WAD - ONE HOT MAGAZINE
If the Cool Hunter was to become a magazine, this would be it . WAD magazine (We Are Different/wear different), has become the reference for urban style and culture. With 200,000 copies sold each month, WAD is aimed towards the youth market, people who actively discover and love all things new and different. With the hottest in photography, fashion, illustration, urban & pop culture trends, the French/English collaboration is one of the world's most exciting magazines currently on the market. It's as fabulous as it is thick! by Lisa Evans



MAXIME TOURATIER

Maxime Touratier is just off-category. The Paris based artist invented a new way to do illustrations, he's photographing light shining out of small holes on black paper, drawing most of the time prestige subjects. Touratier refashions photography as if he were a sculptor. He meticulously applies optical and chemical supports to transform contemporary photography, playing with blank spaces, and with spaces around the object in such a way that essence of the object becomes heightened. Maxime Touratier studied at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Bourges, France and received his Masters at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Nantes, France. The Ÿber premium touch of Touratier's work has created a huge interest in the luxury goods market. Cartier and Guerlain have already used his talent. This bright man is affiliated with Chez Antoine in Paris. by Yvan Rodic



STRANGE GLAMOUR - SEVERINE ASSOUS

Severine Assous is a 33 year old illustrator and advertising art director based in Paris with magic on her fingertips. Everything she touches becomes stylish. If her illustrations look like a continuous party, you've fallen for the trick: in fact, they are just beautiful people nesting at home or walking in the street. Her secret is to twist the colors while keeping a realistic outline. Her ideal person has black arms, mauve legs, green faces, blue lips--a far cry from French fashion illustration cliches. Severine Assous works for several French magazines and has illustrated 4 children's albums in the past 3 years. Put some strange glamour in your mind and check out Mademoiselle Assous page onIllustrissimo. by Yvan Rodic



MR MUCHO - COOL MOSIACS

It's seems cool to be a Norwegian pupil. These mosaics are a project for a public school in Trondheim, Norway. The Oslo based artistMr.Mucho worked together with Bo Wallstrom, and the project took them about 3 weeks to realize and about 6 months of preparation. It includes two identical rooms above each other. So when you are outside, you can see both pieces. They had used ceramic tiles in different sizes, and about one thousand of them are screen-printed with different designs. The main pieces are large and are located on both floors. Smaller ones in the kitchen section of the same room. When the water is running, it comes out of their noses. The heaters also have tiles on, turning them into "robots", that only can be seen from outside. Mr. Mucho and his friends are now planning a large outdoors project in the center of Oslo, where they will take mosaics to a new level by using more personal printed tiles combined with classic Moroccan and Turkish tiles. Mr. Mucho has designed graffiti since 1990. He writes traditional graffiti in new ways. When he is not painting canvasses or sewing dolls in his studio, he takes care of his family. He now works with all mediums, mostly acrylic paint and spray paint. He was published in several books like "Overground" in 2003 at Dokument Forlag, as one of 9 nordic writers/artists. by Yvan Rodic





HYPER-ELEGANT MANKIND

They are long-limbed, wided-eye and knowing, they have long necks and a touch of the extraterrestrial. Where do they come from? These haughty figures of the high life are simply populating the universe of Ed Tsuwaki. This Tokyo based illustrator was born 39 years ago in Hiroshima. He began his career as an illustrator in 1986. He developed his current style in 1994 when he started using the computer for illustration. "Illustrating is like giving birth to the other self in me" he says. For the past few years he illustrated numerous portraits on various international fashion magazines, such as Wallpaper, IdN, Avant Garde, Vogue, Elle, advertisements (Mo‘t & Chandon, Levis, L'Oreal...), album sleeves of Japanese artists and book cover design. To date he has only exhibited work in solo exhibitions in his own country, bar one in London and one in Paris. In 2001, Tsuwaki launched a clothing brand, Naked Bunch, of which he managed all of the design process, alongside a collaboration with Triumph International to create an exclusive collection in Japan called "Cosmetic+Ed". Ed Tsuwaki definitely invented a new mankind, the hyper-elegant one. by Yvan Rodic



DLOUNGE - DIGITAL DESIGN LIBRARY

We all take trips of varying degrees of comfort down the information superhighway. On your next trip, step out of your comfort zone and make plans to visit a site with a plethora of creative galleries, communication arts, fashion photography and overall design inspiration. You have been warned and we are quite confident that you will fall and fall hard for Dlounge. The experience of these sites and sounds within this Digital Design Library are as progressive as they come. by Isla Verde

Publisher: the cool hunter
The Cool Hunter brings today's most happening movements, styles and trends to readers across the globe covering genres such as fashion, music, urban living, designer and cultural trends. As a professional cutting edge reporting service, we have a network of global trendspotters positioned in key cities worldwide to report on the latest and greatest cool huntings on offer. Our extensive global coverage ensures that the Cool Hunter never misses a beat when it comes to emerging and future trendspotting. The essence of the Cool Hunter is the ethos of 'global information channelling' that is not regionally specific, but rather based on worldwide relevance. In a society obsessed with the shiny and new, The Cool Hunter has become the reference point of choice for the latest in what's hot tomorrow.
Web: www.thecoolhunter.net
Published: January 2006
Market: womens mens
Region: usa
Industry: apparel accessories

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