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Today’s pick is jeweller and artist Daisuke Sakaguchi. He manages to take his graffiti skills of the walls and use them to create beautiful jewellery as well as design bespoke fashion and furniture pieces. His clientele includes the likes of Elton John, David Furnish, Kelly Osbourne, Kelis and Rhianna…

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My second selection of inspirations comes from London’s John Paul Thurlow, who also happens to work with pencils. His goal is to recreate all the magazines he owns in his own unique style, hence the name of his blog… ‘Covers‘ – “This is an attempt to recreate cover art for every great magazine and record I own. And with each Cover I take a perfect mass-produced object and turn it into a fucked up one-off, full of my thoughts and feelings.”

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Monday’s pick is a selection of pencil drawings from Bree Dentice who is an artist living in New Zealand…

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As part of a regular new feature here at The Import, we’re going to be letting some of our favourite artists, designers and all-round creatives, take over for a week at a time, posting their inspirations, current picks and, well, whatever they want really. This week we’ve got London’s mysterious illustrator and sometime street artist, MR.FRIVOLOUS. We’re huge fans of his punky take on fashion illustration – and, whilst he’s admitted that he’s “a bit rubbish” at writing, he’s got some rather lovely visual treats up his sleeve this week, so stay tuned…

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Looking very much like photo-realistic paintings, these are actually photographs from the brilliantly talented Parisian, Alain Delorme… whether these are elegantly photoshopped or have been rather impressively staged, the one thing that’s a dead-cert is that their alluring beauty is wonderfully mystifying. Evolving from the photographer’s fascination with Chinese workers and their uneasily stacked delivery bikes, this magical collection of images from Shanghai is currently showing at Paris’ Magda Danysz gallery, running until the 25th of this month…

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Young artist Alex Roulette, Ohio born – Brooklyn based, is somewhat of a talent… his beautiful and elegant photo-realistic style allows him to “explore the distinctions between photographic and painted space”. Gracefully juxtaposing reality with sophisticated surrealism, Roulette latest exhibition was entitled “Fabricated Realism” – a caption that brilliant summarises his propensity to add a touch of the absurd to often the most mundane of American scenarios…

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