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Playing with your food seems to be the theme of the day today! We’ve seen Boguslaw Sliwinski’s ceramic designs before and this time he takes us on new food adventures with these sports-themed plates. The Polish designer creates his ceramic…
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Tibi Tibi Neuspiel certainly turns ‘playing with your food’ into a collection of powerful statements. The artist, who works with all types of media ranging from sculpture to performance art, is best known for his humorous wax sculptures. According to his bio, “Neuspiel references both tangible understandings of the natural world, and elements culled from popular culture chosen for, or…
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Born in L.A. and now based in New York, artist Tom Fruin created a recent installation that adds a little sparkle to the already dazzling Brooklyn skyline. His monumental sculpture, Watertower, is built out of salvaged plexiglass and steel, and is mounted high upon a water tower platform located in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The mosaic design consists of about 1,000 scraps of plexiglass…
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Illustrator and painter Tim O’Brien is best known for his incredibly lifelike portraits that have been seen in publications including TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, National Geographic, Playboy, Penthouse, The New York Times, and many others.
He leads us in a different direction from his realistic portraits with this…
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Maps are all around us. They offer us guidance through city streets, subways stops, and across the globe. They feature incredible detail, vivid colors, and generally attractive designs to easily communicate geographic information. French artist Elisabeth Lecourt has taken the beauty and concept of a map one step further with Les Robes Géographiques.
From an…
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The Imperfections is a unique fashion piece designed by artist Sopi Su. The Taiwan-born and New York-based artist was inspired to create this piece after reading a book by the Japanese author Sei Shonagon. Shonagon wrote down her observations of life during the 11th century in The Pillow…
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Let your eyes wander across these silhouettes and get lost in the creative confusion of artist Daphna Naim’s series entitled Daydreams. The Israel-based graphic designer and illustrator takes the flattened black shape of a person’s silhouette and transforms it into a tiny narrative that runs along the base of each person’s form. The stories range from a tree growing…
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We recently featured a variety of macro photographers who have the amazing ability to reveal the tiny details of the world around us. Adding to this list is creative photographer Shikhei Goh. Based in Batam Island, located 45-minutes by boat from…
Added by Katie Hosmer on June 4, 2012 at 9:00am — 1 Comment
I'm sure you'd agree that the Star Wars film series is a cultural phenomenon! There was probably a bit of pressure for all involved to follow up the first movie with a second and third. These photographs show a bit of the fun that actors Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher had while creating the second, The Empire Strikes Back, a 1980 production. Included in…
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This photo series, entitled Bird Hunter, does not involve the type of hunting that you might typically imagine. Spanish art director and photographer Dani Garcia Sarabia spends his time pursuing not wildlife, as one would generally expect from a hunter, but rather, powerful winged airplanes in the sky.
Sarabia describes his process for the project: “Waiting since before the…
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Using a very traditional crochet technique, Scottish artist Jo Hamilton creates these very non-traditional portraits. The artist has been crocheting and knitting since the age of six, thanks to the teachings and inspirations of her grandmother and mother. Crocheting was always a hobby for Hamilton and, in art school, she started off as an oil painter but says she was never completely…
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We have seen a lot of amazing paper artists recently and, in the past few months, we have also been inspired by many street artists around the…
Added by Katie Hosmer on June 1, 2012 at 8:00am — 1 Comment
The angelic, mystical forms by artist Steven Daluz remind me of paintings from the 15th and 16th century. There is a sense of human emotion in the dramatic gestures and golden orange hues of each piece. He uses metal leaf, chemically-induced patinas, oil, and other mixed media to evoke the moody tones of his enigmatic subjects.
Daluz says, “I am compelled to do work that conjures…
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