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…
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
(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…
My kids and I have become deeply engrossed with the book Garbage Pail Kids, a fond look at the Topps bubblegum trading cards that were art directed by Art Spiegelman 25 years ago. This book, published by Abrams ComicArts, has all 206 images from the Garbage Pail Kids stickers produced in 1985 and 1986.
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).
Artist and photographer Slinkachu recently created Worst Wurst for his ongoing series of miniature street art installations at The Little People Project.
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Slinkachu recently created Worst Wurst for his ongoing series of miniature street art installations at The Little People Project
The 1949 salesman’s catalog from the National Candy Wholesalers Association is full of great images and slogans for making confectionery sales. View the
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The 1949 salesman’s catalog from the National Candy Wholesalers Association is full of great images and slogans for making confectionery sales
French film distributor Christophe Courtois has evidently seen thousands of film posters in his life: witness his spot on and often hilarious film posters
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The Evolution of Video Game Controllers by Pop Chart Lab, featuring “119 species and 11 genera over seven decades of gaming”. This new “Deluxe Edition” is
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The Evolution of Video Game Controllers by Pop Chart Lab, featuring “119 species and 11 genera over seven decades of gaming”.
The AIGA worked to ensure that professional designers should be compensated fairly for their work long before technology allowed for easy, free publication of writing and photography
Pop Chart Lab has created The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names, celebrating the noms de guerre of 382 professional wrestlers.
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Pop Chart Lab has created The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names, celebrating the noms de guerre of 382 professional wrestlers.
Andrew Barr of Canada’s newspaper National Post collaborated with illustrator Mike Faille to tally up the carnage from antagonist Jason Voorhees in the
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Andrew Barr of Canada’s newspaper National Post collaborated with illustrator Mike Faille to tally up the carnage from antagonist Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th slasher film polylogy which began in the 1980s.
German artist EVOL uses stencils to create the illusion of tiny buildings on walls and street furniture. For his latest installation, he excavated an
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Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70s, including some sci-fi classics, Bo Derek, What’s Happening, and Dukes of Haz…
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Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70
David Young V is on a mission. Shuttling between two studio spaces in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco— frequently in the dead of night—he engages in the business of recovering fragments from a future world. To hear him speak about the tomorrow he foresees; a world of zealots, martyrs, psychotic orphans and armed bike couriers, one is reminded of Mad-Max… if it had more military training and dabbled in cryptography and linguistics.
Brooklyn painter, street artist, and musician Dan Witz has a solo show opening at NYC’s Jonathan LeVine Gallery on June 30. The series of large-scale hyper-realistic figurative paintings is t…
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Applying old master techniques, (Witz) achieves impressively convincing trompe l’oeil illusions of light, shadow and depth in his finely rendered portraits, landscapes and still lifes. The artist recently added digital media tools to his process (having previously used traditional projection methods). Combining old master techniques and digital technology, he photographs his subjects, composes in photoshop, prints an a-chromatic underpainting on canvas then glazes and scumbles over this foundation using traditional representational painting…
I went to Venice, and I came back worried. Every two years, the central attraction of the Biennale is a kind of State of the Art World show. This year’s, called “Illuminations,” has its share of high points and artistic intensity. (Frances Sta […]
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There’s always conformity in art—fashions come in and out—but such obsessive devotion to a previous generation’s ideals and ideas is very wrong. It suggests these artists are too much in thrall to their elders, excessively satisfied with an insider’s game of art, not really making their own work. That they are becoming a Lost Generation.
An academic appreciation of very bad late ’90s Hip-Hop cover art. (thanks, David)
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Eager for May 21? Can’t wait for Jesus to dustbust up all the Christians so you can get on with your on post-rapture orgies and looting? Well, some of us
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