Sneak preview for our next trip this year … stay tuned!

Sheryo is a Brooklyn based artist from Singapore who paints imperfect gnarly characters that are calming to disoriented souls, and might cause skitter skatter explosions in the brain… Selected clients include Adidas Originals, MTV Asia, Intel, Converse and Nike among many others. She has exhibited and painted in LA, Seoul, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and is a part of the Army of Snipers Crew. If you like her work in B&W don’t miss to have a look at her work in color.

CHICKEN OR BEEF? Describe yourself/your work/your studio in a few words.
SHERYO gnarly, imperfect, wonky, leprosy, have fun (as a rule)

COB? What has been your latest travel location?
SHERYO ghent, belgium

COB? For business or for holiday?
SHERYO some holiday painting

COB? What will be your next destination?
SHERYO feels like cambodia

COB? Do you draw inspiration out of traveling?
SHERYO always. south east asian folklores and quirky wonky people

COB? Chicken or beef, when the stewardess asks you?
SHERYO beef

COB? Five things you take with you on a solitary island?
SHERYO rum, ipod, speakers, sketchbook, pens

COB? Who should be asked next these questions?
SHERYO daek one

COB? Thanks a lot Sheryo!

Sheryo at work

Special equipment every artist needs to leave a massive impression

Before doing any digital work we love drawing with real color on real paper on our travels! This makes the digital process much easier and pretty faster later on. Made this sketch at the beach of Magnetic Island/Australia being fascinated (shocked?) by deadly boxjellyfish on the one hand and by eating salt and vinegar potato chips on the other. Get this sticker twice as part of our Jotopia Stickerpack at KatRock’s superstore ChickenOrBeef.de!

Can’t believe it …

Nice Making Of the new “edding 850″-font by swiss graphic-design collective Buro Destruct for “Type For Type”. Director Kai Sehr paid a visit to Buro Destruct from Bern and documented how they stay true to their motto of over 15 years: “Small City. Big Design.” Pleasant Swiss-German!

Couldn’t get in contact with Nightwave. How lucky to stumple upon the great illustration work by Brooklyn based, Australian born Illustrator The Yok via one of our favourite design blogs DesignIsKinky from down under. The Yok has exhibited in Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Taipei, Beijing, Singapore Bangkok and Hong Kong, as well as unofficial displays of street art in weird parts of the world that usually involve surf.

CHICKEN OR BEEF? Describe yourself/your work/your studio in a few words.
THE YOK loopy, wobbly, bananas, plants.

COB? What has been your latest travel location?
THE YOK Cambodia/Thailand/Burma

COB? For business or for holiday?
THE YOK Holiday

COB? Do you draw inspiration out of traveling?
THE YOK Yes, look up Ramayana.

COB? Chicken or beef, when the stewardess asks you?
THE YOK Chicken

COB? Five things you take with you on a solitary island?
THE YOK pen, paper, fishing rod, surfboard, rum

COB? Who should be asked next these questions?
THE YOK Sheryo

COB? Thanks a lot!

The Yok at work

This really inspiring and interesting link has been sent in by our good, Munich based friend “Tschänny”. Thanks a lot! Also have a look upon the awesome Vintage Wooden Soda Crates. Please let us know, if there should be anybody out there, who likes to surprise us with some of these crates for free … :-D (Just simply use our contact form …)

Recovered an old drawing of my good friend “DBS” in the sketchbook. A nice reminder of a pretty cool trip to Ireland together with him and Mr. Jones a few years ago… Cheers!

Just stumbled upon the beautiful work by London based illustrator Paul Thurlby. Paul is best known for his illustrations for the Guardian newspaper since he started full time illustration work in 2006.

… your sketchbook in the travel bag!!! Featured stickers on the sketchbook: “Boardriders week” by Quicksilver Surf company, “Owl” by our friends from designstudio Im Waldpark, “Streetart Schutzgebiet” by E-Gruppe and Jotopia classic logo, Jotopia thimble and ChickenOrBeef-logo sticker available at KatRock’s superstore for T-shirts, posters, buttons and stickers.

Today we asked Jim Coles aka Om Unit:

Jim Coles aka Om Unit

COB? What has been your latest travel location?
JIM I went to Madrid to play last weekend, at a great little club called Sirocco, for a promotion called “Post Club” with Throwing Snow who is also from London. Great show! packed basement action.

COB? For business or for holiday?
JIM Bit of both surely!

COB? What will be your next destination?
JIM Tomorrow night I play in Prague, I’ve never been before and i’m looking forward to it a lot.

COB? Do you draw inspiration out of traveling?
JIM Always, when you are not surrounded by the day-to-day things, it challenges you and you can express yourself with less of the known limitations I think.

COB? Chicken or beef, when the stewardess asks you?
JIM I fly cheap airlines so i go for the cheese melt standard

COB? Five things you take with you on a solitary island?
JIM drum kit
solar powered recording device.
sugar cane for making my own rum
some kind of reading device with an internet connection
a boat load of acoustic instruments

COB? Who should be asked next these questions?
JIM Nightwave

COB? Thanks a lot Jim!

You have to wait too long for your next holidays? – Don’t worry! Visit airpano.ru and plan your next travel locations through a fantastic bird’s-eye-view!

Today we asked Laurent Fintoni from OriginalCultures.org – a non-profit project that connects cultures through modern performing arts, focusing on the fields of music and the visual arts. OriginalCultures is based in Bologna, Italy as well as in London, England.

Laurent Fintoni, OriginalCultures

COB? What has been your latest travel location?
LAURENT Technically Berlin, though I’m about to go to Galway and Limerick tomorrow.

COB? For business or for holiday?
LAURENT Bit of both, I tend to always travel to places where I know people and so try to mix it up.

COB? What will be your next destination?
LAURENT After Ireland it’ll be Holland. Then Spain. Then Japan if all goes to plan.

COB? Do you draw inspiration out of traveling?
LAURENT Yes very much so. London’s great but it grinds you down, getting out of it for any length is essential to staying sane and realising when you come back that it’s not such a bad place to live in.

COB? Chicken or beef, when the stewardess asks you?
LAURENT Beef all the way. Airline chicken always tastes of nothing.

COB? Five things you take with you on a solitary island?
LAURENT My laptop, a dongle for internet connecting, the latest book i’m reading, note pad and a pen.

COB? Who should be asked next these questions?
LAURENT Jim Coles aka Om Unit.

COB? Thanks a lot Laurent!

Just rediscovered the website by Canadian-born photographer and director Joey Lawrence. It’s not really hard to recognize that this guy is not only deep into traveling but also fantastic in seeing the world through the camera lense and orchestrating his impressions around the planet. Also have look at the camera equipment and lenses he uses.

As big sticker-aficionados we were happy to play the Question&Answer-game together with Ryo Sanada from the London/Jakarta-based creative studio The SRK. Having launched books as Stickerbomb 1 and 2, the studio is going to release a Stickerbomb Letters book which is scheduled to be on 28th March 2012. In addition to that the SRK has gone on to work with and for clients such as Polydor Records, ARTE TV, the BBC, Laurence King Publishing MTV among many others and a whole host of international non-governmental organisations. Also check out their Stickerbomb Facebook site here.

Ryo Sanada, The SRK

COB? What has been your latest travel location?
RYO Jakarta, Indonesia.

COB? For business or for holiday?
RYO I always like to mix it up. I like the satisfaction of when you get to do a bit of both.

COB? What will be your next destination?
RYO Somewhere else in Asia probably.

Stickerbomb Letters: scheduled to come out 28th March 2012!

COB? Chicken or beef, when the stewardess asks you?
RYO Chicken for me! Airline beef is too chewy.

COB? Five things you take with you on a solitary island?
RYO Food.
Bottle of rum.
Generator.
Amp.
Big speakers!

COB? Who should be asked next these questions?
RYO Laurent FIntoni from Original Cultures.org

COB? Thanks a lot Ryo!

Johnny Bastard is made of real flesh and blood! But he isn’t a member of the famous Wu Tang Clan. He even doesn’t have entered the first of 36 Chambers but he heard of this funny Wu Tang name generator via the pretty cool and relaunched Interview-Magazine and tried it out. This magazine was originally founded by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1969 and is art-directed by Mike Meiré in the german version. The current one features the King of (Art-)Pop Andy Warhol himself, Lana Del Rey and Chloë Sevigny. Very nice to read, but a bit too large in format for the backpack.

MEIER-Magazine has a small feature about the work and life of Jotopia in its current issue headlining Daniela Katzenberger and Shepard Fairey.

As you can see, the Official ChickenOrBeef Magazine & Blog is online now. This magazine is about traveling, cool places in the world to be, amazing artists, striking designers and other inspiring and interesting stuff.

This magazine and its content depends on YOU, guys!!!
• You have been to a beautiful place and would like to share your experiences and pictures with us?
• You are a design-addict and want to show your amazing work to the rest of the world?

Feel free to submit your stuff and get your feature here!

Another birthday present by my friends Christian, Jan & Melanie: Habibi by the awesome graphic novelist, Eisner-Award-winner and Grammy nominee Craig Thompson. A massive and impressive drawing- and illustration-overkill with a frenetic and obesessed love for details!

Got this nice calendar by illustrator and artist Heiko Windisch as a birthdaypresent by my friend and colleague Le Reptile. Heiko Windisch (originally from Germany) lives and works with his wife and illustrator Lilly Piri on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. His work on paper and canvas has appeared in shows in Los Angeles, New York, Sydney and Zürich.

Hey out there – get heaps of Jotopia-stickers with every order at ChickenOrBeef.de!