The Pokémon Company recently launched a partnership with Original Stitch and unveiled 151 shirt designs corresponding with the original 151 Pokemon from Generation 1. Whether you started your Pokémon Journey with Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander or Pikachu, they’ve got a perfectly designed pattern to match your Pokemon partner’s style. You can even mix and match designs to your liking!
On October 5th and 6th at 93 Mercer St., New York’s Pokémon-loving community had the opportunity to visit a Pop-Up Showroom and try on some of the incredibly nostalgic designs. After the major success of the Pop-Up, the shirts became available for order across the U.S. through Orignal Stitch’s easy-to-use online platform.
For anyone who is unfamiliar with Pokémon, the classic brand originated in Japan in 1996 and has remained beloved by children and adults alike over the last two decades. Pokémon consists of an animated television series, popular video games, trading cards, plushes and more! Their recent partnership with Original Stitch is allowing fans a new way to express their love for Pokémon.
Alongside the announcement of their partnership and the release of Pokémon Shirts in North America, Snorlax-, Lickitung-, Vileplume- and Magikarp-patterned shirts became available in the Pokémon Go Style Shop on October 4th. Pokémon Go is a popular phone application in both the Google Play and App Store that allows trainers to catch their favorite Pokémon in the real world. Since its launch in 2016, the game has added a competitive battle system, trading system and a lot of amazing Pokémon to power up and collect!
Whether you’ve been playing Pokémon since the original games or just recently fell in love with the franchise’s famous mascot Pikachu, you’re bound to be able to customize a shirt that matches your own unique style.
Starting this summer, GKIDS — the acclaimed distributor of Academy Award-nominated animated features — and leading distributor of event cinema Fathom Events will present a series of six anime masterpieces to be distributed in the U.S. throughout 2017. This series is named Studio Ghibli Fest.
Kicking off the lineup is My Neighbor Totoro, from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghilbli, on Sunday, Jun. 25 and Monday, Jun. 26. Following Totoro, the monthly series continues with Kiki’s Delivery Service, Castle In The Sky, Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind, Howl’s Moving Castle, and a special Halloween-timed run of the award-winning Spirited Away.
GKIDS is also partnering with Fathom Events to release Mune: Guardian Of The Moon, from the producers of The Little Prince, for the first time in U.S. cinemas. Two additional new release titles are anticipated as part of the 2017 GKIDS/Fathom lineup. Additionally, exclusively all GKIDS event include a GKIDS MINIFEST, an on-going festival of award-winning short animated films from all around the world.
Walking into Vandal — the only way in is, of course, through a boutique flower shop — we’re immediately greeted by a neon-lacquered breakdancing rabbit sculpture.
If you really, really know your street art, you know that it’s is a nod to the now-discontinued “Icy Grape” Krylon spray paint color still coveted by the street artist community.
It won’t come as a surprise that Hush, the U.K.-based artist who curated the art for Vandal, drew his strongest inspirations from graphic novels, animation and — of course — some of the most well-known and well-respected street artists of our time.
“I wanted to bring the outside inside to represent street aesthetics and complement the eclectic street food-inspired menu Chef Santos has prepared,” Hush said.
When anime-inspired characters and pop-infused imagery meet, they create a certain “wallscape” that reflects the dynamism of contemporary, global street art, while paying homage to the Bowery’s artistic history. The menu, a collaboration between Chef Santos and Vandal’s Executive Chef Jonathan Kavourakis, includes nods to global street culture of locales from Chile to Thailand, Greece to Amsterdam and beyond.
There are several themes running through the seven massive murals and curated photos and paintings that house the bi-level, 22,000 square foot restaurant: the female form; the contrasts between old and new, the fusion of Eastern and Western culture.
We’ve broken down the 7 murals by artist to give you a closer look at what makes Vandal feel more like a museum than a restaurant.
Shepard Fairey
Photo: Warren Jagger
As a skateboard-obsessed art student, Frank Shepard Fairey held a part-time job in a skateboarding shop and had a strong interest in the street art culture and graffiti movement.One of the most influential street artists of our time, Shepard Fairey’s work has been used in screen-prints, stencils, stickers, masking film illustrations,, sculptures, posters, paintings, and murals. One of his most famous https://www.canadianmeds4u.com/ works includes his portrait of Barack Obama, which drew national attention and received the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award in 2009. At VANDAL, Shepard Fairey created two large murals on facing walls by using his wheat-pasting technique and his famed, propaganda-style art.
Tristan Eaton
Photo: Warren Jagger
Born in Los Angeles, Tristan Eaton began pursuing street art as a teenager, painting everything from walls to billboards in the urban landscape wherever he lived, including London, Detroit and Brooklyn. After growing up on comic books, graffiti and skateboard culture, Tristan designed his first toy for Fisher Price at 18 years old and began working as an artist full-time. He has since become a driving force in the world of ‘Art Toys’, designing the Dunny and Munny figures for Kidrobot.
Shortly after studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Tristan founded Thunderdog Studios, of which he was the President and Creative Director for 10 years. Tristan’s work can be seen in galleries around the world and in the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Eaton’s mural on the back wall at The Library at Vandal was painted onto four custom bookshelves and depicts retro-inspired portraits of women alongside large text that reads “FANTASTIC FANTASY.”
APEX
Photo: Warren Jagger
APEX, AKA Ricardo Richey, creates colorful abstract patterns with spray paint. As part of the Gestalt Collective that participates in collaborative canadianmeds4u.com murals in San Francisco, he’s curated projects on Bluxome Alley as well as other districts of San Francisco. At Vandal, APEX was tapped to design the mural between the lounge and rickshaw room, where he used blue and white spray paint to illustrate the lyrics to a very well-known ode to New York.
Vhils
Photo: Warren Jagger
Alexandre Farto, who goes by the name of Vhils, penetrates through countless layers of posters, dirt, and plaster to “set free the poetic images hidden beneath urban spaces” by drilling away old plaster relief forms. Born in Portugal, he was raised during a period that was deeply affected by a revolution, and it was then that he witnessed a vast amount of destruction and the very real effects of the war.
He became well-known after one of his carved portraits was revealed alongside street artist Banksy at the Cans Festival in London in 2008.
His relief portrait is chiseled into plaster and brick walls at Vandal, as they are around the world. He is also known for using etching acid, bleach, pneumatic drills, and other street art tools to reveal a wall’s layers. Vhils has two plaster relief pieces at Vandal — you’ll know them when you see them.
Will Barras
Photo: Warren Jagger
Will Barras is an artist, illustrator, and animation director who lives and works in London, where he first became part of a group of young artists working in Bristol’s renowned street-art district.A founding member of the Scrawl collective, he’s best known for his representations of fluid movement, unique narrative-driven composition, and line work. Barras has traveled extensively, live-painting and exhibiting pieces throughout Europe, the U.S., and Asia. His work at Vandal can be found behind the main back bar wall in the form of a mural depicting hands walking across a globe.
Eelus
Photo: Warren Jagger
Eelus is a stencil artist who is drawn to mysterious images of science fiction, estates, female forms, and the bizarre. His work has been described as humorous, sinister, beautiful, haunting, a daring mixture of light and dark…needless to say, he is considered a master of the street art scene. His work is instantly recognizable, with its bold, bright and sharp colors. The advantage of creating street art, Eelus said, is how it can prompt discussion of art among those who wouldn’t discuss it otherwise. His work can be seen in the Secret Garden; a large-scale piece that depicts a mysterious winged female figure and other winged black crows watch over the hidden dining room.
