CITYSCAPES by eBoy
June 27th – September 16th

d-space is very proud to present an exhibition by pioneering ‘pixel-art’ and ‘vector-art’ exponents eBoy. Featured in the exhibition are eBoy’s famous pixelated cityscape series of posters featuring giant gorillas and sumo wrestler balloons, rampaging robots, girls, guns and rooftop tennis.

eBoy is a German based pixel art group founded in 1997 by Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital. They have been commissioned by the likes of MTV, VH-1, Adidas, Nike, Honda, DaimlerChrysler, Paul Smith, Levis, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and many publications including Wired, The New York Times and The Face.

eBoy’s work has been seminal in influencing a generation of creative designers and artists by always remaining on the cutting edge. They manipulate, stretch and twist the limited possibilities of the most basic computer tools to produce works of enormous detail, thought, originality and humor.

The cityscape series of posters is very complex and makes intense use of popular culture and commercial icons. “If we don’t work on other projects at the same time it takes about six to eight weeks to finish a very detailed cityscape, three eBoys working on it, nearly full time. But, if we have to do it in our spare time, which happens often, it could take years to finish a picture since we can’t spend so much time on it.”

Their unique style has gained them a cult following among graphic designers worldwide, as well as a long list of commercial clients. Their latest projects include plastic Peecol toys with Kidrobot, and soon a new line of wooden toys are to be produced under their own label.

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Images from eBoy preview evening. Images by Timm Cleasby