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Melbourne artist Meggs has been featured in the latest issue of VNA magazine. With contemporary pop and street art awash in flaky comic and cartoon motifs Meggs stands out as an artist of substance.

Pop art has always been commercial, but today sometimes it just feels like a cynical cash grab, as though all it takes to become an uber-trendy rockstar artist or designer is to monotonously regurgitate fuzzy childhood nostalgia for the masses. Who needs to challenge the perceptions of their audience or the boundaries of one's own expressive ability? Just keep doodling the same cloyingly inane pop-culture signifiers over and over and watch the coin come in.

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Andrew Lee is the creator of the invisible:man label plus California's Commissary stores. As streetwear becomes ever more vacuously mainstream Lee has maintained the raw honesty of his abrasive punk-soaked art. Free of trendy pretension his work has stayed fiercely personal and true to an outsider's way of life.

After a short hiatus Lee has revived invisible:man, recently opening a new i:m store in NY. I caught up with him to check where he's at and see where his creative interests have taken him.

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• Commissary
• invisible:man
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Give me change... hold the fries. New Com Raid stuff out soon. RSS or join the mailing list for release details.

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My friend Ken at Madfoot Japan hit me up with some pics of their first summer '09 release, a brand new model called the Madfoot Oboi, a performance dance sneaker developed by Madfoot sneaker don Takashi Imai in conjunction with Omarion. In an increasingly pretentious and trend-sensitive streetwear market Madfoot have refused to water down the colourful eccentricity of their designs. By staying true to Mr Imai's original creative vision Madfoot have become the outsiders- a streetwear brand maintaining its quality without feigning to be a tastefully sterile and anonymously slick high-end luxury label.

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• sneakers