Out now from Badge Bomb,  the new Frank Kozik “1984″ button box.  Filled with 24 anti-everything designs.   Check ‘em all out  at www.badgebomb.com/kozik

Ring Ring….  “Hello Mrs. Ghahremani,  this is Lauren,  can susie come over to play?”

We’re super excited about the new BoyGirlParty box over at Badge Bomb, stuffed full of 30 Susie Ghahremani originals. All the button designs are brand new and available on BadgeBomb.com, or from Boygirlparty.com in the near future.

Monday, we’ll be setting this up in Las Vegas at POOL Tradeshow for Badge Bomb’s booth (we’re in booth #805 nudge nudge). We hired the folks down at Sirrocco Labs in Los Angeles to build us this cardboard 3/4 scale rendition of the city of Portland. Okay, maybe 3/4 scale is a bit of an exaggeration, but my math doesn’t take away from how sweet it is.

Keep an eye out for their new movie “Red Moon”. Yes, the submarine cockpit featured here is also completely made out of cardboard. We can’t wait to see it. Maybe it really will play at the Laurelhurst Theatre? One can hope.

These Spanish darlings finally have their own button box thanks to popular demand!!! Each box contains 200 one inch buttons featuring the “retro pop” art of Naranjas Chinas. Pick one up here

Here’s a look at the first of 4 new button boxes coming your way this spring from Badge Bomb!   The Yummy You box is filled with buttons featuring highly detailed photos of the crocheted creations of Twinkie Chan!  Keep an eye out for a whole line of scarfs, accessories, and savory stuff by Yummy You clothing. Boxes are in stock and ready to ship. Pick one up for your store here

Check out this translation of Retard Riot’s latest review in Sydsvenskan:

With a fantastic imagination à la Bosch Lyon gets his nourishment from popular culture, news flow, contemporary society, international politics and doomsday prophecies. Noah Lyon ”Look at All Your Stuff”

Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, Sweden through May 27
Noah Lyon’s drawings are like graffiti-covered walls. Bright colors call you in to take a closer look; in the multitudes I’m drawn to “All Your Stuff”. A man, or is it a bird, in a wheelchair is chewing, like Moloch, on a naked figure, who is expelling gas in anticipation of death, while another guy without a head slinking away with a turd on his shoulders. Some poor wretch is flushed down the toilet, and a miserable bastard, trapped in an orange bag, is vomiting from his torture. The colors of U.S.A. are shining through like a dirty rainbow. The doomsday horn is blowing.
Figure is added to figure, scene added to scene, one image next to another, in a color scale that would do credit to any Concretist. With a fantastic imagination à la Bosch Lyon gets his nourishment from popular culture, news flow, contemporary society, international politics and doomsday prophecies. Full to the brim. It is important to say everything, all at once. Then he can leave the words and thoughts to the beholder. Implicitly he is offering his world, what does yours look like? ”Look at All Your Stuff” is the name of the exhibition!
The pressure in Lyon’s imagery is kept high by the small format. Sometimes down to mini size. Then they are small picture buttons that are also put together into “button paintings”. The effect is stroboscopic; quick punch lines about his world.
Alongside the image fury Lyon shows more conventional paintings. Loaded with air, light and dreams of a sort of American mythology. The painting “Pyramid Me” is just a small picture of a man in a cowboy hat in front of a wall that has been sewn together; the seam resembles a pole with a small owl. Within, I hear Hank Williams’ tragic dreams and painfully beautiful music!
Lyon’s images collide in a way that would have put André Breton in ecstasy.
- Thomas Millroth, art critic - Sydsvenskan April 30, 2009

Get some of Noah’s art on his rad one inch buttons - available from Badge Bomb!