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 [...]
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!
If you’re in Auckland, you might have heard of the SideRoom/42 Below Month of Street Art, celebrating the art of scribbling in public. Tomorrow night the second show opens, featuring work of Flox, Peepshow and more. As part of the show, they have also engaged the artists to work directly on the outside panes 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 [...]
Blu’s fantastic Muto stop motion graffiti seems like such a simple idea, but is absolutely amazing in execution. Roaming the streets of Buenos Ares, Blu spent a winter drawing and editing this marvel of motion, which is not only notable for it’s technique, but psychologically time twisting themes. He’s also created a few smaller pieces [...]
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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