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Stencil Revolution, “collectively recontructing the urban canvas.”

Marilia Destot’s photography series, ”Portrait of a lonely girl in New York, fall 2006” has an everyday simplicity with a touch of the abstract. {Image copyright Marilia Destot

Help Remedies creates soothing package designs for medication. From Creative Review: “Their packets of pills and plasters not only look great but are also made of 100% recycled paper pulp. And at $6 for 12 headache pills (or 8 plasters), that’s not much more than most of the more well-known brands, so these are no vanity purchase. Plus you’ll get to look just that little bit cooler when you’re ill.” Also be sure to check out the ”help, I’m bored” page.

I’m not sure how the piece operates with a motor, but I like the stark boldness of Christian Robert-Tissot’s polystrene and acrylic installation, Void.

Photo copyright Denis Darqzacq

”La Chute” is a series by French photographer Denis Darzacq. Writes Natacha Wolinkski of the work: “"When the social elevator is broken you have to know how to bounce. Between the take off and the fall, the man parachuted in the city learns to control his trajectory.” It’s an interesting counterpoint to the photographs by William Hundley that we posted about earlier.

Robin Howie is a UK designer and artist exploring multiple themes of dialogue, space, boundaries, commercialization and communication. In the great tradition of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, Howie’s photo above transforms the public landscape into a conversation. See the series, A Dialogue With Public Space as well as his other work.

Photo copyright William Lamson

William Lamson is an American artist whose work includes photography, video, sculpture and performance. In a recent interview, he writes: “My work addresses issues of masculinity, amateurism, science, play and the quixotic quest for personal heroism that accompanies these subjects. I am interested in the character of the amateur, the person who is motivated by love for the activity and a desire to achieve, but is limited by a lack of physical and technical expertise. Through the exploration of this character my work deals with human struggle and how we create meaning through it.”

Internally displaced people, created by graphic designer Edward Hann, is “an exploration in the theory of ‘designing for an ethical message’, using the uniformity and order of the grid, mixed with the natural topographical beauty of a landscape, to demonstrate the scale of humanitarian crisis in Western Darfur and Eastern Chad.”