Category: Art & Design

  • Bosnian Flat Dog

    Bosnian Flat Dog

    Fantagraphics:

    The 1999 Nato bombing of Serbia. A grenade shell from a Sarajevo souvenir shop. A refrigerator with the frozen mummy of Tito… These serve as the starting point for a journey further and further down the collective unconscious of the Balkans, where the borders between dream and reality are erased and redrawn until they form a tale as exciting as it is fantastic, a tale which could be about our times and a war-torn Europe but just as well might be a deep dive into the psyches of its authors or a discussion about the essence of drawing. Bosnian Flat Dog is the result of a unique collaboration between two of Sweden’s most internationally renowned cartoonists, Death and Cand and Pixy creator Max Andersson and Lars Sjunnesson. Each of them contributed to every single drawing to the extent that they no longer can tell themselves exactly who did what. This has lead to the emergence of an independent artistic entity which is neither of the two, but something else, at once familiar and unknown and perhaps a little bit scary.

    Here.

  • Catchin' Up With… Stikman

    Catchin' Up With… Stikman

    Wooster Collective:

    STIKMAN Has just returned from a thousand mile journey across the state of New York and the province of Ontario. Along the way I spread hundreds of STIKMEN and STIKMAN paintings in the cities and towns that I encountered. In Toronto I installed a wide variety of artworks throughout 50 miles of streets and alleyways. I was lucky enough to have a chance encounter in a parking lot with the art prankster Istvan Kantor, the godfather of culture jamming and the founder of Neoism. He was painting one hundred works an hour for seven hours so I was able watch him work his magic and pick up some paintings and do a little collaborating.( the last photo is of two of the paintings that were painted that day by Istvan)

    Here.

  • Banksy ordered to clean up his elephant act

    Guardian:

    The elephant may have been in the room, but by the end of its stay it had lost its sheen. Tai, the 38-year-old painted pachyderm that was the centrepiece of the first major US show by the British graffiti artist Banksy, was scrubbed down on Sunday on the orders of the Los Angeles department of animal services.

    Here.

  • Banksy's elephant provokes anger

    Banksy's elephant provokes anger

    BBC:

    Mr Boks said he tried to withdraw permits for the elephant on grounds of public safety last Friday, but found the three-day exhibition would be over before they took effect.

    “Permits will not be issued for such frivolous abuse of animals in the future,” he said.

    Tai’s owner, Kari Johnson, denied that the 38-year-old Indian elephant had suffered as a result of the paint job.

    Here.

  • Fuct Interview (with Erik Brunetti)

    Addicteed:

    So I recently came across the “fuct facts” where it is made clear that Shepard Fairey aka OBEY has “borrowed” several designs and ideas from fuct, you have publicly addressed your opinion about him – What does Shepard have to say about all this? Has he/you ever tried to contact each other about this matter?

    I could care less about OBEY, or anything else they “borrow”. They all
    seem very unhappy all the time in that camp. They all need hugs.

    Here.

  • FUCT: LOVE AWARENESS PROGRAM

    BrightNights:

    FUCT printed this graphic on t-shirts titled “Mao-Now!” circa 1993.
    In response to a simple question that Erik had asked himself: “Who is the Lucifer of China ?” while brainstorming ideas for a logo that would faithfully represent Evil in Asia. Sure enough, genocide-genius Chairman Mao Zedong (pronounced Tse Tung) came up as contestant number one !

    OBEY printed a similar Mao graphic, a few years down the line. The Giant campaign was promoting cultural revolution by portraying a true visionary as an emblem of hope and world peace.

    Here.

  • The Feast

    The Feast

    Little People.

    Here.

  • BANKSY: The Story Disneyland Doesn't Want You To Know

    BANKSY: The Story Disneyland Doesn't Want You To Know

    Wooster Collective:

    Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.

    The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours before Disneyland’s security staff shut down the ride and removed it amid fears over public safety.

    Here.

  • Little People: A Tiny Street Art Project

    Little People: A Tiny Street Art Project

    Wooster Collective:

    “Little hand-painted people, left in London to fend for themselves.”

    Here.

  • Berlin Skyline

    Berlin Skyline

    Eboy.

    Here.

  • Joe Coleman gets a retrospective at the Tilton Gallery in Manhattan

    Joe Coleman gets a retrospective at the Tilton Gallery in Manhattan

    NYT:

    IF P. T. Barnum had hired Breughel or Bosch to paint sideshow banners, they might have resembled the art of Joe Coleman. Obsessively depicting a grim moral universe of transgression and retribution, Mr. Coleman paints grotesque images of murderers and victims, freaks and monsters, disease, depravity and perversities of every kind.

    In his painstakingly detailed paintings, Charles Manson leers, JonBenet Ramsey pouts, pinheads dance, drunkards lie with poxied whores, and corpses display their wounds like obscene stigmata. Drug addicts loll in ruined cityscapes under boiling H-bomb skies, 1930’s gangsters grin on their way to the gallows, and Mr. Coleman and his wife, Whitney Ward, reign over the apocalypse, enthroned on the head of a giant Satan. In a startlingly prophetic vision of his from 2000, the twin towers burn.
    Here.

  • Our Favorite Invader Piece Ever

    Our Favorite Invader Piece Ever

    Wooster:

    Made with 323 Rubiks cubes. Lovely.

    Here.

  • Found New World Order

    Found New World Order

    WoosterCollective:

    Here.

  • solve for x

    solve for x

    WoosterCollective.

    Here.

  • Regime Change

    Regime Change

    TommyKane:

    Stencil Work.

    Here.

  • More paintings hanging around

    More paintings hanging around

    From The Girls.

    Here.

  • THE ISSUE ONE PDF ZINE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD.

    THE ISSUE ONE PDF ZINE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD.

    From wallspankers.com:

    This is a brand spankin’ new project headed by MWMgraphics and Knuckle Sandwich Press. The idea is pretty simple and we have been meaning to make it happen for years. It is a collaborative endeavor that entirely relies on participants submissions and “spanks”. Spanking refers to slapping stickers up (an incredible current worldwide phenomenon).

    As a graffiti head, designer, illustrator, and sticker fan, I wanted to create a place where friends, fam and new acquaintances could share their Black and White designs with the world.
    Here.

  • Artwork Available

    Artwork Available

    From The Girls:

    Well, hello there.
    Here’s some paintings that some people might not know about, available through Lunar Boy Gallery in Astoria, Oregon.

    Here.

  • Obey – Supply and Demand

    Obey – Supply and Demand

    From obeygiant:

    So, after two years in the making Supply and Demand has finally arrived and I’m very happy with the results. This book is 350 pages, large format (9″x12″) with a foil embossed cover. More than looking spiffy from the outside, it is mega-juicy on the inside. There are tons of images that have never been published as well as essays and interviews by Steven Heller, Carlo McCormick, Roger Gastman, Rob Walker, Helen Stickler, and me. This is the definitive case study, art book, bible of Obey Giant. I hope you dig it. All copies from the site are signed.
    -Shepard

    Preview Here.

  • Buy Nothing in Chicago

    Buy Nothing in Chicago

    From Wooster Collective:

    Artist: Tano Location: Division Street

    Here.