Brain Dead Unveils New Art Book Titled 'The First 2 Years'

Only 100 copies are available.

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Los Angeles, California-based brand Brain Dead has been a successful purveyor of outré graphics—fueled by DIY culture, offbeat comics and visuals that fuse highbrow with lowbrow art. What really whets the appetite of founder Kyle Ng is “cult cinema, rare printed ephemera, bootleg anything, handmade toys and weirdo stuff in general,” he told HYPEBEAST this past January. The brand founded by him and Ed Davis recently debuted a new art book dubbed The First Two Years—98 pages of unruly graphics that Brain Dead has emblazoned on a slew of products from its first two years.

Only 100 copies of The First Two Years are currently available for purchase at OMMU.org for approximately $22 USD each.

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Keith Estiler Managing Editor, Hypeart

Keith Estiler is a New York-born curator, writer, and the Managing Editor of Hypeart, the contemporary art arm of Hypebeast. Based in NYC, Keith heads up editorial strategy at the intersection of contemporary art and culture, capturing the icons and outliers of both the local and international scenes. He has curated exhibitions worldwide, dedicated to championing the emerging voices and subcultures currently redefining contemporary visual culture.

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