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Every day, I get approximately 300 page-views from the US, by far my biggest audience. If you are an artist, agent, curator, buyer, or design company, get in touch, especially if you are on the East Coast. I visit on a regular basis. You'll find my contact email, below.

Below: Mural Design, BPN Architects Summer Show, Birmingham UK, Aug 2016

Superhighway Chair & fabric by Valley Forge Fabrics / WeaveUp, USA, July 2015

Polygraph Nudes Artwork for NORA Apartments, Orlando, Jan 2015

 Electronique Shoes for Bucketfeet, Chicago, Summer 2015

- Alexi

''VOTE ALEXI'' TO GET MY NEW SHOE DESIGN INTO PRODUCTION - !!

Hi Everyone - check out my new shoe design ( below )!

I need a favour - to make sure my new shoes get into production, I need your vote.  

The company may ask for your email to do this - don't worry, they're ethical and don't spam. Thanks for the support! ;)

CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR 'SHENZEN ECONOMIC ZONE'!

MY ELECTRONIQUE SHOES - NOW SOLD OUT!!

If you're a fan of this design classic, stay tuned to this blog or my Facebook & Twitter pages for updates!

ALEXI K featured in CONCEPT ROOM at CUSTARD FACTORY

Curated by up-and-coming Birmingham fashion designer, Antone Douglas of SneakerClub, CONCEPT ROOM features some of my colleagues from the Birmingham area.

Below: Show features my shoe design for Bucketfeet, plus debuts my newest painting SUPERCOLLIDER ( right ).

Venue: Custard Factory, Digbeth.

OUT NOW, COURTESY OF BUCKETFEET: ALEXI K's 'ELECTRONIQUE' SHOE!

Inspired by my love of urban futurism and electronic music, the ELECTRONIQUE is my homage to those things that provide the foundation of my creativity. 

NOTE: This has now sold out. If there are plans to reissue this design, I'll let you know!

( Post updated from 01 / 09 / 2015 )

THE SPARK OF INSPIRATION BEHIND ALEXI K's 'ELECTRONIQUE'

In 2013, I did a great bunch of articles for my black & white art mag MONOBLOG, featuring current sci-fi film-making gurus Anthony Scott Burns, Ash Thorp and Bradley ( GMunk ) Munkowitz.

Looking for a cool custom background for one of these editions - and inspired by the utterly beautiful 'graphic user interfaces' that some these guys specialize in - I found a very ordinary electronic diagram, and abstractified it until it started to look interesting. 

It's like any other collage. You chop / rotate / mirror / cut / paste / edit , according to the configurations that suit your personal sense of balance.

Like a Rorschach test, you start to think you can see things amongst all the lines and shapes.

Below: Alternative Iteration, 2013

For example, to me, the picture above evokes an eerie A.I. version of the Turin Shroud. 

( Detail below ).

Shortly afterwards, I was still in this mode when I submitted one of the many iterations to Bucketfeet...lo and behold, it's now a shoe!

Below: Alternative Iteration, 2014

'A CONVERSATION WITH ALEXI K' - talking to the BUCKETFEET SHOE COMPANY

Innovative shoe design company Bucketfeet talk to me about how I deal with those times when creativity doesn't come so easily.

CLICK HERE FOR INTERVIEW

Supplemental: Inspiring images from my hometown of Birmingham

Below: Engineering works, Floodgate Street.

Below: Random discarded shoe...how do these people get home?

Below: Drug deal in a local canal tunnel.

Below: Smashed-in car window.

Below: CSI Smurf homicide.

Below: Instant hipster.

Below: Takeout.

Below: At what point did this guy realise he's wandering around the darkened streets in his socks?

Below: Scene from an upcoming zombie movie, filmed on location.