Category: Art & Design

  • Slinkachu’s “War Child” photos

    Slinkachu’s “War Child” photos

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    Slinkachu’s “War Child” photos More “tiny people” installation photos by Slinkachu, whose work is compiled in several books including the recent Global Model Village. The pieces featured above and below were commissi… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/03/04/slinkachus-war-child-pho.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

  • ‘Hiding in the City’: New Camouflage Self-Portraits by Liu Bolin

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    Link: ‘Hiding in the City’: New Camouflage Self-Portraits by Liu Bolin | Feature Shoot Liu Bolin has mastered the art of invisibility. His secret? Patience. Bolin will spend as many as 10 hours preparing for a photo. He poses as his assistants carefully paint his suit to help him blend into the background

  • Jonathan Burton

    Jonathan Burton

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    2. Jonathan Burton Jonathan on Jonathan: I have worked as an illustrator since 1999 after graduating with a MA from Kingston University, London… Link: http://listbyjon.blogspot.com/2012/10/2-jonathan-burton.html Imagine if someone put a gun to Arthur Grace’s head and asked him if he had photographed Evel Knievel jumping over trucks in Worcester, Mass. He would be a dead…

  • A Very Bad Comic Strip: John McPherson’s Close To Home

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    A Very Bad Comic Strip: John McPherson’s Close To Home There’s a lot of crap out there when it comes to syndicated comic strips. I could get all Comics Curmudgeon on your asses and pick apart tons of strips for a variety of different reasons, but… via Tom Pappalardo: http://blog.tompappalardo.com/?p=895 This strip debuted in 1992,…

  • Stefan Zsaitsits

    Stefan Zsaitsits

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    9. Stefan Zsaitsits Stefan Zsaitsits was born in 1981 in Hainburg/Donau in Lower Austria where he currently lives and works as a painter and fine a… Link: http://listbyjon.blogspot.com/2012/10/9-stefan-zsaitsits.html World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch have announced the call for applications for the second annual Tim Hetherington Grant, named for the photojournalist who was killed…

  • Balancing Act

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    Link: Little People – a tiny street art project: Balancing Act

  • Andrew Rae

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    Link: Andrew Rae | JENREN

  • Seonna Hong

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    Link: Seonna Hong | JENREN

  • WOW, aka a preview of Chris Ware’s new and very brilliant magnum opus, Building Stories

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    Link: It’s Nice That : WOW, aka a preview of Chris Ware’s new and very brilliant magnum opus, Building Stories Chris Ware, who is widely-known to dismiss in self-deprecating tones any personal merit adjoined to his work (rumour has it he is collecting up and destroying one of his earliest published endeavours), is perhaps not…

  • Realistic Names for Snack Foods

    Realistic Names for Snack Foods

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    Realistic Names for Snack Foods Smosh has humorously reimagined some names for familiar snack foods and candies, giving each of the packages a much more realistic description of what’s via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/realistic-names-for-snack-foods/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+laughingsquid+%28Laughing+Squid%29 Smosh has humorously reimagined some names for familiar snack foods and candies, giving each of the packages a much more realistic description…

  • When Graphic Novelists Go Where Photographers Can’t

    When Graphic Novelists Go Where Photographers Can’t

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    When Graphic Novelists Go Where Photographers Can’t Examples of how graphic novelists have illuminated our stories, especially when it wasn’t possible to use photographs. via The 6th Floor Blog: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/when-graphic-novelists-go-where-photographers-cant/?partner=rss&emc=rss

  • Perfect three-panel stories from apparent genius Jasper Rietman

    Perfect three-panel stories from apparent genius Jasper Rietman

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    Perfect three-panel stories from apparent genius Jasper Rietman Link: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jasper-rietman?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29

  • Illustrator Andrew Groves does weird, charming, fun things for some big names

    Illustrator Andrew Groves does weird, charming, fun things for some big names

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    Illustrator Andrew Groves does weird, charming, fun things for some big names Link: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/andrew-groves?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Recurring motifs include the outdoors, tree stumps, magic and strange little men and there’s just the right mix of charm and weirdness which keeps his work fresh and interesting

  • Folky illustrations from Talita Hoffmann that question life wonderfully

    Folky illustrations from Talita Hoffmann that question life wonderfully

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    Folky illustrations from Talita Hoffmann that question life wonderfully Link: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/talita-hoffmann?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Talita Hoffmann is a good example of this in her detailed paintings that draw upon a vast bank of subjects such as animals, plants, rural structures, musical instruments and tools among others. Combined with narratives of healing, misfortune, death and conflict, you think her…

  • Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is

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    Link: TED/YouTube Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs

  • Drew Friedman interview in Ink magazine (Spring 2012)

    Drew Friedman interview in Ink magazine (Spring 2012)

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    Drew Friedman interview in Ink magazine (Spring 2012) One of our favorite illustrators, Drew Friedman, is reviewed in this exceptionally fine magazine about comics called Ink, which is produced by students at New York’s School of Visual Arts Ink… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/16/drew-friedman-interview-in-ink.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 One of our favorite illustrators, Drew Friedman, is reviewed in this exceptionally…

  • The most disgusting trading cards ever made: exclusive Boing Boing preview!

    The most disgusting trading cards ever made: exclusive Boing Boing preview!

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    The most disgusting trading cards ever made: exclusive Boing Boing preview! (All images copyright 2012 The Topps Company, Inc., used by permission.) My kids and I have become deeply engrossed with the book Garbage Pail Kids, a fond look at the Topps bubblegum trading cards… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/22/the-most-disgusting-trading-ca.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 My kids and I have become…

  • Bruce McCall explains the artist’s drive for absurdist retrofuturism

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    via Link: Boing Boing

  • Ben Wilson

    Ben Wilson

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    Ben Wilson Link: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/ben-wilson?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 I came across the mini-spectacularity of Ben Wilson’s jewell-like paintings on chewing gum mere days ago, though I’m a little slow on the uptake (he’s been doing them for nine years).

  • Worst Wurst by The Little People Project

    Worst Wurst by The Little People Project

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    Worst Wurst by The Little People Project Artist and photographer Slinkachu recently created Worst Wurst for his ongoing series of miniature street art installations at The Little People Project. via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/worst-wurst-by-the-little-people-project/ Slinkachu recently created Worst Wurst for his ongoing series of miniature street art installations at The Little People Project