What would happen if you took some really famous logos and stripped them of their names? Would you recognize them? It wasn't too long ago that Starbucks did the same...
You Took My Name is a clever and cool series of paintings that are comprised only of basic graphic forms. Of course this begs the question, "Is a logo, at the end of the day, just pop art?"…
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Added by alice on April 13, 2011 at 10:00am —
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Scooby Doo
If you thought a craft like cross-stitching was just for your grandma, then you haven't seen these incredibly cool pixel people from Wee Little Stitches! The contemporary cross-stitch company knows how to make grown adults giggle with glee by featuring everything from the cast of
Pretty and Pink and
Ferris Bueller's Day Off to the just recently…
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Added by alice on April 12, 2011 at 3:00pm —
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SIT is an artist that has been a part of the Amsterdam creative scene for many years. He's a jack-of-all-trades dabbling in everything from action painting and graphic design to advertising and more until one day he decided stop everything. With
Noir, he is able to go back to basics using bold black and whites colors. With these pieces, he examines the troubled relationship between animal kingdom and…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on April 12, 2011 at 1:30pm —
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If you live in NYC, this is one show you're not going to want to miss! Starting April 16th and running until May 14th, you're going to see skateboard decks like you've never seen them before. Jonathan LeVine Gallery will be presenting
Future Primitive, new works by Tokyo-based artist Haroshi. You may remember Haroshi as that madly talented self-taught artist who takes old skateboard…
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Added by alice on April 12, 2011 at 8:30am —
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Valencia, Spain-based photographer Luis Beltran just sent us word that he's just launched
a new website that's chock full of his most beautiful work. Months ago, we posted on Beltran's storytelling photo manipulations in a post titled…
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Added by alice on April 11, 2011 at 10:00am —
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If you're looking for a way to add a little of creativity to your everyday life, why not make a funny food face? Japan-born and based Sayaka Minemura has created a whole set dedicated to this idea called
Breakfast Project. Watch as she transforms everything from pancakes and toast to Japanese…
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Added by alice on April 10, 2011 at 11:00am —
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Artist Alan Wolfson recently completed an incredibly detailed miniature sculpture that will make you do a double take! Called
Canal St. Cross-Section, the tri-level piece pays homage to one of the most famous streets in New York City. Canal Street is not just a major thoroughfare connecting Brooklyn and New Jersey, it's a major street known for its busy commercial district, old school…
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Added by alice on April 9, 2011 at 4:00pm —
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Using a careful combination of hand-cut paper, gouache, hand-stitching and other mixed media, Brooklyn-based artist
Dan-ah Kim creates magical worlds we'd love to get lost in. She's currently showing a new collection of work starting today at…
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Added by Marica on April 7, 2011 at 3:00pm —
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Met favorite Sarah Joncas recently sent
Hi-Fructose some shots showing what she's been up to in her studio as of late. The Toronto-based artist is currently in the process of creating new works for her yet to be titled solo show at Last Rites Gallery in New York City, which opens at the end of April. Joncas shares that she will be taking a…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on April 7, 2011 at 1:30pm —
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Jeannie Lynn Paske has a unique, contrastive style. There is a soothing, melancholic side to her drawings, and then there is the intense and subtly dark side of them. An
Obsolete World best describes her illustrations of strange creatures facing extinction. The creatures are portrayed observing their surroundings. Paske’s work is easily evocative of loneliness and depth.
According to…
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Added by Basil on April 7, 2011 at 1:00pm —
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Using special colored pencils, Beijing-based Xia Xiaowan paints on 14 to 30 panes of glass to create ghostly holographic artwork. Walk around one of these paintings and you will notice that the image changes along each shift of perspective, blurring the line between painting and sculpture. Each piece takes approximately one to two months to complete, depending on the degree of complexity of the…
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Added by Eugene on April 6, 2011 at 7:00pm —
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Joshua Budich - Kill Bill
If you're a big movie buff, you probably know that Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers have written, directed, and produced some of the best films in the past two decades.
As a tribute to these film icons, Spoke Art has arranged a battle-royal style art show featuring over 100 world class artists from the new contemporary art scene. Painters,…
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Added by Eugene on April 6, 2011 at 3:00pm —
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A few years ago, Helsinki-based Artist Jonna Pohjalainen spent the summer at an environmental art workshop in Pedvale, Latvia. She arrived there supply-less, but with an open mind. Every day, she would sit quietly, taking in the rural landscape, sharpening her pencils and watching the sunset. It was during those quiet moments that she got the brilliant idea to transform the gray aspen logs that…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on April 6, 2011 at 12:30pm —
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Added by Alyssa Anda on April 6, 2011 at 12:30pm —
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With the recent natural disasters in Japan, many people are doing what they can to help.
Christina Conway, a curator, graphic designer and illustrator from San Diego, California, came up with the genius idea to organize an art auction with the proceeds going to the recovery of Japan. She asked artists to paint on an ema - a small wooden…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on April 6, 2011 at 12:00pm —
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Dorie Millerson is a Toronto-based artist who’s medium is lace. She creates intricate, small sculptures made from lace and suspends them using string. Millerson holds an Masters in Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her work is exhibited in Canada as well as in the United States. According to her website, “her studio practice involves research into stitched and constructed…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on April 4, 2011 at 1:30pm —
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If you were blown away by
Andrew Myers' screw art, you'll be equally impressed with these nail art compositions. Marcus Levine can take up to three weeks to create one of these pieces but that's not the crazy part. Levine is known for putting, quite literally, his blood, sweat and tears into each…
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Added by Alyssa Anda on April 1, 2011 at 1:30pm —
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Last year, artists Jean-Pierre Roy and MIchael Kagan had a brilliant idea. They would recycle the countless, used MetroCards New Yorkers mindlessly throw away and turn them into something amazing. These discarded pieces of trash would serve as canvases on which to create miniature works of art. They would call the show
Single Fare.
Well, Roy and Kagen fulfilled their dream and…
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If you're in Paris right now, I'm hoping that you're one of the 40,000 attendees at the city's modern and contemporary art fair.
Art Paris brings together emerging and established artists in painting, photography, sculpture, and more. Over 120 art galleries are involved including…
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Added by alice on April 1, 2011 at 11:30am —
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Famous Logos Stripped of their Names
Zoomanity
Incredibly Funny Imagination
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An Obsolete World
Ghostly Holographic Artwork
