Sozyone aka Sozyone Gonzalez aka Sozyone Million or just Pablo Gonzalez is a painter, sculptor, photographer, graffiti artist and musician. For 2008 he has illustrated the Carhartt advertising campaigns.

Born in Brussels and influenced by his neighborhood, his artwork works around the world of villains, forgers, gangsters and crooks. For him they are the last heroes of modern society, the last survivors who stay with the old school ideals. Also the two advertising campaigns for Carhartt work around this world.

For Carhartt, Sozyone has exclusively designed three T-shirts that are only available at Carhartt stores across Europe. The MONKEY, the BIRD and the TIGER – all three T-shirt designs come with Sozyone’s signature on the left sleeve and a unique Carhartt logo on the back.
More images of the Carhartt x Sozyone t-shirts follow after the jump.

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On August 23, Culver City’s Corey Helford Gallery will welcome a new selection of work from LA street artist Buff Monster. Originally from Hawaii, his influences range from heavy metal to ice cream. There is ample servings of anime blended in too. The resulting work questions the binary of cute and creepy. Happy looking figures (often composed of odd elements) are ensconced in geometric shapes. Pink is a favorite color. 
Throughout his career, Buff Monster has been featured in an array of publications, including Juxtapoz. He’s also worked with a number of brands, just recently Official on a hat we featured on these pages.
"The Sweetest Thing" will be on view until September 2.

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The Boxfresh x Pete Fowler collection has finally been released. The artist has created a series of product for the UK brand, including a lightweight windrunner jacket and a series of t-shirts. We reported about it a while ago.
The collection is now exclusively available at Shotgun.

Check out the other pieces of the collection after the jump.

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Emerica once again joined forces with artist Ed Templeton to work this time on two colorways of the Transit. The artist placed his artwork in a very subtle way, which we welcome when it comes to footwear. They released an all black colorway and a black/red colorway of the shoe, with artwork placed on the tongue tag and on the inner sole.
The Ed Templeton x Emerica Transit is now available in both colorways at Ripe.
Detailed images after the jump.

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Rob Walker has published an interesting new article to his Consumed column over at NYTimes.com, where he this time takes a closer look at Kaws.
Walker gives details about Kaws’s career and his new direction, where he finally enters the gallery market with his work this Fall.
Definitely an interesting read. Check it out here.

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Vans announces a collaboration this Fall with renowned street artist Dave The Chimp.
This capsule collection includes a reworking of the Mid Skool Pro alongside two t-shirts utilising bright neon colours and Chimp’s instantly recognizable characters and cartoon eyes. Special attention has been paid to detailing including tattooed toes on the inner footbed, which are mirrored through the trademark Vans waffle sole in crystal clear rubber.

Chimp believes the majority of people go through life asleep and it’s been his mission for over a decade through fanzines and street art to wake people up, switch on their brains and get them thinking for themselves! Walking his own path, but keeping one beady eye on what’s happening in the streets. Chimp’s first shoe for Vans also relates to today’s club kids, whose eye catching dress sense evokes a reaction from the rest of society – a way to prove they exist, to show they are really alive, really living.
The pack will be released September 2008.
Check out more detailed images of the Vans x Dave The Chimp Mid Skool Pro and the t-shirts out of this collaboration after the jump.

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The people behind the Comme des Garcons Guerilla Store in Warsaw also run Warszawska Nike and to celebrate the 1rst anniversary of the space, they created a series of artist collaboration t-shirts. They worked with Alex Purdy, eboy, Ill Studio, Rodrigo Souto and following within the next two weeks they will release further collaborations with Gasius and Swanski.
Check out the other t-shirts after the jump.

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Hanon just got in the Trilogy Tape artist series t-shirts. They worked with a very strong line-up of artists including Ben Drury, Will Bankhead, Fergadelic and John Olson from the Wolf Eyes. Each t-shirt comes with a graphic that will only be used this one time and is limited to overall 30 pieces.
Here above you see the Ben Drury and Fergadelic t-shirts, check out the other designs after the jump.

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Chicago’s Leaders 1354 are releasing the latest pieces in a string of solid special editions on June 14th. So far they’ve impressed with their New Eras, and now they move to tees. For the artist series they’ve worked with four local (read Chicago) artists and printed their designs on two colors per artist. So, by match, that’s 4 new styles and 8 color choices. The material ranges from the classic hot girl with covered breasts to a great play on the winners medal. The latter should be a good look come Olympics time. Take a look at the Leaders site in the coming days for bios and info about each represented artist.
Check the remaining tees after the jump.

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Check out more info on the book here.

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Just last week we first reported about the upcoming collaboration by Supreme and cartoonist Sean Cliver. Today we can show you some more images of the collaboration and give you some more background information.
Legendary skateboard artist Sean Cliver was born in 1969 in Wisconsin. At the age of nineteen Sean Cliver noticed an “Artist Wanted” contest in Thrasher Magazine. The company behind the contest was Powell Peralta. Recognizing this as an opportunity of a lifetime, Sean decided to submit his artwork into the contest.

Sean’s artwork was selected as a finalist in the “Artist Wanted” contest and in January of ’89 boarded a flight towards California for an interview with George Powell. Three weeks later Sean Cliver received an offer of full-time employment as an in-house artist for Powell-Peralta.
Feeling that there was a void in a published historical archive of skateboard artwork, Sean decided to author “Disposable: A History Of Skateboard Art”. “Disposable” showcases over 1000 skateboard graphics with assorted recollections from artists and pro skateboarders throughout the past three decades.

This summer Supreme will produce a series of two skateboards with original artwork done by Sean Cliver for Supreme and two original t-shirt designs to coincide with the project release.

Available at the NY/LA stores and online on June 12th. Available in Japan stores on June 14th.
Check out more images after the jump.

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Artist Evan Hecox has released a new screenprint titled "Ghosts Of Winter, Berlin".  It’s 5 color silk screen print on Neenah Environment paper. The print is now available in the Arkitip online store for pre-order and will ship as of June 21rst.

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After working with Jeff Koons, Murakami and many other high profile artists, Supreme not got together with Sean Cliver, known for his book of skateboard graphics and also for work in the film industry. With Supreme the artist worked on two t-shirts and two skateboard decks. Always one deck matches one t-shirt.  Via Honeyee.
There is no set release date, but expect this line to drop soon.

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We present you some impressive custom Vans Slip-Ons and Eras by Japanese artist Toshihiro Egawa. The Japanese artist is a self-studied artist who has been specialising in computer graphics. He became better known outside of Japan also due to his work on jackets for various bands. These Vans sneakers were created for the  “Dia De Los Muertos vol.0" show at PingMag.
More images after the jump.

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A couple of weeks ago we reported about the Nike 1/1 initiative, which invited artists from around the world to send in their work with a soccer theme. The best ones were chosen to exhibit this year during Art Basel, which is taking place this week.
Thanks to Urbancamou we can show you some images of the Nike exhibition. Many more after the jump.

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Artist Evan Hecox will soon be releasing a new print at Arkitip. The print comes in his usual style and pictures bikes. The print will be available in the Arkitip online store June 7th.

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Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda has also made quite a name for himself int he art scene, as recently reported by us. Here we give you now a preview of an upcoming DC Shoe, that the musician and artist designed. So far we can see that the shoe comes in a green/tan colorway with red accents and features both Mike Shinodas and the DC logoon the tongue and laser engraved graphics on the side panels.
We will definitely keep you posted about the project. After the jump a couple more images.

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