sketchel sketchel is a new customisable art satchel concept designed by Jeremyville and Megan Mair, launched at the Design is Kinky Semi Permanent Conference in March 2005, with an art show, book, and online gallery featuring around 230 international artists (list of contributors) Over 230 leading and up and coming artists from all over the world were invited by an international curatorial commitee to create original art on canvas panels, and to send them to the Jeremyville studio in Darlinghurst, Sydney. We then made these into the one-off sketchels seen in this book, and online. Design is Kinky also presented the sketchel show along with Jeremyville, and some artists also supplied designs for limited edition 'sketchel multiples', such as Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Nathan Jurevicius (scarygirl) Jon Burgerman (UK), Fawn Gehweiler, and Josh Petherick, who is also having a show at Colette in Paris this year. Josh also designs t-shirt graphics for Commonwealth Stacks and Stussy. Further 'sketchel multiples' are planned for the future. Sketchels are made from original canvas panels, making each one a unique, collectible art object, sort of like a moving gallery of the best and freshest artists and designers in the world today. A sketchel is something very personal, a one of a kind art work. It is not a mass market or mass produced object at all, but rather, the opposite of that. The full sketchel gallery can be seen at the jeremyville.com site, which also has artist profiles and new sketchels added regularly, and the 52 page colour sketchel book is available online there too, featuring short interviews with some of the leading names in the project. Others to create sketchels include MCA Evil design, Bob Kronbauer, Genevieve Gauckler, Saiman Chow, Tony Larson, Andy Jenkins, Tim Tsui, Alice Chan / Asteria,Tado, Superdeux, Yok, Vapors magazine, xlr8r magazine, Mooks, David Horvath, Magmo the Destroyer, I love Dust, Miss Van, Lifelong Friendship Society, Asbestos, Friends with you, Fruhstuk, Kei Sawada, Jaime Hayon, Rolitoboy, Ben Loiz, Chris Bettig and about 200 others. The project is supported by Faesthetic, Tekko, Art Prostitute, Royal Magazine, Being Hunted, Australian Infront, IdN, Color Magazine, Stickernation, Stencil Revolution, Mooks Clothing and Sneaker Freaker, and lots of other online communities, magazines, and individual artists.