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 )

LONDON UNDERGROUND N-DIMENSIONAL HYPERBALL

Concept: In the future, we'll be able to put the whole of London's Underground into a ball, and travel along the inside surface of it. In fact, they've probably done it already - only they haven't announced it, in case the transport union gets 'ideas' and announces another strike.

A GLITCH IN TIME

New 'faux-antique' fabric design taken from the code of a glitched photograph.

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.

GALLERY PAGE UPDATED!

Click on the GALLERY tab above, for an overview of the most recent pieces.

GRAPHIC EXPERIMENT 08 / 08 / 2015

Analogue & digital drawing, Aug 2015

Artist's note: The block of flats above is something I drew way back around 2003, and was an element in various artworks for an illustration portfolio I was touting at the time. Having saved all the individual elements ( background textures, buildings, people, objects ) I recycle them from time to time. UK post-war urban architecture is very trendy at the moment ( they keep trying to knock it down, just as people are starting to appreciate it ) so maybe the fact that I have re-used this particular block several times over the years, indicates a kind of lucky prescience on my part? Anyway, having a back-catalogue of drawings available means I can throw together a rough experiment quickly, without the hassle of having to draw something new, scan it, and then tidy it up.

GRATUITOUS ADVERTISEMENT! - ART MENTORING WITH ALEXI

If you happen to be in the UK Midlands, and need art mentoring, or know someone who would like art mentoring, get in touch. I offer one-to-ones across a variety of subjects. Whether it's portraiture, architectural drawing, Marvel Comics, blogging, illustration, abstraction, I'm pretty much into it and have bought the t-shirt! 

My aim is to elevate a person's innate skills to the next level, and the main thing is that it's fun, and that my pupils leave the session with a real vibe that they're going to push themselves beyond what they thought they were capable of.

This is not about being academic, or about talking a load of art-nonsense. This is the real thing, as practised by myself and my art colleagues all over the world.

Location: I'm ten minutes walk from both New Street and Moor Street stations in Birmingham, and I have a communal area next to my studio. I have connections with all areas of the art and architecture industries, and can tell you straight what to expect from the artist's life. So if you just want to top-up a hobby, or seriously want to do something AMAZING, get in touch at the email below. 

Note: Kids can be included, but only if they're accompanied by an adult.

Email me: alexik-artist [ at ] hotmail.co.uk

TALKING ABOUT MOVIE DESIGNER AND SURREALIST HR GIGER

You know how much I love movies and film design. Here's me musing on Giger's influence.

Picture: Tribute to HR Giger, Graphite on Cartridge paper, by Alexi K, November 2014

GRAPHIC EXPERIMENT: SHENZEN ECONOMIC ZONE III

Analogue & digital drawing, July/Aug 2015

ALEXI K BRAND

Some very interesting things will be happening this autumn, so stay tuned either here, or on Facebook and Twitter.

OXI

OBSERVER / OPINION: Why the American Left roots for a Greek default