Lyrois
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Who doesn't need skatedecks these days?
The Lyrois High Voltage Series glows with electricity (in your and my imagination) and makes a great collector's wall tiling (in reality).
After releasing two snowboard series from the 2009/10 menu (Spectators and Twins) here is the latest drop of decks in powerful colors --
#1A, #1B, #1C
#2A, #2B, #2C
#3A, #3B, #3C
Made from "7-ply Canadian maple." Available in 4 sizes and 3 styles × 3 colorways --
You can buy any one or two or the whole series at the Lyrois Board Store.
As always, I'm accepting corporate and private commissions on your brand of decks or custom designs on your favorite deck from next year.
Labels: 2009, boards, decoration, fashion, graffiti, lyrois, special+edition
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Two more boards from the 2009/10 Lyrois Snowboards collection.
After the introduction of the Spectators Series, here is the Twins package.
Two fresh boards --
Made of "coreflex fiberglass, wood cores, and Durasurf 2001." Available in 7 sizes and in 2 styles --
And..., I'm accepting corporate and private commissions on your brand of boards or custom designs on your favorite board from last year.
Labels: 2009, boards, decoration, fashion, graffiti, lyrois, special+edition
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Introducing the 2009/10 Lyrois Snowboards collection.
With winter coming slowly but surely, here is the first batch in the new lineup of snowboards, the Spectators Series --
Made of "coreflex fiberglass, wood cores, and Durasurf 2001." Available in 7 sizes and in 5 styles --
With the Lyrois Spectators Series, you bring your own spectators everywhere you rock and roll. All in all, five colorways for the exact feeling of the day or to collect them and combine...
And yes, it's Spectators, plural, because you've got more than one spectator.
As always, I'm accepting corporate and private commissions on your brand of boards or custom designs on your favorite board from last year.
Labels: 2009, boards, decoration, fashion, graffiti, lyrois, special+edition
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We have lots of transparencies, glass, and see-through elements in store this year. Silver-matte etching on, well, glass --
Also, celebrating the return of crude photography capturing beautiful artwork.
Click on the pic above for double the fun and shadow play.
If you happen to enjoy the window, you might also like the previously documented Door Decals.
Labels: 2009, art, decoration, etched+glas, interior+design, lyrois, silhouette
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Concluding the 2008 roadmap, here is the initial stylebook for the screen, or, if you want to, for printing.
The stylebook, as a PDF-file --
See also the introduction.
Selected works are available as unlimited, as well as limited-edition, high-quality, signed and numbered, prints.
Labels: 2008, 2008ss, art, decals, decoration, graffiti, interior+design, lyrois, miniatures, pdf, print, stylebook, tableaux, vinyl, wallpaper
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Pics and links to all flavors and the refs to the 2008 stylebook (PDF).
Tableaux Series: Special Ed. White on White
Translating High-Res to Low-Res Graphics --
Tableaux Series: Purple and Black on White
Miniature Series: Purple Shadows
There you have it, see ya in 2009.
Labels: 2008, 2008ss, art, couture, decals, decoration, fashion, interior+design, lego, lyrois, miniatures, murals, pixel+art, script+logo, silhouette, stickers, stylebook, vinyl, wallpaper
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... door decals, that is. The beauty about European houses is that antique wooden doors are all included and genuine.
The same techniques we use to cover busses and trucks with ads, pictures and all-over graphics, come back -- en miniature -- in delicate shapes, cut in elegant, glossy foil.
As promised --
These decals stick to most wallpapers and laquered wood, yet the foil is fully removable without leaving any residue.
Labels: 2008, 2008ss, architecture, art, decals, decoration, interior+design, lyrois, stylebook, vinyl
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We've had it before. The White-on-White edition was delicate, subtle -- yet still all Lyrois. In the spirit of continuous refinement and improvement, striving to achieve ultimate perfection, today, we're releasing the most elaborate creation yet --
Because black on black has gotten old somehow.
Labels: 2008, announcement, april+fools, art, decoration, lyrois, special+edition
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February 7th, 2008 marks the beginning of the Chinese year of the rat.
2-THOUSAND-RAT TWO-THOUSAND-LY-RAT 2008 TWENTY-ZERO-RAT TWENTY-ZERO-LY-RAT 2008
The Rat (Chinese:鼠) was welcomed in ancient times as a protector and bringer of material prosperity. It is the first of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. Rat is associated with aggression, wealth, charm, and order, yet also associated with death, war, the occult, pestilence, and atrocities. The Year of the Rat is associated with the earthly branch symbol 子.
Labels: 2008, art, decoration, lyrois, miniatures, print, sketchbook, special+edition, year+of+the+rat
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As promised, wallpaper, purple on white, water-resistant paper in sheets for spot applications or on a roll, three feet wide. The height of the shapes forming the pattern is app. 1".
Please enjoy the first design from the 2008 menu --
Yes, you can even frame it and get lost in this unique pattern.
See also: Wallpaper: Electric Shapes
Labels: 2008, 2008ss, decoration, interior+design, lyrois, wallpaper
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A partial view of the design draft for an interior wall.
A mural, 5m × 2m -- part of one, that is. Nothing more specific right now...
Between adding and taking away.
UPDATE: The Silhouettes Mural -- finally incarnated.
Labels: 2008, architecture, art, decoration, interior+design, lyrois, murals, preview, silhouette, wallpaper
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A partial menu for the year 2008, with spring and summer hints on design, fashion, and art projects, as well as signposts pointing to other things yet to come, explore, and create.
Lyrois: The Stylebook Spring/Summer 2008.
A printable PDF-file is available. Here are the pics --
Enjoy and consider yourself teased...
Labels: 2008, 2008ss, aluminum, announcement, architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, interior+design, lyrois, stickers, stylebook, vinyl, wallpaper
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Lyrois is an art scheme, an experimental brand, and a design meme in the making. Lyrois sounds similar to the french Le Roi, yet it is otherwise unrelated.
In 1997, Alexander Becker drew a bunch of shapes, 17 figures gathered around the silhouette of a dancer. Since then, they come back, year after year, in always different styles and designs, covering bags and wallpapers, populating store walls and windows, as well as being featured on tiny vinyl stickers and cut as huge decals or tableaux; elaborate arrangements on industrial materials. Repetition changes.
The shapes are sampled, over and over, with the techniques du jour, and the materials we contemporarily love; bright, opaque, or translucent vinyl, bulletproof bullet-resistant (it depends...) plexiglas, hi-tech paper, and industrial adhesive foil.
Inspired by theatrical Gobos, Lyrois plays with light and shadows and their projections.
The original vector-graphics, their lines combining fragile leaves and powerful graffiti strokes, are never altered themselves, their outlines always remain unchanged. Everything else evolves around these already iconic shapes.
It is the guilt of contemporary superficiality, the struggle with lightness, and the conflict of art and design, which fuels the notoriety of Lyrois.
Projects -- upcoming or completed -- include Lyrois-appearances in architecture, fashion, art, and design productions, as well as unique collaborations in store- and interior design.
Behind the Scenes is covering everything from the Lyrois universe: Ready-made art for sale and to be given away, customizations, commercial projects and collaborations, also previews of work in progress.
Some things are not for the public, which allows only partial views that often lead to interesting speculations about the unseen and many times result in new expressions of a visual language that is built along the way.
Announcements and fragmentary ideas are collected and documented here, exemplary designs and some making-of posts that reveal how it's done.
The peaking behind the scenes, reporting straight from the shop, is based on the idea of developing in public, we could just as well hide everything and wait 'til we're there but that wouldn't be nearly as exciting as creating here and as-is.
A list of selected works gives an overview.
Lyrois also accepts custom commissions, one-of-a-kind productions picking up collector's input and environments.
Labels: 1997, about, architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, graffiti, interior+design, lyrois, vinyl
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