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I am eating your head.
Just sayin’. These laurageorge prints (available at Supermarket) crack me up! Her work, with its blobby monsters and offbeat sense of humor, reminds me a bit of Fomato - but with a bit of retro flair....
Organisms.
I wrote about Brooklyn sculptor Tara Donovan a while back, and was lucky enough to see some of her work in person last night at the ICA. The exhibit runs through January 4 and I highly, highly recommend seeing it if you’re in the area. Donovan...
Draw your greens.
Ooo… I love Brooklyn designer’s Natsumi Nishizumi’s sure-handed yet dreamy ink and watercolor drawings. Here are a few I like, but be sure to visit her blog to have a look at her other, more abstract ones too - all so airy....
The world in rice.
British theater company Stan’s Cafe is putting on a touring exhibition, Of All the People in All the World, which uses 112 tons of rice to illustrate all kinds of statistics - with one grain representing one person. (Thanks to Dave for telling...
Mareike Auer.
Love these prints from Austrian artist Mareike Auer, available at The Shiny Squirrel - all solid silhouettes in muted tones punctuated with bright pops of color. Her work is somehow simultaneously blithe and eerie. Below are Polka Pigs, The Bird...
Noriko Ambe.
Amazingly dynamic and fluid cut-paper work from artist Noriko Ambe. So cool - these layered pieces evoke a sense of something vaguely topological and biological. Into it? Take a look at the exhibition calendar for upcoming shows from Beijing to Ne...
Moo.
Some really cool and amazingly varied work from designer and illustrator Valerie Jar. That family portrait of a little cow standing nonchalantly between two steaks makes me laugh. O god… am I a bad person? Check out her blog here, too....
These posters don’t suck.
Check out this array of seriously awesome original posters from The Poster List - a little bit vintage and thoroughly, well, rockin’. I’m especially tickled by their take on the ubiquitous Keep Calm poster… Via Design Milk. add...
Lauren Nassef.
I love love love this drawing (Bananas for Sale) from Chicago illustrator Lauren Nassef, part of her A Drawing a Day blog series. Her linework has a wonderful fineness and sureness about it. Who knew a string of bananas could look so poetic… ...
Simply ink.
I love this Berlin, Berlin drawing from Helsinki-based artist Hanna Konola. It’s somehow simultaneously provincial and etheral… all wavering daylight and ink-and-water purity. Abstract forms and subdued colors with a shot of pink sugges...
Tranquil tablescapes.
(Hmm… today is apparently a good day for alliterative blog post titles!) Anyway, I always enjoy visiting Carol Gillot’s Paris Breakfasts for her sweet watercolors, and today she has up these truly lovely photos - I have to share. I̵...
Fade to white.
I learned of Dana De Ano through Design for Mankind today, and… well, wow. Dana uses mixed media (including pencil, graphite, paint, oil, cloth, thread, found materials, and more) to create these meandering, timeless, spaceless pieces. Below, ...
The world in colored pencil.
These dreamy imagined landscapes from Melbourne artist gretchenmist exude innocent simplicity - must be her lovely use of pencil (still my own medium of choice)… Visit her etsy shop for more. Via modamuse. Share This...
Doodles on porcelain.
Bailey Doesn’t Bark prints and paints these evocatively simple flowing lines onto paper, glassware, and porcelain. Take a look at the etsy shop - the sleeping birds are especially sweet. Share This...
“And yet for all that I still had never gotten used to the breathtaking impermanence of things.”
These photos of ice-carved letters from Kotama Bouabane (from the series Melting Words) are a beautifully plaintive reminder - when so many of our written words are captured and cached - that sometimes the most affecting words are fleeting. Share Th...
A change of direction?
A post-it note drawing from Marc Johns. See more of his offbeat illustrations at his flickr stream. Share This...
Drool drool drool.
I keep eyeing this hefty tome at my local bookshop, and over time I’ve gone from simply admiring it to fully-blown coveting it. 1080 Recipes, by mother-daughter team Simone and Inés Ortega, has been Spain’s best-selling cookbook for the...
Flora & Fauna.
Art-loving Bostonians will be happy to know that Space 242 in the South End is opening their fifth exhibition of the year today: Flora & Fauna, featuring illustrations, paintings, and mixed media by Joe Keinberger and Sarah Coyne. The opening r...
Artwalk 2008.
Yesterday was a fine day for an open studios visit, and the Fort Point Artwalk definitely delivered. Here are a few shots from my wanderings around this art-loving neighborhood in Southie (which, as I discovered on Saturday evening on my way to see ...
A melancholy mood.
Gorgeously muted prints from Thumbtack Press, which offers hundreds of affordable gallery-quality prints from contemporary artists. Visit the artists’ websites (linked below) for more of their great work. 1. Sometimes Love Don’t Solve ...
FPAC Artwalk 2008.
For those of you who will be in the Boston area this coming weekend, don’t miss the Fort Point Arts Community’s Artwalk 2008, featuring the open studios of several local artists (including Katie Rowley and Bob’s Your Uncle, who I bo...
Katie Rowley.
I was housing a grilled roast chicken sandwich at South End bakery Flour recently when my eyes drifted from the remains of my fatty panini, dripping melted brie, to the eccentric straw-blown work by local artist Katie Rowley hung up on the walls. He...
Paper couture.
I’m struck speechless by the intricate paperwork and exaggerated silhouettes of sculptural artist Zoe Bradley, who creates these dramatic window installations and showpieces out of luxury papers for fashion designers such as Alexander McQueen a...
Hina Aoyama.
I’ve seen some impressive papercuts, but Hina Aoyama’s Lettre de Voltaire is really in another league altogether. She does this with just a pair of scissors… and a lot of patience! You can see more of her work on her Flickr slides...
Dan-ah Kim.
A sense of wistful loneliness pervades Dan-ah Kim’s beautifully muted prints. Le sigh is right! See more of her prints at her etsy shop. Below are I Kept Missing Your Train, Le Sigh, and Trying. Kim is based in New York, but has had a numb...
Color Chart.
Color aficionados everywhere will appreciate MoMA’s first-ever online exhibition, Color Chart (on view through May 12). The “show” features the works of 44 artists from 1918 to 2008, including this one by Swiss artist Niele Toroni ...
Jacob Hashimoto.
I’m really enjoying the work of Japanese-American artist Jacob Hashimoto. Though his pieces are thoroughly contemporary, their lightness and delicacy of form recall traditional Japanese aesthetics. Hashimoto is especially known for creating i...
Anna Wolf.
Photographer Anna Wolf has done some beautiful work for corporate clients, but I like these quietly personal little books interspersed with cutouts of her lovely imagery, calling to mind handmade scrapbooks and diaries. Here’s a peek. For mor...
Eveline Tarunadjaja.
Sloe-eyed girls with abundant locks populate the dreamy scenes in Australian artist’s Eveline Tarunadjaja’s gorgeous illustrations. In addition to the prints and originals for sale on her website, you can also find Eveline’s work o...
Got art?
This post is inspired by Merril - who, in the six months since moving into her downtown apartment, still comes home to blank walls every day. Here are some pretty and affordable prints and paintings, courtesy of the wonderful Poppytalk Handmade, the...
