Lyrois
Behind the Scenes
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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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The Script-Logo in a Circus guise, in the spirit of summer and action sports. Silver on black.
It doesn't glow in the dark, but it shines and glares just as well, check out the S riding the wave --
Lyrois Tees: The Silver Circus Shirt.
By the way, after some fun with the sketches, we came up with the what would Ed Hardy and Christian Audigier have done version. Since you now know what's coming, here goes...
See also: Nike 6.0: The Ill-Mobile.
Labels: 2009, art, black, couture, fashion, graffiti, logotypes, lyrois, script+logo, tees
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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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Diddo Velema, Gucci and Louis Vuitton collaborate on, of all things, gas-masks --
As long as it's got monograms and diamonds, we'll wear it...
If you need even more apocalypse, and matching suits, Kanye West has the pics from Diddo Velema.
Labels: diamonds, fashion, gucci, louis+vuitton, lyrois, monogram
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The Mohawk-Logo as requested, on a tee. On the back, the 2008 Dancer's-Logo.
Here is the money-shot --
Lyrois Tees: The Mohawk Shirt.
Labels: 2008, fashion, lyrois, mohawk+logo, tees
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I know that you know the difference. I also know that you know that one sells the other. But in the shop, it comes down to --
Cut...
... and sew.
Working on it...
Labels: couture, cut+and+sew, fashion, haute+couture, lyrois, making+of, pret+a+porter, preview
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If the instructions are not clear, if the orders are not obeyed, it is the fault of the general. But if the instructions are clear and the soldiers still do not obey, it is the fault of their officers. --Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Sometimes, virtuosity develops in the second row. Uninstructed, apparently disobedient and seemingly undisciplined.
Labels: 2008, art, fashion, interior+design, lyrois, miniatures, murals
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One of several variations of the dancer's logo. A production goof as it turned out.
As somebody pointed out, the dancer's head was somehow missing --
It reappeared in a later version --
Pixel by pixel, whatever it takes.
Labels: 2007, fashion, goofs, graffiti, logotypes, lyrois, making+of, pixel+art, pixel+series, special+edition, typography
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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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Printed and folded vinyl tarps --
From the diploma-collection, cut and presented on stage in 2000.
Some more pics from the archives --
Labels: 2000, fashion, haute+couture, lyrois, makrame, print, vinyl
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