Bape and Playclothes

 Two of the clothing stores mentioned earlier and their interesting graphics.

Play Clothes: http://playcloths.com/

A Bathing Ape: http://us.bape.com/

Image Sources: gentlementhieves.com and vaporsmagazine.com

Pharrell Williams and Design

Pharrell Williams:
Both his band's website and his clothing company have incredibly well designed web pages as you can see after you click the links below. Especially the band N.E.R.D. has a very cool visual right now when you run the mouse over the face in the center of the screen. Pharrell is also heavily into design of all sorts himself.

Clothing Company: http://www.bbcicecream.com/
Band Website: http://n-e-r-d.com/



Image Source: Papermag.com

Hip-Hop, Graphic Design, and Clothing

Modern Graphic Design, Clothing, and Hip-Hop music all have become intertwined with some musical artists like Pharrell Williams and The Clipse. Also There are companies that have grown in the "Backpacker" Hip-Hop industry that have strong graphic design influence as well. Examples will be in the following posts.

Kanye West- Runaway

Film is an expanding form of art that has really made leaps with modern technology. Keeping with the music theme, Kanye West is an incredibly artistic muscian. He recently put out this video he self directed titled Runaway.

Music Videos are Art.

Music videos themselves have become increasingly elaborate. There is all kinds of work that goes into a music video artistically. This is an example of a music video that takes on a whole new concept of video, It is essentially a live video that seems to represent a painting. This truly incredible concept is below. The song is called Stronger by Kanye West

Kanye West- Stronger (Daft Punk Sampeling)

This is an example of a hip-hop song using sampling from Daft Punk a successful electronic band well known for their techno beats. Kanye West has been very successful with sampling music to create new beats for a new and growing genre of music.  Music connects the world from Paris to the USA and everywhere else.

Kid Cudi - Pursuit Of Happiness ft. MGMT

Here is an example where MGMT worked directly with a hip-hop artist, Kid Cudi. Hip-hop is a modern trend and very successful genre of music, there is no denying this. Modern artists often are influenced by modern trends to some extent. In a modern world, music and art both are progressing.