I am a big fan of all things Markus Raetz. The fact that he now made a Typographic Illusion Scultpure makes me swoon.
The Art of Clean Up
I am completely fascinated by The Art of Clean Up: Sorting and Stacking Everyday Objects, by Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli.
Under what rock do I live? Why did I miss his TED talk?
(via @Typeconf)
Do Watcha Like
Arianna of Paperjam Press just recently added a few more prints to her collection of hand pulled, short runs of words to live by.
Thinking of a Masterplan hangs above my desk and makes me happy on a daily basis. The Do Watcha Like made me chuckle. See them all here.
Calculator Screen Prints
I am pretty sure these prints would make my accountant smile: Five Color Calculator Screen Print by Tom Rowe.
Minimal Art Shelf
I love this Minimal Art Shelf Idea by Erin Loechner.
Lion
I fully agree with the Fab.com copy-writer: This mammoth crochet-knit sculpture of a life-sized lion’s head is a witty, whimsical commentary on the sport of hunting and taxidermy’s trophy exhibitionism.
How fun would this be in a kid’s room? (Even though, it might cause nightmares)
Embroidered Portraits
These embroidered portraits by Daniel Kornstrumpf had me drop what I was doing and stare, in awe.
(Thank you Jon)
MoMA Design Studio
The MoMA Department of Advertising and Graphic Design just launched their team website: www.momadesignstudio.org #twothumbsup
(thank you Jesse)
Printing at Home
This Printing At Home Piece by Xavier Antin made me chuckle. Combine art with some humor and you got me.
Fake Books
I couldn’t help but chuckle when I discovered these Fake Books by Emanuela Ligabue. They are handpainted wooden blocks, made to look like a book. (Please everyone, let’s welcome Emanuela to the internet. She just launched her site *today*, oh, and she happens to be the mother of wonderfully talented Olimpia Zagnoli)
Unique New York: The (AIGA) Auction
AIGA/NY is currently organizing an amazing auction called Unique New York. They want you to bid early, and bid often, so you can take home a piece of Unique New York! The auction features a small collection of covetable artwork, collage and constructions from twelve unique talents from their New York creative pool. Some of the works are quite large, some are quite small, but they are all huge in stature, enormously good-looking, and giant in their contribution to AIGA New York. (so it says on their site. hilarious)
The auction will close on the evening of May 26th. Your secure bids, in increments of $50, can be phoned in to the Unique New York Auction Hotline, 212 255-1856 where volunteers will record and anonymously post your bid. Phone bidding will be available the evening of the auction, bidders not at the auction can pre-register to stay in the bidding action either by phone, or stating a “not-to-exceed” bid left at headquarters until the gavel falls.
I wish I could buy the above piece by Stephen Doyle, called the Hypertext Book Sculpture. Can’t remember when I last fell in love with a piece of art like this one. #heartbreak
See the entire AIGA auction here. And here’s an interview with Stephen Doyle about his Paper Sculptures.
Log with Headband
This Log with Headband and Wrist Band illustration by Marc Johns just made me laugh out loud. My studiomates Jason and Rob can attest that. I heart Marc John’s sense of humor. What would the world be without a little bit of absurdity sprinkled ontop?
Reliquarium Art
taxidermy pigeon with party hat constructed of paper, yarn, and acrylic paint
found bottle on wooden stand containing instructions on how to build a ship in a bottle
Cheetoe resembling a mountain climber at the summit of a mountain enclosed in a custom frame constucted of wood, gold leaf, and glass with a metal plate bearing the title
Pigeon Footprint Found in Snow, 2008
My lovely friend BB was visiting over the weekend and stumbled upon this humorous art gem over at the Brooklyn Flea: Reliquarium Art. The Pigeon Foot Print Found in Snow made me laugh out loud. Hat tip to Jackie Mock!
90 Days of Art
“90 Days of Art” is an online Art Journal and Gallery for charity. John Beck McConnico will produce an average of one sketch, doodle, or art nugget every day, for a 90-day period. Each item will be available for sale as a greeting card, limited-edition print, or framed piece of art.
An Endless Table
Don’t we all have a lifetime of dinner table photographs, each celebrating a holiday, birthday, or special event. Pictures that depict the same dinner table and usually the same cast of characters — family members, friends, neighbors. Combined, they create a seemingly never-ending scene. Colored dots represent the designer’s relationship to each person. I absolutely love this idea. Hat tip to Kim Bentley!
(thank you Kyle)
Nike + Collab: Paint With Your Feet
My wonderfully talented friend Zach Lieberman just informed me about a new project he worked on: Zach and his team collaborated with Nike for which they wrote software that makes paintings from GPS data of your runs that Nike+ gets. The basic idea was that it will allow you to “paint with your feet”. They trained a group of runners how to use it and how their running styles affect the system, then worked with them to design posters. Isn’t that a fantastic idea? Read more about it here.
The Human Spirograph
I am *completely* mesmerized by Tony Orrico’s spirograph art. Absolutely intriguing. I wonder if he is in somewhat a meditative state when doing these large scale drawings.
(via Brain Pickings / BOOOOOOOM)
How Do You Feel (About Art)?
How Do You Feel (About Art)? from svanes on Vimeo.
Created by Ewan Admans and Christian Svanes Kolding on behalf of Longbow & Swan. What are your 3 words?
(via raul on stellar)
Drawing Machine by Eske
Drawingmachine by Eske Rex from Core77 on Vimeo.
This Drawing Machine by Eske Rex is one of the most soothing things I have seen in a long time.
(via selectismjonhuck)
The Line by Saul Steinberg
The Line, the original a 10-meter-long drawing with 29 panels that unfold, accordion fashion, is Steinberg’s manifesto about the conceptual possibilities of the line and the artist who gives them life. His drawing hand begins and ends the sequence, as the simple horizontal line that hand creates metamorphoses into, among other things, a water line, laundry line, railroad track, sidewalk, arithmetic division line, or table edge; near the end, the curlicues etched by the iceskater’s blade remind us of the role calligraphy plays in Steinberg’s art.
The Dumpster Project
Brooklyn-based artist Mac Premo has archived much of his life through collected objects. He is about to move to a smaller studio, which means he needs to say goodbye to a lot of his stuff. He will do so by using them as the raw material for one enormous collage, created inside a 30-yard dumpster. And before he is starting to work on that giant piece, he is going to photograph around 400 of these objects and display them, accompanied by a brief history of each item over at thedumpsterproject.com.
