitting today’s casual attitude towards sexual explicit imagery.

Scandal Aqua provokes the suggestion that political sex scandals seem to be the perfect fit for our highly sexualized culture and it’s constant flow of entertainment spirit.
The exhibition is open until the 22nd of September.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on September 12, 2012 at 6:58 pm, filed under Art, Craftsmanship, Ecstatic Surface Design, Exhibition, Glam Chaos, Graphic design, Pinar&Viola, Vernissage, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

A fervent Turkish architect

Mehmet Ali Gökçeoğlu and his future vision (2015) of Cesme, a popular holiday town in Turkey, close to Izmir.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on August 15, 2012 at 7:04 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Folk, Persona, Uncategorized, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

The makeup of a retired drag queen

James Kuhn: “I am an artist, retired drag queen, whiteface clown, former nudist, born again Christian, average 46 year old guy… Well maybe not exactly average! I love to paint on anything, including most recently, flesh!”

Click here for a related former blog post about face painter Hilary Leigh.

This entry was written by Pinar&Viola, posted on May 14, 2012 at 1:57 pm, filed under Craftsmanship, Folk, Persona. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

THE PANDA SHOW

♡ NEW Panda Webcam App ♡

The Panda Show is a webcam application which enables you to make pictures of yourself with a panda mask. We custom-tailored this playful application for Nicolas Formichetti, to make his Panda Family grow.
Yes! We can never have enough pandas!
Please feel free to download The Panda Show, make a pic of yourself and send it to bureau@pinar-viola.com
The technology of this app is developed by Hilal Koyuncu.

Instructions:
Before you use this app make sure you have good lighting otherwise ghost bunnies will freak you out. Make sure you turn of any software that uses the camera on your computer (photo booth, Skype, etc.) Unfortunately PC version is not available yet. All of your photos will be saved in the data folder.