You’re going to have quite a time looking through these majestic works of fantastic fortitude. They’ve got so many colors in them your eyeballs will explode on site. They’re made not only of oil paints and canvas, but also of purest magic and Hawaiian sun-power. He’s currently living on Maui, painting both t-shirts and large scale fine art works for sale. The following is a collection of his most recent works. Continue reading
The divine she-woman, powerful and indestructible, facing you head on, projectile weapon in hand, no hesitation in her eye. She’s aiming at YOU, son. This post contains an exhibition of women with guns called “Angel.” In it is a vast collection of film and television stills showing nothing other than basically the exact same composition of frame, woman, and gun. And you, staring right down the barrel. Continue reading
Mapping is one of the most vital skills a designer can have. Not only is it a super important and helpful skill to have in the mind, it’s really nice to be able to put that thang down on paper. What we’ve got mapped right here is the important and slightly-less important genres of music in the world all made amazing simple in a way similar to the London Underground tram maps. You’re gonna love it! Get up close! Continue reading
It’s a design fantasy. Indulge with me for a moment. This set of stamps was released between 1975 and 1993. There were a BUNCH of reprints of each design, resulting in oh-so-subtle differences in color and consistency. Right here in this post, we’re most interested in seeing one or two examples of each design. There are 32 different exports represented in these stamps, each one given a delightful illustration and layout from Rafael Davidson. Continue reading
So you’re sort of bored with the old, priceless works of art in your home. What do you do? I know what you do. You destroy them. OR you add nice additions to them as an addition! That’s what this project right here was totally about. This project called “Graffiti Renovation” and it was run by the fine folks over at the W1000 company. The entire results of the contest are below. Every single classic painting destroyed with wonderful, wonderful style. Continue reading
Silly graffiti. It’s the best graffiti there is. If you’re after a career in graffiti art, you’re either 10 years too late to start, or 6 years too early. If you want to make your mark on the world with a marker or a spraypaint can, you’ll want to get silly. Really, really silly, and especially jokish. Make jokes. The smaller you make the tag, the better, just so long as one other person sees it. Or just take a photo of it. Then someone like one of these people will post it. Then millions upon millions of people will see your joke, and you’ve just totally changed the course of history. The entire course of history! Continue reading
Imbibe in painstaking craftsmanship. Take in the sheer bulk of work that is this project. Each frame of the five minute video you are about to view is a fine-art piece of painting. This monumental graduation project is called “Khoda.” Each painting placed in order over a 2 year start-to-finish period of production. The designer, painter, and director of this piece is art student Reza Dolatabadi. It’s a thriller. Continue reading
Over 225 photos, several of which are posted here, were shot by designer / photographer Jason Fulford for the book “Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin”, published by Alfred A Knopf. All these people must be just really neat because I can’t get over how simultaniously grossed out and hungry this picture of a cheeseburger makes me. Great lighting, that’s what it must be. Continue reading
Posters from the depths of ivory tower reality. These poster images (and actual posters you can hold) are made by designer Michæl Paukner. They’re infographics, but what’s more, they’re astronomical. And not just in outer space. Everything from the godliness of creating outlines for a folded box to the divinity of the golden mean. Made gorgeous. Made poster form in the style Paukner sees fit. Continue reading
You’ve got a bunch of cardboard lying around – what are you going to do with it? Do what artist Chris Gilmour does: bend, twist, break, cut, glue, and sculpt yourself a bunch of thing’s you’d rather have! I know I’d trade in all my cardboard if I could instead have a 1:1 life sized perfect replica of a bike made out of cardboard. Wouldnt you? Continue reading
With the realities of running the world at a high this time of year, and patience at it’s usual low, the Obama administration’s campaign word HOPE is still pertinent to the welfare of the nation. In response, this shirt. Hope is fading. This is a lovely new design from the Freshjive clothing label. It’ll be pre-released on the most satanic day of the year – black friday. Continue reading
Bones. They are everywhere. You can’t see them because they are under your skin. Unless you are in a skateboard crash. Then you can see your bones, because oh my god that looks like it hurts pretty bad. But what do you do with the bones once the meat is eaten off the bones? I’m talking like after a nice chicken shack visit. Then what? Felipe Ribon has the solution in a bunch of forms. You read those, then you read which one I think I’ve thought of that’s missing. Continue reading
Hoootah! Our hero and friend super-designer Erik Brandt is in Bolivia! And you know what that means – lots of typographically amazing photos! Typography is a specialty of the eyes for Herr Brandt, and his camera helps him help us to understand the lovliness of his environment. Explore with me, and him, if you will, a collection of 120+ photographs of graphic design and lettering lovliness from the city of La Paz, Bolivia! Continue reading
Have you mothballs? Perhaps you’ve forgotten what to do with moths because your grandmother thought she eradicated them all? Perhaps you’ve moved into the city and your apartment tower is moth free? Well you will learn quickly enough, when you move back to the farm, that you’ll need the mothballs! The mothballs to stop all moth invasion! Look here – designer Jed Heuer has you covered with an amazing design project – MOTHBALLS for you, describing in a third-dimensional way the main ingredient. Continue reading
You cannot steal the soul of a person who does not know you are taking a photo of them. That’s just how it is. The person who is looking at you, or the camera, is the person who has their soul taken out. This is well known by photographer / designer Stephanie Ghadibalo Kwak. She’s got a good understanding of what it is to be a photographer in situations where there’s noone who wants to be your prey. Continue reading
Enlarge your mind with these vague old testament references. You Noah’s Ark wannabe. These are brand new, made for a meat market / deli in Toronto. A bunch of people worked together to bring this together, including a designer, a creative director, an art director, an illustrator, and to the most important degree(?), the client. Maybe the Bible had a little bit to do with it. Continue reading
Now I’ve titled this post “redux” because it’s the second post we’ve got on this particular subject but it’s the first where it’s not just a super-super-preview. This is the real deal, the show, the real show deal. It’s Kris Kuksi, it’s lots of death, not much cake, and sculpture. Sculpture that’s so grotesque you’ll have to get your Dictionary of Death out and cross out the definition for grotesque and write what you saw at “Beast Anthology” and call it good. The entire preview for the show is inside this post. Continue reading
These things right here in this post are all illustrated by Paul Robertson. Welcome to his fantasy. This is tiny video game wonderland. Robertson is an animator, more specifically, he works almost exclusively with Japanese-manufactured video games. In this post you’ll get to see a LOT of his new sprites (tiny characters that in this case move) and stills. All of them were made in the past few months and a LOT of them are from the new unreleased video game “Drawn to Life: the Next Chapter!” Continue reading
This is a project self-initiated by designer André Bergamin as awesome, awesome practice for his trade – collage. It’s an extremely important skill to have as a designer, that being the ability to collage a fabulous collage. If you have this ability, if you can take images, rip them apart, then put them together in a new original way, you’ve got double the power your average designer does. You can use any image you find in this world so long as you change it to a large enough degree. Bergamin’s done so.
Experience the power of these invisible sounds. Continue reading
So you’re a graphic designer in say, 1977, and your mission is to design the covers of action, adventure, and monster horror movies, 8MM Super 8. What do you do? You put on rock and roll music and you whip out your colors and big eyeballs! Fancy lettering, fire, and skulls! Actually you could probably get away with only fancy letters or fire. Take a peek through this collection of Super 8 lowbrow movie boxes and tell me the formula. Continue reading
I don’t mean to get vile on you here, but these zombie drawings were done by none other than your new best friend Jeff Proctor. Zombies are a subject that I think every non-phobia art student and design student should be required to explore. Why? Because god damnit you need to know what to do if they attack! Zombies are amongst the most terrifying and unstoppable forces human beings have ever thought up! Why? Because they are a virus. Why should art students explore them? Because they’re really really awesome. Continue reading
Lemme introduce you to (or reintroduce you to) a painter by the name of Candice Tripp. She’s about to have a show at Joshua Liner Gallery called “Tiny Drama” all about the ironically small problems of tiny people – that is – children. Each of these precision executed sharp colored paintings is oil paints on white canvas, painted in a way that centers on the problem, describing the toughness of childhood, helping the audience sort out their own life and problems in the process. Continue reading
This right here is “Office.” Not “The Office,” the show, but “Office” the design firm. They’re in Milan and they deal with architects. They design things for architects. They design things for architects so hard that they went to an Architect’s Party. This Architect’s Party was no mere party, no!, it was and exhibition of designworks – and in this post, you get to see the things they brought to the party. Continue reading
The picture you see above is a portrait, perhaps even a self portrait if I may be so bold, of the artist Chris Scarborough. The detail is so fiercely microscopic that it will take the entire rest of this post to tell you about it. But then, I’m going to pack more content in too. All of his 2009 works. Holy crap. He’s an illustrator. Continue reading
It’s one thing to paint on a wall. It’s another thing to translate the spirits that live within the walls into viewable masterworks. Graffiti, street art: these are just keywords. The works you see in this post are among the newest paintings made by Gualicho, painter and animator from Buenos Aires. He’s lived there all his life, but travels to paint.
These paintings are in Costa Rica and Cuba. Continue reading