Skippy L., a good Friend of Global Graphica, demonstrates the proper way of doing lines on a mirror … lines of brown sugar and chocolate, that is, with orange wedges and mini-carafes of high-end sipping rum courtesy of the owners of Pan American, a Latin bistro in Nolita, in downtown New York City. We love the way the colors and light reflect off the mirror. It’s super-sexy, all allusions to coke-culture aside.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Sexy Interior at Boutique NYC Ad Agency
Pix of the beautiful, sexy modern-contemporary (MoCo) interior design and decor at the SoHo New York offices of boutique digital advertising agency “CreateTheGroup.”
(Pix courtesy of Miss LC. Thanks!)
Kate Spade’s “Understated is Overrated” Billboard
The large “Understated is Overrated” billboard ad for luxury handbag and shoe brand Kate Spade painted on a brick wall on Crosby Street in SoHo, downtown New York City.
Uniqlo Mobile Pop-Up Store
Japanese fashion design and retailing brand Uniqlo opened a luminescent mobile pop-up store in New York City for the DUMBO Arts Festival in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The store was set up at the based of the Manhattan Bridge near Plymouth Street. Its exterior walls were translucent sliding panels.
Pantone Colors Hoarding
The wonderful Pantone colors bridge on a building hoarding in DUMBO, Brooklyn, as part of the 2011 DUMBO Arts Festival.
Camera Obscura
Artists Clara de Tezanos and JJ Estrada of the La Fototeca Guatemala created a mobile camera obscura from a shipping container. The camera obscura, which accommodates about six people at a time, was set up near New York’s East River waterfront between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges at the DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn this past weekend as part of United Photo Industries group photography exhibition.
Cool New Balance Kicks
Awesome, limited-edition New Balance sneakers worn by one of the dudes working at Blue and Cream, a select clothing shop on the Bowery in downtown Manhattan.
Video DUMBO
Photos below of highlights and the sign to the entrance of the Video DUMBO, a group artists exhibition of video, light-installations, and projection artworks in a massive warehouse in the DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn. (DUMBO is an acronym derived from the real-estate designation for the neighborhood: “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.”)
Giorgio Armani Pop-Up Sunglasses Shop
The live-video installation and pop-up store for Giorgio Armani eyewear in the Meat Packing District during Fashions Night Out, a massive global retail event that coincides with New York Fashion Week in autumn, when designers’ Spring/Summer collections are shown.
The “Never Forget” 9/11 Fire Truck
The “Never Forget” firetruck lists the names of all the NYFD firefighters killed in the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. To mark the tenth anniversary of the tragedy, the truck was parked prominently on Lafayette Street in SoHo.