A simple musing, but why aren’t there more yellow houses? Sunny, cute adobes that smile out of grey streets. I’m dreaming of egg yolk weatherboards with robin blue trims. Apartment blocks that look like giant cadmium yellow liquorice all-sorts. Mini limoncello cottages…
Perhaps I need to journey to San Fransisco or perhaps Arles, as per Vincent’s [...]
“Street with a View” is an incredibly neat art project conducted merrily down a one way lane, in conjunction with Google Street View. Artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley, along with their friends and community, staged a series of action packed scenes, which in turn was captured with 360-degree photographs of the street. The [...]
Photographer Gemma Booth has enchanted me with her fashion fantasies. Great clothes and dreamily lit scenes featuring girls you would want to be friends with. She also has a fine selection of documentary shots.
Gemma has a blog you can peep at, updated with visual tidbits and inspirations - I hope she updates again soon!
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Cedric Rivrain is a talented illustrator with an aesthetic crush on Kate Moss. You may have seen his work in Numéro, Tokion or another super-mag. I really appreciate his use of different paper stocks, working with the textures. Crayon candy!
I’ve been a fan of Keren Richter’s illustrations for ages! I kept up with all her latest developments on ye olde Livejournal - from her sassy work on Vans shoes to saucy animations. Her latest endeavor is a fun, nicely written blog. I particularly like the documentation of her bedroom and a run down of [...]
Something Planned* is an apparently ‘anonymous’ designer from the US. With a heavy focus on typography and some absolutely stunning examples of letterpress, his portfolio is well worth checking out. Of particular note is his Think Beauty piece [via FFF], mixing good old street art with a different approach. Tape + a chain link fence [...]
From humble beginnings as a small outfit selling iron-on prints in New York’s Lower East Side, Heavy Rotation have fast become my pick of the bunch as the forefront of excellent t-shirt design.
Merging the ’60s concept of fantastic orginal artwork with new ideas in print techniques, each season brings exciting advances in t-shirt and garment [...]
Some deliciously dark thoughts are coming out of the head of artist Stephanie Metz. She meticulously constructs teddy bear skulls using felted wool. In her artist statement she describes the skulls as “… an elegant structural armature for life, something that reveals historical clues and hints at individual stories that may never be told. It [...]
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