“The 1000 Journals Project is an ongoing collaborative experiment attempting to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels. The goal is to provide a method for interaction and shared creativity among friends and strangers.” (1000jour [...]
Posted by: Nikole Japuncic on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
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Amazing paddy field art in Japan. Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate create works of crop art by carefully planning, arranging and growing different varieties of rice plants. This year they came up with giant pictures of Napoleon a [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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DOXA Documentary Film Festival is launching something new at this year’s festival-their first-ever celebrity camera auction. Equipped with single-use cameras, some of our favorite famous people have unleashed their point & shoot c [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Categories: Art, Events, Pop Culture, Vancouver | 1 Comment »
Not sure if Bansky has hit Berlin or not really, but now you have a better chance of finding out. Adidas has created an iPhone app that acts as map and guide for locating street art in Berlin. So, if you’re tired of yet another museum [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, May 7th, 2009
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Clean tagging, or reverse graffiti, follows a very simple principle: clean in order to draw. We’ve all done that on a dirty car (yes, Wash me!!!). So is this environmental activism, art or vandalism? Alexandre Orion’s ‘wall of sku [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, March 27th, 2009
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What do you get when you cross LED technology, sheep and guys with a lot of time on their hands? How about one of the coolest campaigns by Samsung. Check it out here. Thanks to my buddy Steve for the link.
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
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I guess all new story ideas have been used up in literary circles, and writers have to turn to rewrite the classics. And that’s right, Seth Grahame-Smith went there. Read about it here, and order it on amazon.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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On Saturday, January 10th, 2009 nearly 2,500 people took off their pants on subways in 22 cities around the world. In New York’s 8th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride they had over 1,200 participants, spread out over four subway lines. Watch i [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, January 19th, 2009
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It’s like Communication Design class all over again. Take a peek at these sexy pieces for the Grammy’s “Celebrate the Music That Made Us” campaign. The portraits of select artists (Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Categories: Art, Design, Inspiration, Music, Typography | No Comments »
Data Visualization seems to be all the rage these days and there is a great summary of some of the instances of it from 2008 over at Flowing Data. (via MS on Twitter) Some of these were already familiar to me (Wordle and House of Cards) but [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, January 5th, 2009
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I hope that most readers of this blog are familiar with our Stefan G. Bucher and his daily monster drawings. His book—a signed copy with intro by Ze Frank is sitting on my bookshelf right now—contains 100 drawings done over 100 days, ma [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Categories: Art, Fun, Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Pop Culture, We love | 1 Comment »
The Rubitone, by Ignacio Pilotto: A Rubik’s Cube with Pantone colour chips—now why didn’t I think of that? [props to my man Cory for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
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I am left wondering the following: How many times did they have to re-do this trick and how long did it take to set it up. Enjoy it.
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, October 20th, 2008
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It’s been almost a year since the first and only time I’ve been to La Habana, Cuba and since then the country has moved even further away from the isolationist history (imposed or voluntary) of the last 50 years towards globaliz [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, September 26th, 2008
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Photography, Travel | No Comments »
I enjoy performance art as much as the next guy (fact: few people enjoy performance art), but this Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson should be recognized for creating the weirdest bit I’ve seen in a while using a mask of exploding [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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This came in today via LiquidTreat. It’s a documentary called Died Young, Stayed Pretty which is billed as a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. These artists dig deep into the culture of our times, and pas [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, August 15th, 2008
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Keeping up with the craze over the new Batman movie, I thought I’d add to the hype by posting this nicely designed poster. The chorus of ‘hahaha’s’ written to form the bat symbol is a neat detail. Props to Warner Bro [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, July 18th, 2008
Categories: Art, Design, Movie, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
Radiohead is one of those bands that always seems to innovate and they’ve done it again. For their latest video for House of Cards, they collaborated with James Frost (Of Blip Boutique) to realize a video created entirely using data v [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Categories: Art, Interactive, Interview, Technology | 2 Comments »
Apparently this has been going around for a little while, but the sheer effort, not to mention volume of paint, of this street art (I hesitate to call it grafitti) is impressive. Muto is “an ambiguous animation painted on public walls [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
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Industrial Brand was honoured to design and produce promotional materials for Surrey Art Gallery‘s newly launched Glocal Project. Glocal is a recent project co-developed by our friend and collaborator Jer Thorp (blprnt.com), who will [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, June 27th, 2008
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Getting a coffee this morning I was confronted by a compelling stack of promotional material for something called The Cheaper Show. Like most, I’m swayed by a bargain, so was curious. Turns out, the flyer is for a group show/sale by n [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 20th, 2008
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There is one thing I know all designers love; freaking sexy business cards. Here’s a site that will definitely get you thinking about redesigning your own card or at least get you itching to do something.
Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, June 6th, 2008
Categories: Art, Branding, Design, Inspiration, We love | 1 Comment »
While perusing the net, I came across this poster for a recent Stefan Sagmeister event. It was interesting to see another variation of the same affair. I must say, the poster design by D8 is one of the better ones I’ve seen. Props to [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Categories: Art, Design | 4 Comments »
If I was asked who Stefan Sagmeister was a week ago, I could’ve given a handful of knee-jerk descriptions; he’s a designer, he’s provocative, he’s influential. I could’ve said many things to describe the icon h [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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If you’re in any field related to art or design, you very likely know who Syd Mead is—the artist primarily responsible for the look and feel of influential movies such as Aliens, Blade Runner, Tron and others. Well, as a volunteer o [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Categories: Art, Associations, Events, Inspiration, Vancouver, We love | 3 Comments »
I own one, you probably own one… Here’s a site that makes me want to seriously doodle in my moleskine. Thanks JK Chan for forwarding this along.
Posted by: Steph Co on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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Stuffed animals. Explosives. Need I say more?
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Categories: Art, Fun, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
Do you have some vinyl records lying around collecting dust? Well, it’s time to bring them out and join Sleeveface. This widely popular online phenomenon is where people post creative images of themselves with their vinyl sleeves. To [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, April 4th, 2008
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You’ve seen all of these photos before, but have you seen them rendered in Lego? Have you? (via Geekology)
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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I could easily just post a link to the MoMA’s online exhibit “Design and the Elastic Mind” and say COOL! Actually, yeah, let’s do that. This site is as cool as the exhibit it showcases. [kudos KB for the heads up]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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With cameras in computers, cell phones and who knows where else, we seem to take for granted that cameras can go anywhere. In the early development of the movie camera, they were much more stable and harder to move around. When this new tec [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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This past week Jeff Healey passed away after a long battle with cancer. For those of you new to his name he was one of Canada’s top jazz and blues musicians who achieved critical and commercial success both at home and abroad. Do your [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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 I've been a big fan of his work before I was a designer and when his titling sequences were just a thing I found cool that kept me engaged at the start a movie. There's a great resource over at <a href=)
Saul Bass is pretty happenin. (and yes that is an academic statement) I’ve been a big fan of his work before I was a designer and when his titling sequences were just a thing I found cool that kept me engaged at the start a movie. The [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
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Q: What’s the only kind of music a violin is good for? A: Camp Fire Music OK…. I jest. The world has been inundated with solo violin works ranging from every Suzuki student playing Twinkle Twinkle up to stunning performances at [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Categories: Art, Music | 1 Comment »
My passion for samurai films is really unreasonable. Well, for that and Yakuza films. And the films of Takashi Miike, Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli, anything Takeshi Kitano was ever in (especially Brother), Japanese serials like Lone Wolf and [...]
Posted by: Andrew Ball on Monday, January 7th, 2008
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As part of the London Design Festival I attended a new opera called “The Corley Conspiracy”. The event was cowritten by a friend and collaborator Sean Starke, who is also part of the MIRROR project that I’m involved with. [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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For the past 3 years I’ve been working on a project called MIRROR with my good friend Thomas Anselmi. Our collaboration began with a breakfast meeting about a website and quickly evolved into us writing music and visually refining the [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Sunday, September 16th, 2007
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These silkscreened posters by Jason Munn, the man behind ‘The Small Stakes’, make me want to rack up a really big visa bill…
Posted by: Sarah Reid on Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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Next time you see a dirty car and write the ever-so-clever “Wash Me” on the rear windshield, think again. By the way, Sean Wade must know of some great dusty roads.
Posted by: Amanda Fetterly on Friday, July 27th, 2007
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This is good stuff for a Friday, and just in time for the weekend theatre bingers: The Hollywood Reporter announced the nominees for The 36th Annual Key Art Awards. In their words: This year there are 34 award categories, covering film post [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 22nd, 2007
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 waste of money. What in the world is it? Read on:
<blockquote>Bruster's® Real Ice Cream™, the country's premium ice cream retail franchise with more than 260 stores in 18 states, unveiled the world's first $1 million ice cream cone at the JCK Las Vegas Show. This work of art is created in the likeness of its signature waffle cone.</blockquote>
It is, however, highly topical as I stumbled upon it my RSS feeds not 45 minutes after Ben)
I present to you another example of the dire state of the human race. Considering all of the things going on in the world, this seems like a frivolous, almost immoral (as Mark put it) waste of money. What in the world is it? Read on: Bruste [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Thursday, June 14th, 2007
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For those of you who know us you know we don’t need to say one thing about this hamster powered paper shredder. Okay, one word…sah-weeet! (via Core77)
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 1st, 2007
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How cool is that? I want one.
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, May 31st, 2007
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The awesome, isometrically inclined work of Josh Keyes.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, May 24th, 2007
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PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is the stuff all those clear plastic pop and water bottles are made of. Most of us don’t think of them as anything other than containers for our favourite soft drink, but artist Miwa Koizumi has taken [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, April 20th, 2007
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I came across LUMAS recently while surfing for home decor. They offer an incredible collection of photographic works by emerging, master and historical photographers. Here’s the deal: We created LUMAS with the hope of making the art m [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 23rd, 2007
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Not too long ago I came across the most amazing paper sculptures by artist Peter Callesen. What sets these apart from the kind you sometimes see at your local craft market is the incredible skill and conceptual thinking in most of these pie [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
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In the spirit of the art and illustration theme we’ve had going on lately, here’s a small but really cool portfolio via Drawn! The Illustration Blog. They’re 3D computer generated pieces based on automatic drawings. The re [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
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I stumbled upon fantastic street artist Dan Witz via Wooster Collective last night. His street art is amazing and beautiful, but I particularly like his mosh pit series of paintings. The style of these really reminds me of Norman Rockwell, [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
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Working with the residents of the slums of Rio De Janeiro, artists Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koohaas have been painting a giant mural right in the heart of the community with the goal of instilling a sense of pride among the people and to impro [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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This morning I Rasterbated. Try it, you’ll like it.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
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Mike Libby combines high quality scientific insect specimens with antique watch parts and electronics to create a very sweet looking altered reality remniscent of an old X-Files episode or any number of other alien sci-fi movies.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
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You know when your friend does something better than you? You have such respect for them and are so proud of them, yet still have this quiet pang of jealousy. That’s how I feel about my talented friend and GDC colleague Marian Bantjes [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, December 18th, 2006
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I could be selling myself short of a good Christmas present by sharing this. But they say ’tis the season of sharing. These affordable Limited Editions by leading contemporary illustrators and graphic artists (Jasper Goodall, Para and [...]
Posted by: Amanda Fetterly on Thursday, December 14th, 2006
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Is Chris Ware the Norman Rockwell of our generation? Browsing through his Thanksgiving-themed cover series for The New Yorker magazine, it seems an appropriate comparison. Happy Thanksgiving to our friends south of the border. (Via The Skin [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 24th, 2006
Categories: Art, Pop Culture, Reading | 1 Comment »
The office has been hectic all week long and got unusually quiet this afternoon when some of our team was out making a presentation. The remaining team was all deep in thought/work but luckily someone noticed a great sky/sunset/rainbow. We [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
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Stumbled upon a South Park character generator and took a few minutes out of my day to make one of the guys in our office. (There are only 5.) Take a guess at who this is and visit the Generator Page to make your own. When you’re done [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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Art in nature, urban art, but art at 30,000 feet? This video tracks flight patterns over North America and displays them in a quicktime vid. Pretty cool and completely unexpected results.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Categories: Art, Fun, Inspiration, Travel | 1 Comment »
On June 13th, 2006, artist Jeroen Witvliet bought a number of newspapers and proceeded to cut out images from their pages. From this collection, he would select those which he responded to most and paint them. In doing so, they became somet [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 3rd, 2006
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Two neighbours have built a bridge from one balcony to the other in an East Vancouver neighbourhood. Built as an art sculpture and statement on what it means to be neighbours in a community, the thirty-seven-foot-long bridge spans from the [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, October 30th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Art, Inspiration, Vancouver | 2 Comments »
Stephen Wiltshire is autistic and possesses an uncanny ability to recall the most minute details of a landscape. In these videos, Stephen draws aerial views of Tokyo and Rome from memory.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
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In a recent visit to the massive archive known as CSS Remix, I found a great site called “Invisible Man“; soon thereafter my eyes were lit up by some amazing illustrations. This community of artists has pieces that will expand t [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
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Riding the London Tube can be an indifferent & claustrophobic experience. Down in the underground the rat race stops for no one; so it is best to keep your head down, find your place in the flow, and shuffle on. In this mindset, imagin [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
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London-based sculptor Ron Mueck creates some pretty amazing work: He manages to capture the human body is all of its minute detail, while allowing a haunting, and at times jarring personality to exist in the forms. His work ranges from the [...]
Posted by: Mike Withers on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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The London Design Festival just wrapped up. With a mandate to “celebrate and promote all things design”, and from the looks of the website, must have been an amazing event. I came across this installation called Bridge by artist [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 6th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Art, Design, Inspiration | 1 Comment »
If you haven’t seen them already, check out these amazing examples of communication design. Icaro Doria is the Brazilian artist behind these world flags that feature various statistics related to each colour in the country’s fla [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Art, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
The problem with having the ability to recognize great artwork, is also having the ability to label something a steaming pile. Usually the notion can be combated or questioned, as art is and always will be subjective; the exception to this [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Categories: Art, Learning, Marketing, Pop Culture | 8 Comments »
Photoshop and photo manipulation at this point have very few limits; luckily, many people know this and continually produce amazing work. One of such organizations doing so is Brazil’s Platinum, FMD, who not only pushes composite phot [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Categories: Advertising, Art, Inspiration, Marketing, Photography, Pop Culture | No Comments »
Photos from Banksy’s LA exhibit “Barely Legal”. Plus an interview with the artist himself.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
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I’d heard horrible stories that the two stolen Munch paintings, Madonna and The Scream, had been destroyed, but I’m relieved to learn that they have been recovered and are being restored and returned to the Munch Museum in Oslo, [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Categories: Art, News | No Comments »
Banksy set up a life-size sculpture of a Guantanamo Bay inmate at Disneyland which remained in place for an hour and a half before it was spotted.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
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This award-winning site is way old school, but still worth a revisit. Created by San Francisco-based graphic designer Ben Benjamin way back in 2000, www.superbad.com was one of the first website created with no other purpose than being art. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, September 8th, 2006
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Websites | No Comments »
The discovery of Fritz Kahn’s work over at the always brilliant Bibliodyssey, immediately reminded me of some of the imagery that we were using way back in the day for the IBC brand. Really cool stuff.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Categories: Art, Industrial Brand, Inspiration, Technology | No Comments »
What is it about paintings of celebrities that are so funny? Maybe Christopher Walken really likes to build robots…
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, August 4th, 2006
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Warning: clicking on the link below will more than certain result in hours of lost, irreplaceable time. eyesuckink.com
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, July 28th, 2006
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Pleix is a Paris-based digital artist collective and their site features some amazing visual effects/shorts. Check out their latest, “Birds”, a sort of early 80′s rock video meets the local kennel.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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Perry Farrell Interviews Shepard Fairey on Banksy, street art, and how Andre the Giant came about. Part One + Part Two
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
Categories: Art, Pop Culture, We love | 1 Comment »
The next step in typography has officially been taken, well.. not so much, but it is interesting technology nonetheless. Akishima laboratories has teamed up with Osaka University to create a device that generates text on water using waves i [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design, Technology | 1 Comment »
While on break from ICOGRADA here at the University of Washington, we went to the Henry Art Gallery to check out the Maya Lin exhibit, Systematic Landscapes. Lin is best know for her incredibly powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washingt [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Categories: Architecture, Art | No Comments »
In the afterglow of Vidfest with the word “crowdsourcing” buzzing in my head today I read a great article on do-it-yourself design over at Design Observer. Then I came across the Jackson Pollock Simulator. Use your mouse and cli [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Categories: Art, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »
I wish I knew where these statues are located.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
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The V&A in Britain is running an exhibit showcasing the image of Che Guevara as pop culture icon. In the Curator’s Intro, Trisha Ziff states that the portrait of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara as photographed by Alberto Diaz K [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
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If you’ve ever gone to a press check you’ve probably seen stacks of paper that look like they’ve had twenty projects printed on them. Well, they have. They’re called test prints or make-ready sheets, used to set up t [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, June 8th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design | No Comments »
Today’s Ping Mag features an interview with Gez Fry who decided four years ago that he wanted to be a Manga-style illustrator. His advancements since then are astounding. His personal site can be found here.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 2nd, 2006
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At A Collage a Day, artist Randel Plowman creates and posts a new 4″ x 4″ collage to this site … every day. Each collage is offered for sale and cost $25.00, which includes: 8″ x 8″ archival gallery matting, do [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Categories: Art | 1 Comment »
65 artists from all corners will gather to present the things they find curious in this world, each with their own visual maneuverings. The works vary stylistically with artists of all walks, including animators, tattoo artists, illustrator [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Categories: Art | No Comments »
Beautiful Illustration and design work from Matthieu Appriou.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
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Got some old oil paintings your grandmother painted in the 70′s? Turn them into art that doubles as a convenient Wi-fi password reminder.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
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NASA conducted space colony studies in the 1970s. Here are the concepts of housing for about 10,000 people in space.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Categories: Art | No Comments »
We recently blogged about the art installation Vancouver School by artists Douglas Coupland, Graham Gillmore, Angela Grossmann, Attila Richard Lukacs and Derek Root. So this weekend I made my way to North Vancouver and checked it out. Wow, [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 24th, 2006
Categories: Art, Events, Inspiration, Pop Culture | No Comments »
I would have thought Douglas Coupland to be a Mac user… Check out the website for his new book jPod, to be released May 15th. Also, If you are in Vancouver check out The Futura Bold Collective’s exhibit The Vancouver Show at 810 [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Categories: Art, Reading, Websites | No Comments »
If anyone is going to be in or around Seattle tomorrow go and check out Derrick Hodgson (aka Madreal) + Parskid’s show Mildew Clouds and Skull Spores at OKOK at 709 Broadway E.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Categories: Art | No Comments »
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate good graffiti. I especially groove on intricate stencil art when it’s done well. It can be a beautiful expression of both art and message revealing much about the days and times in which we live. [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, April 10th, 2006
Categories: Art, Pop Culture | No Comments »
In January 2000, Woods was featured in Maclean magazine’s “Faces of the Future” issue as one of 100 Canadians to watch. In February of the same year, he appeared alongside Generation X author Douglas Coupland on the CPAC c [...]
Posted by: rae paziuk on Thursday, April 6th, 2006
Categories: Art, Inspiration, Pop Culture, Vancouver | No Comments »
I’ve recently stumbled across a television series which originated out of Vancouver and has made it’s way to broadcasting in 44 countries. Oasis International (televsion and film distribution company) says “fat blue sky [...]
Posted by: rae paziuk on Monday, April 3rd, 2006
Categories: Art, Film, Fun, Inspiration, Music, Pop Culture, Travel | 3 Comments »
dear, home decor + gifts on South Granville brings you a unique selection of high quality, funky and often quirky home decor items and gifts. When I need a gift, I know there is plenty of expressive and offbeat stuff to inspire me, and the [...]
Posted by: rae paziuk on Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design, Fun, Inspiration, Vancouver, We love | 1 Comment »
Font for fences developed by Autobahn. [via wooster]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, March 27th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design | No Comments »
Easily one of the most informative and unique presentations at this year’s Flashforward 2006 in Seattle was given by designer and digital artist Jeremy Thorp of Blprnt Design. A former geneticist and rock star, Thorp will be presentin [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 20th, 2006
Categories: Art, Design, Events, Inspiration, Technology | No Comments »
Awesome online database of Haring’s work at the Keith Haring Foundation. Be sure to check out the flipbooks.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Categories: Art | No Comments »
Since October, The Times and Canongate Books have been running an international call for submissions to illustrate Yann Martel’s brilliant Booker-prizewinning novel, Life of Pi. The entries have now been narrowed down to 15 shortliste [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Categories: Art, Reading | 2 Comments »
Atari 2600 cartridges contained executable code also commingled with data. Ben Fry took this code and rendered it as art.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Categories: Art, Technology | No Comments »
My latest source of visual caffeine in the morning has been coming from bibliOdyssey, a blog that essentially posts etchings and illustrations from old books. Images range from the fantastical to the scientific to this rather bizarre entry [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
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Take a break from the usual spray paint and try LED Throwies. Using LED’s, magnets, lithium batteries and tape you can make your mark last up to 2 weeks (depending on weather). Check out this video of them in action. [via Make:blog]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
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A revival of espadrilles with a little help from twelve of the greatest international graphic artists. The String Republic
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, February 13th, 2006
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I don’t know much about this artist other than they are slightly twisted and I love them. Beautiful art made with knitting. [via yumlum]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, January 27th, 2006
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Israeli typographer and artist Obed Ezer thinks the English language is boring; that there is a freshness in other languages that we need to keep alive in our shared culture. One look at the way in which Ezer manipulates the Hebrew text, an [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
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A collaboration between Urbanmedium and DJ Spider, The Heavy Ammunition Project” is a limited edition mix of urban sights and sounds from the streets of LA. Love the Che Troopers. Eye Candy Galore!
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
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It is often the case that societies fail to recognize the important artists of their own time, waiting instead for history — and its documenters — to filter the spoils so that they may confidently champion the winners. This arti [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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This holiday season I found myself sitting on the couch watching television one afternoon with a designer buddy of mine. It suddenly occurred to us what an uninspiring waste of time it was. So, we grabbed our pocket sketchbooks and pens and [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, January 6th, 2006
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Check out Invader’s latest Paris invasion over at Wooster.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, January 6th, 2006
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Our perspectives on ethnology, consumerism and culture will be spun on their collective heads at the end of this month when Brian Jungen arrives back in Vancouver with his New York exhibition in tow. At first glance, his work seems more fit [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
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“Jamie Hewlett invented the punk pin-up cartoon Tank Girl before selling out to Hollywood and losing all his credibility. His idiot side project the Gorillaz dumbfounded everyone when they sold 5 million albums worldwide.” Check [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, December 23rd, 2005
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This reminds me of the email paintings up at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Classified Materials exhibit. Web Painting.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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What happens when you mix a cute gift shop with a raging typography fetish? The Regional Assembly of Text on Main Street in Vancouver, BC. Nearly everything in the store is hand made by the two artist-owners Brandy Fedoruk and Rebecca Dolen [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, November 28th, 2005
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Check out I am mint condition for a great source of visual inspiration.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, November 25th, 2005
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A deadly ninja assasin rapper? No. A deadly illustrator with a deadly flash site? Yes. Van Beater
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, November 25th, 2005
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I doubt architect and designer Verner Panton subscribed to a Less is More philosophy. Instead the Danish artist made a substantial contribution to the More is More ideological movement, with his fantastical interpretations of interiors, fur [...]
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Thursday, November 24th, 2005
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THE CREMASTER CYCLE(s) are brilliant; definitely worth a first, or second look.
Posted by: Jer Thorp on Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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Canadian cigarette packages are now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Designed by Vancouver designer (and close friend of IBC) Rayburn Marasigan, the packages show gruesome images of tobacco-damaged gums, lungs and hearts [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, November 5th, 2005
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“Around three a.m. a couple of days ago, I was working on some unfinished project in my studio when suddenly somebody tapped me on my left shoulder. I turned and saw F standing there. Before I could ask him how he showed up in my stud [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 24th, 2005
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There is a new pony in town. Following in the footsteps of the Do it yourself Qee, The Pony Project is inspired by every girls favorite toy. Fourty-two – 18″ My Little Pony figure’s will be customized by some of the best w [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
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Check out Tom Hawes’ project Skateable Furniture over at “We make money not art”.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
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Viennese art group Gelatin has designed a 200-foot-long toy rabbit “knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool”. The Rabbit looks like fluffy pink roadkill with its heart, liver and intestines flowing out of it. The toy is e [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, September 23rd, 2005
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From the mind of Rust Boy, Brian Taylor launches Candy Killer. A collection of Illustrations, Design ideas, and assorted visual ramblings.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, September 16th, 2005
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The rules of the box doodle project are quite simple: Rearrange a box to make any kind of figure or object. Make the most of least.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, September 16th, 2005
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Our friend and sometime collaborator Jer Thorp is premiering his new art show tree.growth on Thursday, September [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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I love your Visa card. I love you money. I love your sexual powers. I love all your house. I love you every dollar every cent. I love your Porsche. I love TSANG Kin-wah’s way of combining foul language with floral patterns and arrangi [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, September 1st, 2005
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Looking for a fabulous new piece of art to fill that akward empty space above your couch? Look no further - check out Ryan Heshka, whose retro space paintings combine robots, monster [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
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Reminiscent of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists, Jessica Joslin’s art melds together materials as diverse as bone, fur and brass to create truly unique creatures. via WoosterCopyright 2005 Industrial Brand Creative
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, August 22nd, 2005
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A few months ago we blogged about the appearance of Invader’s mosaic-based Space Invader artwork in our neighbourhood. As a follow up to this, art.blogging.la, reports that many of Invader’s pieces in L.A. are being torn down, s [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
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Bansky has been on holiday and he’s taken his spray can with him … to the Palestinian side of Israel’s separation wall. A spokeswoman for the artist, Jo Brooks, said: “The Israeli security forces did shoot in the air [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, August 5th, 2005
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Illustrator Sam Brown’s intro on his site ExplodingDog.com simply says “hi my name is sam, i draw pictures, from your titles. send me a title, or any thing else you want to talk to me about”. My favourite has to be i have [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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It all started with a true story: a farmer had lost his wedding ring in the field and found it a season after with a tomato grown inside it. Hilde De Decker must lose a lot of rings. She fits the ring over the young fruit. Adjusting, interv [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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“Black market LSD blotter generally bears art or a design printed on the paper. The paper is perforated into individual “tabs” or “hits” approximately 1/4 in. x 1/4 in. The sheets are then dipped in a solution [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, July 14th, 2005
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I’ve never heard of “cinepainting” before, but Quebecer Simon Goulet’s prize-winning short film OIO uses 540 litres of paint, 56 colours, 7,000 metres of film and 33,000 digitized images at 360 frames per second to c [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, July 11th, 2005
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Motion tracking, computer vision technology and a custom C++ application, record and analyzes a graffiti writer’s pen movement over time. These gestures are processed and used to produce algorithmically generated digital projections w [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, July 11th, 2005
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A fun ping pong remix project by Illustrator Gaston Caba.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
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Fred Perry has released the first of their Blank Canvas series, collaborating with young fashion designers Paul and Vinti Andrews. They have created some beautiful graphics for the original slim-fit Fred Perry pique shirt.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, July 4th, 2005
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Artists Christoph Steinbrener & Rainer Dempf convinced the city of Vienna and local shop owners to cover all advertising signs, slogans, company names and logos in a monocrome yellow fabric. View Quicktime VR [via Wooster]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, June 27th, 2005
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A beautifully presented and vast collection of circus posters. via Coudal.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, June 20th, 2005
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For those of you in the Vancouver area, Jeroen Witvliet returns to the Cristall Gallery this weekend with his stark and compelling canvases of half-constructed buildings and desolate airport runways. A personal favourite, be sure to check h [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
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Check out the newest Anti-McDonalds installations from the Billboard Liberation Front.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
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Recently while travelling on the skytrain to get one of the infamous Kiwi Pies’ I came across an evolved piece of street art. Not until later that evening did I discover that it was one of Invaders custom “invasions”. For [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, May 27th, 2005
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Banksy is at it again. The British Museum recently discovered an unauthorized addition to their Roman Britain gallery that depicts a caveman pushing a ‘supermarket trolley’. The piece (which has become known as ‘The Peckha [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, May 20th, 2005
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Collective Subconscious is an installation that imprints reverberating thoughts on a public space as people move through it. This project involves leaving behind traces of one’s thoughts in the space that one passes through and collag [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
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TouchMe is an interactive installation that allows its users to create and contribute a personal image to the otherwise impersonal public space. Images that are created by interacting with a plate of frosted glass, remain a part of the piec [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, May 5th, 2005
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Have you ever looked longingly at your luncheon meat and thought about being an artist? Me either, but now I’m kicking myself. Check out these great paintings (yes, paintings) by artist Victoria Reynolds.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
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A most excellent and comprehensive collection of Radiohead artwork.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
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I don’t know about you, but I have always wanted a bacon bracelet. Thwart Design has made this possible. Not only have they invented the bacon bracelet but other amazing things such as the nipple pin, in case you just need an extra ni [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, April 1st, 2005
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The man behind the Obey Giant, Shepard Fairey, has been spotted vacationing in Hong Kong. It doesn’t look like he is spending too much time relaxing at the beach though… [via Wooster]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, March 31st, 2005
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Banksy, one of the most infamous and influential street artists around, recently created a stir with the unauthorized installation of his own artwork in the Brooklyn Museum, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’s Muse [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
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Happy Death, Inc. has a great selection of galleries featuring vintage bowling, circus and propaganda art. Additionally, a state by state photo archive of chic roadside statues and other miscellaneous kitch one comes across on extended road [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 18th, 2005
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Fancy something slightly different for your lounge wall, bedroom or dining space? Then why not commission a Protein Profiler DNA artwork which allows you to extract, display and analyse your own genetic code. Take a mouth swab sample and se [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, March 18th, 2005
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I caught the Colleen Flynn Lawson exhibit at the Jennifer Kostuik Gallery on South Granville this weekend. Beautiful, organic, and soft focused – like forests reflected in still ponds. Her tall panel canvases are intermixed throughout [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
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Project Blinkenlight turns the side of buildings in Paris and Berlin into night time animated light shows by tapping into their lighting systems and essentially creating a pixel board out of their windows. Their latest project features an i [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, February 28th, 2005
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18 artists were sent a set of Russian nesting dolls and here is what came back.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Kirstan Horton has watched Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 730 times in the last two years. This has led him to build replicate stills from the film using everyday objects around [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
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7500 steel gates with nylon flags, 16 feet tall, 23 miles long, 26 years in the making, $20 million, on view for 16 days. -Christo & Jeanne Claude View full panoramic courtesy of Josh Rubin. More amazing images via Positive Negative.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, February 14th, 2005
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I love this idea – A five meter tall stainless steel pole is standing in the center of a huge warning sign on the gallery floor telling the visitor ‘do not touch’. It’s amusing how many people are tempetd by this and [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, February 11th, 2005
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Brilliant illustration at mediumphobic.com.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, February 10th, 2005
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This weekend a bunch of friends took a road trip to Seattle to explore the new art exhibit at Howard House Gallery. The exhibit features our good friend and frequent collaborator, Sven Boecker, who has been photo documenting installations c [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, February 6th, 2005
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Casey Weldon creates some interesting art. It almost reminds me of Mark Ryden a bit. Check out the McNipple piece, it is my favorite.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
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Alexandre Orion’s art is a two step process combining street art and photography to produce something altogether unique. (via Wooster Collective)
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 31st, 2005
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An interesting Apple brochure from 1989 illustrated by Matt Groening (The Simpsons). Curious to consider how many radical changes and advancements have occurred in the computer industry, but The Simpsons are still going strong – 16 years [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 29th, 2005
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“For thirty-six weeks, a sketchbook was sent in random order between four artists: two in Brooklyn, two in Belfast.” BOOK
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, January 20th, 2005
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There is something in the air today about trains: Tag the System (via coudal) Daily Dose Chromasia
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, January 20th, 2005
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Grafedia: words written anywhere, then linked to images, video or sound files online. Grafedia Artist: one who makes grafedia.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, January 17th, 2005
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“ Frank Kozik was born in Madrid, Spain in 1962. At the age of 14, he moved to the United States and settled in Austin Texas. Credited with single handedly reviving the “lost” art of the concert poster, Frank’s creat [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
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