I’m a Graphic and Interactive Designer. I live in New York City, but frequent Los Angeles. This is where I toss my ridiculous ideas, conversations, inspirations, etc. I can be reached at info@ashleysimko.com Archive | Flickr | MySpace | MyFace | RSS | Twitter | Vimeo _uacct = "UA-2640743-10"; urchinTracker(); Tumblr (3.0; @simko)http://blog.ashleysimko.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz6mc5LMNL1qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Photograph by my <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.ashleysimko.com/search/Tyler+Shields">buddy</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tylershields.com/"><strong>Tyler Shields</strong></a>… Waste.</p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/443701749http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/443701749Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:36:04 -0500Tyler Shieldsphotographymoneywaste<a href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33945/the-worlds-wealthiest-artists">The World's Wealthiest Artists?</a>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/443680135http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/443680135Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:18:56 -0500artmoney<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz6l9r5Jdl1qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://designyoutrust.com/2010/03/08/photography-by-mathew-foster">Photograph</a> by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mathewfoster.com/"><strong>Mathew Foster</strong></a>… Hello?</p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/443672870http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/443672870Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:13:03 -0500Mathew Fosterphotographyartphonemoney“Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” - Bob Dylan, It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only...http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/443666452http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/443666452Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:08:00 -0500Bob Dylanmusicquotemoney<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz3g3jIi9t1qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mohawk <a target="_blank" href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/detail/F2010RTW-YSLRG?page=2">shoes</a> by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ysl.com/"><b>Yves Saint Laurent</b></a>…</p> <blockquote> <p>No longer restricted to the head of women angling for the “on the verge of a nervous breakdown” verge or<i> </i>asserting their inner David Beckham, YSL elevates the mohawk to “it” status with its very own shoe. On some of the shoes, the razor slice of tootbruth-like pony hair continued to the toe. But our favorite was the completely unabashed statement shoe: a hairy heel in Yves Klein Blue. We knew not to step on your blue suede shoes, but we didn’t know it would make your hair stand on end. (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/fashion/2010-03-10/ysl-mohawk-shoe/">via</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/440090065http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/440090065Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:28:31 -0500Yves Saint Laurentfashionshoesmohawk<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz3dlyjCkO1qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos/30secondsparis/IMG_5442.html">Photograph</a> by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thecobrasnake.com/"><b>Mark Hunter</b></a> of a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.terrysdiary.com/post/394936983/jared-letos-mohawk">photograph</a> by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.terryrichardson.com/"><b>Terry Richardson</b></a>…</p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439978386http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439978386Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:34:46 -0500Terry RichardsonMark HunterThe Cobra SnakeJared Letophotography“A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours...http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439967325http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439967325Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:29:13 -0500Steve Martinquotecelebrity<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz2slfex5J1qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.twistedlamb.com/2010/03/pegasus.html">Photograph</a> by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jemmitchell.co.uk/"><b>Jem Mitchell</b></a>…</p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439247797http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439247797Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:00 -0500Jem Mitchellphotographyfeatherssteamsmokeartmodel<a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/alexander-mcqueens-final-show/">Alexander McQueen’s Final Show</a>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439134250http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439134250Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:00 -0500Alexander McQueenfashionartdesign<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz3hvbt0oo1qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mohawk by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.alexandermcqueen.com/"><b>Alexander McQueen</b></a>…</p> <blockquote> <p>His inspirations ranged from Byzantine art and Old Master paintings to the carvings of <b>Grinling Gibbons</b>, and each look was worn with a bronzed cap, some spiked with a Mohawk of gilded leaves like a Roman war helmut.</p> <p>McQueen continued to experiment with ideas from his last collections, this time engineering prints by digitally capturing entire works of art and weaving them into fabrics.</p> <p>With a haunting soundtrack of operatic music, the presentation was solemn, funereal and eve a little spooky – and the references to angels, broken skulls and religious themes eerily prescient. (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.wwd.com/fashion-week/fall-ready-to-wear-2010/review/alexander-mcqueen-rtw-fall-2010-2537359?src=nl/newsAlert/20100309#">via</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/440170830http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/440170830Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0500Alexander McQueenfashionFashion WeekartdesignGrinling Gibbons<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz2rtqF6w71qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Look from the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.alexandermcqueen.com"><b>Alexander McQueen</b></a>’s Fall 2010 line…</p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439225731http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439225731Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:00 -0500Alexander McQueenfashionart<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://blog.ashleysimko.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/439237480/tumblr_kz2s8aDVPY1qz6fds&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.charlottegainsbourg.com/"><b>Charlotte Gainsbourg</b></a> (lyrics by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.beck.com/"><b>Beck</b></a>) - Greenwich Mean Time… Every season, I fall madly in love with a song that is played at the shows during <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.ashleysimko.com/tagged/Fashion+Week">Fashion Week</a>. This season was no exception. <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/49316829/mystery-jets-two-doors-down-mark-ronson-played">Last</a>.</p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439237480http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/439237480Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:52:00 -0500Charlotte GainsbourgGreenwich Mean TimeBeck<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz019vB6rL1qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.luxist.com/gallery/tom-binns-for-disney-alice-in-wonderland/2747376/">Charmed Adventure Necklace</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.luxist.com/gallery/tom-binns-for-disney-alice-in-wonderland/2747372/">Tea Party Bracelet</a> by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tombinnsdesign.com/"><b>Tom Binns</b></a> for <span class="story-text"><b>Walt Disney Signature</b>…</span></p> <blockquote> <p><span class="story-text">This timeless story of <b>Lewis Caroll</b> married with the wonderful world of Disney and <b>Tim Burton</b>’s interpretation offers so much philosophical fantasy and peculiar surreal imagination,” Binns said of the collaboration. “It opens up a labyrinth of doors for my particular way of seeing the world, allowing me to express my fashion experience with my interest in art and cinema. Alice is the perfect story to release that creativity, and I cannot imagine a better story to cultivate my relationship with Disney.” (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.theinsider.com/news/2819841_Alice_in_Wonderland_jewelry_by_Tom_Binns">via</a>)<br/></span></p> </blockquote>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/436218392http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/436218392Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:50:00 -0500Tom BinnsAlice in WonderlandDisneyfashionartjewelryTim BurtonLewis Caroll<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz00oxZMy31qz6fdso1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.trenddelacreme.com/2008/09/alice-in-wonderland-wedges-yes-really.html">Alice in Wonderland Wedges</a> designed by <span class="RealName"><span class="fn n"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.siobhiancarroll.com/"><b><span class="given-name">Siobhian</span> </b></a><span class="family-name"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.siobhiancarroll.com/"><b>Carroll</b></a>…</span></span></span></p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/436194240http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/436194240Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:45:00 -0500Alice in WonderlandfashionartshoesSiobhian Carroll<a href="http://paperoddbird.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/alice-aux-pays-des-merveilles-sinvite-dans-les-vitrines-du-printemps/">Printemps Paris Reinterprets Alice in Wonderland</a>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435885744http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435885744Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:37:00 -0500linksAlice in WonderlandParisartdesignwindowsPrintemps<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyzl2weGWK1qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435425121/alice-in-wonderland-featuring-natalia-vodianova">Another</a> shot (featuring <b>Natalia Vodianova</b>) by <b><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.ashleysimko.com/search/Annie+Leibovitz">Annie Leibovitz</a></b><b></b>…</p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435490751http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435490751Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:26:32 -0500Natalia VodianovaAnnie LeibovitzVoguefashionphotographyAlice in Wonderland“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”...http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435481755http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435481755Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:21:29 -0500Lewis CarrollAlice in WonderlandThrough the Looking Glass<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyzirytwc61qz6fdso1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.vogue.com/feature/120103/popup/slideshow1.html">Alice in Wonderland</a> (featuring <b>Natalia Vodianova</b>) shot by <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.ashleysimko.com/search/Annie+Leibovitz"><b>Annie Leibovitz</b></a> for <b>Vogue</b>…</p> <blockquote> <p>If you think we’re alive, you ought to speak,” said the one marked DEE. Alice, in a Viktor & Rolf multilayered silk dress, stared as the Tweedle duo spouted nonsensical tongue twisters. <b>Rolf Snoeren</b>, <i>left,</i> and <b>Viktor Horsting</b> wear matching suits and bow ties of their own design.</p> </blockquote> <p>View the full editorial <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vogue.com/feature/120103/popup/slideshow1.html">here</a>.</p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435425121http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435425121Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:50:08 -0500Natalia VodianovaAnnie LeibovitzVogueAlice in WonderlandRolf SnoerenViktor HorstingViktor &amp; Rolfphotography<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyzh8eqVjA1qz6fdso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/fabulous/fashion/740138/Welcome-to-Wonderland.htmlhttp://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/fabulous/fashion/740138/Welcome-to-Wonderland.html">Photograph</a> by <b>Shawn McDonnell</b>… Fashion gets curiouser and curiouser with fairy-tale dresses and enchanting tailoring.</p>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435339756http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435339756Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:02:38 -0500Alice in Wonderlandphotography<a href="http://cakeheadlovesevil.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/first-ever-alice-in-wonderland/">The First Alice in Wonderland</a>http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435315480http://blog.ashleysimko.com/post/435315480Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:48:24 -0500Alice in Wonderlandmovie