Lyrois

Miniature Series: Purple Shadows

We're almost done with the 2008 styles. Stay tuned for the remainder and for some previews into the 2009 colorways and materials.

Miniature shapes in black and purple vinyl on white aluminum.

Labels: 2008ss, aluminum, art, lyrois, miniatures, tableaux, vinyl

European Wall Decals

... 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 buses 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: 2008ss, architecture, art, decals, decoration, interior+design, lyrois, stylebook, vinyl

Tableaux Series: Purple and Black on White

Glossy -- purple and black -- colored shapes on matte white aluminum.

Dirty pictures and clear, clean-cut lines --

As promised and somewhat limited.

Labels: 2008ss, aluminum, art, lyrois, tableaux

Weapons of Mass Design or the Real Thing by Hermes?

Rifles, rockets, bombs, electric chairs, and chainsaws + bling × haute couture: That's the recipe of Peter Gronquist's Weapons of Mass Designers --

Does anyone see a pattern here [gasmasks, weapons, ...]

It's the old trick of making an extremely violent film featuring some random war theme and calling it an anti-war manifesto.

So far so good... now, if you need a true, maybe non-fabulous revolution, you need -- at least -- one of these --

The Hermès Eurocopter

The helicopter's cockpit upholstered in black leather --

... and the redesigned landing gear --

The french fashion company Hermès recently teamed up with eurocopter, the world's third largest aerospace group to create l'helicoptre par hermès, a luxury helicopter.

No irony here.

Labels: art, haute+couture, hermes, louis+vuitton

Lego Brick Logos and Icons

We love pixels and we love Lego, in fact, what's the difference between the two anyway? Lego bricks are the ideal 2D-picture elements.

Headless Pixel Madness with the Dancer's Logo --

Translating High-Res to Low-Res Graphics --

All with old, dirty Lego bricks.

Labels: 2008, art, favicon, lego, logotypes, lyrois, pixel+art, pixel+series

Special Ed.: Purple on Purple

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

Instructions, Obedience, Discipline: The Fault of the General

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

The Year of the Rat: Color Me

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.

Color me.

Labels: 2008, art, decoration, lyrois, miniatures, print, sketchbook, special+edition, year+of+the+rat

Murals Preview

A partial view of the design draft for an interior wall.

A mural, 5m × 2m -- part of one, that is. Unfortunately, nothing more specific right now...

Between adding and taking away.

Labels: architecture, art, decoration, interior+design, lyrois, murals, preview, silhouette, wallpaper

Introducing the Lyrois S/S 2008 Stylebook

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

The Lyrois Story

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, decorating bags and wallpapers, populating store walls and windows, as well as being featured on tiny vinyl stickers and as huge decals.

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.

Projects -- upcoming or completed -- include Lyrois-appearances in architecture, fashion, and art 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.

Labels: architecture, art, decals, decoration, fashion, graffiti, interior+design, lyrois, vinyl