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In the early 1960’s, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father’s wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny’s life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David’s relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford.
The history of rock music is a tangled web of innovation and influence, and its with this in mind that Milanese artist Alberto Antoniazzi has created the ‘Rock N’ Roll’ map, plotting the lay of the land for histories hit makers. The map, which takes its graphic inspiration from metropolitan transit mapping, presents a wide variety of bands in a clean and visually stimulating manner. Covering a range of groups from Metallica to ABBA, Antoniazza’s ‘Rock N’ Roll’ map uses great design to tackle this diversity of musical history.
Bend in 360 ° for Tao Kurihara who after having drawn her inspiration from the folklore and the east traditional dresses this winter, presents a very paradoxical collection at once punk and innocent… A rock child, sexy with her transparent dresses, her geometrical clothes as cobwebs but also “so cute” with her colored printed matters; tye and dye, fluorescent, striped and strawberries!
The launch of K1X‘s “4-E” collection is highlighted by a limited artist series of unique K1X basketballs. Four distinguished icons from the realm of graphic art were asked to unleash their creativity and go one-on-one with hoop culture’s most fundamental ingredient: the basketball. Marok, Bill Mc Mullen, Mode2 and Frank 151 featuring Stay High 149 brought their usual a-game and interpreted one force of nature each. All four balls are strictly limited to 444 units
THE ELEMENT WATER
Marok chose the element WATER / Inspiration: design is strongly inspired by the movie „TRON“ / Interpretation: blue panels with grey channels suggest a bathroom-look reflecting the element WATER / Underglass-technique: grafic is printed on TPU material and covered by see-through-layer with shiny look / Packaging: ball comes in high-end display box / Collecters item – ball is limited to 444 pieces world wide and has Marok‘s signature on it.
THE ELEMENT EARTH
Mode2 chose the element EARTH / Inspiration: design is strongly inspired by his character drawings / Interpretation: Mode2‘s baller stands on the ground getting his power from the element EARTH / Mode2 drew the picture on cardboard by hand – the drawing was then scanned and printed / Packaging: ball comes in high-end display box / Collecters item – ball is limited to 444 pieces world wide and has Mode2‘s signature on it.
THE ELEMENT AIR
Frank 151 is featuring Stay High 149 in colaboration for the element AIR / Inspiration: design is strongly inspired by his legendary „smoker“ tag / Interpretation: white pu-leather with black and silver printing give the ball a very light look / Logos and tags are stamped with black/silver outlines / Packaging: ball comes in high-end display box / Collecters item – ball is limited to 444 pieces world wide and has Stay high‘s s signature on it.
THE ELEMENT FIRE
Bill McMullen chose the element FIRE / Inspiration: design is strongly inspired by McMullens favourite color orange and influenced by the 1984 usa olympic star / Interpretation: by using a fluoriscent orange on white and black with black channels the FIRE ball seems to go up in flames / Underglass-technique: grafic is printed on TPU material and covered by see-through-layer with shiny look / Packaging: ball comes in high-end display box / Collecters item – ball is limited to 444 pieces world wide and has Bill McMullen‘s signature on it.