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From Australia 06/25/09
Bookworms Never Go to Bed Alone permalinkIn Bookworms Never Go to Bed Alone at Gorker Gallery, artist and photographer Kelly Thompson presents mixed-media works that illustrate the kind of geeky girls every guy—even the quarterback—dreams of. Boys do make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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From Philadelphia 06/18/09
Alexander Girard at UO permalinkWe’re pretty proud of our exclusive Alexander Girard wall-art and bedding collections. A legendary American textile designer, Girard worked alongside George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames at Herman Miller, and his work has become part of popular design lexicon. These are pretty special, so get ‘em here now, before they’re good and gone. |
From London 06/16/09
If You Could Collaborate permalinkThe latest If You Could project is If You Could Collaborate, pairing artists of every discipline imaginable with someone of their choosing, to create a project entirely of their choosing. Collaborations include Jim Stoten and Andy Rementer, Oliver Jeffers and Aaron Ruff, Fontaine Anderson and Deanne Cheuk, and many more. Results of the pairings will be shown at the A Foundation Gallery in early 2010, proving we can all just get along.
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From Australia 06/12/09
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From Los Angeles 06/12/09
Hey Fudge permalinkHey Fudge is the first solo book from Travis Millard, creator of Fudge Factory comics. The book is a compendium of his work, new and old, and includes a 30-page opus entitled “Michael Jackson in Exile.”
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From New York 06/08/09
Panelists V permalinkPanelists V at Giant Robot showcases drawings, paintings, illustrations and mixed-media works from a long-list of indie comic book artists. We’d be lying if we said we recognized a lot of the names, but they all sound pretty cool. The exhibit opened June 6.
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From London 06/03/09
Atherton Lin permalinkAtherton Lin‘s set of summer greetings is as sweet as a blue coconut popsicle on a hot afternoon.
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From Elsewhere 05/22/09
Tiny Art Director permalinkWhen a parent scathingly critiques their child’s art, it’s mean. But when Bill Zeman’s daughter (age 4) scathingly critiques his art, it makes for a hilarious blog. For example, of the above monkey drawing, which was done at her request, she said “Stupid ugly angry monkey. I hate him.” Chronicle will publish a book of Zeman’s collaborations with the Tiny Art Director next spring, and she’ll probably have rejected a lot more of his work by then.
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From Austin 05/21/09
Make Something Not That Cool Everyday permalinkIn response to “Make Something Cool Every Day,” graphic designer Will Bryant decided to ”Make Something Not That Cool Everyday.” We applaud him for telling it like it is.
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From Elsewhere 04/24/09
Subprime permalinkMotionographer Mike Winkelman uses a cute, colorful animation to put the current housing crisis into a nutshell.
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From Elsewhere 04/20/09
Helmi Sirola permalinkFinnish designer Helmi Sirola weaves vintage fabrics into her work, creating sweet illustrations that may inspire you to sip tea with scones while wearing dainty little gloves. (via Outsapop)
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From Los Angeles 04/03/09
An Awesome Book permalinkDallas Clayton’s very awesome world has produced An Awesome Book, which is awesome indeed. With a Seussian world-view, Clayton encourages big dreams in the form of jellybean cars and musical baboons. He claims this book has made eight out of 20 readers cry in a good way, and we believe him.
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From Paris 03/11/09
Hina Aoyama permalinkCut-paper artist Hina Aoyama possesses a nearly-unbelievable deftness with the scissors, and her creations include delicate sentences from Voltaire, Baudelaire and La Petit Prince.
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From Australia 03/11/09
Me and Oli permalinkGood for her, sucks for us: Illustrator Lalita Lu’s clothing line Me and Oli frequently sells out. With prints like these, it’s no wonder they’re flying out the door.
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From New York 02/27/09
Mike Perry at Giant Robot permalinkMike Perry is one ubiquitous dude: Perry’s work can be seen in Dwell and the New York Times Magazine, he’s done work for Zune and UO, and also put together must-have illustration tomes Over and Over and Hand Job. Catch Perry’s latest watercolors, screen-prints and drawings in his solo show, Patterns Found in Space, which opens next Friday at Giant Robot.
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From Stockholm 02/20/09
Beata Boucht permalinkBeata Boucht‘s work includes these paper-doll-esque illustrations, which are a lot cooler than anything we had growing up.
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From Australia 02/11/09
While You Sleep permalinkOpening February 19 at Melbourne’s Gorker Gallery, While You Sleep presents the collaborative soft-sculptures of two amazingly-named artists, GhostPatrol and Cat-Rabbit. Drawn by GhostPatrol and sewn by Cat-Rabbit, these are works you want to cuddle up with.
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From Los Angeles 02/05/09
Hothouse & Flowerbeds permalinkAt Ghettogloss, artist Ian O’Phelan‘s collaged florals do their best to melt away those California-winter blues. You know, when it gets down into the 60s and all. Opening February 12.
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From Stockholm 02/03/09
Lisa Bengtsson permalinkLisa Bengtsson‘s designs show up on everything from paper to pillows and plates, and we particularly like this rich, trippy wallpaper.
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From Vancouver 01/16/09
Cross My Hart permalinkCross My Hart is designer and illustrator Helen Eady’s site, full of girly, playful and, most importantly, funny stuff. |
From Toronto 01/14/09
A Number of Things permalinkMicah Lexier‘s concept coloring book full of images of his favorite pieces of conceptual art: Meta. (Via VVork.)
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From London 01/07/09
Andre Jordan permalinkAndre Jordan channels despair, depression, angst, unrequited love and nearly every other disparaging emotion of modern-day life through the sweet (and usually pretty sad) drawings and doodles on his blog and in his new book, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, released this week.
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From London 01/02/09
Yulia Brodskaya permalinkYulia Brodskaya‘s cut-paper designs are beautiful, whimsical and enough to make a typography freak wet their pants. (Via Drawn.)
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From New York 01/02/09
Stereo Hell permalinkStereo Hell re-imagines crumbling Wall Street institutions as Las Vegas Strip casinos. Amazing and scary at the same time. (Via Dan Funderburgh.)
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From Elsewhere 12/15/08
Ana Laura Perez permalinkThe portfolio of Argentine artist Ana Laura Perez is a many-splendored thing, consisting of jewelry, pillows, collages, patterns and fashion illustrations such as these.
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From Australia 12/10/08
We Buy Your Kids permalinkWe Buy Your Kids is Sydney design duo Sonny Day and Biddy Maroney, who do all manner of graphic design and illustration. One of their latest projects is this video for fellow Aussie Megan Washington, and the song and video are both as delightful as being four-years-old and having your favorite bedtime story suddenly come to life.
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From London 11/20/08
Kling by Kling permalinkWith a background in graphic design and illustration, Swede Karola King covers her Kling by Kling collections in multiple patterns of her own creation. Her trippy, mesmerizing looks have been called “Viktor & Rolf on acid,” and it’s a descriptive that she’s happily adopted. From her website to her illustrations and the collection videos she creates, the phrase that keeps coming to mind is “next level shit.” |
From Elsewhere 11/18/08
Space Stations permalinkIn the 1970s, the future was full of space stations perpetual roller coasters and rainbows. (Via Treehugger) |
