The HJGHER Journal

Hello, Tomorrow.

Here’s to all you people who’ve been there with us on this whirlwind madness ride, let’s brace ourselves for the harder better faster stronger years to come. Happy 2008!

Love, 
HJGHER. 

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CCoincidentally…

Inccident 01

Some time in December we received a flyer from our beloved Zouk. It was a promo for the Christmas Eve Party, with all the Christmassy graphics and types treated in paper-cut style. We thought it was a lovely piece, then we paused for 3 seconds. It was hard not to be reminded of something we saw just one month back.

We came across this book, This Is For You by Rob Ryan in November 2007, it was filled with hearty messages completed with playful and adorable graphics all cut out of paper; and we instantly fell in love with it. Below is another piece by Rob Ryan for London Seventeen Gallery’s Exhibition in July, 2006.

Inccident 02

This is the “Last Look” section of Juice, December 2007 issue. Juice is a free monthly magazine from Singapore with articles on fashion and music news. Every month, different designers or artists are invited to contribute to “Last Look”, and yet again when we saw this, we immediately thought of our favourite design studio from Spain, Serial Cut, and what they did for Perplex City a few months ago.

Oh well, we reckon coincidence could really be accidental… right?

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Why 2K?

Another neat little package arrived on our tiled doorstep today. Read the rest of this entry »

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Food for thought

This was the teaser for our X’mas greeting this year.

No, its not a load of crap that we sent out (although I must admit that it does look a lot like crap) , but it was the result of a week long brainstorm which ended with two hours of shoot preparation, execution and as you can see, much cleaning up after.

Our concept for our X’mas’07 greeting is essentially about “Excess”. Especially during the festive season where there are parties galore, as we eat drink and be merry, all excess becomes waste. But before excess was waste, it was pleasure. And food was the obvious choice as the main element of our concept.

We prepared a “picnic” setup, gathered all our excess (aka expired) food products from our refrigerator and whipped up our “feast”. The various colours, textures and viscosities of food products helped with the randomness of the handwritten typeface (not forgetting the uninvited invasive smells too!) and best of all, because we just went at it without planning the layout, we had absolutely tremendous fun doing it.

And we sincerely hope you have fun watching the full clip too, HJGHER X’mas’07 wishes with all our love here at HJGHER.

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Hello-vetica

We found a package at the doorstep today.

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De Construct of Dis Order

The launch of the Julius 2008 S/S collection was reinforced with a photo exhibition over at Midwest Tokyo, Tokyo and Mind Thrive, Kyoto.

Aptly titled “Pilgrimage“, the monotone exhibition displays the 2008 S/S collection in what seems like a fashion editorial spread executed with grandeur. Coming together for this project was the trinity of photographer Muga Miyahara, stylist Tetsuro Nagase and Julius head designer Tatsuro Horikawa. The Tokyo exhibit ended yesterday but catch the Kyoto leg if you can, from 17-20th Jan 2008.

He who wears Julius would probably have a manifesto that reads, “I’m really in touch with my feminine side but ask me again if I’m ”un-straight” and I’ll kill you”. It’’s absolutely poetic architecture in metrosexual motion.

And yes, if it isn’t obvious already, we are religiously ardent fans.

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Lost and Found

We were asked repeatedly throughout the night what our artwork on display was about.

If you stare at it long enough, you should see 13 flying midgets in speedos eagerly chased by a walrus in a tophat. A larger view?

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