ALEX NOBLE: June 2012

Thursday, 21 June 2012

LOVEBOX DESIGN FOR DALSTON SUPERSTORE

I was asked to design the Dalston Superstore Disco tent with artist and friend Anna bruder. Anna took on the inside and I designed an anachronistic temple entrance with looming Totem poll towers, adorned with psychadelic patterns and cat headed gods, drawing on heiroglyphics, Aztec and Navaho imagery as inspiration.
I designed painted mannequins with ribbon streamer arms to mount the top of the totems for extra height, drama and funk - and I always love a mannequin.

DALSTON SUPERSTORE SIGN

LOVEBOX PREP! LIFE IN HIGH VIS

PAINTING MANNEQUINS AT THE STUDIO

HIDING FROM THE RAIN

BUMS AND WINGS

TOWERS GOING UP

EDIBLE COLORS - MMMM

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PHOTO SHOOT WITH THE BOYS

SCARY MOMENTS

TAKING IT DOWN MONDAY MORNING - PAINFUL

QX PRESS 4 LOVEBOX/DSS

JONNY WOO X ALEX NOBLE X LOVEBOX

My annual LoveBox outfit for legendary Jonny Woo.

Love this image of Jonny Woo wearing the Afro bat wing piece I made him for LoveBox 2011. Love you Jonny!

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE VIDEO X ALEX NOBLE X DAVID LACHAPPELLE X ALDENE JOHNSON

Florences stylist Aldene commissioned a Deco Disco Drama cape from me for the Florence and the Machine video for their track 'SPECTRUM' - directed by hero and Icon David Lachappelle, as was very happy to see it in the opening seen and further into the video too.

PORTRAITS BY JOE MCGORTY

MALE NUDE ICONOLOGY

I came across a series of projections I designed for a Male Nude exhibition I curated a few years ago at the Daslton superstore. The projection never made it to the light in the end but I thought I'd post the design stages. The idea was a look at the male nude with gay iconologicol reference through time, it's unfinished and a bit jumpy but the originol took you from gods, monsters and minotaurs, to Mapplethorpe flower men and Factory porn stars. Here are some details too.