Archive for the 'Art' Category
The Queen in costume.
Posted By: Nae
I have been stashing this away, meaning to post it for a while now. A co-worker of mine, Jake Mees, has been defacing bank notes, $5’s and $20’s, to be exact in the most hilarious and creative way. I thought it was well suited for a design blog as this is something I [...]
Filed under: Art, Illustration, random | 4 Comments
Tags: Bender, Blues Brothers, Braveheart, five dollars, Illustration, Jigsaw, Money, twenty dollars
the art of the title sequence
Posted by: Raine
We all remember Marge’s class where she talked about title sequences. Something I’d really never put much thought in to before, I definitely now take the time to enjoy them. This site also appreciates a nice title sequence, fittingly called The Art of the Title Sequence. The nice part about this site is [...]
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Tags: art of title sequence, saul bass, title sequence
Posted by: Raine
So I’m going to start featuring local talent on here because I think it’ll be cool, and the best part about blogging is that you guys are forced to read about what I think is cool regardless of whether or not you also think it’s cool. Our first artist is Whistler based, [...]
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Tags: Art, chili thom, painting, whistler art, whistler artist, whistler painting
book art
Posted by: Raine
Brian Dettmer creates fantastic book art. Some might even call them sculptures. His work is super detailed and technical and I can only imagine how many times he has cut himself with an exacto-knife.
Check more stuff out here.
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Tags: book art, book sculpture, brian dettmer, kinz+tillou
holy realism batman
Posted by: Raine
When I draw in pencil, it’s my goal to make things look as real as possible. Linda Huber has succeeded. Her work is fantastic. And she’s totally self-taught! Cool beans.
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Tags: graphite drawing, pencil drawing, photo realism, realism
another reason to love lunch
Posted by: Raine
More brown paper bags! This time, though, they actually hold lunches. Check t the cool lunch bag art by a Tumblrer dad who draws his kids amazing lunch bags each day on his own lunch break. I wish I had someone to draw me lunch bags. He must be the coolest dad ever.
Anyway, [...]
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Tags: cool dads, lunch bag art, lunch bags, paper bags
Paper Bagging NYC
Posted By: Nae
It’s amazing. Even when school is out and we have a three week long break, I am still feeling swamped. So swamped that I have been neglecting my blogging! Well, I made some free time today and was clicking away on Behance and came across Monica Hernandez. She is a fine artist from [...]
Filed under: Art, Illustration, Street Art | 1 Comment
Tags: coffee stains, fine art, Illustration, india ink, Monica Hernandez, New York, NYC, paperbag
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Apparently matrioshka dolls are all the rage right now, first appearing in the alcoholic beverage scene and now in the fashion scene. How great are these designer interpretations for the 10th anniversary of Russian Vogue? And the even cooler part – they’re going to be auctioned off for charity. Sweet! Check out [...]
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Tags: art auction, charity, designer, fashion, international, matrioshka, russia, vogue
Mark Jenkins: Tape Master
Posted by: Nae
Mark Jenkins is a street/experimental artist who specializes in tape sculptures. He figured out how cool tape sculptures could be as a kid and ever since then has been taping things up, molding and causing a stir with his tape babies, tape people, tape animals and other such tape things. There is not [...]
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Tags: Experimental Design, Mark Jenkins, Sculptures, Street Art, Tape
