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Monday, September 29th, 2008British theater company Stan’s Cafe is putting on a touring exhibition, Of All the People in All the World, which uses 112 tons of rice to illustrate all kinds of statistics - with one grain representing one person. (Thanks to Dave for telling me about it!) Take a look…
The United States population.
John F. [...]
Mareike Auer.
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Love these prints from Austrian artist Mareike Auer, available at The Shiny Squirrel - all solid silhouettes in muted tones punctuated with bright pops of color. Her work is somehow simultaneously blithe and eerie. Below are Polka Pigs, The Bird’s Egg, The Bullheaded Men, and I am a Bird.
Some of her pieces have [...]
Noriko Ambe.
Friday, September 5th, 2008Amazingly dynamic and fluid cut-paper work from artist Noriko Ambe. So cool - these layered pieces evoke a sense of things vaguely topological and biological.
Into it? Take a look at the exhibition calendar for upcoming shows from Beijing to New York.
Via happy cavalier.
Moo.
Friday, August 29th, 2008Some really cool and amazingly varied work from designer and illustrator Valerie Jar. That family portrait of a little cow standing nonchalantly between two steaks makes me laugh. O god… am I a bad person?
Check out her blog here, too.
These posters don’t suck.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Check out this array of seriously awesome original posters from The Poster List - a little bit vintage and thoroughly, well, rockin’. I’m especially tickled by their take on the ubiquitous Keep Calm poster…
Via Design Milk.
Lauren Nassef.
Monday, August 25th, 2008I love love love this drawing (Bananas for Sale) from Chicago illustrator Lauren Nassef, part of her A Drawing a Day blog series. Her linework has a wonderful fineness and sureness about it. Who knew a string of bananas could look so poetic…
See more of her work here, and shop it here.
Via gretchenmist.
Simply ink.
Friday, August 15th, 2008I love this Berlin, Berlin drawing from Helsinki-based artist Hanna Konola. It’s somehow simultaneously provincial and etheral… all wavering daylight and ink-and-water purity.
Abstract forms and subdued colors with a shot of pink suggest bare branches, snowscapes, and frozen-over ponds on her silkscreened Talvi/Winter cards (available on Rare Device). Pretty simplicity in the presentation [...]
Tranquil tablescapes.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008(Hmm… today is apparently a good day for alliterative blog post titles!)
Anyway, I always enjoy visiting Carol Gillot’s Paris Breakfasts for her sweet watercolors, and today she has up these truly lovely photos - I have to share. I’m a sucker for hydrangea and heather (among other things), so I also love those [...]
Fade to white.
Monday, August 11th, 2008I learned of Dana De Ano through Design for Mankind today, and… well, wow. Dana uses mixed media (including pencil, graphite, paint, oil, cloth, thread, found materials, and more) to create these meandering, timeless, spaceless pieces.
Below, from top to bottom: Girl Water, Red Mushroom, Space Boy, and Chairs.
The world in colored pencil.
Monday, August 4th, 2008These dreamy imagined landscapes from Melbourne artist gretchenmist exude innocent simplicity - must be her lovely use of pencil (still my own medium of choice)…
Visit her etsy shop for more.
Via modamuse.
Boids.
Friday, August 1st, 2008Indulgent little birds with sweet teeth from illustrator Kate Wilson. Having smuggled a jar of confiture d’abricot home with me, I’m with Lily on this one… though mine wasn’t free or from the hotel.
Also check out Kate’s gallery, flickr, or etsy shop for more of her sweetly quaint drawings.
Stephen Floyd.
Monday, July 14th, 2008These odd and sometimes provocative pen-and-marker drawings from Stephen Floyd seem innocuous at first glance. They make me laugh… and then they make me scratch my head.
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