Mini interview via Fecal Face with Julien Langendorff. How would you describe your work to someone?

Words are tricky, I’m never sure about how to describe my work. I actually kinda suck at that.. Well, I think there are both psychedelic and gothic vibes to it. It is colourful and filled up with dark figures. People often find it mystical, poetic and mysterious. There is obviously a certain feeling that refers to magic, tales, some kind of twisted romanticism maybe.. Recently I’ve been trying to work on less narrative compositions, focusing a little more on pure shapes and patterns.

Influences? Working routine? Music? Time of day?

Black Sabbath, French director Philippe Garrel, Pre-Raphaelites, Edgar Allan Poe, Edvard Munch, haunted houses, Kenneth Anger, weird psychedelic shit, Gerhard Richter, Maya Deren, Symbolists, Only Theater Of Pain by Christian Death, Jean Rollin movies, Alice Cooper, 60′s hippie art and music posters, Ash Ra Tempel, Sol LeWitt.

There is no routine really.. Every day is new and different. I usually wake up early and enjoy starting to think and work in the morning. Some days I don’t feel like working on a piece and I play music instead, or read and watch movies. The process of making art is so great, I love being totally alone, and start a new piece, listening to a good old Stones album or Gram Parsons, smoking cigarettes.. There is some kind of a teenage feeling of freedom to it, that I think is definitely awesome.

Today, once again an example of less is sometimes more, which should not to be confused with less is sometimes empty. The following poster series of the Turkish art directors Mehmet Gozetlik actually show nothing more than the top view of taxis from four world cities, namely London’s “black cab “(unfortunately threatened by extinction), the box taxi from Istanbul, the city mexico “vw beetle taxi” and of course the new york “yellowcab”. The latter may also be undergoing significant change in the year’s to come with a greener, more futuristic look.
Each taxi is as representative of their home cities as many other landmarks we’d likely associate with. The posters also offer a little bit of information regarding historical and present day taxi-fares, as well as some of the taxi commission notices throughout the years. Funny to think that there was one a time when you could smoke in a taxi, and disgusting to think that some countries still haven’t gotten around to that. Otherwise, why would one need to post a no spitting sign in a taxi? That’s just gross.

Here’s a fantastic way to make sure you don’t clear through air port security and make your flight. Introducing funny suitcase stickers, which display hilarious hidden contents of your luggage. From bricks of cocaine to money and a bound stewardess, these decals are sure to get the attention of other travellers, as well as those screening your bags. Go ahead, put one of these babies on your bags. Just be ready for the full body-cavity search, and other unpleasantness such as oops you missed your flight, and we seemed to have lost your luggage.

Lee Price graduated from the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. When we recently came across these amazing works, they reminded us of a painting we featured, which depicted a man sitting in and eating out of a bath tub full of fruit loops and milk. Strange as it may seem, Price’s work evokes the same disgusting, secret shame as the fruit loops piece. All of the images show extremely intimate scenes where people indulge in secret, unhealthy habits of consuming mass quantities of sugary, fatty and otherwise not so healthy foods foods. Lee breaks away from the bath tub shot and illustrates people locked in bathrooms with massive quantities of junk food, and others surrounded by towers of doughnuts. Delicious but painful images of probable eating disorders in progress.

Say what you will about the new iPhone, but as someone who doesn’t have one, I still want one, bad. Website designer, photographer and iPhone App developer JD Hancock created these miniature, diorama scenes, played out using an iPhone screen as part of the backdrop. They’re pretty clever. Be sure to check out the rest of his pack rat fuelled works via JD’s Flickr.

Hey Mostrico!, also known as Alejandro Giraldo is a 24.38 year old dude, who’s got a pretty solid rep over at Threadless, or at least, we’re pretty fond of him. Hey Mostrico is a talented illustrator who hails from Medellín, Colombia. One of his most recent series titled Animal Gangs realy caught our eye. The set includes a Cat, a Zebra, a Panda Bear, and a Fox, each representing their own unique pack.
Gangs are as follows:

• The Lower East Side Bandana Foxes
• The Downtown Roller Bears
• The East Village Zebra Punks
• The Upper East Side Dagger Cats

The only question is, who do you roll with?  Those foxes look pretty damn cool, but I love the hair piece on the Upper East Side Dagger Cats!  For more of Alejandro Giraldo’s amazing works, please check out his Flickr.

British artist James Hopkins is known for slyly transforming familiar objects, converting them into different items and nudging them towards a state that produces an unexpected response from those who behold them. From one perspective, the characters appear recognizable with all their parts aligned. However, another viewpoint reveals their individual components.
‘Perspective Sculptures’ are a series of installations that use optical illusions to play with the viewer’s perceptions. As Hopkins is interested in changing the norms of how audience see objects, he explores this concept by introducing a series of distorted musical instruments and optically created cartoon characters such as The Simpsons, the cast of South Park and Tom and Jerry.

We don’t like to air dirty laundry in public, but needless to say we’ve had our fair share of not so pleasant run-ins with clients. With disputes over everything from the direction of a given project to requests to use someone’s copywritten material and so on, sometimes being in the design business isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. For me, it’s hard to move forward on a project when I know that a request to change or produce a given piece of work doesn’t make a lick of sense. With that in mind, today we’re featuring the story of David (graphic designer), Shannon (receptionist), and Missy (Shannon’s missing cat).
Told via a series of supposedly real Emails, David and Shannon go on a journey to find Missy, by way of designing a “missing cat” poster. One of the more humourous exchages is as follows:

Dear Shannon,

I never said I don’t like cats. Once, having been invited to a party, I went clothes shopping beforehand and bought a pair of expensive G-Star boots. They were two sizes too small but I wanted them so badly I figured I could just wear them without socks and cut my toenails very short. As the party was only a few blocks from my place, I decided to walk. After the first block, I lost all feeling in my feet. Arriving at the party, I stumbled into a guy named Steven, spilling Malibu & coke onto his white Wham ‘Choose Life’ t-shirt, and he punched me. An hour or so after the incident, Steven sat down in a chair already occupied by a cat. The surprised cat clawed and snarled causing Steven to leap out of the chair, slip on a rug and strike his forehead onto the corner of a speaker; resulting in a two inch open gash. In its shock, the cat also defecated, leaving Steven with a wet brown stain down the back of his beige cargo pants. I liked that cat.
Attached poster as requested.

Regards, David.

For the full story, head on over to 27bslash6.com. Caution you will laugh.  Once your done, I strongly urge you to apologize to your favourite graphic designer for your past behaviour.