Leif Podhajsky

The Designer Leif Podhajsky is one of my very favourite designers! His work never fails to excite me being so full of experimentation, colour & quirkiness. I only discovered his artwork last year when I fell in love with an album cover of a c.d I had titled 'Innerspeaker' by the alternative band Tame Impala. After researching who the artist was who created this incredible wave of colour & explosion, I discovered his other designs & have been addicted ever since!

The reason for my expression of adoration for this designer is that I have found his work to be an major influence on my current work on hippie's. His designs are similar to the stuff that I have been experimenting with with inks as some of his designs (like the one above) remind me of ink, dye or watercolour running into each other. 

Taken from Podhajsky's website, on this image: 

"Experiments in data bending and visual sound manipulation. 
These artworks were exported as uncompressed data and fed as raw binary into a sound editing program. This essentially is the sound of an 'image'.

Tapping into the vibrations of the the digital zeitgeist, I believe that these sounds although abstract let us perceive the images with all of our senses. Yawing from our reality and dipping into an interwoven network of information and consciousness that operates on an alternate frequency."

I would really like to experiment on photoshop to see if I can manipulate my colour playing with shapes, textures & filters & create some patterns for designs. I am looking to produce prints that would be suitable for fashion as I have found that hippie's wore psychedelic clothes to express themselves, so I would like to produce prints that people would think were expressing by wearing too.