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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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Being a Brit, jaunts to the States have always led to a certain level of confusion when handling their notes – especially after a few ales in the Lower East Side – thanks to their uniformed size and colour… it’s surely a consideration that UK/US agency Dowling Duncan has considered, as their entry for the Dollar ReDe$ign Project embraces the sort of strong note definition that even our most bleary of beer goggles could identify easily. Bright and bold colours, a crisp, contemporary type treatment and brilliant images that are so evocative of American history and culture, Dowling Duncan’s redesign is sophisticated, powerful and so very fit for purpose…

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Australian twins Andrew and Mark Moffitt produce – under the name of Moffitt.Moffitt – a dazzling array of obscenely good work for clients, along with a number of beautiful self initiated projects – such as their brilliant large format music magazine, DEMO, and book series Realisations of Grandeur, in collaboration with photographer Stephen Ward, both of which can be bought here. Cutting edge, thought provoking and technically excellent, these stupidly creative twins are certainly ones to watch…

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