NEVERCREW's BLOG

Parts of the Process!

noreply@blogger.com (NEVERCREW Art) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:33:00 +0000

We were invited by the RSI (Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana) to create an image for the T-Shirts of the 10th anniversary of the broadcast "BandZ On Air".
So we started a search of the necessary elements, looking into the underground music scene of Ticino, going through homes and pockets of singers and musicians, asking to the experts and to the beginners, scouring the streets and the bars in our cities. What we found are the pieces that will help us to create a musical and creative living machine, and in this special picture we will show you how it works. :-)

As everyone knows, there are balloons in the sky filled with color... so, this is the starting point of the machine we're building for the T-Shirt. Through an elaborate process, the balloons are attracted and captured and, passing into a system of canals, are transformed by the special elements that compose the living machine (and that we have worked so hard to find).

There are, for example, the "Bio Fermentation" that produces a velvety feeling through an inevitable explosion of plastic bacteria; the "Music Jam Jar", the container where the various elements find the right tune; the "Fluidisation Prism", that receives the imput from its dark side and delivers new variations from the opposite one.

The musical and creative living machine is almost ready, we just have to do the final touches and catch some flying color balloon to make some test! :-) In the meantime, you can download this image (in 8 different colors), to use as wallpaper or just to learn more about the machine, in our DOWNLOADS page.

Volvo Art Session 2011 Art Book

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:34:00 +0000

After 9 months from the Volvo Art Session at the main station of Zürich (CH), organized by Eqal, the event reached his end with the presentation of the book "Volvo Art Session 2011" during the Kunst 11 art fair in Zürich.

The book is the result of the work that the photographer Michel Comte made during the 5 days of the event in february 2011. During the exhibition, where were presented big prints of selected pictures and the Volvo car painted by Wes21, a personalized copy of the book was given to each artist of the Volvo Art Session (DAIM, Wes21, Donovan & Onur, Pius Portmann, Nevercrew, Blackyard, C-Line, Yummy Industries, Michel Fr, Sukibamboo).

Book details: Publisher: Edition A&Z, Zurich / Switzerland. 144 pages. Language: German / English / French. Size: 30.5 x 30.5 cm. Available on DAIM's online store.

Live and Explore!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:07:00 +0000

In april 2011 we were invited by a crew of UK based journalists (Redwood Group), from the Volvo's LIV magazine, to partecipate in theyr "European Art Movement" project. The basic idea was a trip trough Europe on their Volvo XC60 with three stops, one for every selected artist. The stops were Bornholm in Denmark (Anne Sofie Meldgaard), Leipzig in Germany (Metulczki) and Lugano in Switzerland (us).We had to choose a place to realize a work and we decided to do that on the top of the "Balestra" Carpark in the center of Lugano.

The work we realized represents a kind of exploration: the astronaut is a person who visits places that few humans can see, looking at things with wonder and, of course, for the first time; he discover them. The car instead explores the inside, lives the place in detail; it knows it and it's part of it.The article and the interview are published on issue n°2 - 2011 of LIV magazine and also as video documentary on Volvo's website.

You can see the artwork by CLICKING HERE, the video interview by CLICKING HERE and you can read the article HERE.

Goodbye Donuts!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:45:00 +0000

It's out now on iTunes Store, the latest album of the japanese band Icon Girl Pistols, for which we made the cover art and we created a new band logo: "Goodbye Donuts (Hey, statue of Liberty)".

We were contacted by the Icon Girl Pistols after using one of their songs for our art-video "Lack of ispiratione" (made with Andrea Todaro). They gave us 100% of freedom and we created something that in our minds could fit with their music.

The big mechanical creature spread with pink paint a heap-dump-city district floating on the water; he's probably dancing and making a lot of noise while a new life arrives everywhere around him.

Take a better look of the album cover on our website.

You can listen and buy the album on iTunes store, and visit the band's website. We also have a wallpapers set here in the downloads page.

Paint Club Switzerland Video!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:03:00 +0000

On 2nd september 2011, we partecipated in the "Paint Club" Swiss competition at the "Rok" club in Luzern (CH), which consisted in an "art battle" between three teams of artists (2 artists in every team). With a subject decided just before the start ("BlockParty"), we had ninety minutes to create a painting (improvising) using acrylics and markers.

In the end, two judges and the audience chose our painting as the winner, and then we got the opportunity to participate in the European finals of the "Paint Club" in Berlin, that will probably be in 2012.

By clicking HERE you can see a short video about the performance.

The video is filmed by Andrea Todaro (http://vimeo.com/todaro) and edited by us. The song is "Traffic Cars" by Professor Kliq (http://www.professorkliq.com/ ), and here you can find more details about the PAINT CLUB (http://the-paint-club.com/).

The Last Tea T-Shirt!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:23:00 +0000

Our new t-shirt design is now on Threadless, and for the next 7 days it will be there to be voted, shared and commented. If it will reach enough votes and if the Threadless team will like it, our design will be printed as t-shirt and sold from Threadless (and we will win a prize too!).

"The Last Tea" is a vintage, black-humorous, elegant and sweet-flavoured design. Printed in 2 colors (on many possible t-shirt background colors), it will immediately refresh you and the atmosphere around you (or it will probably cool it… :-P).

Look at it HERE and if you like it, please vote it, share it, comment it, and check the "as Tee" box on the top right. :-) Thank you so much!!

Unlucky Munnies Series!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:34:00 +0000

The "Unlucky Munnies" is our new series of 4" munny customs (Kidrobot). Two of them were already part of the first projects for the Munnyworld Megacontest 2011, but due to time constraints we decided to make only the "Vampirized". Given its success (awarded "Best Minimalist Design"), we decided to make the remaining two and expand the series with other new ideas.

So the series "Unlucky Munnies. In the wrong place, at the wrong time" is mainly made on 6 Munnies (Kidrobot) and then accompanied by other characters of the same group (Trikky, Bub, Foomi).
These unfortunate DIY toys have found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, and therefore were "Vampirized", "Werewolfed", "Zombified", "Facehugged", "Assimilated" and choose the "Dark Side" of the Force.

The "Vampirized" is a twin of the winner one, maybe bitten during the night by the same vampire too. The "Werewolfed" was infected by the scratch of a werewolf (this happens when you leave a Munny unattended on the window sill). "Zombified" is a living corpse of a Munny, gradually decaying and hungry for Munny-flesh. "Facehugged", "Assimilated" and "Dark Side" were Space travellers, but also in deep Space you can be really unfortunate: so the first one was attacked by an Alien's facehugger, the second one met the Borgs and the third one was too angry and scared and a Sith probably persuaded him.

You can see more about the "Unlucky Munnies" HERE.

Smart Painting Video!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:11:00 +0000

During this summer we had a lot of different things to do, and this is just one of them! During an event in june we were asked to create a painting on a "Smart" car in 2-3 hours. So now we edited a a short video, filmed by us and Andrea Todaro, which shows our performance.

You can see the video HERE.

The song we used is "Built to Last" by Fall Walk Run.

Making of The Daughter of the Sea!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:32:00 +0000

We finally made the making of video of the sculpture we realized for Costa Cruise's ship "Costa Favolosa", inaugurated in july 2011.

"The Daughter of the Sea" is based on the theme "Ondine", the water nymph from the mythology. The sculpture, a little bit different from our usual style, was realized with different media, both for the shell and for the girl, and then casted in bronze and refined at the artistic foundry "Rimart" in Senago (MI, Italy).
For the video we used pictures and videos from many different cameras, mobile phones and so on. The song is "At the Mall" by Emerald Park.

You can watch the video HERE (available on Vimeo and Youtube).

Lack of inspiratione

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:14:00 +0000

This is a strange summer here in Switzerland, it's raining too much. If it should never stop, how could we continue create as we use to do? :-P

"Lack of inspiratione" is an underwater video by Andrea Todaro and us. With Nevercrew (Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni), Andrea Todaro and Jivka Nacevska. The song is "Structure of a Revolution" by Icon Girl Pistols.

To watch the video, click here.

New website!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:34:00 +0000

It's finally ready and online our new website nevercrew.com!

We decided to create a new one for many reasons: sometimes we like to change, we desired to show more and to communicate more, the old one was funny and stylish but not enough user-friendly and easy to update.

In our new website now we have 4 sections: Paintings, with our walls, murals, graffiti, canvases, and more; Designs, with graphics, objects and our series of "spaces"; Art toys, with our own production toys, our customs and our "Hangselm"paper-toy; Video, with our videos, making of of our artworks and video about us. There are also more informations about us (About us, Contacts),a store, and the MBox (memories box), where we show random picture about us, our past, our works, and so on.

Moreover, we added descriptions and related links for every work, more connections with the social networks (to share our work or follow us, if interested) and we also changed the style of this blog (as you can see).

In our website, we made the graphical, artistic and conceptual part, but the entire structure was programmed by Igor Kovacevic (m4tricol.com), a professional programmer and developer of websites, blogs, mobile applications, templates, and so on.

Best Minimalist Design category winners!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:15:00 +0000

The 31th of may Kidrobot and its judges published the results of the Munnyword Megacontest 2011, and we're glad to announce that our "Vampirized" Munny won in the "Best Minimalist Design" category. In addition, also other two of our customs reached a bit of glory: 2nd place in the "Best Animal Design" category for "Apartment Bat" and 3rd place in the "Most Innovative" category for the "Living City" Munny. Our biggest compliments to the brazilian artist Sergio Mancini for the Best in Show prize.

Munnyworld Megacontest Customs!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:46:00 +0000

At the end of april we completed our seven Munny customs (4 inches) for the Munnyworld Megacontest organized by Kidrobot. They're now online on the contest's website, and everyone can see them and "like" them on page 3 (scrolling down to the middle of the page). At the end of may, Kidrobot will reveal the main winner and the winners of each category (click here).

Our designs are: "Sand snake's dinner" (an "unlucky Munny"), "Living City", "Apartment Bat", "Vampirized" (another "unlucky Munny"), "Cupboard dweller", "Munny's Freedom" (the marionette Munny) and "Concrete cleaner".

(click on the images to enlarge them)

The Munny and Dunny paradox!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:59:00 +0000

The 23th of april 2011 we went to Fribourg (CH), after passing a selection in march, to realize a Munny custom during the Asphalt Kreatorz contest at the Cafè Le XXeme. We realized a double coustom using the 7 inches Munny (Kidrobot), provided by the organizators, and a 4 inches Munny, that we transformed in a Dunny.

We used a quick drying modelling paste, spray paint, markers and so on, and in 7 hours we created our personal interpretation about the controversial genesis of the two characters. :-P ...so the big Munny became a sort of Egg and the small Munny (transformed in a Dunny) became the little chick coming out from the egg. The organizators gave us the first place. :-)

Which came first, the Munny or the Dunny?

Volvo Art Session!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:53:00 +0000

After some week we finally can show the final product of the Volvo Art Session created by Eqal and Volvo: the picture of our completed painting on the Volvo car and some video (like the one about us and the final timelaps with all the artists in the right order).

The final video was shown during the Car show in Geneva, with Michel Comte pictures and the Volvo Art-Car painted by Wes21.

Some picture of the making of (click to enlarge them). In the first one we work on the first sketch of the paper-Octopus and we start with the car decoration. In the third one we're partecipating at the photo-shooting with Michel Compte and we're painting on Melanie Winiger (more pictures here). In the fifth picture there's a view of the Volvo Art Session into the main station of Zurich.

Donut Communication on ND Mag!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:29:00 +0000

It is now online the issue #1 of ND Mag, an independent digital magazine made by Naughty Design with the goal to exhibit Swiss artists with a creative platform. From page 5 you can find one of our latest artworks, an illustration called "Donut Communication", and an interview with Christian's and Pablo's answers.

The other artists in this issue are: François Thuillard, Claudia Zuber, Petra Zbinden, Natalia Gianinazzi, Marco Spitzbarth, Karin Hauser, Anouk Schneider, Taina and Akira.

Here below some details of our illusration (click on them to enlarge) and a few pages from this issue of ND Mag; but you really have to watch it directly on its website: http://naughtydesign.ch/ndmag.php where it is complete, in good quality, with more than images and readable in different formats (also downloadable as PDF).

First half of february!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:06:00 +0000

As written some week ago, we're working on different things at the moment. Some are still in progress, some are arriving to an end and some are finished (but not ready to be published). The 10.02.2010 we partecipated at the Volvo Art Session and today we finished the sculpture for Costa Crociere (ready to go on foundry), a really different project compared to our usual works, but ordered with this style.

Soon we will show more and better of both works, but at the moment there are only frames taken from a video and from the live webcams for the Volvo Art Session performance, and pictures of the "making off" for the Costa Crociere sculpture.

There's a little problem with our website's art galleries: we can't update them. We will soon rebuild it totally, but for the moment it's possible to DOWNLOAD OUR PDF PORTFOLIO to see our main works.

Oh! There's also a video made with frames from the webcams by Ledfilms:

Costa Crociere

Waiting for the Volvo Art Session!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:48:00 +0000

The 9th of february starts the "Volvo Art Session" in Zürich, at the main station. We are between the 10 artists invited by the organizators of the event (www.eqal.ch) and we have to paint this thursday (10.02.2011), from the 15:00 pm to the 01:00 am.

The rest of the artists are: C-Line, Blackyard, Yummy Industries, Daim, Lowrider, Pius Portman, Sukibamboo, Donovan & Onur, Wes21.

Every artist has to paint on a Volvo car and on a canvas on the background, painting on the previous artist's artwork. The final product will be a video and there will be also the photographer Michel Comte during this 5-days-event, wich will end the 13.02.2011 night.

More info, a timeline with all the artists, live webcams to see the event, and more on www.volvoartsession.com

In the meanwhile...

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:39:00 +0000

Since december we're working on a few projects that for the moment we cannot show or that aren't yet ready. There's an illustration, an interesting live painting, a cover for a magazine, an artwork for an online magazine, some painting and a sculpture for Costa Crociere, a few graphics and paintings, and of course there are some new idea and projects for our future productions! :-)

We hope to show you something soon, but in the meanwhile we post some sketch.

Doctor's Place!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:25:00 +0000

During the Christmas "holidays" we had to make a little and quick restyling into a medical doctor's office who asked us to change colours and add some funny puppet (not too agressive). ...and everything started from the window...:-P (the quality of the pictures isn't very good, we're sorry! ..for more, and better, pictures, visit our website www.nevercrew.com)

Merry Christmas!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:08:00 +0000

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

by Nevercrew! :-)

Qee Custom: Dress Code - The Rabbit Party!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:33:00 +0000

It's almost two months that we're not publishing on our blog, but we are making a lot of works at the same time and there's nothing ready to be posted. The only one is the custom toy we made for the "Custom Session II" at the Café la Veme of Vevey the 20th of november 2010.

Our project's name is "Dress Code: The Bunny Party" and it's made on a Toy2R's BuneeQ Qee. As you can see in the pictures (click to enlarge), we realized a strange boy with a pink BuneeQ dress that's going, or coming from, a Bunny Party. ..where there's free QEER to drink! :-)

Oh! Soon we'll produce some to sell! We'll let you know when we're ready!

Postcards!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:02:00 +0000

During september we created and printed our new postcards. They're a hand drawing digitally coloured, the back is made to be sent like a normal postcard, there's a place to write what are you exploring and there's also a nice quote from George Orwell: "To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle."

We already put some in a few places in USA and Canada (for example: Toy Tokyo in NY, Magic Pony in Toronto and Camiondepompier in Montreal) and we'll probably put some more around soon! We hope you'll like them!

Donuts Mon Amour!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:39:00 +0000

Our latest t-shirt design is ready to be voted on Threadless! Help it become a real printed t-shirt voting it and sharing it everywhere you can (on facebook, on twitter, and so on...). Click HERE to vote. and see more. Thank you! :-)

This is a funny mix of black & white drawing, old cars, donuts and tributes. The idea is to print it with two colors on white backgroung. The front show the imagie you see above and on the back you can see the same scene but from the back and backlight (a black shape!). You can see the flash presentation below, and you can vote it here.

Outlandish Party Tshirt!

noreply@blogger.com (Christian Rebecchi) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:18:00 +0000

Here our latest t-shirt concept design "Outlandish Party", ready to be voted on Threadless for the next 7 days (till the 17th of september)! Please help our design to be printed and become a real tshirt, vote HERE.

This funny and 60's ispired design is made to make happy the one who wear it and who's around him! :-) The idea is to use one colour (to choose) on many backgrounds (as you can see in the flash presentation below). Click on the images to enlarge thenm.