Mr. Trash-Porn, Thomas Schostok Aka THS

Vi-o primeiro na Proteus. Depois a página e as fontes. Os sapatos, uma variante da skateboard art. E o que mais me gostei, os gluebooks. Thomas Schostok, um alemão de Essen muito alternativo, ou talvez nem tanto, numa altura em que a alternativa é a via central. Seja ou sendo o que seja, gostei das imagens a bruto, do grosseiro à vista. E o gluebook, nada de nada, um objecto que não é nada do que devia ser. No site do criador, uma colecção destes objectos-folha.


Converse


Espai Pupu, Barcelona/Spain


Pepe Jeans

Thomas Schostok was born in 1972 and raised in Essen a small, dull town somewhere in Germany. He worked as a salesman for bathroom tiles. He never studied Art or Design because he thought, to study design is brain washing. In 1999 he founded {ths} design, working in his own studio for international and national clients. BlahBlahBlah. He had always a passion for Fonts and Type and founded the Cape-Arcona Type Foundry together with Stefan Claudius.He was real. He was slim. And boy, was he shady. Designer Thomas Schostok (aka THS, aka Mr. Trash-Porn) repulsed us all the way to the bank. Well aware that he was that old story - a boy never rewarded for mastering a trash art form - he earned critical cred with brilliant, gymnastic design.But his design, dripping with hate for uniformity and boredom, made parents reel, gave pop-culture-bashing pols a poster boy and posed critics a conundrum: Where does new-school rebellion stop and old-school bigotry begin?
[Thomas Schostok, June 2004]