Sinuous Guitars and Amps. Fine Woods and Unique Design Make Beautiful Music Together.

above image composited by Laura Sweet

The designer behind this beautiful guitar, Greg Opatik, has a degree in design from Kendall College of Art and Design. He has been creating and developing modern furniture of both his own composition and those of others, such as Genesis Seating who builds classic Eames chairs, for more than fifteen years. He began creating Sinuous guitars five years ago inspired by the idea of creating a uniquely authentic design rather than merely making minor modifications of classic guitars like so many other companies.

Playing the guitar since childhood, Sinuous guitars are a culmination of his design and manufacturing background blended with his own guitar playing experiences.




Sinuous guitars are made combining traditional craftsmanship and up to date design and manufacturing techniques to achieve consistent quality in every guitar they build.



Consistency also comes from CNC machines that cut their guitars to computer controlled dimensions, however that same machine that cuts incredibly accurate time after time could never cut our guitar bodies exactly where a particular flamed maple top will look best, or hand sand the edge of the wood in a way that is optimal for both the finish and touch of the hand.




The SD-22, the only model from Sinuous thus far, is available in five different wood and color combinations. The body of the SD-22 is made of Popular wood with a Hard Maple neck and Rosewood fingerboard. The tops are available in Santos Palisander, American Hard Maple (Black or White) and Flamed Maple (Vintage or Red). The neck is made of Hard Maple and has a Rosewood or Maple fingerboards.

The Five Options

Santos, $2150 USD:


Vintage, $1950 USD:


Red, $1950 USD:


Black, $1750 USD:


White, $1750 USD:


Specs:
Model name: SD-22
Body Shape : Sinuous Double Cut Dual Humbucker
Scale: 25.5"
Frets: 22
Fret Size: 6105
Attachment: Bolt on with threaded inserts
Nut: Graphite, 1.68"

Amps:

above image composited by Laura Sweet

Sinuous is currently developing a guitar amp (shown above) that will match the finish of their guitars and look good in any room of the house. You can literally rock out on this amp by plugging in and having a seat on top of the amp.

About Sinuous:

Sinuous is a Grand Rapids, Michigan company that crafts unique, high quality sculpted guitars for the most creative and discerning players. Their guitars are designed for the innovative and image conscious guitarist who demands authenticity, craftsmanship, and an instrument that is truly special.

Through their use of innovative design and manufacturing techniques, their guitars have improved the ergonomics that strengthen the intimate relationship between musician and instrument.

Innovative musicians have always inspired them in everything they do and the Sinuous guitar is their gift back.

The Herman Miller blog, Lifework, has a nice interview with the designer here.

Sinuous


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Rango Designer Debuts Super Bizarre Super Doggies First Music Video With Obama.

This is so odd, I simply had to share it with my readers. Super Doggies are a musical and 3D visual project created in 2012. The project depicts a "virtual band" of cartoon characters. This band has three animated dog members: Buffy, Abby and Bo and their universe is explored through the band's website and music videos, the first of which debuted today -and includes an appearance by President Obama. Other media will follow, such as short cartoons and an upcoming ‘live’ 3D tour.



Super Doggies are pursuing the dream to perform around the world, with the involvement of local communities, focusing on children. Concerned about their future, Super Doggies has focused its attention on the global issue of youth poverty. The Super Doggies are ‘good citizens’ who want to bring attention to the issue of poverty and work with local communities to highlight their plight. Super Doggies’s citizenship principles are founded on the conviction that the arts, business and social initiatives can, together, contribute to making a better world.



The press release:
The guy behind Rango – which just won an Oscar for best animated feature film – will help introduce a new cast of animated characters with a political bent for this election season – the Super-Doggies.

The trio of singing Super-Doggies includes Barack Obama’s dog, “Bo,” Vladmir Putin’s dog, “Buffy,” and “Abby,” the dog of a South African girl, Imani, who lives in the slums of Johannesburg.

In the 3:45 music video, Imani watches from her house how both Obama and Putin care for their dogs. All Imani has is a raggedy stuffed animal. At one point she writes to both men asking them for a real pet – and in a fantastic scene that climaxes into a dance party featuring both dancing world leaders and their dogs – she gets her wish (Obama joins the action at 2:47)



The story is timely on multiple levels. Both Russia and the US have national elections coming up (March 4th for Russia and November 6th for the US). In fact, there have been several stories in Obama’s campaign promoting how well he treats Bo considering his competitor, Mitt Romney, once placed his dog in a kennel and strapped it on top of his car for a cross-country trip.

The work of Rango’s character designer, Eugeniy Yelchin is familiar to many of us. He designed Coca-Cola’s iconic polar bears, worked on the Film, “The Brothers Grimm” and also designed the opening for HBO’s “Rome.”

For this project, Yelchin teamed up with Grammy Award winning producer Neal Pogue who works with musicians like Nicky Minaj, Lil Wayne, Outkast and Pink. The effort is also getting guidance from marketing veteran Bruce Kirkland who directed The Beatles Anthology project, and has produced albums for the Beastie Boys, the Spice Girls, Radiohead, and Everclear. The overall project is the brainchild of producer Eugeniy Kuritsyn of Global Media Line, a Moscow-based creative producing house with an impressive line of talent to realize this vision. Eugeniy wanted to create a new entertainment product that would ensure collaboration between the best representatives of international entertainment industry.

Later in the year, the Super-Doggies will go on a world tour, featuring holographic dancing and singing dogs combined with the world’s best dance talent and circus performers. A portion of the proceeds will go to animal welfare organizations to encourage people to adopt dogs.

Tour dates and other information will be announced later in the year on the Super-Doggies website: http://www.super-doggies.com/ where you can sign up for the newsletter for updates.

Fab Foursomes. Modern Design, Architecture, Fine Art, Fashion and Music T-Shirts & Posters.

Inspired by the & T-shirt movement that started with Experimental Jetset's John&Paul&Ringo&George shirt, Fab is offering their own versions for lovers of modern design, modern art, pop music and fashion.


All the t-shirts are printed on American Apparel 50/50 cotton-poly blend and the posters are printed on 80# coated cover stock.

T-Shirts

Graphic Designers:

above: T-shirt references Saul Bass, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand and Herbert Lubalin.

Architects and Furniture Designers:

above: T-shirt references Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

above: T-shirt references Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Eero Saarinen.

Fine Artists:

above: T-shirt references Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons.

Fashion Designers:

above: T-shirt references Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin and Karl Lagerfeld.

Pop Music artists:

above: do you seriously need me to say who this T-shirt references?

Posters


They are also selling Poster Prints of fab foursomes, unframed and printed on 80# coated cover stock. Below are just a few.


above: Print references Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl, Arne Jacobsen and Poul Henningsen.

above: Print references Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi and Matteo Thun

above: Print references Tom Dixon, Ron Arad, Marc Newsom and Philippe Starck.

above: Print references Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

Both the T-shirts and the poster prints are available at the discounted price of $18 each (regularly $30 each) through Fab.com for a limited time only. The wonderful site is by invite only, so if you're not a member, feel free to use the link provided below.

http://fab.com/y06r4g

A Chip Off The Ol' Giant Skull Speaker. New MinuSkull Speakers by Kuntzel+Deygas.

above: The 2010 Grateful Vanity accoustic sculpture and a 2011 walnut miniskull speaker by Kuntzel+Deygas

above: artists Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Olivie (Kuntzel +Deygas) with their new minuskulls

These cool new 50 watt portable speakers, the miniskulls, designed by Kuntzel+Degas were inspired by their unusual and striking oversized accoustic sculpture, Grateful Vanity.


above: Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Olivie (Kuntzel +Deygas) stand in front of their accoustic sculpture, Grateful Vanity



The new tabletop version, handmade in France, comes in walnut wood or lacquered piano black or lacquered piano white. Not only are they scary looking, but the prices are equally frightening at €1600 for the walnut and €1750 for the black or white- not including shipping.




MinuSkull can be connected to any source of sound (Ipod, mp3, computer,etc). The better the source the more you can enjoy MinuSkull’s high-quality sound.



Technical components inside the skull consist of two broadband Fostex Fe-83 speakers with a membrane made out banana leaf pulp (the eyes). A mini subwoofer for a large and natural restitution. They chose a tailor-made speaker (made in France), which lies underneath the skull. A tailor-made Mosfet amplifier that allows a transparent and dynamic quality of listening without using an additional amplifier.



MinuSkull is expandable : this speaker can be used alone or as a duet in order to improve the stereo effect. Using 5 MinuSkulls creates the basis of a Home Cinema Sound System (a subwoofer should be added in this case).




In the designers' words "MinuSkull is a mini loudspeaker made for a high-quality sound experience at home. Its extraordinary Hi-Fi system creates a perfect sound, and most of all, to our own standards, it has a soul."

specs:
WIDTH 9.25 Inches HEIGHT 10.63 Inches, DEPTH 5.91 Inches
WEIGHT : 11 lb
BANDWIDTH : 60 TO 20,000 HERTZ
AMPLIFIER: 50 WATTS
CABLE POWER : 220 VOLTS
Connection : 2 Cinch RCA stereo entries
all images and information courtesy of Kuntzel+Deygas and Minuskull.

buy them here

Hip Hop Heads. 14 Fabulous Illustrated Portraits by Dale Edwin Murray.

London-based freelance illustrator and graphic designer Dale Edwin Murray has created this fabulous and ongoing series of 14 different hip hop head portraits. Wonderfully executed, the features and details are minimally depicted and yet are readily recognizable as the producers, writers, singers and artists they portray:

Pharrell Williams:

Coolio:

Flava Flav:

Kanye:

Snoop:

Eminem:

Rick Ross:

Jay Z:

Tyler the Creator:

Tupac:

Biggie:

Easy E:

MF Doom:

Eiknarf:


Because of the demand for these fabulous prints, Dale is now selling them here:
http://www.hiphopheadprints.com


Dale Edwin Murray:

all images courtesy of the artist.

Dale Edwin Murray is represented by YCN

A special shout out to Sean Alvarez for bringing these to my attention!