The Visual Language of Herbert Matter

We recently stumbled upon the Grain Edit and The Art of the Title Sequence posts on the Visual Language of Herbert Matter.  From the website, “Herbert Matter was a man who seemingly fit many lives into one by excelling in the creative disciplines of design, photography and film. The documentary The Visual Language of Herbert [...]

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Another fun piece by Friends of Type!

Friends of Type: Kelly Greens

We confess. We are obsessed with type.  As such, we’ve been huge fans lately of the type collection over at Friends of Type.  These folks are craftsmen who showcase a true passion for type and the different creative ways it can manifest itself.  Currently, they are made up of the following talent:

Aaron Carambula—Objective Subject
Erik Marinovich—The [...]

David Lynch Windows for Galeries Lafayette Department Store, Paris

We’re really digging some of David Lynch’s recent work featured at retail. Here are two images from the window displays inspired by sketches from Lynch featured at Galeries Lafayette Department Store in Paris.  The series was entitled Machine-Abstraction-Women. For more information on this project, click here.

Ashod Simonian is Real Fun

Ever wonder what independent musicians do the other twenty-three hours a day when they’re on tour? Real Fun answers this question with over one hundred photographs of musicians and bands in their downtime—sleeping, eating, fishing, and just goofing off. Ashod Simonian has traveled with scores of the finest bands in indie rock. His dreamy, lush [...]

Gidon Bing channels Bauhaus to promote Karen Walker Paints

Karen Walker is rocking our world with her new line of paints by New Zealand’s Renese. To promote the new line, Renese commissioned a wonderful set of miniature Bauhaus structures that serve as three dimensional paint charts. The diminutive buildings, intricately and lovingly modeled by Auckland sculptor Gidon Bing and designer Katie Lockhart, model various [...]

Genevieve Mercatante: BuzzWorthy

We’ve been impressed recently with the work of hot, up-and-comer Genevieve Mercatante. She is a Portland, Ore.-based artist with an intimate and disciplined body of work. Since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002, her work has taken the form of painting, performance, and new media. Recent video and performance work has included Burglar Eroticism, [...]

Superstition: Art That Stands in Awe

We were able to check out a preview of the Superstition art show at Nemo while attending the Who Killed Social Media (#whokilledsm) event on Thurdsay June 4th. We were particularly impressed by the work of Aaron Piland (featured above). Via his website, “Aaron is an image creator living on spaceship earth. He believes in [...]

Chad Hagen’s Nonsense Info Graphics

We love discovering the latest and greatest infographic designs and are fascinated by the intersection of information and artwork. The work presented on Visual Complexity comes to mind. What happens if the information behind the design is actually nonsensical. That notion is what designer Chad Hagen has been experimenting with on his Flickr photo stream. [...]

All the Rage: Julien Vallée

We’re huge fans of Julien Vallée, one of the more talented visual artists working today.  Julien is based in Montreal, but does work for companies around the globe.  We first took notice of this visual style in the book Tactile: High Touch Visuals. Recently, IdN Magazine devoted an entire issue to this sort of design…something [...]

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