Playful Palette
MuseThe Golden Age Cinema is one of Ikon’s favourite neighbourhood haunts and what better excuse to go than when 'Le Mépris (Contempt)’ screens at their summer series 'Ciao Europa’? A triple treat of location, primary colour and romantic tension, it is one of director Jean-Luc Godard’s most talked-about movies, Set between Rome and the south of Italy, majestic mediterranean seas contrast with a tumultuous relationship between Paul (Michel Piccoli) and Camille (Briget Bardot) in a bold palette of predominantly yellow, red, blue and white. Godard explores the power of colour to ...
24.02.20 
On set
MuseCome behind the studio doors where the Smartstone team and our talented creative crew has converged to shoot the next advertising campaign for the exclusive new Smartstone surfaces launching in October.
Art direction: This Is Ikon @thisisikon_
Photographer: Sharyn Cairns @sharyncairns
Stylist: Glen Proebstel @glenproebstel
BTS photos by: Christian Kalpou
01.10.19
Making it stick
Client WorkAs the social hub of a skate-centric suburb, Carnes Hill Marketplace created workshops to keep local kids road safe while teaching them a few rad moves. The coolest kids in the park showing off their new kit ready to nail their next 540 mctwist.
30.05.19
There must be some mistake
MuseWhen malfunctions and mishaps inspire mixed media art.
"I recently came across photographs on an old hard drive that had been damaged by some kind of technical fault. The result was a set of pictures in which an unexpected mistake and its visual traces seemed to mean something. Using this haphazard little archive as a departure point, I have tried to piece together a series of discernible markers (both abstract and representative) that stand in for the activity that takes place in the studio, where things both do and do not make sense, and where the pressure of the former must ...
15.02.19
