Lyrois

Buy a Special Lyrois to Support John T. Unger's Legal Defense Fund

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This is the story of John T. Unger --

I need your help. My original art has been copied by a manufacturer who is now suing me in federal court to overturn my existing copyrights and continue making knockoffs. I have a strong case, a great lawyer and believe that if I can continue to defend myself, the case will be resolved in my favor. If I run out of funds before we reach trial, a default judgment would be issued against me and could put me out of business. I don't believe my opponent can win this case in court and I don't believe he really intends to try. I believe his goal is to use strong-arm litigation tactics to force me to keep spending money or risk losing my copyrights — not by true adjudication, but by default if he is able to outspend me.

Read all about how an imitator sues an artist to overturn copyrights.

To Defend Art: An important cause to support

The idea is to have art donated from artists all over the world to feed the Legal Defense Fund --

Two special editions made as series of 10, with #000 and #001 being retained as artist's proof and the remaining #002 through #009 donated to support John T. Unger's Legal Defense Fund in his quest to defend himself and art in general.

The pieces are scratch-signed and numbered on the back, and accompanied by a printed and signed certificate documenting its story and origin. No more pieces of these editions will ever be made.

Lyrois Silhouettes Mural Limited Edition Aluminum Series

The Aluminum Series come in 140 × 55mm, are executed in matte black (upper part) and glossy black (lower part) vinyl on 2mm aluminum --

See the sales page to buy this work and other great art donated to the fund.

Lyrois Silhouettes Mural Limited Edition Vinyl Series

The Vinyl Series come in 140 × 70mm, are executed in matte black and glossy Lyrois signature-purple vinyl on 2mm foam-board --

See the sales page to buy this work and other great art donated to the fund.

Support John T. Unger's Legal Defense Fund.

Labels: 2009, announcement, art, lyrois, special+edition

Gobos 2009 [Teaser]

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A preview of the 2009 Gobos. What you see is the acrylic plate with the updated shapes for some shadow-work --

Photos are in progress. Small prints will be made, signed and numbered.

Check out the original 2002 gobos and the gobos strips, also from 2002.

Labels: 2009, acrylic, announcement, art, black, decals, gobos, lyrois, preview, vinyl

Architectural Essays [Introduction]

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Introducing Lyrois' architectural essays, conversations between architecture and art --

The vision: Lyrois shapes in public spaces. (Backstory)

The plan: Using our beloved glass, steel, and concrete as the perfect canvas to create a dialogue between static architecture and dynamic art.

Looking for and at glass, steel, and concrete; there is one artist -- architect -- who provides iconic, clean, and clear structures and patterns to pick up and play with: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Granite or concrete?

Mies planned to use granite for an element of the entrance for the IIT. The president of the Institute suggested using less expensive concrete stating that the granite was barely visible anyway. Mies retorted: Concrete instead of granite you would see and asked the president to raise more money instead -- eventually he built with granite. (Related by Swiss architect Otto Kolb)

The inspiration: Linear divisions, spatial proportions, as well as details like huge pieces of marble cut in symmetrical patterns.

Luxury Graffiti

Like graffiti, the public landscape is the canvas to work on.

Unlike graffiti, the Lyrois pieces pick up the pattern of the underlying architecture and highlight both canvas and artwork.

Index of Works

1. Chicago Lakeshore Drive Apartments, window
2. Chicago Lakeshore Drive Apartments, window
3. Barcelona Pavillon, mural
4. Barcelona Pavillon, window
5. Barcelona Pavillon, window
6. Barcelona Pavillon, window
7. Barcelona Pavillon, window
8. Toronto Dominion Centre, facade
9. Toronto Dominion Centre, facade
10. Berlin Nationalgalerie, window
11. Chicago IBM Building, facade
12. New York Seagram Building, facade
13. Chicago Crownhall, facade
14. Chicago Crownhall, window

Catalogue

The print-edition catalogue with all 14 works is available either as a PDF-file or in actual, real paper.

Prints

Selected works are available as limited-edition, high-quality prints.

Private Commissions

Artwork may be ordered as-is or privately commissioned and custom-tailored to your environmental structure, color-scale, and local setting.

Labels: 2009, announcement, architecture, art, decals, etched+glas, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, murals, vinyl

Sliced Preview

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An appetizer for stuff to come --

Lyrois' architectural essays, conversations between architecture and art.

Labels: 2009, announcement, architecture, art, decals, etched+glas, graffiti, interior+design, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, murals, pixel+art, preview

Special Ed.: Purple on Purple

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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

Translating High-Res to Low-Res Graphics

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From very high-res vector graphics to low-res pixels in favicons.

Let's see how much we have to remove until the bare minimum, the essence, is left and exposed. Let's see how much we can remove. Let's see what we have to sacrifice on the way.

Check this out: 16 × 16px --

This is the original pic in 320 × 320px --

While the subject of this post is to announce the new favicon -- the little icon that is displayed in your browser's address bar, to the left of this page's URL and in your browser's bookmark list -- it brings along the beauty of simplification.

Here is the 16 × 16px version again, this time enlarged to 320 × 320px --

Now, please go back as far as your room allows and compare the two.

The design of the reduced version of that shape interpretes and translates the characteristics and lines of the original vector graphic. The original flow must survive the reduction in order to recognize the high-res fluid strokes beyond the hard and purposefully not anti-aliased 16 × 16 pixel-grid.

Does it work for you?

Labels: 2007, announcement, favicon, lyrois, making+of, miniatures, pixel+art

Introducing the Lyrois S/S 2008 Stylebook

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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 --

1. The colors: Purple × Black × White (× Aluminum × Vinyl...)
2. Exploring space: Wall decals in human sizes and wallpapers featuring miniature patterns. Big-size shapes mounted to the edges of rooms, tiny ones on the planes of small objects.
3. Speed: Urban, Streets, Raw, Asphalt, Concrete, Light, Motion.
4. Fabrics: Purple patterns printed on white and black fleece.
5. Luxury: Temple, Marble, Gloss, Stairs, Circles.
6. Cropped and square: Shapes in purple, white, and black on exquisite, white aluminum. Special editions in white on white.
7. Custom: Corporate art exclusively featuring this year's colorways.
8. Finite art: Signature-colored miniature shapes on black vinyl.
9. Innocence: Plants, Leaves, Nature, Organic, Delicacy, Moderation.
10. Decoration and store furniture: Vinyl decals and 3-dimensionally laser-cut shapes in colored acrylic glass.
11. Excess: Gargoyles, Creatures, Stone, Spirits, Weird, Strange.
12. Tees and limited edition prints: 3-color-graphics and one-of-a-kind shirts featuring the dancer's logo.

Enjoy and consider yourself teased...

Labels: 2008, 2008ss, aluminum, announcement, architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, interior+design, lyrois, stickers, stylebook, vinyl, wallpaper

All Things and Pictures Lyrois

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Introducing the Feedburner-enhanced feed, bundeling all pictures and new artwork into one stream.

Please subscribe to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/lyrois for the latest and all things Lyrois.

Labels: announcement, lyrois