Raymond Pettibon: Are Your Motives Pure?

Words and art combine to make up this bold, surf-centric exhibition

by Charlotte Anderson With characters and landscapes composed in stark ink, self-trained artist Raymond Pettibon‘s style is a melding of images and text––reminiscent of William Blake’s illustrated poems––wryly focusing in on motifs of American life, literature, comics, art, religion and pop culture. Tucson-born, now NYC-based, Pettibon is known not only as an artist, but also as the former bass player for Black Flag. His work …

BHDM Design

The design duo create spaces that tell stories and their latest project—a craft beer bar called Hog’s Head—will open in May

Since joining forces in 2008, Dan Mazzarini and Brian Humphrey have been conceiving and crafting eclectic hospitality, retail and residential spaces through their company, BHDM. Mazzarini (previously designing stores for Ralph Lauren) and Humphrey (who ran his own design practice) met while working for Kramer Design Group and have never looked back; the diversity of BHDM’s projects is a testament to their success and their …

SOLS

Using 3D-printing technology to make the much-avoided subject of orthotics relevant and attractive

In an age of technology during which eye vision can be corrected in 10 minutes, prosthetic limbs are breaking ground in sensory feedback and computers can be controlled by brains, we’re surprisingly lacking in the orthotics department—an area that’s in high demand but hasn’t seen much innovation for a long time. This lack of attention has resulted in a lot of foot, back, knee and …