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

Stickers: The Mohawk-Logo

In black and in white. App. 14 × 8cm / 5.5" × 3.25" each.

Labels: decals, lyrois, mohawk+logo, stickers, vinyl

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

Glossy or Matte?

This is a truly behind the scenes look: From a 2004 sketchbook.

Everything that is ever produced 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: decals, lyrois, moleskine, sketchbook, stickers, vinyl