NEVERCREW's BLOG

Parts of the Process!

2012-01-12T00:33:00.000+01:00

We were invited by the RSI (Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana) to create an image for the T-Shirts of the 10th anniversary of the broadcast "BandZ On Air".
So we started a search of the necessary elements, looking into the underground music scene of Ticino, going through homes and pockets of singers and musicians, asking to the experts and to the beginners, scouring the streets and the bars in our cities. What we found are the pieces that will help us to create a musical and creative living machine, and in this special picture we will show you how it works. :-)

As everyone knows, there are balloons in the sky filled with color... so, this is the starting point of the machine we're building for the T-Shirt. Through an elaborate process, the balloons are attracted and captured and, passing into a system of canals, are transformed by the special elements that compose the living machine (and that we have worked so hard to find).

There are, for example, the "Bio Fermentation" that produces a velvety feeling through an inevitable explosion of plastic bacteria; the "Music Jam Jar", the container where the various elements find the right tune; the "Fluidisation Prism", that receives the imput from its dark side and delivers new variations from the opposite one.

The musical and creative living machine is almost ready, we just have to do the final touches and catch some flying color balloon to make some test! :-) In the meantime, you can download this image (in 8 different colors), to use as wallpaper or just to learn more about the machine, in our DOWNLOADS page.

Volvo Art Session 2011 Art Book

2012-01-01T23:34:00.000+01:00

After 9 months from the Volvo Art Session at the main station of Zürich (CH), organized by Eqal, the event reached his end with the presentation of the book "Volvo Art Session 2011" during the Kunst 11 art fair in Zürich.

The book is the result of the work that the photographer Michel Comte made during the 5 days of the event in february 2011. During the exhibition, where were presented big prints of selected pictures and the Volvo car painted by Wes21, a personalized copy of the book was given to each artist of the Volvo Art Session (DAIM, Wes21, Donovan & Onur, Pius Portmann, Nevercrew, Blackyard, C-Line, Yummy Industries, Michel Fr, Sukibamboo).

Book details: Publisher: Edition A&Z, Zurich / Switzerland. 144 pages. Language: German / English / French. Size: 30.5 x 30.5 cm. Available on DAIM's online store.

Live and Explore!

2011-11-23T21:07:00.001+01:00

In april 2011 we were invited by a crew of UK based journalists (Redwood Group), from the Volvo's LIV magazine, to partecipate in theyr "European Art Movement" project. The basic idea was a trip trough Europe on their Volvo XC60 with three stops, one for every selected artist. The stops were Bornholm in Denmark (Anne Sofie Meldgaard), Leipzig in Germany (Metulczki) and Lugano in Switzerland (us).We had to choose a place to realize a work and we decided to do that on the top of the "Balestra" Carpark in the center of Lugano.

The work we realized represents a kind of exploration: the astronaut is a person who visits places that few humans can see, looking at things with wonder and, of course, for the first time; he discover them. The car instead explores the inside, lives the place in detail; it knows it and it's part of it.The article and the interview are published on issue n°2 - 2011 of LIV magazine and also as video documentary on Volvo's website.

You can see the artwork by CLICKING HERE, the video interview by CLICKING HERE and you can read the article HERE.

Goodbye Donuts!

2011-11-13T23:45:00.001+01:00

It's out now on iTunes Store, the latest album of the japanese band Icon Girl Pistols, for which we made the cover art and we created a new band logo: "Goodbye Donuts (Hey, statue of Liberty)".

We were contacted by the Icon Girl Pistols after using one of their songs for our art-video "Lack of ispiratione" (made with Andrea Todaro). They gave us 100% of freedom and we created something that in our minds could fit with their music.

The big mechanical creature spread with pink paint a heap-dump-city district floating on the water; he's probably dancing and making a lot of noise while a new life arrives everywhere around him.

Take a better look of the album cover on our website.

You can listen and buy the album on iTunes store, and visit the band's website. We also have a wallpapers set here in the downloads page.

Paint Club Switzerland Video!

2011-10-27T01:03:00.002+02:00

On 2nd september 2011, we partecipated in the "Paint Club" Swiss competition at the "Rok" club in Luzern (CH), which consisted in an "art battle" between three teams of artists (2 artists in every team). With a subject decided just before the start ("BlockParty"), we had ninety minutes to create a painting (improvising) using acrylics and markers.

In the end, two judges and the audience chose our painting as the winner, and then we got the opportunity to participate in the European finals of the "Paint Club" in Berlin, that will probably be in 2012.

By clicking HERE you can see a short video about the performance.

The video is filmed by Andrea Todaro (http://vimeo.com/todaro) and edited by us. The song is "Traffic Cars" by Professor Kliq (http://www.professorkliq.com/ ), and here you can find more details about the PAINT CLUB (http://the-paint-club.com/).

The Last Tea T-Shirt!

2011-10-05T00:23:00.002+02:00

Our new t-shirt design is now on Threadless, and for the next 7 days it will be there to be voted, shared and commented. If it will reach enough votes and if the Threadless team will like it, our design will be printed as t-shirt and sold from Threadless (and we will win a prize too!).

"The Last Tea" is a vintage, black-humorous, elegant and sweet-flavoured design. Printed in 2 colors (on many possible t-shirt background colors), it will immediately refresh you and the atmosphere around you (or it will probably cool it… :-P).

Look at it HERE and if you like it, please vote it, share it, comment it, and check the "as Tee" box on the top right. :-) Thank you so much!!

Unlucky Munnies Series!

2011-09-23T03:34:00.000+02:00

The "Unlucky Munnies" is our new series of 4" munny customs (Kidrobot). Two of them were already part of the first projects for the Munnyworld Megacontest 2011, but due to time constraints we decided to make only the "Vampirized". Given its success (awarded "Best Minimalist Design"), we decided to make the remaining two and expand the series with other new ideas.

So the series "Unlucky Munnies. In the wrong place, at the wrong time" is mainly made on 6 Munnies (Kidrobot) and then accompanied by other characters of the same group (Trikky, Bub, Foomi).
These unfortunate DIY toys have found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, and therefore were "Vampirized", "Werewolfed", "Zombified", "Facehugged", "Assimilated" and choose the "Dark Side" of the Force.

The "Vampirized" is a twin of the winner one, maybe bitten during the night by the same vampire too. The "Werewolfed" was infected by the scratch of a werewolf (this happens when you leave a Munny unattended on the window sill). "Zombified" is a living corpse of a Munny, gradually decaying and hungry for Munny-flesh. "Facehugged", "Assimilated" and "Dark Side" were Space travellers, but also in deep Space you can be really unfortunate: so the first one was attacked by an Alien's facehugger, the second one met the Borgs and the third one was too angry and scared and a Sith probably persuaded him.

You can see more about the "Unlucky Munnies" HERE.

Smart Painting Video!

2011-09-19T21:11:00.001+02:00

During this summer we had a lot of different things to do, and this is just one of them! During an event in june we were asked to create a painting on a "Smart" car in 2-3 hours. So now we edited a a short video, filmed by us and Andrea Todaro, which shows our performance.

You can see the video HERE.

The song we used is "Built to Last" by Fall Walk Run.

Making of The Daughter of the Sea!

2011-08-20T16:32:00.001+02:00

We finally made the making of video of the sculpture we realized for Costa Cruise's ship "Costa Favolosa", inaugurated in july 2011.

"The Daughter of the Sea" is based on the theme "Ondine", the water nymph from the mythology. The sculpture, a little bit different from our usual style, was realized with different media, both for the shell and for the girl, and then casted in bronze and refined at the artistic foundry "Rimart" in Senago (MI, Italy).
For the video we used pictures and videos from many different cameras, mobile phones and so on. The song is "At the Mall" by Emerald Park.

You can watch the video HERE (available on Vimeo and Youtube).

Lack of inspiratione

2011-07-20T01:14:00.001+02:00

This is a strange summer here in Switzerland, it's raining too much. If it should never stop, how could we continue create as we use to do? :-P

"Lack of inspiratione" is an underwater video by Andrea Todaro and us. With Nevercrew (Christian Rebecchi & Pablo Togni), Andrea Todaro and Jivka Nacevska. The song is "Structure of a Revolution" by Icon Girl Pistols.

To watch the video, click here.

New website!

2011-07-15T01:34:00.001+02:00

It's finally ready and online our new website nevercrew.com!

We decided to create a new one for many reasons: sometimes we like to change, we desired to show more and to communicate more, the old one was funny and stylish but not enough user-friendly and easy to update.

In our new website now we have 4 sections: Paintings, with our walls, murals, graffiti, canvases, and more; Designs, with graphics, objects and our series of "spaces"; Art toys, with our own production toys, our customs and our "Hangselm"paper-toy; Video, with our videos, making of of our artworks and video about us. There are also more informations about us (About us, Contacts),a store, and the MBox (memories box), where we show random picture about us, our past, our works, and so on.

Moreover, we added descriptions and related links for every work, more connections with the social networks (to share our work or follow us, if interested) and we also changed the style of this blog (as you can see).

In our website, we made the graphical, artistic and conceptual part, but the entire structure was programmed by Igor Kovacevic (m4tricol.com), a professional programmer and developer of websites, blogs, mobile applications, templates, and so on.

Best Minimalist Design category winners!

2011-06-06T22:15:00.000+02:00

The 31th of may Kidrobot and its judges published the results of the Munnyword Megacontest 2011, and we're glad to announce that our "Vampirized" Munny won in the "Best Minimalist Design" category. In addition, also other two of our customs reached a bit of glory: 2nd place in the "Best Animal Design" category for "Apartment Bat" and 3rd place in the "Most Innovative" category for the "Living City" Munny. Our biggest compliments to the brazilian artist Sergio Mancini for the Best in Show prize.

Munnyworld Megacontest Customs!

2011-05-05T00:46:00.002+02:00

At the end of april we completed our seven Munny customs (4 inches) for the Munnyworld Megacontest organized by Kidrobot. They're now online on the contest's website, and everyone can see them and "like" them on page 3 (scrolling down to the middle of the page). At the end of may, Kidrobot will reveal the main winner and the winners of each category (click here).

Our designs are: "Sand snake's dinner" (an "unlucky Munny"), "Living City", "Apartment Bat", "Vampirized" (another "unlucky Munny"), "Cupboard dweller", "Munny's Freedom" (the marionette Munny) and "Concrete cleaner".

(click on the images to enlarge them)

The Munny and Dunny paradox!

2011-05-03T00:59:00.002+02:00

The 23th of april 2011 we went to Fribourg (CH), after passing a selection in march, to realize a Munny custom during the Asphalt Kreatorz contest at the Cafè Le XXeme. We realized a double coustom using the 7 inches Munny (Kidrobot), provided by the organizators, and a 4 inches Munny, that we transformed in a Dunny.

We used a quick drying modelling paste, spray paint, markers and so on, and in 7 hours we created our personal interpretation about the controversial genesis of the two characters. :-P ...so the big Munny became a sort of Egg and the small Munny (transformed in a Dunny) became the little chick coming out from the egg. The organizators gave us the first place. :-)

Which came first, the Munny or the Dunny?

Volvo Art Session!

2011-03-21T22:53:00.000+01:00

After some week we finally can show the final product of the Volvo Art Session created by Eqal and Volvo: the picture of our completed painting on the Volvo car and some video (like the one about us and the final timelaps with all the artists in the right order).

The final video was shown during the Car show in Geneva, with Michel Comte pictures and the Volvo Art-Car painted by Wes21.

Some picture of the making of (click to enlarge them). In the first one we work on the first sketch of the paper-Octopus and we start with the car decoration. In the third one we're partecipating at the photo-shooting with Michel Compte and we're painting on Melanie Winiger (more pictures here). In the fifth picture there's a view of the Volvo Art Session into the main station of Zurich.

Donut Communication on ND Mag!

2011-03-09T23:29:00.004+01:00

It is now online the issue #1 of ND Mag, an independent digital magazine made by Naughty Design with the goal to exhibit Swiss artists with a creative platform. From page 5 you can find one of our latest artworks, an illustration called "Donut Communication", and an interview with Christian's and Pablo's answers.

The other artists in this issue are: François Thuillard, Claudia Zuber, Petra Zbinden, Natalia Gianinazzi, Marco Spitzbarth, Karin Hauser, Anouk Schneider, Taina and Akira.

Here below some details of our illusration (click on them to enlarge) and a few pages from this issue of ND Mag; but you really have to watch it directly on its website: http://naughtydesign.ch/ndmag.php where it is complete, in good quality, with more than images and readable in different formats (also downloadable as PDF).

First half of february!

2011-02-16T03:06:00.000+01:00

As written some week ago, we're working on different things at the moment. Some are still in progress, some are arriving to an end and some are finished (but not ready to be published). The 10.02.2010 we partecipated at the Volvo Art Session and today we finished the sculpture for Costa Crociere (ready to go on foundry), a really different project compared to our usual works, but ordered with this style.

Soon we will show more and better of both works, but at the moment there are only frames taken from a video and from the live webcams for the Volvo Art Session performance, and pictures of the "making off" for the Costa Crociere sculpture.

There's a little problem with our website's art galleries: we can't update them. We will soon rebuild it totally, but for the moment it's possible to DOWNLOAD OUR PDF PORTFOLIO to see our main works.

Oh! There's also a video made with frames from the webcams by Ledfilms:

Costa Crociere

Waiting for the Volvo Art Session!

2011-02-07T23:48:00.000+01:00

The 9th of february starts the "Volvo Art Session" in Zürich, at the main station. We are between the 10 artists invited by the organizators of the event (www.eqal.ch) and we have to paint this thursday (10.02.2011), from the 15:00 pm to the 01:00 am.

The rest of the artists are: C-Line, Blackyard, Yummy Industries, Daim, Lowrider, Pius Portman, Sukibamboo, Donovan & Onur, Wes21.

Every artist has to paint on a Volvo car and on a canvas on the background, painting on the previous artist's artwork. The final product will be a video and there will be also the photographer Michel Comte during this 5-days-event, wich will end the 13.02.2011 night.

More info, a timeline with all the artists, live webcams to see the event, and more on www.volvoartsession.com

In the meanwhile...

2011-01-19T22:39:00.000+01:00

Since december we're working on a few projects that for the moment we cannot show or that aren't yet ready. There's an illustration, an interesting live painting, a cover for a magazine, an artwork for an online magazine, some painting and a sculpture for Costa Crociere, a few graphics and paintings, and of course there are some new idea and projects for our future productions! :-)

We hope to show you something soon, but in the meanwhile we post some sketch.

Doctor's Place!

2011-01-18T17:25:00.000+01:00

During the Christmas "holidays" we had to make a little and quick restyling into a medical doctor's office who asked us to change colours and add some funny puppet (not too agressive). ...and everything started from the window...:-P (the quality of the pictures isn't very good, we're sorry! ..for more, and better, pictures, visit our website www.nevercrew.com)

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-25T20:08:00.000+01:00

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

by Nevercrew! :-)

Qee Custom: Dress Code - The Rabbit Party!

2010-12-09T20:33:00.004+01:00

It's almost two months that we're not publishing on our blog, but we are making a lot of works at the same time and there's nothing ready to be posted. The only one is the custom toy we made for the "Custom Session II" at the Café la Veme of Vevey the 20th of november 2010.

Our project's name is "Dress Code: The Bunny Party" and it's made on a Toy2R's BuneeQ Qee. As you can see in the pictures (click to enlarge), we realized a strange boy with a pink BuneeQ dress that's going, or coming from, a Bunny Party. ..where there's free QEER to drink! :-)

Oh! Soon we'll produce some to sell! We'll let you know when we're ready!

Postcards!

2010-10-14T19:02:00.000+02:00

During september we created and printed our new postcards. They're a hand drawing digitally coloured, the back is made to be sent like a normal postcard, there's a place to write what are you exploring and there's also a nice quote from George Orwell: "To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle."

We already put some in a few places in USA and Canada (for example: Toy Tokyo in NY, Magic Pony in Toronto and Camiondepompier in Montreal) and we'll probably put some more around soon! We hope you'll like them!

Donuts Mon Amour!

2010-10-06T20:39:00.004+02:00

Our latest t-shirt design is ready to be voted on Threadless! Help it become a real printed t-shirt voting it and sharing it everywhere you can (on facebook, on twitter, and so on...). Click HERE to vote. and see more. Thank you! :-)

This is a funny mix of black & white drawing, old cars, donuts and tributes. The idea is to print it with two colors on white backgroung. The front show the imagie you see above and on the back you can see the same scene but from the back and backlight (a black shape!). You can see the flash presentation below, and you can vote it here.

Outlandish Party Tshirt!

2010-09-11T14:18:00.003+02:00

Here our latest t-shirt concept design "Outlandish Party", ready to be voted on Threadless for the next 7 days (till the 17th of september)! Please help our design to be printed and become a real tshirt, vote HERE.

This funny and 60's ispired design is made to make happy the one who wear it and who's around him! :-) The idea is to use one colour (to choose) on many backgrounds (as you can see in the flash presentation below). Click on the images to enlarge thenm.

Funny Finds: Never Toys!

2010-09-03T01:18:00.000+02:00

Since some week we didn't post something here, so we decided to show a funny find: some artwork we made from 1999 to 2004. These are a mix of digital photomontage, analogical photography and illustration; sometimes they're self-portraits and sometimes we just used ourselves like model sbecause it was convenient and quick. They're called "Never Toys" and they were a part of a biggest project. (yes, we were already working on that in 1999! It's funny..) :-D ...click on the images to enlarge them!

Daydream in a Box, "Making Of" Video!

2010-08-03T03:14:00.000+02:00

We finally found the time to realize the "making of" video of our outdoor painting "Daydream in a Box", realized during november 2009 on the front wall of the youth center of Breganzona (Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland).

We recorded the most part of the scenes when we had a bit of time and, as you can see, near the end we were more relaxed. :-P Nicole Dosso helped us recording sometimes and we had to wait till now to edit it.

The song is "Chased by a Cow" by Heifervescent (www.heifervescent.com), the music project of Andy Doran from UK.

We posted the video on Youtube and Vimeo (more videos on both channels), and if you want to see the first post about this painting, with more pictures and data, you can see go here and on our website www.nevercrew.com.

Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

2010-07-17T16:14:00.003+02:00

At the beginning of july we realized 2 paintings in a private house, one in a corridor and one in the kitchen. In both projects there were few requests from the client, that however gave us a lot of freedom.
For the main painting "Cuckoo Cuckoo", in the corridor, we had to realize an image contaning the cities of Zürich, Lugano, Locarno and the Leventina valley, and we had to integrate everything with a red stripe. We used acrylics directly on wall (250 x 250 centimeters the main part, but almost 600 cm with the entire red stripe). Here below: the project, considering that we weren't able to take front pictures of the total work. Click on the images to enlarge).

Into the kitchen, we had to create a sort of frame around a chalkboard-painted area of the wall (136 x 70 cm). We painted a billboard using mixed media, acrylics and spray painting, to create an urban mood. Here below more pictures of the corridor painting (at work) and of the kitchen painting.

Thumbs Championship T-Shirt!

2010-06-19T13:00:00.000+02:00

Here out latest t-shirt project, published yesterday on Threadless and ready to be voted! If It will receive enough votes, it will be printed as a Threadless t-shirt. So, if you like it, help us voting it on this page or just share it as much as you can (on facebook, twitter, real life, and so on..). Thank you so much!

But let's talk about the t-shirt and the relative championship: the Thumbs Championship it's a tough championship where tough people have to use thumbs to win against tough opponents with tough thumbs. :-P

The design is created in two versions: the "White Corner" version and the "Red Corner" version, as the two corners of the thumbs fight ring. The first one it's printed on a white t-shirt, the second one on a red t-shirt. On the white t-shirt the gloves are red and the string is brown (print in 8 colours: reds, browns and white). On the red t-shirt the gloves are light brown and the string is brown (print in 8 colours: browns, grey and white).

On the back the string continues with the knot, and there's the "Guildford '42 Thumbs Championship" name. A funny 3D effect it's given by the shadows and it will make you look like a real Thumb Champion!

Discover more about it in the flash presentation below:

Or look at the details clickin on the pictures to enlarge them:

Sapori Ticino 2010

2010-06-14T02:20:00.003+02:00

From march to may 2010 we realized 34 paintings for the high gastronomy event "San Pellegrino Sapori Ticino 2010" and 7 other paintings with the same style but without the culinary concept.

The 34 paintigs are portraits of chefs and guests that partecipated at the events in different restaurants in Ticino with images of Lugano on backgroud. In different days, seven Chefs working in Ticino invited in theyr restaurants 7 'queens' of high European gastronomy, women who thanks to the excellent quality of their dishes have all obtained coveted Michelin stars. During every event, our painting were give as presents to the Chefs and the special guests.

The 7 paintings are all realized with 2 different whites, 2 different reds and black and they show views (not totally real) of the city of Lugano. Both works are on 30x30 cm canvas and made with mixed media: spray paint, serigraphy and acrilyc paint.

The Chefs in the portraits are: Luigi Lafranco, Anna Ros, Alessio Rossi, Montse Estruch, Frank Oerthle, Anna Sgroi, Dario Ranza, Luisa Valazza, Martin Dalsass, Sala Ruch-Fukuoka, Gian Luca Ros, Anna Matscher, Ivo Adam, Tanja Grandits.

The other guests are: Alessandro Sacco, Alberto Petruzzella, Anthony John Helbling, Charles Bouffle, Christian Schmed, Dany Stauffacher, Fabrice Bouverat, Giorgio Giudici, Luigi Zanini Jr., Luigi Zanini Sr., Marco Barbieri, Matteo Pelli, Michel Beneventi, Pascal Ottinger, Grazia Saporiti, Edy Cattaneo, Stefano Winteler, Willy Winteler, Dominique Rouvinez, Lorenzo Stoll.

Oh, What a Strange Thing on my Nose! (DROP)

2010-05-17T22:23:00.001+02:00

We finally have all the pictures and videos we need (both by Andrea Todaro) to make this post about the DROP contest in Lausanne where we had to customize a Toy2R's Qee Bear vinyl toy of 20 cm (8 inches). So what happened in Lausanne?

We started preparing our toy around 11 o'clock in the morning, the Characterstation stuff was really kind and there was a nice atmosphere. For every finalist there was a little table where to work, and there was a place to use spray cans without intoxicate other people.

All the other finalist were really quiet and concentrate on theyr work and we needed till 4 o'clok in the afternoon to finish our customization (with its accessories, the camera and the torch). At 6 o'clock in the afternoon the jury decided the winners and our "Oh, What a Strange Thing on my Nose!" arrived 3rd. About it: the basic theme of the entire DROP exhibition was "Black and White". Everyone in every category had to realize something using only black and white and we decided to use them like light and shadow. So, our strange multiple-eyed-Qee it's taking a self-portrait picture to photograph the little strange thing (a ladybug) on its nose and what you see of its face it's because of the flash light.

We're really happy about that because it was a beautiful experience into a beautiful "street art" exposition (DROP) into the beautiful city of Lausanne. We were really satisfied of our work (and the 3rd place) and we saw other people realizing beautiful works (and also the graphics exhibition, the live painting and graffiti).

Here you can see some picture about our work (click on the images to enlarge them), but if you want to see more, visit our Flickr Page, our Facebook album or Characterstation's Facebook Album.

DROP custom vinyl toy!

2010-04-28T00:09:00.000+02:00

We are in the 12 (or 15?) finalists of the DROP custom contest! We were selected after sending our project for the customization of a TOY2R's Quee Bear and the 1st of may we'll realize our customization during the DROP exhibition at Lausanne.

DROP is a black and white urban graphic exhibition at the Arsenic of Lausanne. During the 1st and the 2nd of may, there will be live painting, live graffiti painting, a graphic posters exhibition, music and of course the live art toys custom session. We will be there, to realize our customization, between 11.00 and 17.00 o'clock.

About our project: the main rule was that it can be used only black and white, without grayscale or colours, so we tryed to find a funny idea to use this rule in a graphic and interesting way. We're really happy to go there and do this live, and we'll post soon something about the day and our work.

Happy Easter from Nevercrew

2010-04-04T02:29:00.001+02:00

HAPPY EASTER!!!!

Finally spring is here, also if it's raining as in november, everything become green and eggs are all around hidden in the grass! We're working with new techniques and on Hangselm's website www.hangselm.com there are 4 other customized hangselms of the second series!

They're made by: Jean-Pierre Schoch, www.ledfilms.com, Dré Sans from Belgium (the one you see in the easter picture) http://paperboxworld.weebly.com/, Alexander Gwynne from England, www.agpapertoy.blogspot.com, and Jason Piffero, www.jpartworks.ch.

New Painting and Photographs!

2010-04-01T02:27:00.001+02:00

We just finished the last painting of the series named "Square Space Life" composed of 8 paintings of 80x80 cm, mixed media on canvas (the biggest part with spray paint and acrylic). This one is named "Sudden Firework" and you can have a look of the other 7 paintings in our Behance page here.

At the same time there are a lot of new photographs on Pablo's Flickr page here. Some portrait, some picture taken during Orpheline's and Nakaruga's videoclips (both filmed by Andrea Todaro), some showing old decadent factory and house of the south of Switzerland.

Of course we're also continuing with the Hangselm project and starting with new works: a series of paintings, another series of boxes and more that we'll show you as soon as we can! (and we're working on some changes in our website www.nevercrew.com)

Hangselm Series 2: Not An Air Freshener!

2010-03-19T22:23:00.000+01:00

The first customized Hangselm of the second series, named "Not An Air Freshener", is now online! It is made by Simona Meisser and you can download it on Hangselm's website www.hangselm.com!

This second series is designed to begin to expand the HANGSELM project involving, only initially and upon invitation, artists from south Switzerland or just connected to south Switzerland. Of course it’s also opened to artists from around the world that desire to partecipate. 15 Hangselm are planned for this series and some day ago we sent the invitations to the Swiss artists... and now something begin to arrive!

Simona Meisser was born in Lugano in 1984 and she graduated in 2003 as Textile Creator at the CSIA of Lugano and in 2006 as Illustrator at the IED of Milan. From 2007 she works free lance as illustrator with various publishing houses. She also shows her artworks in touring exhibitions and makes graphic-pictorial activities at the elementary schools.

Her websites: www.simonameisser.com & simonameisser.blogspot.com

Since we published Hangselm's website we also received many requests from artists from different countries and we're really curious to see the next Hagselms of the second series!

The Hangselm Project!

2010-03-15T23:18:00.002+01:00

Apparently it’s only a piece of colored paper cut, folded and pasted… and indeed from many point of view it is. Once ready, however, an Hangselm can play many different roles within the home life, the social life and in several other fields (not excluding astrophysics and marine biology), and could only be so.

An Hangselm is made to hang on to something or someone and hang out at all kind of places, it can hang together with those who love him or hang on hanging from the handle of the front door (if hung in the kitchen perhaps can even get the hang of cooking!)

We created this project with the first series consisting of five elements (The Dirty Painters Series) that we also painted in Locaro at Villa Balli. One of the ideas of the project is to involve various artists (graphic designers, painters, illustrators, etc…) and that’s why there will be other series.

Visit Hangselm's website: www.HANGSELM.com ...and also its facebook page!

Visit Hangselm's Website!

...here the painted Hangselms... if you want to see more, just check

the previous post on this blog!

Hangselm & the Dirty Painters!

2010-03-06T00:56:00.001+01:00

Here we go with the pictures of the Villa Balli painting in Locarno... but not only!! As already mentioned, in february we made an outdoor painting on the old shop windows of the unhabited Villa Balli in Locarno for the exhibition "Il Definitivo è Trasformazione" (today, the 6th of march 2010, will be the inauguration).

We were free to decide what to do and this work, named "Dirty Painters - Cut + Fold", is our way to interpretate the idea of "transformation" in a funny way and it was the occasion to create something more than a painting.

In fact, we added a 3D element inside one of the shop windows and we planned everything to be a painting, a sculpture and a paper toy at the same time. This is how Hangselm is born.

As you can see in the following pictures, there are four "uncut" charachters on the wall and all of them are painters. The fifth has been cut out and built, and it's free to paint as he likes.

Hence for the occaision we decided to let you interact with our work and we created a paper-toy to cut and fold, named Hangselm. The Hangselm Dirty Painters Series is at the same time the outcome and the beginning of this work, as well as the first series of our first paper toy.

You can easily download a printable version of Hangselm here.

Click on the images to enlarge them...

...and here is the Hangselm paper-toy (downloadable here) in some of its favourites activities.

"Have you ever thought that's there's too much empty space on your jacket? That it's missing something before your eyes while driving? That your wardrobe gives a sense of sadness every morning? ...or simply that something unusual around you would be nice?

Well, it's time to build your Hangselm!"

Orpheline!

2010-03-02T00:54:00.011+01:00

As promised, we start posting one of the works we made during the latest months: the artwork for Orpheline's debut album "Spread my Wings", out in Switzerland from the 26th of february 2010.

Orpheline is singer and songwriter, and she grew up between Europe and USA. This first album is produced by BlackAce and contains the single "Shy Boy" (more on Orpheline's website orphelinemusic.com and BlackAce's website www.blackaceshow.biz).

More specificly we did the graphics for the album, the graphics for the promo single, the graphic layout for Orpheline's website, some drawings for the musical video of the french version of "Shy Boy" and we gave a hand during its shooting.

The general idea of the graphic concept starts from Etan Genini (communication and prodution manager of BlackAce) and the photographs are taken by Michael Bonito & Gruppo Diffusione; so, in this case, we mainly had to find the right decorations, composition and graphical solutions and of course we made photo editing and some little photomontage.

For the musical video, shooting and editing by Andrea Todaro, we made digital drawings built on levels to permit animation. At the beginning the animation had to be done by us but then, for ease, it was made by Andrea Todaro too (but we have to thank Yan Hirschbühl, www.yahi.ch, for the AfterEffects lessons!).

During the shooting of the video we also made some backstage picture. We post some of them below, but for the entire set you can visit Pablo's Flickr page.

Pages from the album booklet:

The Website (link)

Drawings for musical video:

Pictures during the video shooting (more here)

More details about the album:

Executive Producer: BlackAce
Management: BlackAce
Recorded: CaveStudios (Riva San Vitale, Mendrisio) and Joe's Garage Studio (Milan)
Engineered by: Max Elli, Enrico La Falce and Mauro Tondini
Mixed by: Enrico La Falce and Max Elli and Milkshop Studio (Milan) except "Shy Boy" mixed by Alexander Budd and Max Elli at CaveStudios.
Mastered: Sterling Sound NY by Chris Gehringer
Arwork by: Nevercrew

New unexpected outdoor Painting!

2010-02-25T21:11:00.004+01:00

It's longtime we don't write on our blog (since Christmas) just because it's longtime that we don't have something interesting to put on it! :-) We spent the last 2 months working mostly on graphics and a bit of photography, but this monday we started with a new outdoor painting!
We don't usually paint outdoor during winter, weather isn't the best and it's really too cold for hands, paint, cans and so on. In this case we accepted the work because it's in an intersting place and for an intersting event: the exhibition "Il Definitivo è Trasformazione" in Locarno (The Definitive is Transformation).
As you can see in the pictures, we're working on a long series of shop windows of an old uninhabited house (named Villa Balli, goin to be renovate..). We're painting only on glass with spray cans (almost only red, at the moment...) and we conceived a strange project... but we'll show you when it'll be finished (tomorrow we finish the painting part, next tuestday we finish the "strange" part, and we'll post as soon as we can pictures and special content on our blog and on our website www.nevercrew.com).

Of course the passed two months werent' unuseless: we'll post here also the products of this period soon! :-)

About the exhibition: "Il Definitivo è Trasformazione". Villa Balli, Via Borghese 2, Locarno (Switzerland). Presented by Immobiliare Del Borgo SA and the opening will be the 6th march 2010 (saturday). The artists in the exhibition are: Della Giacoma Jonathan, Di Vuoio Maurizio, Kraus Patrizia, Marelli Flavio, Morroni Anna, Oswald Karlheinz, Poretti Gianni, Ravasio Paola.
From 7th march to 11 april 2010.

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-25T11:39:00.003+01:00

Merry Christmas and happy New Year to everyone!!!
We had no time to make a new Christmas card, so we are "recycling" the old ones :-P (but they've not been posted in a blog so far!)

Daydream in a Box!

2009-12-09T00:35:00.003+01:00

Our latest outdoor painting: "Daydream in a Box" realized on the front wall of the youth center of Breganzona (Switzerland) from the 16th to the 26th of november 2009.

The weather was nice almost all the days, sometimes a little bit misty and cold, but there was no problem doing all we planned to. As you can see in the pictures below (click to enlarge), we started from a yellow paint and we made a vintage texture on it. Then we made a green hole with the same texture and we started with the main subjects and the folded sheet effect.

...Now there's a big box in Breganzona and a dragon created from its cutted side. :-)

If you want to see more pictures about our "Daydream in a Box" you can visit our website www.nevercrew.com into the Nevercrew's Art section and if you want to see more about the realization, soon we'll post the video!

Ok, this will probably be the last outdoor artwork for 2009. Now, here in Switzerland, is too cold and rainy for outdoor painting with spray cans and we have to wait till the end of march for a little bit of sun! Of course we'll continue with paintings on canvas, graphics (we're working on 2 nice projects at the moment), illustrations and photgraphy....

Digital Portfolio 2009!

2009-11-28T11:09:00.000+01:00

We updated our website and now you can download our Digital Portfolio 2009 (from december 1996 to october 2009) from the "downloads" page!

We made a Mac Os and a Windows version, both around 450 mb. We know that's a lot, but inside you can find our biography, good quality pictures of us and our works, press about us since 1998, our complete PDF portfolio, direct links to our websites, the "Octopus" video and some nice stuff like wallpapers, icons, an more.

You can just download and keep it on your desktop for a moment you have nothing to do, you can put it on a CD-ROM (it's a DMG for Mac and an ISO for Windows) and send it to all people you know or use it like a freesbee! :-)

So, if you're interested, visit our website www.nevercrew.com and go into the "downloads" page!

(...and soon we'll post our latest outdoor artwork, probably on tuesday!)

Cover Graphics!

2009-11-10T12:06:00.001+01:00

This is one of the most recent graphics we realized and which was published. It's the latest Matteo Pelli's novel "900 metri", in bookstores of south-Switzerland and Italy since the beginning of november.

Of the same series and for the same author, in 2008 we made the cover of "Johnny Pio".

If you want to see more of our graphics, just visit our website nevercrew.com and download the "Rebecchi & Togni" pdf.

Where The Wild Things Are!

2009-10-28T23:25:00.005+01:00

Inspired by the memories of our childhood, waiting for the last Spike Jonze's movie, we decided to make a little tribute to Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are".

It's a mix between pencil drawing and computer painting. Below you can see some step of our work!

...And if you like it, you can download a wallpaper in the "downloads" page on our website www.nevercrew.com!!

Octopus Video!

2009-10-26T10:02:00.001+01:00

Are you curious about the strange coloured Octopus that lives into the pool n°7 of the Skatepark of Lugano? So watch this video! Ledfilms.com made the shooting and then we made the editing together (Nevercrew + Ledfilms.com).
Here you have the Youtube link. ...and, if Youtube should switch off our audio, let's try embedding the video directly into the post! (You'll probably be able to watch it only if you have Quick Time installed.. if not, you can download the video here) ...more pictures about the Octopus in our website www.nevercrew.com

New Postcards!

2009-10-21T18:36:00.005+02:00

This afternoon 1'000 copies of our postcard arrived at the post-office! Finally, we were really curious to see them and we are happy about the print quality.
This night we'll give the first 20 to a friend and in the next days we'll put them all around, in every place we can. :-) If someone wants our postcards (for himself, for display or distribute), please write us an email: mail@nevercrew.com.

Vans Gladiators Flyer!

2009-10-19T14:06:00.003+02:00

We just finished a flyer for the "Vans Gladiators Tour" in Rome (22-25 october 2009). Here you can see some step we made to realize it.

Connections!

2009-10-16T19:22:00.000+02:00

We are trying to connect this blog to our Facebook Fans Page, to Twitter and Tumblr to make a better and faster communication.
The results are appreciable, but not really fast as we expected: sometimes a new post needs hours to be automatically imported.

Ok, let's see what happens with this one! :-)

Photo Trip!

2009-10-15T12:15:00.005+02:00

At the moment we are taking some picture at the old abandoned hospital in Piotta (Switzerland) with Lorenzo Zoppis. We will soon post something to see in our Flickr albums! :-) (from mobile phone)

At work!

2009-10-14T09:30:00.001+02:00

We're working on two different projects at the same time! The first one is a series of paintings on canvas ("Square Space Life"), and you can have a look at the first part on our website www.nevercrew.com into the "Rebecchi & Togni" art section.
The second one is a mix between painting and sculpture; something like our "Orson" or "S-Quot" boxes, but smaller and with different proportions that permit us more combinations. We should finish in a month. :-)

Welcome to our NEW BLOG!

2009-10-12T23:26:00.001+02:00

We would like to inaugurate our new blog with a picture of our last wall-painting: OCTOPUS, at the Skatepark of Lugano. We choosed this strange painting because, recently, is the one that aroused more interest around in the Www. Some example:
Arcadja.com, Esper-Magazine.com, CharlieDontSkate.com, TheDame.Tumblr

Oh yes, and here you can see it in real time! Skatepark Webcam :-P