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December 21st, 2007

Beautiful/Decay Reversible Hoodie Madness!

Beautiful/Decay has some incredible new hoodies that are fully cut&sew,reversible,and just in time for the holiday season and old man winter. They are like 2 hoodies in one! Only 500 of each hoodie were made so once they are sold out they will be gone forever!!! Purchase them HERE

November 6th, 2007

BEAUTIFUL/DECAY PRESENTS: VIS/ED NYC

October 25, 2007--(New York, NY) As part of Beautiful/Decay’s ongoing effort to showcase cutting edge media, ideas and creative expressions, B/D is proud to present Vis/Ed, an innovative foray into current discourse surrounding progressive and experimental new media today.
Beautiful/Decay has invited three of the brightest creative minds from the design and marketing world to speak: Jonathan Notaro from Brand New School, Josh Rubin from Cool Hunting and Doug Jaeger from The Happy Corp.
Both Brand New School and The Happy Corp will exhibit carefully curated 30 minute presentations of their own work, as well as motion graphics, animation, commercials or video art pieces that serve as inspiration or points of reference.
Cool Hunting will be presenting a selection of weekly in-house documentaries and video pieces featured on their website. Directly after each presentation, the audience will be invited to participate in a three distinct Q & A sessions with each individual speaker.
Shown in conjunction with one another, these unique video selections give a rare look into the sources that stimulate each company’s creative thought process. By opening a critical dialogue and engaging viewers, Vis/Ed seeks to provide insight into the moving image’s role in today’s cultural landscape.
Vis/Ed will take place Tuesday, November 20th. Doors open at 6:30pm, program begins at 7pm. The event will be held at Anthology Film Archives, an international center for the preservation, study and exhibition of film and video. Anthology Film Archives is located at: 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10001.

Presenter Bios:
Brand New School- With offices in New York and Los Angeles, Brand New School is a bicoastal directing collective working in all fields of commercial art. Recently the company has directed popular commercials for VW, Toyota, Target, Vodafone, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and EA Sports, and worked with agencies such as Arnold Worldwide, Wieden+Kennedy, TBWAChiatDay, DDB and JWT. The company has also helmed viral ads and music video clips that earned MVPA nominations and even took home the MVPA for Best Visual Effects of 2005. In addition to branding, consulting and design, the company’s award-winning work has also included writing and directing popular station identifiers.

Cool Hunting- Cool Hunting is a web portal that provides a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology. The site also features weekly videos that present an interesting cross-section of some of today’s most innovative creatives. Published since February 2003 as a personal catalog and reference tool, the site today attracts and inspires more than 250,000 regular readers from around the world.

The Happy Corp-Founded by designer Doug Jaeger, one of the leading creative minds in the digital space, the Happy Corp is an infectious creative conglomerate based out of New York. At the forefront of the marketing/branding/advertising game, The Happy Corp manages invents and maintains a stable of some of today’s most progressive brands and ideas.

For more on VIS/ED and to purchase tickets go to: Beautiful/Decay/Darkbrown24_4730dd2bef31c.jpg" />

September 24th, 2007

Beautiful/Decay Magazine Site relaunches!

Hey Everyone,
The Beautiful/Decay website just launched with a ton of new functions, features, and content.... read below

BEAUTIFUL/DECAY RE-LAUNCHES WEBSITE WITH FRESH NEW FEATURES AND A COMPLETELY NEW LOOK

September 20, 2007--(Los Angeles, CA) Beautiful/Decay is proud to announce a completely revitalized and re-designed website www.beautifuldecay.com Positioned to become an unsurpassed art and design web portal, the new site is the perfect resource for anyone who wants to be in the know about all things creative.

Visitors will now have greater interactivity with the site: they can post their own events in our Event Section to promote their creative happenings—whether it be gallery openings, concerts, lectures, symposiums, fashion shows, and so on. B/D Feed, our creative daily blog where readers can stay current with the latest art shows, up-and-coming artists and design work, has also been enlarged to include richer, higher resolution images. Of course, Beautiful/Decay continues to provide the popular Public Feed, a forum in which readers can post their own content.

Anthology, the monthly online counterpart to our print magazine, will also be revamped. Though Anthology will continue to provide exclusive content such as artist interviews, record reviews and design spreads, it will also showcase new features, such as music downloads and video/media reviews.

Finally, the site will provide enriched practical resources for its readers. Beautiful/Decay is excited to present an extensive Gallery Guide, which offers a wide listing of only the best galleries and art spaces from around the world. Our reorganized and carefully curated link section also offers additional links to some of the finest art, design, fashion and illustration sites from around the web.

Our in house designer, Colin Graham, notes, “Incorporating all of the diverse content from the old site into a fresh format that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing was challenging- but we’re incredibly pleased with the result and think readers will be too.”

Beautiful/Decay is founded on the theory, “if you can’t find it, make it.” Beautiful/Decay’s format is revolutionary in that it documents the convergence of fine art, graffiti, design, fashion, music and other relevant forms of art. Beautiful/Decay prides itself in exposing the magazine’s diverse readership to mediums, ideas and creative expressions that are not juxtaposed in any other independent publication.

Over the last decade, Beautiful/Decay has garnered a reputation for breaking never-before-seen artists, covering fine art with a youthful and informed point of view and being “THE” go-to handbook for Creative Directors, curators, collectors, artists, designers and musicians.

August 10th, 2007

Beautiful/Decay Los Angeles Release party Next friday!

Beautiful/Decay Release party Next friday!
open bar from 9-10pm!

AIGA Los Angeles Presents Craftivism This Sunday!!!!

If you're in The LA area you should stop by this great event by AIGA and sponsored by Beautiful/Decay Magazine
Here is the details from the AIGA WEBSITE

We’ve been out of touch with our human side lately. With endless hours bound to the computer, tethered to the cell phone and stuck to the TV, it’s no wonder we need take some time for ourselves, help each other out and connect with the community.

Your friendly, neighborhood AIGA/LA is hosting Craftivism, the one-day marketplace event to help you get back in touch. Craftivism was born out of the philosophy that designers can make a difference, by hand.

Come to shop, mingle and network with fellow humans in the ideal creative environment. Ticket proceeds will benefit the AIGA Scholarship Fund which creates educational opportunities in the LA area to support the next generation of designers. Join us in making a difference, one hand at a time. Don’t worry, your computer will be there when you get back.

SUN 12 Aug 2007 | 1 to 5pm

Santee Village Courtyard

716 South Los Angeles St.

Los Angeles, CA 90014

August 2nd, 2007

New Season of Beautiful/Decay shirts are here!

Take a look at the new shirts on the Beautiful/Decay Shop shop. Designs from Sentimental Soy Cheese, Tooth Juice, Evgeny Kiselev, and Matt Yerman.

March 5th, 2007

Beautiful/Decay x Deitch Porjects x RVCA Hoodie

Part of the Beautiful/Decay collaborative series of products comes one of the most anticipated collaborations from Beautiful/Decay. This completely cut & sew hoodie comes with a red body lining and a blue hood lining. Made of durable but soft heavy cotton with a allover logo pattern. Front chest panel has 3 logo patches and top of hood has the RVCA " VA " embroderied logo.
This hoodie is extremely limited and only 50 units out of the 200 units produced will be sold online. You can get them while available HERE

February 9th, 2007

Beautiful/Decay Magazine Los Angeles Release Party 2/20/07!!

Hope everyone can make it! make sure to RSVP and get there early for the free limited edition shirt!!!

Beautiful/Decay Magazine issue R release party

Tuesday, February 20th | 9:30PM-2AM
Mood (6623 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028

Featuring DJ’s:
Pubes
Higher
Jayceeoh (The Masters/Deck Demons)

Sponsored by: Howling Monkey Cola, Grey One, Lokis Clothing, Scion

Free gift bags for the first 100 people | Limited edition shirts provided by Lokis

RSVP ONLY:jerry@greyone.com

January 1st, 2007

GAS Design Books and RE:UP Magazine!

Not sure if anyone has ever checked out REUP magazine but the design in this music/lifestyle magazine is mindblowing. its' second to none! check out some back issues:HERE!

Also If you don't know about Gas Books you need to ask somebody! They put out some of the very best art/design hardbound books on the planet... they are absolutely amazing... My favorite is the MAROK book.He is the designer behind Lodown magazine. You can find some of them: HERE!!!!

December 29th, 2006

Beautiful/Decay Deitch Issue!

Beautiful/Decay Issue: Q just released
The Deitch Issue
Cover By Barry McGee (Twist)

Rarely do you find a magazine that dedicates an entire issue to a single gallery. Beautiful/Decay finds profound exception in Deitch Projects. From the beginning, Deitch has focused on producing ambitious projects by contemporary artists. Ten years later, the gallery is still challenging boundaries in the art world.

An exclusive interview with Jeffrey Deitch, the virtuoso behind Deitch Projects, lends insight to the rebellious nature of the gallery and fascinating history of New York art. Founder and Creative Director of Beautiful/Decay, Amir H. Fallah, sits down with San Franciscos legendary graffiti artist Barry McGee aka Twist who in an interview ten years earlier, inadvertently inspired the very name Beautiful/Decay.

Also featured is fashion designer Jeremy Scott, who extends an first- hand peephole view into his unabashed Sexybition and forthcoming book of the same title.

Issue Q is a masterfull collection of some of Deitch Projects most provocative and influential artists, affiliates, designers, musicians, and fashion designers including interviews and artlicles with NYC brand & record label aNYthing, Brazilian graffiti heroes Os Gemeos, the photography of Noritoshi Hirakawa, the paintings of Brad Kahlhamer, elite New York design firm Work In Progress, NYC pop performance artists Fischerspooner, The Scissor Sisters, and coverage of the NYC Art Parade.

This issue represents the path of Beautiful/Decay coming full-circle, to be able to collaborate with the artist who inspired the name and the gallery that has inspired the mission of the magazine. In short, this issue is the most meaningful issue Beautiful/Decay has published to date.

December 28th, 2006

Crowded Teeth Comes Correct

Just got a bunch of Crowded Teeth shirts and accessories in on the shopBeautiful/Decay Shop ! Make sure to check out the accessories page for the amazing mittens!

ps. if you haven't checked out the B/D Public Feed do so! You can post links to your site and get exposure to over 4million readers a month for free!

December 12th, 2006

Beautiful/Decay Public Feed is launched!

sorry for the form post but the text below explains it best.... happy posting!

THE NEWLY REVAMPED BEAUTIFULDECAY.COM IS LIVE!

Now featuring the image based B/D FEED. Beautiful/Decay also invites its readership/user base to join and participate in the B/D interactive community, making it a destination for the very latest in news and events for the creative individual.

The B/D Daily News Feed will now be known simply as the B/D Feed and will now be image based. The B/D Feed will become the centerpiece of the site by providing vivid imagery and updates on all things B/D on a daily basis.

In recognition of the fact that they cannot cover everything, beautifuldecay.com is now proud to present the Public Feed. Driven by the desire to open the lines of communication between their readers, the Public Feed allows anyone to post links, news items, events, creative resources, artist/designer portfolio sites, innovative motion graphics, music, fashion, and all things creative.

This new feature falls in line with the B/D’s continued efforts to not only break and promote the most provocative artists of today, but have interaction with them and the community surrounding them. Now viewers/readers can expose their own work as well as the work of people they admire. The web site also features a RSS Feed, allowing readers to subscribe and be constantly informed of the ongoing developments in the B/D community.

This revision of beautifuldecay.com is the precursor to a fully redesigned site, slated to be released for 2007.

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GETTING STARTED WITH THE NEW PUBLIC FEED
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The amazing part about the Public Feed is that it is just that...public. Use it to promote yourselves. Use it to promote your friends. Use it just to post that killer new designer you just found out about or that unholy black metal band you just discovered. Its all good, as long as it has anything to do with the demiurge in us all.

Instructions for Use:

Part 1: Register
1. Go to www.beautifuldecay.com
2. Find the "Public Feed" window. Direct your cursor to the word "Register" and click.
3. Pick a user name, a password and provide an e-mail address. If you would like you may provide your real name and where you are located.
4. Click on the "Register" button at the bottom of the window.

Part 2: Posting
1. Click on "Submit Feed." Give your post a title followed by a short description.
2. When you are ready to add a link, click on the "URL" button. You will be prompted for an address and the text you want to be clickable.
3. Provide this information and click "Generate Link." The link will magically appear.
4. Now you can close the URL Post window and write some more, or if you are done, click "Post" to publicize your message to the world.
5. You can also add e-mail links by using the "E-mail" button.
6. Now click "View Feed" to view your new post or spam the feed by adding another message.
7. You can also edit a post by clicking "Edit Post."