EL&ABE is a sustainable design collaboration between Eleanor Stephens and Anna Garforth. They seek to “work with natural, living materials on a 3D scale, hoping to encourage people to listen to nature’s voice and find inspiration in it.” Their first project is Mossenger, beautiful living “graffiti” words on walls.
Network: blogs
”Air Lines is an art project showing worldwide airliner routes. Every single scheduled flight on any given day is reresented by a fine line from it’s point of origin to it’s port of destination. Thereby forming a net of thousands of lines. Hubs like JFK, FRA or DXB turn into dark knots where lines meet, lesser served local services are only are a subtle hint.” Choose from 4 different posters. Each one is printed on state of the art offset printers on high quality heavyweight fine-art paper. Securely packed and shipped in cardboard mailing tube. The white on black version is limited to a print run of only 100 each.” [via jgebbia on Twitter]
Network: twitter
Jason Hackenwerth takes balloon art to a new level with his large-scale balloon sculptures and installations. “He blows up hundreds of balloons and strings them together in unusual forms to create artwork that resembles an array of strange animals, insects or aliens… his works are playful and colourful, but like all balloons they slowly deflate over time added another dimension to his work.” [via designboom]
Network: blogs
"When Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream. Ten dollars of Magic Marker and Sharpie later, the place was black and cream and drawn all over...How did this Sharpie world start? With a single swipe of the marker. Kratzer started mid-wall, with the Salon by Picasso. Then he thought, well, taking a design out to the edge of the wall wouldn’t be overwhelming. Then the rest of the basement flared off that first wall.
Kratzer’s basement suggests that the great cultural influences wandered out of college humanities class—here a Churchill for eloquence during harsh times, a Joan Crawford for cinematic vampiness, Holmes and Poirot for great literary characterization—and set up shop together in the carefully hand-drawn markings of an educated imagination come to life.”
Kratzer might be a lawyer by day, but in his off hours he is a man who has taken the artistic influences and heroes of his life and imagined them onto his walls, that he might keep company with them while he uses the pool table.” Read the full story and see a 360 view of his basement…
[via marshallk on Twitter]
Network: twitter
Click below to see the video of Ferrofluid (magnetic fluid) sculptures by two Japanese installation artists.
Network: youtube
There are lots of designer wallpapers to choose from these days, and I love the romantic elegance of these wall coverings by Trove, “a New York-based design duo comprised of Jee Levin and Randall Buck. Two accomplished artists, they set out to merge art, design, and craft in the wall coverings business. Founded in 2006, the earliest Trove collection was inspired by New York’s century-old flower market, a now diminutive block in Midtown Manhattan.” The products are created using non-toxic wax-based coatings. [via Cool Hunting]
Network: blogs
We Make Money Not Art has a good interview with Riitta Ikonen, a new graduate from the Royal College of Art in London. ”My work is concerned with the performance of images, through photography and costume design. Certain items, usually small and insignificant, excite me to the point where I have to wear them and then document that process. The super- garments I make open up new experiences. In my costumes tremendous things happen - to me and to the people I work with.”
Network: blogs
Banksy quote found on this site. More on Banksy in PicoCool. [via maxkiesler on Twitter]
Network: twitter
Burning Man, “an annual art event and temporary community based on radical self expression and self-reliance,” is about to take place again this year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. In the meantime, John Curley is already out in the desert capturing the moments, people and atmosphere before it all begins.
Network: flickr
PingMag has an interview with ZEVS, the French street artist whose street art and graffiti “distorts the logos” of corporate brands. “Visual kidnapping is like entering an interactive game: If the brand on the billboard kidnaps the attention of the public with the purpose of consumer demand, I reverse the situation and I kidnap the model on the poster and I demand a ransom of 500,000 Euros from the brand. This sum represents the symbolic price of an advertising campaign for the brand.”
Network: blogs
Alice Wang‘s clever inventions put a new spin on sleep-related devices. With perfect sleep, instead of “setting when you want to wake up, this clock allows you to set how long you want to sleep.” With tyrant, the alarm clock “steals your mobile phone and randomly shuffles through your contact list and calls someone every three minutes after the desired wake up time.
Network: blogs
Witness the incredible ”Muto, an ambiguous animation painted on public walls” by BLU. [via briancaldwell on twitter]
Network: twitter
This is a brilliant combination of pixel art and street art. The photo was taken by Annamarie on 9th Street west of 2nd Avenue in New York City. If you have information about the artist, please tell us in the comments.
Network: flickr
In art school, I kept all my receipts for art supplies for several years in folders and boxes, thinking I would do something with them one day. Turn them into an art piece, attach them into a long paper trail documenting my consumption. Something. I love Kate Bingaman-Burt‘s solution: “I draw something that I purchase everyday. I also draw my credit card statements.” You can see her drawings at her Flickr collection or at her blog, Obsessive Consumption.
Network: flickr
"The fabric for the Pixel Sofa has been picked up by Danish manufacturer Kvadrat, based off of a concept by Cristian Zuzunaga, a Royal College of Art graduate.” [via chiliCharlie at Stylehive]
Network: stylehive
As someone who once collected trash as art, and has an affinity for putting things into clear plastic containers, I loved Justin Gignac’s idea to sell cubes of New York city trash. Writes Justin: “I sell garbage. I scour New York City streets picking up trash. After filling bags with subway passes, Broadway tickets, and other NYC junk, I carefully arrange plastic cubes full of the stuff. Each box is unique and won’t leak or smell.” You can buy your own cube for $50 with free shipping anywhere. [via jamesyu at twitter]
Network: twitter
From one of my favorite art toy companies, UNKL, comes Defcon SUG, “rising again to save the universe, and show them all that real men wear purple. Indeed!” SUG is 12” high and comes in a limited run of 500.
Network: blogs
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.
Network: ffffound
From one of my favorite SF artists, Gama-Go has a new Loosie Goosie Sticker Pack, featuring ninja kitty, deathbot, yeti and more. Only $10.
Network: blogs
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.
Network: ffffound
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