After the Factory

What happens after the factory? Detroit Lives traveled to Poland to make a documentary about reinvention in post-manufacturing cities. It parallels Detroit with Lodz, whose textile industry has seen a similar decline to Detroit’s auto business. After the Factory premieres at the DIA’s Detroit Film Theater on Thursday, February 2nd at 7pm. Check out the Facebook invite for all the details on the event. It looks to be a beautiful film that gives new context to the problems we’ve been facing for years. Definitely looking forward to it.

See the trailer for After the Factory after the jump…

Madpixel

We had the pleasure of meeting and briefly talking with Madpixel at this years Detroit Urban Craft Fair. Super nice guy. Based out of Louisville, KY, and run by Ronald C. Jasin, Madpixel, in addition to making beautiful hand pulled art prints and gigposters, offers branding, and web design. Recently Madpixel’s work was featured in the book Gigposters Volume 2. Below are a few of our favorites, but be sure to visit his site for much much more.

More of Madpixel’s work behind the cut.

Kyle Culps

I was recently introduced to designer Kyle Culps through our friend and fellow designer Jeremiah Britton and I really like his work. Kyle is a designer / printmaker from Canton, MI. While attending Central Michigan University, Kyle participated in many student / groups show.

See more of Kyle’s work behind the cut.

Interview: John Bailey

I first met John Bailey up in Grand Rapids, where I found out he was the artist behind all the graphics for the band Stepdad. Even after doing some research for this interview, that was still all I could find out about him. He has no About page, no “social media presence” for self-promotion, just a Tumblr of his work that fills up at a breakneck pace. It’s strange these days, it seems, to find an artist who spends 110% of their time just creating. And so the interview started with a pretty basic question: “tell me about yourself…”

Could you give me a quick introduction or bio? How did you get started as an artist?

John Bailey, house sloth, YouTube addict…artist. If I were to describe my work to someone who had never seen it…I guess I’d say its what you would see if someone put an SNES in a microwave, while NBA Jam is playing.

READ THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW: John Bailey

Alisa Bobzien

We’ve been super busy keeping up with holiday craft shows for the past month and have been completely slacking on our blog. On the upside we’ve had a chance to meet so many talented people, whom we will profile on the site in the upcoming week.

Ann Arbor’s Alisa Bobzien, whose work we absolutely loved at this years Detroit Urban Craft Fair, creates these ornate screen prints.

More of Alisa’s work behind the cut.

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