Various Creative: TWO

A tangible platform for open-ended creativity with a wide range of artists at the helm

In the age of Instagram likes, retweets and reblogs, it’s easy to get cynical about the motivation behind creating and sharing one’s work online. If the internet has given us a platform for sharing, it’s also given us a platform for ceaseless self-promotion. At the crux of Portland-based print project Various Creative is the intrinsic process and drive behind creativity—producing work for the sake of …

Tokyo Graphic Passport 2014

A traveling exhibition of Japanese artistry and design

Housed across three galleries—two in DUMBO, Brooklyn and one in Manhattan’s Lower East Side—bilingual Japanese arts publication +81 presents “Tokyo Graphic Passport,” a traveling exhibition of Japanese posters and more from many famed makers and creators within the vibrant Japanese arts scene. The graphic design magazine has been hosting global artistic showcases since 2009, but this year’s iteration is the biggest to date—and is its …

Interview: Sin Fang

The Icelandic musician discusses taking his sound from album to performance

We’ve come to expect nothing short of wonderment from the Icelandic music that reaches global airwaves—expressive and exploratory, but with recognizable pop tinges. Sin Fang delivers all of the above and his 2013 album Flowers was one of the year’s best. It’s a beautiful collection of tracks, occasionally soaring in an ethereal soundscape, sometimes jangling around with rock sensibilities, but always grounded with thoughtful lyricism. …