Lots and lots of skeletons and the occasional panda bear. That’s what you get when you thumb through your collection of prints made by the most amazing Jose Pulido aka Mis Nopales Art. You shall see so many skeletons that you will celebrate. Celebrate with all your death with Joke Pulido and dance, yes dance the night away! You will meet a serenading skeleton, a butterfly catching skeleton, Darth Vader skeleton, skeleton aboard an armadillo… wait! Darth Vader skeleton! Yes, the pop is in there for real.

But not only pop! This collection of skeletons, henceforth known as Calaveras (aka skulls), do all the fun stuff, all the thangs a skullhead might want to do, including impersonate the living.

Each of these, or at least most of these, is a print or a template for a print printed by Mis Nopales Art. Jose Pulido is a heavily prolific printmaker and he loves to skull them out! A whole bit ton of tiny prints for the whole world! Yes indeedy.

PLUS there’s some oddballs in there. Aka non-skully items also drawn by Pulido that show he’s not just a one-trick skelehorse. He’s got skills. Skeleskills, pandaskilla, luchidoreskills.

If you’d like to get yourself one of these skullys for your very own, take a ride on over to the Nopales Etsy shop, or contact Pulido by emailing him through his Etsy contact page. You’ll have to be logged in if I’m not mistaken.

AND AND AND if you’re in the southern California area, you could take a peek at his works up close at TWO count them TWO upcoming shows — Renegade Craft Fair Los Angeles, July 24+25 AND Renegade Craft Fair San Francisco, July 31-Aug 1. Get there!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies bits category.

Today (I wrote this a few days ago) I hear the sad news that one of the ultimate original players in the Graffiti and Hip-hop world has kicked the bucket. “RAMM::ELL::ZEE” or Rammellzee as he was called died today [June 27, 2010] whilst, if the rumors are true, he was doing math equations in none other than his home town and city, Far Rockaway, Queens, New York. How unbelievably appropriate for one of the most mathematically sound wild-style artists of many generations. The first I ever heard of him, he was being described in the Graffiti documentary film “Style Wars,” his paintings of weapon-clad letters being shown by his pal Dondi, another king.

In humble celebration of the passing of Ram, I and we present to you a gallery of armored letters, operators that blow the lids off all that they encounter. Rest in peace, Zee.

“The letter is armed to stop all the phony formations, lies, and tricknowlegies placed upon its structure.” – RAM EL ZEE

Rammel is an enigma. An eternally complicated graffiti man who, according to wikipedia, revealed in an interview that his name meant heavy, heavy stuff – derived from “RAM” plus “‘M’ for ‘Magnitude’, ‘Sigma’ (Σ) the first summation operator, first ‘L’ – ‘longitude’, second ‘L’ – ‘latitude’, ‘Z’ – ‘z-bar’, Σ, Σ – ‘summation’.”

Dondi speaking about a work with Ram in a Style Wars “scene extra”:

And that’s just the tip of this metal, mental iceberg. Look for some videos of this crazy brilliant man if you dare. He’s wild. Above begins and below continues the gallery including a couple of works by Ram himself (above being a “B” by Ram owned by a private party), plus a bunch of paintings by adventurers that were inspired without a doubt by Ram’s life in one way or another. Have a feast on these giant masterpieces in his honor.

Where appropriate, the filenames of the letters in the gallery below will lead you to their sources. Due to the super-futuristic nature of Ramm Ell Zee, I expect you to know how to access that information. Internets, graffiti, letters with weapons. Activate!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies lettering category.

Don’t you just love it when you discover a new artist or musician, love them, then find out they’ve got a new album or show coming out? I love that. That’s happening right now. The artist’s name is Marco Zamora, he does fantastic works in black and white with explosions of color, and he’s got a solo show coming up at gallery Miscelanea in Bercelona.

Above and below you’ll see a selection of paintings and prints that are indicative of what’ll be in that show. Flip out.

Zamora lives and rolls out in Los Angeles, California, but that show is definitely all the way over in Barcelona. He does paintings, drawings, and screenprints, all of them in a very similar vein. Street life, buildings, and people carrying bags are amongst his favorite subjects, all of them made juicy sweet with his ice-cream flavored color dings.

Sensory Overload
Solo Show
JULY 15th 2010
Miscelanea
c / Guardia 10
08001 Barcelona

Dings and dings and dings! Below you’ll find works he’s already done, this show’ll show more than likely a bunch of new works that expand on these. It’s like a fantasy of perfect blacks and whites and colors. I just can’t believe how magical this situation is.

If you’re in Barcelona… you know… go to this show.

And if Zamora is there, give him a high five for me.

To contact Zamora, email him at zamorart@gmail.com. To click through additional works of his, head on over to his http://www.marcozamora.com/ personal portfolio, http://zamorart.blogspot.com/ blog, or flickr photostream.

BONUS: He was also just in a show called “Totally Spoked” in Portland Oregon. The poster for this show was designed by none other than WFDJ favorite Aesthetic Apparatus.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies color category.

For when you plan on fighting Fraggles, more than likely. This is what you need to get business done. This particular set of knuckles is made out of sterling silver and quartz crystals, it’s an art project by the wonderfully genius designer artist Debra Baxter. It’s just the sort of thing you think of a hundred times in a day, but you just never get out there to pick up those crystals from the crystal emporium. You know? Thumbs up for execution, for doing it, and doing it well. Harvest with your eyeballs this and a small load of extra projects by Baxter in the gallery below, whistling while you work.

I can’t imagine your wrist would be in any sort of good shape once you insert this into the mouth of your enemies. Maybe if you actually ARE fighting Fraggles.

They go down easy.

Crystal Brass Knuckles (I am going to realign your chakras motherf*****)
Quartz crystals, sterling silver
7 x 6 x 2.5 in

Debra Baxter is responsible for a huge sack of projects, each of them made with such methods as glass blowing, metalworking, and alabaster sculpting. What you’re about to devour is the Crystal Brass Knuckles as well as the earlier projects from over the past 12 months or so. She’s been rocking for several years now. Really heavy stuff.

Once you’re done here, contact Baxter by emailing debrabaxter@gmail.com and/or visit her portfolio page to explore all of her older works! It’s all very fabulous work of a very lovely sort: http://www.debrabaxter.com/ – get rocky!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies 3D category.

When I first remember the idea being thrown around that someday we’d have little to no print, that being a world where we’d be able to transmit all of our ideas digitally, I remember the word being “awesome!” there’ll be no waste! Right? Do you remember having this conversation with everyone? No need to waste ink, just use your computer to get all your info, save the world! But now we’re getting there. We’re maybe even within reaching space of eliminating paper and print in a major way, but wait! says we, wait a second! What about making posters and handbills, what about the neatness of having a piece of print in your hands? And what about all those hockey cards?

Artist Laren DiCioccio addresses this all in a big handful of teeny, tiny swoops with her extended “sewn” works.

Your brain will benefit from a read of DiCioccio’s artist statement:

My work investigates the physical/tangible beauty of commonplace mass-produced media-objects, most recently: the newspaper, magazines, office papers and writing pads, plastic bags, 35 mm slides. These media are becoming obsolete, replaced by the invisible efficiency of various technologies. In some cases, this transition is a good thing- faster transmission and distribution of information, streamlined systems, openness to user input, less waste. But a hole is left behind by the disappearance of these everyday objects. What will happen when we no longer touch information? When newsprint does not rub off onto our fingertips? When we no longer write longhand?

The tedious handiwork and obsessive care I employ to create my work aims to remind the viewer of these simple but intimate pieces of everyday life and to provoke a pang of nostalgia for the familiar physicality of these objects.

What you’re about to view are the contents of two projects by the one known as DiCioccio. The first in the gallery is the “sewnnews” project. This is a project done over daily news articles, the New York Times to be exact – this project has been going on for several years now, only put onto the internet very recently. The newest works are from 2010.

Then you’re going to see a bunch of slides. This second project is known as “35mm sewnslides” and is done in a very similar vein as the news. But while the paper is sewn into a casing of hand-embroidered cotton muslin, the slides are instead embroidered directly onto the fragile bridal organza. In both cases, the final product has threads left to hang out in the wind. Loving, lovely strands of color.

Fragility, nostalgia, ritualistic beauty.

Currently Laren DiCioccio is represented by:
Jack Fischer Gallery
49 Geary Suite 440
San Francisco, CA 94108
www.jackfischergallery.com

So be sure to get in contact with them if you’re gonna want to get in contact with her!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies 3D category.

Fingers collect to make the hand, and the hand draws the type. It is my pleasure to be telling you about the fantabulous works of none other than illustrator / designer Camila Drozd. In this post you will see several examples of Drozd hand-drawn-type. This is not some silly-biller work, this is craftwork. This is something that no Joe-Shmo can do, this is the work of a professional. A professional whose worked for hours and hours, days and days, years and years to get to an excellent place. An excellent place where even the personal doodles show shining spirits from Design Heaven blinking their eyes in amazement.

That’s what’s here.

The works you see above and below are executed by Camila Drozd for fun. These are “Personal Type Work” works made just for promotion and enjoyment. Can you even imagine the things done by Drozd for pro work? No way! It’d be so good, how could anyone imagine it! That’s why there’s some examples of that shown below as well.

Please immerse yourself in these undeniably lovely hand-made letterings and if you do feel so lucky as to have a project that Drozd could work on, contact through email at info@camiladrozd.com. Drozd is available for freelance work at the time this post is made, so get to it!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies hand writing category.

Print heroes Aesthetic Apparatus murder nature AND your eyeballs with this NEW version of their fantabulous “Yes, We’re Sorry We’re” set of signs. These ones are printed on plastic, printed with day-glo orange, and wont melt if you spill your coffee on them. And you know what? They’re for sale. And you know what? They’re ten bucks.

Take a peep at the words AA uses for them:

YES, WE’RE / SORRY, WE’RE
SERIES OF 4 PLASTIC SIGNS

Inspired by our previous experiment
with paper signs, we decided to take the plunge and print actual plastic window signs. They are shiny and smell like a brand-new Barbie doll ass. Available for sale singularly or as a set of four.

8″ x 12″
2 color screen print (blaze orange / black) on white styrene

Then head on over to their shop and pick up a slew.

NOTE: the animate GIF below in the gallery is of the original paper set. This new plastic set has slightly different phrases if I’m not mistaken. All other pics below are of this new plastic set.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies black and orange category.

There’s this guy or gal in Minneapolis who makes it their business to get a lot of paint and drip it. Drip it and make it look just fabulous over the sides of things. Lots of times I’ve seen this stuff, this paint, dripping down the side of the walls that surround the highway. Recently I’ve been seeing it on smaller quarters. Such as! Bins, poles, and sides of sidewalks. There were a bunch’a these the other day. Let me show them to you.

BONUS check it out, the photo you see with a sort of pink background of wood, forground of a black dumpster with white dripping off it, that one’s photographed by Design Professor Kindra Murphy last week and just posted today on her internets. The photos, the rest of the photos you see here are photographed by me last week too, maybe a week and a half ago, posted today too, also, in the same sort of manner.

HIVE MIND.

HIVE MIND.

ALL THE SAME BRAIN.

Also look at these graffitis. They’re neat.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies painting category.

Get yourself all readied up for some crash scenes, fellows and peoples, because here comes some. Illustrator/designer Scott Teplin outta New York City has a set of pictures he drew that you’re about to see. Called “Crashes : Graphite” and full of what you might expect given the nature of this description and the picture above. Crashes galore! And all in glorious white and gray tones. Experience the fabulousness of the detail, and don’t worry, there’s no human body parts in there.

Each of these 17 pictures is done strictly in pencil on fine white paper. If you look hard enough at your local bookstore, you might soon be seeing Teplin’s works hit the shelves. Posters, books, and whathaveyou. All of that fine stuff showing the extent of his illustrious career in illustration.

NOTE: in fact, there’s an example of that right over at X-ing Books where you can buy prints of his Alphabet series if you do so wish!

Now! For some bashed up vehicles! Enjoy the magled death!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies destruction category.

Dearest world, he says, I’m wondering if you, since you’re all fans of the greatest television animated series of all time, have any artwork from this series? That’s right, boys and girls! John K, the creator and main mind behind Ren and Stimpy is looking for your contributions! He’s creating some sort of fabulous bible-like construction for Spumco! You don’t know what Spumco aka Spümcø is?! Come on in then! You like to see fabulous illustrations of Ren and Stimpy characters?! Yes! We’ve got that here too!

As you may be well aware, John K, aka John Kricfalusi, is the big brain behind Ren and Stimpy and he’s got one FANTASTIC blog. It’s informative almost constantly to EPIC preportions! You can find it at http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/ and I recommend you read it EVERY DAY!

Then there’s Spumco Inc. – it’s was an animation studio based in Los Angeles, California. They got their first big start when Nickelodeon shot a call out for new cartoons – one of the ones they chose was made by Spumco – Ren and Stimpy! After and before that there were a bunch of other works that were also pretty neat, take a peek at a list and get out your animation cells of those works too!

Now down to brass tacks. If you’ve got any original Ren and Stimpy artwork, that means hand-drawn, painted, otherwise, and would be so gracious as to let John K scan it at high-rez so as to print it in the up n coming Spumco book, that’d be great!

Contact someone named Dan at pictureboxinc@pictureboxinc.com for more details.

You will get an acknowledgment in the book and a big thanks from me! and I’m sure from the fans who want this book too

If you own an animation art gallery, I’ll be glad to plug it and link to it.

Thanks!

-John K

Hooray wee! Now let’s look at some of what he’s talking about. Pics!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies illustration category.

Another batch! Perhaps you remember the last time Iain Macarthur lit up the internet with his lovely pen and ink drawings? He’s not been idle since then, keeping all of his illustration instruments whistling the whole time, as all good workers do. This period around there’s some interesting deviations from the first collection. Amongst those are a heavier allowance of pencil markings, a very obvious dip into the power pool of negative space, and a bit of Bill Murray. Glance with admiration at these amazing portraits.

Devour their aptitude for cleanliness, clarity, and frivolity.

I think you’ll notice fantastically well-chosen detail mixed with pop-flat black and white framing features. In these nine pictures are evidence of a very talented illustrator. The bold use of these new-age features shows Macarthur to be an artist designer who wishes not only to participate in our modern creative arts world and scene, but also to move it forward.

I think the most interesting of the bunch is the one you see above with the anti-hands and hat, but definitely consider the Bill. He’s got flowers on his mind. And in his beard.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies outer space category.

Let us now devour the poster works of Minneapolis design team LandLand. They’ve made it their mission to toss out the traditions of rock postermaking and act on instinct. The use the Force. But tossing out that tradition doesn’t mean tossing out the tenants of design and good artmaking. These skills are high and present up on this collection of masterpieces. Look for yourself at a few of em, then take a trip to Minneapolis, rock capitol of the world!

Below you’ll find the following:

The Swell Season (w/ Rachael Yamagata) at the Pageant in St. Louis, Missouri.
Info: 5-color screenprint on 100# French cover stock • 19″ x 25″ • Signed & numbered edition of 225
Illustration/Design: Dan Black
Watercolor: Jessica Seamans

Built to Spill at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minn.
Info: 4-color screenprint on 100# French cover stock • 25″ x 19″ • Signed & numbered edition of 100
Illustration/Design: Dan Black (PICTURED ABOVE)

Cursive w/ the Berg Sans Nipple at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN
Info: 3-color screenprint on 80# cover stock • 19″ x 25″ • Signed & numbered edition of 80
Illustration/Design: Dan Black

France Has the Bomb 7″ Record release show at the Hexagon Bar in Minneapolis, MN
Info: 3-color screenprint on 80# French cover stock • 18″ x 24″ • Signed & numbered edition of xx
Illustration/Design: Dan Black

Check out the green Cursive poster – I and my gal went to that show and stole one of these posters off the wall. It was at First Avenue in Minneapolis. It’s been MONTHS since that show, and I just figured out who did the poster now. Wild stuff, yes?

These peeps are located at their site at http://landland.net/ If and when you go there, you can check out some older posters (the ones in this post are amongst the newest). I recommend them highly on especial account of their great inks application.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies music category.

When Jo Hamilton gets down, Jo Hamilton gets funky. This is the most intense crochet craftwork I’ve seen, sitting right up beside our reigning champion on the cross-stitching tip, Ruby Khan. Jo Hamilton gets extreme points for doing this whole thing with the crochet. Portraits with crochet! Look at this madness. It’s mad beautiful.

What you’re about to get your eyes on here is 9 projects, 8 in-progress photos. These are portraits of either people or the city. Witness the rough elegance in connecting one loop of color to another, another to another.

Slow yourself down, speed affecting your world up.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies handmade category.

A very fabulous fashionista named Nicole Linder is about to totally blow your dress-wearing mind right about now. Linder is a dress, earrings, hair accessory, basically everything maker with a shop on Etsy. This post has three of her extended dress family in it, that being the Popcorn dress, the 3D Glasses Dress (seen above), and the Joke Gun dress.

Oh my goodness they are clever.

Keep your eyeballs on this young lady’s storefront as her clothing goes off the shelf FAST. All of the dresses you see in this post are now SOLD OUT!

Hello! My name is Nicole Lindner, I am 22 years old. Welcome to my shop! I have been sewing since I can remember and I always knew it was something I could see doing in my future. Being self taught I plan on going to a fashion design school one day. I started selling my clothes when I was 16 at local boutiques and at a local record store. I use a top of the line sewing machine, serger, and embroidery machine to create my clothes.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies handmade category.

These photos are technically not animal parts inside-out, but animals with their insides… out. They’re all taken by one Nazif Topçuoğlu who is one splendid and spectacular photographer if I do say so myself. These photos fit perfectly into his artist statement, in which he searches for images that remind the viewer of an unclear past. In my mind, I’m hoping he’s a slaughterhouse attendant as a child.

Head cheese.

STATEMENT

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

M. Proust, On Reading

The underlying thread in my work is a constant preoccupation with time, memory and loss. I worry about the transience of people and things in general, and try to reconstruct unclear and imperfect images of an idealized past. Such an attempt inevitably requires the ability to recapture past, hence my constant art-historical references to classic paintings and photographs as well as to authors such as Proust and Thomas Mann. Hence I have no problems with my images becoming visually seductive in the process.

Another and more specific aspect of the recent Readers, is its pre-occupation with the contradicting positions of women in Turkey. When employing the representations of youth as imagery, one has to deal with the issues of gender roles and male gaze. In these photographs, unlike the more common examples, a respectful stance towards the female has been taken. The subjectification of the female youth as a gender-free ideal, inevitably involves her intelligence, beauty, energy, and struggle as the major concerns of this work

I do photography because… I need to produce the images which are provocative but not exploitative that I would enjoy looking at.

There are two sets here: COLOUR OFFAL and BLACK AND WHITE OFFAL – I’m sure with your super eyeball brains and such, you’ll be able to tell the difference between the two. Color is color, and so on.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies grotesque category.

A most terrifying of categories.

Hope you’re not eating anything right about now.

Here’s a DIY project of ease and excellence if ever have I seen one. Designer Fabio Parizzi had the idea to print using nothing but sunlight. How would one do this? One would have to use something that acts as a stencil, the sun to shine through the stencil, and a surface that would agree to fade on command. What Fabio Parizzi has done is make a poster using this concept saying “Every Thing Appears Out of ****- ***”.

The blank spots representing the word “nothing.”

While most posters are made by adding material to paper, this one is made by taking away. That makes it opposite. Also a way to take this sort of project further would be to keep track of the time the sun hit the poster: temporal invisible ink!

This reminds me of another fantastic poster project whose creation process is quite a bit dirtier. It never fails to amaze me how many different ways to make a poster there are that have NOT been done yet. Get to work!

A celebration of the sun!

Yes there are some times when its appropriate to draw sports figures, believe it or not! The golden, romantic age of sports heros is over – Michael Jordan and Bo Jackson do not play sports anymore. But here’s a couple of women who love sports men so much they draw them with felt pens & markers to this day! These illustrators are named Sandra & Annika and they go by the team name YAWN.

YAWN means YEAH! AWESOME! WOW! NICE! What a weird thing. Yawn is like a yawn, boring, crappy, tired, but then it means something amazing here.

It’s just totally clever, isn’t it?! It is!

An ongoing project. There are times when we tend to like certain stuff and then draw it almost obsessively. This is obviously a time when we liked sports guys. It all started when Annika wanted to get a football helmet…

Look around! Find a few sports figures! My favorite drawing is of the USA swimmers from the Beijing winter olympics MICHAEL PHELPS FOREVER.

This post is from the World Famous Design Junkies pizza party category.

It’s west side so you know we won’t bow down to no man. And we’re gonna stay cool with some popsicles. Some of those ghetto pops. Sold straight from the Desert Eskimo cart on the beech. This collection of amalgamations is straight custom from designer Gary Garay. And be careful what you poppin.

The Paleta Cart you see there for distribution is a real appropriated popsicle cart, lacquer and enamel on fiberglass 36″ x 46″ x 33″, while the popsicles are slightly different dimensions, all around 6″ x 2.5″ x 3/4″ with frozen fruit juice.

Burlesque Design where you at?

This post is melting in the World Famous Design Junkies food category.

Not paint on mushrooms, paint on mushroom. This photo is part of a brief project that goes by the name “Sea Creatures,” made by designer Paul Fuog during a post held at Stefan Sagmeister’s Experimental Outcamp. That’s a load of words. Paint on objects. Just a blob. Extremely clean. That’s what we’re dealing with here. Super splendid!

This small photographic series was developed during Paul’s posting at Stefan Sagmeister’s Experimental Outcamp in Ubud, Indonesia. The series explores the use of food in design.

Sagmeister’s Experimental Outcamp was one of the very few sabbaticals that ultra-designer Stefan Sagmeister will ever have taken. Before this one, Sag had only taken one, and after this one, there will only be two more (supposing he doesn’t design time travel or something like that.) The choices for who works with him on these sabbaticals are made logically, but those chosen might do well to still count their lucky stars.

Paul Fuog got in on all skill.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies Weird category, believe it or not.

Street artist Sam3‘s been up to some good, goodness sake. Look at these two newest works of his, both of them gigantic black figures rolling away the bad vibes of the billboards they live at. What a spectacular gesture. It doesn’t even have to be about advertising, it’s just that excellent. These were painted with simple black acrylic/oil/mixed paint, whatever was free at the time, painted with rollers on long sticks. See the other one below.

Above you can see the image called : “In The Autumn Leaves Fall.” Below you’ll find a collection of similar works by Sam3, followed by the other most recent work of his, “Getting Through The Back Door.” Both of these works were done in the past few days (14th of October and 19th of October, 2009.)

Check out the details also! Notice the fine ripping skills.

Nice rip, Sam3!

SAM3 is an artist that paints big (and we mean big) as well as small shadows and silhouettes in his urban surroundings. Sometimes ironic, other times poetic, always thought provoking, his work is more than a pretty picture.

Born in Elche, Spain, SAM3 currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain. His large street murals are certainly hard to miss to say the least and can be found across much of Europe.

Info above from print shop Paper Monster. They have a couple of his works (he does etchings and such) in their store – he’s exclusive if you know what I mean. This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies billboard category.

Ohhh! So you like stuff made by Aesthetic Apparatus, huh? Is that what’s this is all about? Well! Then I guess we’ll just have to talk to The Decemberists, Tapes & Tapes, and Andrew Bird about this. Wont we? Yes. We will talk to them about how Aesthetic Apparatus is making stuff that’s just TOO GOOD for the public. Burn em up. All the 18×24 posters. All of em.

All of these are new poster prints from Minneapolis design duo Aesthetic Apparatus. We love them. WE LOVE THEM. And then they get posted by us. That’s what’s up.

THE DECEMBERISTS
w/Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames

Another Decemberists poster, this time for a show in Minneapolis. Much like our previous offering , the imagery loosely references the band’s current album- Hazards of Love. Chock full of anguished lovers and fawn antlers! It’s sure to be a hit at your next poster viewing party! What are you waiting for? Get one for your wall today.

19″ x 25″
2 color screenprint (light blue, pink) on archival cream stock

THE DECEMBERISTS
w/Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames

The Decemberists were nice enough to once again commission us to do a poster for them for their recent show in Lexington, Kentucky. Both The Decemberists and Lexington are lovely, yes? Why not commemorate their loveliness with a large piece of paper with bright colors on it? With it’s obscene, nature themed imagery this might not be the best print for a child’s room but perhaps dimly lit room or opium den.

19″ x 25″
3 color screenprint (light blue, orange, black) on archival cream stock

TAPES ‘N TAPES
Tour of The Twin Cities

Hometown band Tapes ‘n Tapes kicked off the Fall season with a little Tour of the Twin Cities playing some of the more recognizable venues in the area. Life’s been hectic around the studio lately so we didn’t make it to any of the shows but looks like the lovable Mayor of Monster Town paid another visit to Minnesota to check out all three nights. That guy really likes to party! In honor of 3 nights of rocking we’ve printed three color versions of the poster. Pick your favorite or collect them all!

19″ x 25″
2 color screenprint (red/blue OR orange/green OR purple/yellow) all on archival white stock.

ANDREW BIRD
(Janus Horn Silos)

Over 10 years of postermaking and this is our first Andrew Bird poster. How did that happen?! We have no answers as of yet but this is not the time to look into the past with regret. This is the time for the future, the future is now. RIGHT NOW! Embrace those around you that you love and tell them “My loved one! You have some popcorn stuck in your teeth!” Because there is no popcorn stuck in our teeth in the future!

19″ x 25″
3 color screenprint (light-blue / silver / red) on archival off-white stock

This post is from the World Famous Design Junkies Vintage category because that’s where all the graphics come from. They come from there, they’re twisted and flipped, and designed right there into the posters.

Brand flippin new works from the design / art collective FAILE. The works contained in this post are dubbed (by Faile) to be the Wood Paintings set and will be formally introduced next week at FIAC art fair in Paris with Perry Rubenstein Gallery. Faile’s going to be represented by Perry Rubenstein in the United States from now on, their first show to be some time mid-2010. This set of fine art pieces is the first bunch to be produced and shown in corroboration with PRG. And they’re HUGE.

As you can see, these pieces are made out of blocks. The insane amount of work that’s gone into each little tiny big of these constructions is staggering from a craftsman’s point of view, then there’s the lovely look of it all. Absolutely museum-grade. These are so giant and so fantastic I’d feel terrible owning them outside of a gallery situation. These amalgamations need to be seen by as many eyes as there are type-loving minds in the world.

First things first, we are proud to announce Perry Rubenstein Gallery will be representing Faile here in the US. We have plans to do a solo show with the gallery in mid-2010. We will be debuting new works with Perry Rubenstein at FIAC in Paris next week. The fair opens on the 22nd of October and runs through the 25th of October. They can be found at booth D01 in the Cour Carree.

Size and medium of each piece is as follows – Match the name of the piece up with the title of the image in the gallery. If you don’t know, ask! One of our friendly associates will help you out if you have any questions!

Giant Jackpot Dreams
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
48.25in x 42.25in (122cm x 107cm)

Fantasy Within Me
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
20in x 24in (50cm x 70cm)

Choose Your Pleasure
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
20in x 24in (50cm x 70cm)

The Supreme Ultimate Fantasy
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
48.25in x 42.25in (122cm x 107cm)

Genuine Gold Caps
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
40.5in x 24.5in (102cm x 62cm)

Burning Brave
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
40.5in x 24.5in (102cm x 62cm)

Wicked Faile
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
64.5in x 40.5in (163cm x 102cm)

Beyond the World of Faile
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
24in x 36in (70cm x 91cm)

Sacred Fantasy
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
24in x 36in (70cm x 91cm)

Select Hardcore Faile
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
24in x 36in (70cm x 91cm)

Forever Brooklyn
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
48.25in x 42.25in (122cm x 107cm)

Faile Wonderland
Acrylic & Silkscreen Ink on Wood, Steel Frame
64.5in x 40.5in (163cm x 102cm)

Or you could probably contact Sean Anderson for more information.

Hot dogs! Oh my goodness hotdogs! Coney Island Dogs. That’s what’s up. We’ve got a place around here (Minneapolis, Minnesota) called Uncle Frankey’s. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. They make amazing Coney Island Dogs. Supposedly they’re better on the REAL island, but who knows! These people do. And when I say these people, I mean all the people who took the photos included in the super insanely huge World Famous Design Junkies Coney Island Sign Explorer Collection. Oh wow the signs. Look at them all!

Ah yes, the island. All of these photos are straight off the island. Coney Island was the biggest park in the USA between 1880 and World War II, but now it’s sorta… fading… but that’s alright! It’s still insane! It’s a fast collection of fantastically clean painted signs and erratic, calculated oddities. And of course, the lights at night, or as we love to call signs of just this nature: Night Type.

BEHOLD, and be held… by the excellence.

Ironically, “Coney Island hot dog” describes a product that is unknown in its namesake, Coney Island, New York, where hot dogs (usually called “franks” from frankfurter) are traditionally made only from beef and served plain or with sauerkraut on a bun without other adornment except the availability of mustard, which at Nathan’s was applied by the customer. The only reason for the name is the generic hot dog’s origins in Coney Island, where it said to have been invented by Charles Feltman in 1867, who put a Vienna sausage in a roll and called it “Coney Island Red Hots.” Some people, unsure of its ingredients, called it a hot dog. Different references claim that the locals thought the sandwiches reminded them of Feltman’s ever-present companion, a dachshund, called a wiener dog even back then,and the term hot dog became a popular term. – WEEKII

The photos you see in this post are from the following contributors: I Follow, Brooklyn Bridge Baby, Maisa NYC, hut234, Mattron, Whiskey Gone Bad, Matt Daniels, Megga Llucci, Brunocerous, NB Photo Flash, Charles le Brigand, Andy Brannan, Nauga Style, PSLove1982, Me-Myself-I, Tucker Photography, Lost in Brooklyn, Coney Island History Project, Gordon Gattsek, and a couple others I cannot yet identify. Thanks to yew all!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies environment category.

This post is also part of the World Famous Design Junkies street signs category.

ALSO ALSO SAVE CONEY ISLAND!

Dear Swedish artist who has made the collection of dead fly artworks you’ll see in this post right here. I would love to hear from you. I would like to give you credit for the greatest dead fly artworks that I have ever seen. I would like to compliment your use of bee and moth carcasses also. Let me know who you are! And let the internet have more of your utterly wondrous grotesque brilliance. Thank you!

These photos were found on several sites having just posted within the past month with no source or credit to the artist (so they ain’t gettin no link from me, either!) If you are, or if you know of, the artist, let use know! We’d love some more carcasses in our lives! Here at the office, we’re mostly into living nature, like flowers and kitties and bunnies and such, but the occasional dead rat has been known to pass past our doorstep.

This post is torn limb from limb from the dead body of the World Famous Design Junkies Grotesque category, screaming, and in utter agony. Without mercy.

Are you kidding me? Lazer etched, aged leather “print.” What a lovely process! I’d mention that I don’t agree with the use of the hide of an animal for a bit of design/artwork, but I just ate some steak tacos, and my blood is too thick for Florida, where these are from. Another neat thing about this print is that it’s designed by a design collective: YASLY, which is comprised of musicians, leather craftsman, letterpress artisans, house wives and carpenters. Heck yah! I’m a carpenter too, nice to meet you!

Note: Because the leather is reclaimed and hand aged, there are imperfections and marks in the leather.

This is part of the aesthetic.

Reclaimed means it was already chopped off the cow when they got to it. So, no worries, right? This print is part of the group’s brand new series “Dawn of Man” which contains similar artworks and designworks and a book.

Peek them out, but first, peek this 18″ x 24″ work out in the gallery below. It goes by the title “Second Breath” and I hear it’s very, very nice.

This post is claimed by the World Famous Design Junkies Outer Space category because it’s WILD, WILD I tell you. And even cows will one day be allowed in space,

mark my words.

Oh man I HATE IT when people are passive aggressive supreme. So much. So much do I hate such a thing. But I’ll tell you what I like. Green White and Black. As together as they should be, all day and night. Up in this project. It’s a ton of materials, like stickers, sticky-notes, and badges that allow YOU to make the most of your passive aggressive nature in just the most fantastic sticky-designish way possible!

Blame designer Ben Bours.

Complaint Department is a kit of materials that facilitate passive aggressive complaining. Instead of confronting someone, why not just use a witty sticker to let everyone know your grievances?

Completed at MICA

I would love to have any number of these things. This is some amazing ephemera. I’ve seen things SORT OF like this before, but a lot more chincy. This is high class P.A. punishment, straight from the hand of a typographer I’ll tell ya what.

This post is posted out of the World Famous Design Junkies experimental category.