Lyrois
Behind the Scenes
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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
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Chicago Crownhall, interior window --
Number #14 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
Black and pink, translucent vinyl (#14). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, black, decals, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, vinyl
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Chicago Crownhall, facade --
Number #13 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White, transparent vinyl (#13). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, etched+glas, facade, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, vinyl
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New York Seagram Building, facade --
Number #12 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White, black, and pink opaque vinyl (#12). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, facade, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, pixel+art, vinyl
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Chicago IBM Building, facade --
Number #11 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White opaque vinyl (#11). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, facade, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, pixel+art, vinyl
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Introducing... LYROIS BIKES...
Take a look at the pics: Everybody loves chrome on cars and on bikes these days... delicious.
This one could just as well be a vacuum cleaner, though --
See also: The Silver Circus tee and Mohawk-Logo stickers.
Labels: 2009, chrome, decals, goofs, graffiti, logotypes, lyrois, script+logo, stickers, vinyl
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Berlin Nationalgalerie, window front --
Number #10 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White translucent vinyl (#10). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, etched+glas, facade, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, vinyl
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Toronto Dominion Centre, facade --
Number #8 in the Mies Series.
Number #9 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
White translucent vinyl (#8), white and black translucent vinyl (#9). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, black, decals, facade, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe
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Horreur! Graffiti! on the German Pavillon in Barcelona --
Number #3 in the Mies Series.
Number #4 in the Mies Series.
Number #5 in the Mies Series.
Number #6 in the Mies Series.
Number #7 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
Digital print on white vinyl (#3), black-matte opaque vinyl (#4 - #7). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, graffiti, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, murals, script+logo, vinyl
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Chicago Lake Shore Drive Apartments --
Number #1 in the Mies Series.
Number #2 in the Mies Series.
Production notes --
Silver-matte translucent vinyl (#1), black-matte opaque vinyl (#2). Fully reversible and scalable.
Please see the project introduction with more information on Lyrois' Architectural Essays and on owning an original Lyrois.
Labels: 2009, architecture, art, decals, lyrois, mies+series, mies+van+der+rohe, vinyl
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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.
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.
The print-edition catalogue with all 14 works is available either as a PDF-file or in actual, real paper.
Selected works are available as limited-edition, high-quality prints.
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
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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
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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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In black and in white. App. 14 × 8cm / 5.5" × 3.25" each.
Labels: 2008, decals, graffiti, lyrois, mohawk+logo, stickers, vinyl
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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, press, vinyl
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This is a truly behind the scenes look: From a 2004 sketchbook.
Everything that is ever created and released to the public is tested and sampled in often tiny sizes with real materials. What you see is the actual vinyl that is used on the walls and on the windows.
Black on black, glossy on glossy, matte on matte, glossy on matte, or matte on glossy? The beauty is -- we don't have to decide for just one while abandoning all the other options -- we make it all.
Labels: 2004, decals, lyrois, moleskine, sketchbook, stickers, vinyl
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