Favorite Color

In a city like New York, it's virtually impossible to stand out and make your mark. Perhaps that's why the latest new motion graphics studio, Favorite Color, took their time in creating something completely unique. Located in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood and targeted toward broadcast and commercial projects, Favorite Color comprises of a team of international and local creatives, including Doug Matthews, Dave Dimmick, Casey Stelle …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Richard Dupont

Using military scanning technology, Richard Dupont makes distorted replicas of his own body

For our 99th episode, we visit the Manhattan studio of Richard Dupont who makes arresting figurative work. His sculptures initially caught our eye when they made an appearance in our very first video at Art Basel and now Dupont’s busy with his large-scale installation, “Terminal Stage,” due to open at the Lever House next month. In this video he unmolds one of his distorted replicas …

Frank Chimero: The States

Chicago-based graphic gesigner and iIllustrator Frank Chimero's ongoing series of illustrations that playfully examine the shapes of the American states is a fun experiment in reimagining invented shapes. Inspired by a remark about how California looks like a snuffed out cigarette, Chimero decided to create illustrations assigning inanimate objects to the other 49 states. Oklahoma is a towel rack with "his" and "hers" towels; Kansas …