Dr Romanelli
I just got back in town from Mexico City where I had launched a collection with Shelter in conjunction with Nike. I’d like to thank Shelter for throwing such a great event and a special thanks to MOLOTOV for playing our afterparty ! check out some of the pics below-
Yesterday word hit of a project I’ve been working on for quite sometime. Its called “Fall Out Toyworks” . Check out the Press Release below- Stay tuned for updates and sneak peak visuals leading up to the launch – Lots more info coming out in weeks to come …
PRESS RELEASE – FALL OUT BOY’S PETE WENTZ TO CREATE FALL OUT TOY WORKS AT IMAGE COMICS THIS SEPTEMBER!
MTV breaks news of FALL OUT TOY WORKS, the new comic book mini-series from Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz!
4 June 2009 (Berkeley, CA) – Earlier today, MTV broke news of Fallout Boy vocalist and bassist Pete Wentz teaming up with famed designer Darren Romanelli, Nathan Cabrera, WINTERMEN’s Brett Lewis and Imaginary Friends Studio’s Sam Basri to create an all-new comic book series with Image Comics debuting this September, FALL OUT TOY WORKS.
“Me and Darren came up with the idea of creating a world around ‘Tiffany Blews,’” Wentz told MTV News. “It’s more than a comic too. In the end, it will be a graphic novel, clothing, web site and possible toys themselves.”
FALL OUT TOY WORKS, inspired by the ideas and lyrics of Fall Out Boy, tells the story of a brilliant young robot maker who risks his entire company for his factory’s newly produced android named Tiffany as she becomes his greatest passion and potentially his own destruction. FALL OUT TOY WORKS teams Wentz with Darren Romanelli AKA Dr. Romanelli DRx, the ground breaking designer behind the reinterpretations of Nike, Looney Tunes and Black Sabbath, and writer Brett Lewis, the acclaimed creator of BULLETPROOF MONK and The Wintermen. Art chores will be handled by Sam Basri of Imaginary Friends Studios, the art studio behind the art for Radicals Hercules: The Thracian Wars, Caliber: First Canon of Justice and Steve Niless City of Dust.
Darren Rommanelli added, “Pete had hit me up about designing him some custom gear and we immediately clicked. We’ve been throwing ideas back and forth for sometime and FALL OUT TOY WORKS stemmed from a place of passion and common ground between us. Of course, Fall Out Boy has been a major inspiration, but we’re reaching in the larger world of art, fashion and pop culture. We’ve also brought in my frequent collaborator, Nathan Cabrera, to help conceive the wider world and are thrilled to have a writer of Brett Lewis’ status realizing these ideas to their fullest potential with Sam Basri of Imaginary Friends Studios.”
FALL OUT TOY WORKS #1, a 32-page full color five-issue comic book for $3.99, will be in stores September 2nd, 2009. For more information, please see http://fallouttoyworks.com/.
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Taking his techniques of reinvention and reconstruction to a whole new
level, Dr. Romanelli has initiated a fruitful collaboration with celebrated
furniture designer Doron Silverman (NOBU, The Thompson Hotels, SLS, etc.).
Constantly pushing the limits of convention, these two artists have combined
their talents to create a line of ground-breaking chairs – classic in
structure, but totally unique in aesthetic. Dr. Romanelli drew upon his
noted skills as “reconstruction” craftsman, taking recycled vintage fabrics
and reworking these diverse materials into one-of-a-kind upholstery. Each
resulting piece reflects the past while fitting beautifully into the present
- the stories contained in each scrap of material finding new life in an
entire new medium.
