The Bookslicer
Brian Dettmer sifts through stacks of antiquated books, boxes of dusty cassette tapes, and piles of obsolete maps to uncover the perfect source and subject for his conceptual explorations and sculptural dissections. Dettmer alters pre-existing materials by selectively removing and manipulating elements as a way to allow new interpretations and ideas to emerge. With the precision of a surgeon, Dettmer uses scalpels, tweezers, and other medical instruments to carve into the surface of his found objects to reveal hidden meanings.
Tetris Furniture
This furniture is based in the tetris game. Each piece is a part of the game and has a different function. By Diego Silverio.
Wish You Were Here Homeware
Wish You Were Here is a wonderful collection of 25 eye-popping, optimistic and inspiring A3+ art prints. By the end of April 2009 WYWH will be launching the much anticipated super range of 100% cotton drill, 46cm x 46cm cushions in 3 patternscape designs! Alongside the cushions there will also be available a superb range of 9 high-colour, high-quality fabrics also derived from the patternscapes.
WYWH is an exciting venture created by UK based husband and wife team, Fiona and Ben O’Brien (aka Ben the Illustrator).
A Lamp Full of Lamps
Dmitry Ivanov has made an original floor (or a table) lamp, made of other lapms. Continue reading »
What Does Jack Nicholson Say?
Coulson Macleod delivers the power of black and white art. Distressed white text highlights the coolest of quotes by the coolest of folk. What looks to you like trashy noise is in fact a brilliant work of genius. Lou Reed’s God is rock ‘n’ roll. Coulson Macleod’s God is art. Continue reading »
The Good, The Bad, The Belle
Barnaby Barford, a porcelain hooligan! Great works.
For Bright and Imaginative Young Minds
Print ads for Brainobrain Jumeira, Child Development Program, Dubai. Continue reading »
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the Art Rebels
Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyler, Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland, 1997-98
Starting on Friday, November 13, 1998, 178 trees were wrapped with 55,000 square meters (592,034 square feet) of woven polyester fabric (used every winter in Japan to protect the trees from frost and heavy snow) and 23.1 kilometers (14.35 miles) of rope. The wrapping was completed on November 22.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created art together as partners for more than 4 decades. They are married and have a son, Cyril, born in 1960, who is a published poet and writer. Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceive of the projects together. Then Christo makes drawings, scale-models and other preparatory art of the artwork. Christo and Jeanne-Claude sell directly to art collectors, museums and art dealers.
Alex Diamond
progress. denial. aestetics. discoveries. rants. raves. comments. admiration. wisdom (rarely): artworks by Alex Diamond.
“Alex Diamond is an artist in the traditional way, who is gaining more and more attention on the art market. This is due to the fact that the interchangeablilty of his character doesn’t contradict the curational aspects of developing a sustainable body of work. It’s rather the opposite: as an artist Diamond works extremely focused on the development of a lasting and unique work, which maybe can only be defined by the name: Alex Diamond is Alex Diamond is …. His distinctive approach to making his art is defined by creating quality, value and relevance within his complete work as an artist.”
Nina Brown
Lovesculpture
Wool, wadding, doll-eyes, cap, tape, button, wire, wood, 70 x 40 x 42 cm, 2007.
Sneak Like A Panther – Puschen* For The Cosy Generation
20 textile objects (wool and felt) on wooden display, 140 x 200 cm, 2005.
*Puschen – german word meaning slippers.
Toast
Original charcter by Stefan Marx, mascot for Cleptomanicx‘ jubilee.
Fabric, foam, paint, millions of handmade stitches, 105 x 120 cm, 2006
Nina Braun is immersed in an analogue world, where the obsession with material and her devotion to each individual object emerges from her very personal imagery.
Her approach to materials like wool and fabric are the base for her sometimes child-like and naive objects that result from an intensive working process. Considering that we are living in a digital era where economical aspects of the working process prevail and thoughts and images can be infinitely reproduced, Nina Braun’s approach to work is quite revolutionary.
Unbelievable Bags of Kathleen Dustin
Bracelet purse with rubber handle.
11″h x 4.5″w x 4.5″d
Purse with boar’s bristle and adjustable shoulder cord.
8″h x 3″d
Shoulder or handheld purse. All Purses like this on inside.
4″h x 5 1/2″w x 3″d
The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka
Jacek Yerka, famous painter from Poland. Relax, watch and enjoy.
Fuck, No! Teach Yourself in Two Seconds.
Fuck. Shit. Suck my dick. Asshole. Can’t pronounce? Gringo teaches you!
P.S. They’re also made a very quality hi-end websites ;)
Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante
Painting by Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An, 2006, oil on canvas – Image mapping with titles and wikipedia links.
Ice: A Victorian Romance
Inuit waiting at a seal-hole on the ice, from William Edward Parry, Second Voyage, 1824.
Visiting a remarkable iceberg, from John Ross, A Voyage of Discovery, 1819.
The Lion and Reliance in icy seas, from John Franklin, Narrative of a Second Expedition, 1828.
Adventures. Brave. Ice. I’m in love of those historic images. Strongly recommended for all historic illustration fans (like me).
Ice: A Victorian Romance exhibition attempts to merge these three icy frontiers into one thematic story. By 1860, the idea that the earth had gone through an Ice Age was finally being accepted, and people attempted to view that Ice Age through the lenses of the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Alps. Knowledge of the Arctic and Antarctic, gained at such cost, provided a framework for reconstructing the ice of the prehistoric past.
All the publications on display are from the collections of the Linda Hall Library.
Sky TV Ads
Alien vs Predator February campaign. Continue reading »
Gaetan Henrioux
Awesome paintings of Gaetan Henrioux, artist from Paris.
Unlike
Cool works by Unlike Studio, from Moscow.
Space Colony Art from the 1970s
A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.
Studio FRST
Clementine Giaconia and Frederic Forest – awesome design from France.
Greater Vancouver Crime Stoppers Ads
“You remain anonymous, criminals don’t.”
Advertising Agency: DDB Canada, Ванкувер, Канада
Chief Creative Officer: Alan Russell
Creative Officers: Dean Lee, Cosmo Campbell
Copywriter: Neil Shapiro
Art Directors: Colin Hart, Dan Strasser
Account Manager: Kyle Stewart
Agency Producer: Gayle Robson
Photographer: Philip Jarmain
Retoucher: The Orange Apple
Prepress House: Studio 17
Art From Pyongyang
Contemporary art from North Korea.
Creating a Dragon
Underground laboratory for moving dragons creation. St. Petersburg, Russia. Continue reading »
