Category: Art & Design
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Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ideas.: HTML stencil
: In honor of tonight’s State of the Union address, Bush’s last. Check it out here.
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Lakai – Fully Flared – Best Skate Video Intro Ever – Lifelounge – Daily Goodness
: OK. It’s a massive call, but this intro for Lakai’s, Fully Flared skate video is f*cking awesome. The perfect blend of pyrotechnics, skate skills and photography. Respect. Check it out here. via John Nack.
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Color + Design Blog / Interview with Patrick Winfield: Polaroidologist by COLOURlovers
Color + Design Blog / Interview with Patrick Winfield: Polaroidologist by COLOURlovers: “I love Polaroid, so when the opportunity came along to interview Patrick Winfield, a graphic designer and photographer who frequently uses Polaroid to create dynamic visual stories, I jumped at the chance to speak with him. Patrick’s work has a healthy following. I’m…
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Wooster Collective: The Metal Sculpture of Frank Plant
Wooster Collective: The Metal Sculpture of Frank Plant: “”
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New Statesman – Art attack
New Statesman – Art attack: “The phone rings; the number is withheld. It’s Banksy. He wants to know whether I can go to Bethlehem over Christmas. He is putting on an exhibition, bringing together like-minded artists from all over the world to raise awareness of the situation in Palestine. Like the annual guerrilla art shows…
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Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.
Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.: “Visual Enforcement Kit” (Via Digg.)
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Interview: Ryan Heshka
Juxtapoz: Ryan Heshka is an old soul trapped in the body of a 36-year-old. A Vancouver transplant via Manitoba, he has spent the better part of the last decade painting canvases featuring pin-up girls fighting space invaders, giant creatures battling for dominance, and outlandish landscapes that look like they were torn out of a 1930’s…
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A New Piece By Banksy?
From Wooster Collective: BiPed spotted this new piece yesterday in South London. While it hasn’t been confirmed, it has Banksy written all over it. BiPed writes: “The photo is quite misleading as the stencil is actually about 9ft high -you can just make out the top of a security fence on the left.” Here.
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Underground Artists Take on the Sith in The Vader Project
StarWars.Com: Pop surrealist, graffiti, tattoo, lowbrow, comic and underground artists Shag, Paul Frank, Tim Biskup, Frank Kozik, Marc Ecko, Amanda Visell, Tim Biskup, J. Otto Seibold, Gary Baseman, Joe Ledbetter, Urban Medium and Jeff Soto, among others, show their allegiance to the dark side by customizing Darth Vader helmets in landmark gallery exhibition called The…
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Banksy Was Here
Lauren Collins has a piece in The New Yorker on Banksy: If Bristol is, as James told me, “the graffiti capital of England,” then Banksy is its patron sinner. One morning last June, citizens were surprised to find a new mural downtown, on the side of a sexual-health clinic. It depicted a window, a perfect…
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Acid Sweeties
From Kid Robot: From Argentina, where suave desserts and happy pills keep company with nauseous oil barrels and 3-D lightning bolts, street art and design collective DOMA firmly plants one foot in reality and the other in psycho-tropics. Acid Sweeties, their first mini figure series, is an absurd medley of happy colors and bright characters.…
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i am 8 bit
Check out this amazing plush Donkey Kong designed for the I Am 8 Bit show, found on Michelle and Amanda’s The Girls blog, which showcases their work as The Girls Productions Amanda Visell and Michelle Valigura are always posting great work on their blog. You can see more cool videogame artwork at the I Am…
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New Works by Banksy
Some new pieces from one of today’s greatest art prankster Banksy are up at Banksy’s website. Thanks to Juxtapoz for the notice. I’ve been meaning to review Banksy’s book Wall and Piece for months now. The man is a genius. One of my favorite artists of all time. Here.
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Megan Whitmarsh Interview
From the art site FecalFace (which is not what you think- just a stupid name), an interview with one of my very favorite artists: You may know her for her comic books, her handmade wallets, her paintings or all of the above. With misfits, embroidery, yetis, tiny industries, enjoy and explore the world made by…
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Bigfoot
From Juxtapoz: Bigfoot’s solo show, Survival In The Modern World, opened last Saturday, March 24th, at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City/LA, CA. This collection includes a wide range of styles addressing the singular theme of the man and myth known as Bigfoot. The gallery has a comprehensive photoset of all the works in the…
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Shooting Low, Aiming High
LA Weekly: The opening reception for Mark Ryden’s new exhibition, “The Tree Show” at Michael Kohn Gallery, was six hours long. If you glanced at the invitation beforehand, you might have thought this was a misprint. Six hours? Two is customary. Three is generous. Six, you might be forgiven for concluding, falls somewhere between pointless…
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Dan Witz' Mosh Pit Series
Wooster Collective: Dan Witz has been working on a new series of figurative paintings for two upcoming shows in Europe; one in London at the Stolenspace, and the second in Paris at Addict Galerie. If you check out Dan’s website, you’ll notice that he’s quietly previewing a few of the pieces. Here.
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Drawing out artist R. Crumb
SF Gate: Fritz the Cat will be there. Mr. Natural will be there. The Snoid will be there. But R. Crumb will not. “Robert wears his nerves on the outside of his body,” explains Crumb’s wife, Aline, as they swap the Sheraton room telephone back and forth. “He appreciates the fact that all these people…