Curated for Ad's Sake #15
👽 Modern Warfare 🇻🇳 Vietnamese Graphics 📣 Alayna Kunitake
Trying rules.
Shout out to Timotheeeeeee for his excellent acceptance speech.
Gatekeeping is for dorks, let’s share in the spoils of scrolling together.
Here’s some stuff I’ve foraged.
Or, you can skip to the end for another Ask for Ad’s Sake with Alayna Kunitake.
Let it rip 👩🍳
When I heard the Bobby Shmurda X Enya mash-up, I had to make this:
👻 Ghost House.
🇻🇳 From a collection of Vietnamese Graphic Design.
🍸 Sterling’s Gold.
💡 There are no new ideas, just better ones.
🪰 Splat.
👽 Patches from Secret US Military Programs.
🎸 Living Colour performing "Cult Of Personality" on Arsenio
🫡 Never stop bootlegging.
🦎 I went to school here. For my GCSE art project I made a clay sculpture of this Palladian Bridge on the back of a chameleon.
🎣 Back to basics then.
Ask for Ad’s Sake
Always the same questions, never the same answers. This time I danced with the incomparable Alayna Kunitake – Senior Art Director at DDB and one of the fearless leaders of Friends of Rhonda, a social group for queers in ads 🍸
1. What’s the first piece of art you saw that really stayed with you?
This is a terrible question for someone with a hotpot creative stew of a brain, but I’d say seeing a glimmering pumpkin on the rooftop of the Yayoi Kusama Museum in Shinjuku on a crystal clear, blue sky day has left a lasting impression.
As you climb the floors of the museum, you’re taken on a journey through Kusama’s life (and vivid hallucination-laden psychological perspective) and ending the experience with the tranquility of that rooftop moment felt special.
2. What is your Mount Rushmore of artists (four, all-time, unranked)?
Yayoi Kusama
Patricia Piccinini
TOILETPAPER
Keiichi Tanaami
🔫 Honourable mention: Joan Cornellà
3. What’s one piece of art you’d love to have in your home?
Jeff Koon’s Venus.
Patricia Piccinini’s La Brava.
I’d quite like this ✿ floral bed ✿ I stumbled across in a gallery in Daikanyama.
And James Turrell on speed-dial to design the rest of the space.
4. What’s the best museum/exhibition/gallery experience you’ve ever had?
I love an interactive experience, so I’d shout out James Turrell’s Unseen Seen + Weight of Darkness at MONA in Tassie. After signing a waiver guaranteeing we don’t have epilepsy, myself and a friend were guided by an assistant in a lab coat into a ‘perceptual cell’, essentially a (gorgeous) huge, white orb with a curved staircase tucked inside. I’ll leave it there so as to not give too much away, but if intimate, unique, mind-expanding etc spring to mind.
Also absolutely anything TeamLab…
5. What’s an ad that should be in a museum?
I’d like the set of Spike Jonze's Apple HomePod ad to be immortalised as an interactive exhibition with a launch event featuring Anderson .Paak and FKA Twigs.
Blessings be upon you, Alayna 😘
Who should do the next one? There’s only 5 questions – surely you’ve got an opinion…hmu 🤙
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Thanks for reading,
Jonathan ✌️
Links for Ad’s Sake
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🐦 The crow from The Crow (1994)
🇻🇳 Vietnamese graphic design 👆
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