I-SAW'S CHUM101 IN "ANOTHER GROUPSHOW"

This Thursday, 16th of August, sees the launch night of "Another Groupshow", at the Old Shoreditch Station, East London. This is the latest "Dilly" Fanzine related show, curated by Dilly creator, PMH (check ledilly.com, for more on his topclass DIY publication). Seeing as the Iguapop gallery in Barcelona, flew him out there to do the last one, that should tell you to expect nothing less than a superb selection, of the best that the international Graffiti/ Street Art and related graphics/ ilustration scene has to offer. Not only that but I-Saw's own, Chum 101 has a piece included and as an added bonus will also be playing choice specimins from his curious recordbox of delights, on the opening night, between the hours of 9 and 10, so you know where to be, right!.

Hand Stitched Plush of Seemore, The Shopkeeper of The I-Saw Curiosity Shop

Used a different technique here than previous I-Saw plushes, rather than being a stuffed toy, or fabric skin sewn onto foam over a wireframe skeleton (like the DR & Quinch characters, which I produced for the "Zarjaz" 2000AD exhibition) instead I sculpted him straight out of a block of foam and then sewed fabrics on for his skin and clothes. Pulling tight stiches to define the form and surface detail means really the process is closer to upholstering than traditional stuffed toy construction.

Here's a shot of the 2000AD character plushes which I referred to.

Hand Drawn I-Saw Throw Ups Customisation on Nike Paper Jacket

Here's something we did a little while back, it's us customising nike again but the first time we've worked on something of their's other than footwear. We just found it again recently and got some better shots of it, it's left us wishing we'd sat on a stash of these, because the paper fabric works really well for straight hand drawn customisation. We've been planning something further on the theme of customised windbreakers, so watch this space.

FRESHNESS FOR THE FRESHEST KIDS!

Inspired again to create a wearable work of art for our little son, allbeit to grow into, we hand painted the back of this Levi denim jacket, in the Old School tradition. It says "Little Big Man", after one of our favourite movies and again we can undertake similar work on commission. Hope you like it!

BIG BIDNESS:THE DON OF THE WHOLE I-SAW FAMILIA

We just found this fella again, we did him a couple of years back and had him framed up in our booth/ installation space at a few tradeshows. We felt that, with the map charting plans for world domination, he'd be quite at home here at I-Saw The World.

CRIB KICKERS: BABY CUSTOM TRAINERS/ SNEAKERS

We've been meaning to test our footwear customisation skills on a pair of baby shoes for awhile now and when we got this pair of white canvas pumps for our little boy, it was on!! Keeping it nice and simple, clean and graphic, we stuck with adding black ink I-Saw Throw Up designs, in positive and negative repeat. Definately be dropping some more of these in the future, plus any parents with a taste for the original will be able to get a pair done for their little one.

THE BIRTH OF I-SAW ENGRAVITI

This is actually the very first pair of I-Saw customs that we did with the hand engraving techique, before we came up with the term "Engraviti", to describe the process, or "Sneakouture" as a name for all the trainer customisation. They date back to the very beginning of 2004 and people still haven't caught up, see how ahead of the game we are! We had first tried the technique on a few belts and handmade accessories, as far back as 2002 but didn't immediately make the connection to using it for footwear. We then started researching laser cutting, initially more as a technique for use on our clothing fabrics, when we got aproached by a major bootwear company for a collaboration, we thought to ourselves what if it could work on leathers but decided not to let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, until the project was confirmed. Unfortunately that project didn't make it past the first couple of planning meetings, so we still had our plan under wraps. But great minds think alike and great minds with limitless budgets always get there first, obviously, so we were a tad miffed when Nike beat us to the punch, about 6 months later (I guess it was about the end of 2003) when they bought out the first of their laser etched series. This prompted us to perfect our earlier hand done technique which is still to this day mistaken for the work of machines but is in fact all the work of our own fair hands. Incidentally this pair are also going up for sale on our website very shortly.