What’s better than a shirt you get that was printed by hand? It’s of a bird creature with it’s shirt gone, the same color as the shirt, blue. What’s better than that? It’s got Rush Tee printed on it. What’s better? I’ll tell you this: it was printed by a little person. A little kid! With the help of the designer, frederic fivaz, of course. But just take a look! How cute!
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And owls, and faces, and the kitchen. Minnesota’s own super design and printmaking duo Aesthetic Apparatus are turning up art-house with prints galore! A gigantic amount (like, 6!) All at once, all up in your face. Glance above and below for the greatness in archival imagery made flesh on the press. This newest set (not a series!) of prints is all square in format. Some of them are regular price, some of them are only five bucks!
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One of the most important things I learned in design school was the following: use candy. Lots and lots of candy. Use chocolate! This right here’s amazing on it’s own, but you know what it’s for? Chocolate. It’s like designing for royalty! Alexander Kondrat’s a designer for royalty. Alexander Kondrat got to design for Nestle making the wrapper for this candy bar of nuttastic preportions: Nuts Tuning!
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I loves me a good party. One that’s good natured, full of running around, dancing, and throwing of the colors. Note the lack of bad times here. These photos are part of a gallery of fun made by photographer Gregory Byers in lower California. If you look closely, you can see a photo of our favorite musical artist in the whole world – Santigold!
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We’ve just received a talented tip about a painter designer from none other than the Oakland side of California. In these paintings is a designer tip on what the title says: exploding arteries, ew, fingers and teeth, hands, buildings, weirdness. Let Daryll Peirce help you find your way all around the block with spindly bits of disgusting hair!
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There are approximately 2 to 3x infinite photos taken currently today in the world. How does one make an impression? They put the stars and stripes in scarfs and they wrap them around a man running around in America. That’s how. That’s what. Take a peek at this limited set of pics that go by the names Miles I and Miles II. All clicked by a mister Roberto Farruggio who resides in Brooklyn.
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Have a peek at one fantabulous book end! This wave is translated from an image done without the bookend in mind! It’s origin was a lovely digital painting by the name of “Uprising,” made by artist/design team KozyDan. If you look very closely at the sculpture, you’ll notice that that’s not wavebreak, it’s BUNNIES! Lots and lots of bunnies!
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This post is a collection of hundreds of Star Wars photos from the set, of the movies, and from the promotional shots of the 70’s and 80’s. Doesn’t matter how you feel about Star Wars, it’s affected the way you work. The world you live in today is the world you live in today because of Star Wars. You’d better believe that. Its basically like this: Luke Skywalker: New York, Princess Leia: Los Angeles, Han Solo and Darth Vader: Minneapolis.
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Here’s how you carve out your little piece of the money. You find your nitch FIRST. Then you think about what they do. Crazies. Hippies. Weirdos. They need to feed their cats. Then need to make their cats into crazy cats. So what should you do? You should make a catnip brand called Cosmic Catnip. And put a crazy cat on the bag. Crazy cat!
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Mail, mail, slow, wonderful mail. Every once in a while you’ve got to utilize our socialized mailbox and delivery person system. And when that happens, you’ve got to go crazy! It’s important to bring the heat with heck-a creative energy. The one you see before you’s made by architect Nick Doermann and it’s got amazing folds and letters and symbols.
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I am not even kidding you. That is the name of the solo show happening right now by artist / designer / wildman WK Interact. His name might be just “WK” now cause that’s what it says on the ads, but still, “How to Blow Yourself Up!” That’s what’s up. In this post is a basic rundown of everything that’s in the show. I recommend definitely GOING to the show though also because everything is so sculptural and needs to be seen IRL.*
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