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June 6, 2007

Excellent collection of pinup art

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Shown here by Vargas but the site includes illustrations by:

Hajime Sorayama Pinup
Olivia De Berardinis
Joe Linsner Dawn
Alberto Vargas
Eternal Temptation
Jennifer Janesko
Marcus Gray
Hajime Sorayama Sexy Robot
Hajime Sorayama Ginoid
Hajime Sorayama Myth
Carlos Cartagena
Melanie Klegerman
Hentai Toybox
Ypyb
Hentai Soft
Kevin Townson
Pearl Frush
Steven Stahlberg
Armando Huerta

Link to pictures

June 25, 2007

The Stan Lee action figure.

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Comic-book fans already know Stan Lee is a Marvel legend. Now Hasbro is making it official.

The company will pay plastic tribute to the 84-year-old creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, X-Men, Fantastic Four and other comic-book heroes by interpreting him as a 6-inch tall Marvel Legends action figure. The toy shows Lee's likeness wearing khaki pants, a blue windbreaker and eyeglasses.


Link
to article via the folks at Laughing Squid

June 26, 2007

French Wilkinson razor advertised on eggs

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Transparent stickers on the eggs and a flyer inside the carton.

Link to Amka Shop via abitofmix

June 29, 2007

Graffiti : Eine's East End Shopfront Shutter Letters.

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Letters. Painted on shop shutters in the east end of London. Apparently they're by a graffiti artist called Eine. I found 10 in one night and then wondered whether all 26 were available. Comments on the pictures helped me to locate more. I found another 16 the next day, but 3 of them repeated letters I'd already found... so I was still 3 short of a full alphabet.


Link
to FlickrSet

July 2, 2007

Underground newspaper covers — Nice collection

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Shown here:

Cover of "Berkeley Barb", an underground newspaper, featuring a photographic collage of politically charged images, mostly relating to the Civil Rights movement. Central image is of an African American male, smoking and saying in a speech bubble, "I have a nightmare...", inverting the line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.

Link to Wisconsin Historical Society

July 6, 2007

Koen Demuynck — Excellent illustrations

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First image may not be safe for work. 

Link to Koen Demuynck's work

Space Colony Art from the 1970s

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Cylindrical Colonies (Interior view)

 

Bernal Spheres (Colony construction crew at work)

A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been converted to jpegs and are available as thumbnails, quarter page, full screen and publication quality images.

Link to NASA

July 31, 2007

Street Art Paris — A Flickr pool

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Link to Flickr Pool

August 3, 2007

Lost Van Gogh Work Found Under Boston Painting

Painting Likely Done While Artist Was In Asylum, Experts Say

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From article:

Art expert and historians in Boston and Amsterdam announced Friday that they have discovered a valuable lost work by the painter Vincent Van Gogh hidden under an existing canvas at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, discovered the Van Gogh painting underneath the artist's painting entitled "Ravine," which is owned by the MFA.

MFA conservator Meta Chavannes was conducting a technical examination of "Ravine" and discovered the existence of the second painting below the paint surface of the work.

Upon meeting with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and Louis van Tilborgh, the Van Gogh research curator at the Van Gogh Museum, it was established that the underlying composition was most likely painted in June 1889, the museum said, during the early period of Van Gogh's stay at the asylum of Saint-Paul de Mausole near the Provençal town of Saint-Rémy, and was reused as a support for Ravine a few months later, in October 1889.

Van Tilborgh related the X-radiograph of Ravine to a drawing Van Gogh sent his brother in mid-1889 entitled "Wild Vegetation."

Scholars have suggested that this drawing, in the Van Gogh Museum, forms part of group of around a dozen drawn copies of paintings that the artist sent to his brother Theo in July 1889, but no painting was known upon which this particular drawing could have been based. As a result of this current research, the lost painting has been rediscovered, officials said.

Source

August 8, 2007

$10,000 for $120?

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Designer and Illustrator Bill McMullen silk-screens these wads as part of his "One Million." Shown here, 1 of 100 blocks, second edition.

Spinning sihouette optical illusion

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Found at Moillusions

If you look at the spinning girl's silhouette below, you will think it is spinning clockwise, probably. When you check her shadow below, momentarily the spinning direction changes in your mind, and now the girl is spinning counter-clockwise. It can be quite hard at the beginning to notice switch of the spinning direction, but eventually you'll manage.

 via yeinjee

August 11, 2007

Banksy's debt to Warhol revealed in London show

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I've been a fan of Banksy's for a long time. Don't think I'll be able catch this show though. He has pulled some stunts in America: NYC, Brooklyn and LA.  Pictures link

The Wooster Collective round-up of Banksy links.

Pictures of the London exhibition: [1]  [2]  [3]

August 14, 2007

Hand paintings — excellent collection of animals painted on hands

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Photos: Allyscha

 

Thanks Smith 

August 15, 2007

On my desk — Creative folk share the stuff on their desks

Fun blog full of submitted images of what creatives have on their desks.

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(Shouldn't this be an upper and lower case?) 

Shown here: 

Toniduran, Graphic Designer & illustrator
Cherbourg, France
www.toniduran.ouvaton.org 

Link to blog 

The Godfather — Illustrated using the entire movie script

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Los Angeles Pop Art involves an art form commonly known as Micrography. This art form has been around for centuries and has primarily been used by artists of Israeli decent; it is the style of creating an image strictly using the words that tell the story of that specific image. 

LA Pop Art

August 28, 2007

Cris Siqueira — Brazillian illustrator

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Cris Siqueira or Cris Vector, is a commercial llustrator whose works are created as vector art (using Adobe Illustrator). Lovely stuff.

Thanks Christo 

How to paint the Mona Lisa with MS Paint

Link to YouTube 

Thanks Brady! 

August 29, 2007

The art of Luis E Camejo

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Installation at Havana Biennnial

 

Lots more work available on his website 

September 7, 2007

Image of a horse made from more than half a million toothpicks makes Guinness Book of Records

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From article:

AN image of a horse created with more than half a million toothpicks in homage to Antoni Gaudi has earned Albanian artist Saimir Strati a second entry in the Guinness Records.

I've measured it; it is a new Guinness World Record," Andrea Banfi, an adjudicator for Guinness World Records, told a cheering crowd after checking that the mosaic followed the guidelines agreed with Guinness.

Strati spent 13 hours a day for 40 days on the mosaic measuring 2m by 4m in a technique resembling digital camera pixels, using either sharpened or blunt ends of oak, poplar and bamboo toothpicks.

He said the idea to produce the mosaic came to him while he tried to explain to a friend what La Sagrada Familia, the unfinished Barcelona cathedral of Spanish architect and artist Antoni Gaudi, looked like.

"I took some toothpicks from the table and opened them to show him how it looked like," said Strati. "I named the horse 'Reinless Spirit' to honour Gaudi's flight of genius."

The mosaic was shown to the public in the round hall of Tirana's pyramid-shaped culture centre.

Strati's portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's largest mosaic of nails, is shown nearby.

Link

September 10, 2007

French Prints Show the Year 2000 (1910)

Airship On The Long Course

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Car Shoes

Link to more illustrations 

September 18, 2007

3D Painted Rooms — These rooms are painted so that, when looked at from the right vantage point, optical illusions are created

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Link to more examples 

September 19, 2007

Own a piece of San Francisco history

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These where sent to me by two local San francisco artists:

Below, [Above] you’ll find four choices that highlight the places that most of us urban hipsters like to frequent and the remainder of you drug addicts and johns like to frequent as well.  Choose wisely. Your T-shirt will be a sign that you were the first in San Francisco history to own an ironic SF Parks and Rec parody shirt before everyone else did. 

Each high-quality sweatshop-free 100% cotton American Apparel T comes with a free design on it and will only set you back $20. 

Link to come shortly or check comments.

September 25, 2007

Return Of Devil's Bible To Prague Draws Crowds

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From article:

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - September 24, 2007 - Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible - a medieval manuscript said to have been written 800 years ago with the devil's help - has returned to Prague after an absence of 359 years. 

And Czechs were eager to see it, officials said.


Found image
 

The priceless piece, considered the biggest medieval book, was taken from the Prague Castle by Swedish troops at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. It is in Prague on loan from Sweden's Royal Library in Stockholm. It was put on display last week under high security at the Czech National Library.

Its return to Prague for the exhibition, which runs through Jan. 6, was made possible after years of negotiations between Czech and Swedish diplomats, National Library spokeswoman Katerina Novakova said.

"We expected big interest from the public," Novakova said. "Now, we are 100 percent full."

Only 60 people an hour can enter an air-conditioned room in the library's medieval complex for a 10-minutes look at the manuscript, which is inside a specially designed, unbreakable case, she said.

According to myth, a Benedictine monk promised to write the book overnight to atone for his sins. When he realized the task was impossible, he asked the devil for help. The page with the illustration of the devil is the one visitors see.

The manuscript was likely written by one monk from the Benedictine monastery in Podlazice located some 65 miles east of Prague sometime at the beginning of the 13th century, said Zdenek Uhlir, a specialist on medieval manuscripts at the National Library.

It contains "a sum of the Benedictine order's knowledge" of the time, including the Old and New Testament, "The War of the Jews" by the first-century historian Josephus Flavius, a list of saints, or a guideline how to determine the date of Easter, Uhlir said.

"I would estimate it took him between 10 and 12 years to write," he said about the piece, which weighs 165 pounds. Originally, it had 640 pages, of which 624 survived in relatively good condition, he said.

The book was transported to the Czech Republic in a military plane. Authorities would not give any details about security measures adopted at the library. It has previously been displayed in New York and Berlin.

Link 

October 3, 2007

Flash Game — Aggressive Alpine skiing

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Worth playing for the soundtrack alone! 

Thanks Josh P. 

October 4, 2007

Teacher Fired for Buttocks Art Sues

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Clip:

A high school art teacher fired after officials learned he moonlighted by creating paintings using his bare buttocks and other body parts sued his former employers on Thursday.

Stephen Murmer was fired in January after Chesterfield County Public Schools officials saw a YouTube video of Murmer wearing a swim thong and a Groucho Marx mask, demonstrating how he applies paint to his backside, then presses it onto a canvas. read more

About Stephen Murmer the artist 

October 26, 2007

Just in time for Halloween, skull templates to carve on pumkins

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Found here. (A PDF file is also available for download)

January 29, 2008

Excellent examples of Obama '08 campaign graphics

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I can remember all the crappy graphics of previous political campaigns but Obama's gives us the sense of how 'current' he is.

Link to more samples. Thanks Devin. 

March 4, 2008

Gregor Graf — City scenes minus the commercial trimmings

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From the Austrian Cultural Forum

Gregor Graf’s exploration of urban architecture involves taking medium format images of mundane urban settings and painstakingly removing all text and symbolic references from the image, producing an anonymous and generic metropolis, yet evoking a sense of familiarity. In 2006 Graf was commissioned by the Visual Arts Platform to produce a new work during a residency in London. For his first UK solo show at the Austrian Cultural Forum London, Graf will exhibit new photographs of London along with other new works produced during a residency in Chicago, bringing together exploration of this two huge and complex urbanscapes.

Link to Artist's site

April 11, 2008

ABC3D — Excellent pop-up book of the alphabet

From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands, all the way to the Z, ABC3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 dimensional letters move and change before your eyes. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there's U... Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come.

MARION BATAILLE is graphic and book designer who has never before been published in this country. She lives in Paris. This is just a hand-made mock-up of the actual book which publishes in Oct. 2008.

April 14, 2008

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV

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You're being watched: Despite being observed by CCTV cameras, elusive grafitti artist Baksy managed to create his latest - and biggest - work to date under the cover of darkness

Source 

May 3, 2008

Gallery show for North Korea's propaganda

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Link to gallery, scroll down to 'Multimedia' link.

The slogans are are even better than the art:

“Let's take revenge a thousand times on the US imperialist wolves!”

“Our missile programme is a guarantee for world peace and security.”

'Let's all become perfect swimmers" — this one had me scratching my head a little bit.

Link

May 5, 2008

Excellent Scrabble® Print Ads

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Scrabble is one of my favorite games. These print ads come from Ogilvy, Hungary. The tagline reads "Every word counts".

 

 

Via why me? 

May 7, 2008

Photos from Banksy’s Cans Festival — 05.07.08

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Awesome collection of photographs from the Cans Festival by Justine (AKA RUGenius) at NOTCOT.

She also scanned the entire festival program

Photos of the event 1 and 2.

May 19, 2008

Collection of European Poster Art from the 30's—60's

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Too bad there aren't links to larger sizes of the posters. 

May 20, 2008

Everything Ampersand — more examples than you can shake a stick at

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Link to The Ampersand

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada

"Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada transforms common people into icons by rendering them in charcoal as urban murals. By questioning the controls imposed on public space, the role models that represents us in the public space and the type of events that are guarded by the collective memory he breaks preconceptions of where art is permitted, when art is needed and to whom it is directed. Documentary created by Ana Alvarez-Errecalde and FILMCHICK PRODUCTIONS."

Via Wooster Collective 

May 23, 2008

Chen Zhun's Photo Comic Novel. (Mildly NSFW)

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Link to set

June 6, 2008

Mixed media illustrations of Russ Mills

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Lovely stuff. 

June 9, 2008

The Art of Emma Hack

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Artist Emma Hack, who lives in Australia, creates really gorgeous designs utilizing female models that she successfully blends in with their surroundings. Link to more samples here.

Vaguely similar to the Israeli artist, Desiree Palmen, I posted about here last week. 

June 19, 2008

Heineken Concert Poster — Italy

Nice looking Poster from JWT Italy, although it reminds me of a Guinness!

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June 23, 2008

Time lapse video of Banky's 'Cans Festival'

Very cool video of the event from set-up to the happening itself.

Link to YouTube clip

Previously on P&F about Banksy:

Photos from Banksy’s Cans Festival — 05.07.08

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV

Banksy returns to Bethlehem

Banksy's debt to Warhol revealed in London show

Mr. Brainwash: Life Is Beautiful

 

 

Mr. Brainwash aka MBW is a movie maker and street artist. With an art show funded by himself in the once abandoned CBS studio on Sunset, he created a sanitarium for the artistically inclined...and hipsters? Anywho, the show was packed up the A-hole as the lined curved around the building with the first 200 hundred anticipating their free Elvis posters.
Link to Flickr Set

Le le's Breakfast — Art by Piet Parra — NSFW

Video for Le le's hitsong 'Breakfast'. It consists solely of drawings made by Piet Parra that are also used as loops during the live performances. The song is about bitches and eggs...

Link to YouTube clip.

June 27, 2008

Nice Hot Wheels print ads

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From the advertising agency Ogilvy out of Mexico and creative directors Rafael Martínez, Luis Elizalde and Sandra Flores. 

July 1, 2008

Jumping Jacks Cut-Outs

Sorry I can't remember where I originally came across these but have held on to them for years.

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Jim Denevan — makes freehand large-scale drawings in sand.

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Link to his site. +pictures

July 7, 2008

Ad Collection

Air Canada

Air Canada 

Alberta Tourist Board

Alberta Tourist Board

BBC

BBC 

FedEx

FedEx 

Heineken

Heineken 

Kill Bill

Kill Bill 

Martial Arts School

Martial Arts 

Nerolac Quick Dry Paint

Nerolac 

Nike

Nike 

Anti-Smoking Campaign

No Smoke 

Red Cross

Red Cross 

Sharpie

Sharpie 

Source

July 8, 2008

Mona Lisa in contemporary street art…

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Da Vinci’s painting of the young woman has raised many questions over the years, such as, “Who was she?” and “What was she smiling about?” The mystery of the painting has inspired many artists duplicate Da Vinci’s masterpiece in many mediums.

View all images

July 10, 2008

'Western Spaghetti' stop-frame animation by PES

Link to clip

July 14, 2008

Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked???

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Is it true? From The Daily Mail:

He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure.

Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style 'guerrilla' art in public spaces - on walls in London, Brighton, Bristol and even on the West Bank barrier separating Israelis and Palestinians - his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds.

He has dozens of celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera.

He is also known for his headline-making stunts, such as leaving an inflatable doll dressed as a Guantanamo prisoner in Disneyland, California, and hanging a version of the Mona Lisa - but with a smiley face - in the Louvre, Paris.

But perhaps his most provocative statement, and the one that generates the most publicity, is the fact that Banksy's true identity has always been a jealously guarded secret, known to only a handful of trusted friends.

Continue reading article

Previously related:

Time lapse video of Banky's 'Cans Festival'

Photos from Banksy’s Cans Festival — 05.07.08

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV

Banksy returns to Bethlehem

Banksy's debt to Warhol revealed in London show

July 17, 2008

The Graphic Design of the Larrea Brothers, 60's and 70's Chilean designers

Chilean designers of the 60's and 70's.

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If anyone has any more info please email me at:

peter(AT)puppiesandflowers.com

July 22, 2008

PSA — Foundation for the Deaf | Lip Reading

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Very nice, found here.

"Roadsworth: Crossing the Line" - The Six Minute Trailer

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6 1/2 minute trailer for an upcoming documentary on Roadsworth by Alan Kohl, funded by the International Film Board of Canada. Looks really good. Link to video.

From a previous post on Puppies and Flowers:

Every now and then the internet surprises me with an unexpected gem. While searching for an image for a different post, I came across these great photos of a Montreal street artist named 'Roadsworth'. Apparently "Montreal police arrested Gibson on November 29  last year [2005] and charged him with 51 counts of mischief, the charges carrying maximum penalties ranging from $200 to $5,000" but since January 6, 2006, "All charges against Gibson have been dropped. His punisment is a minor fine and 40 hours of 'community work'."

See the pictures.

July 23, 2008

Jeremy Mayer — Typewriter sculptor — excellent work

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Link to his slick website.

Bicycle Posters from Brasil

"The future will be analog"

"The future will be analog"

 

"Freedom, remember? One day we all had it."

"Freedom, remember? One day we all had it."

 

 

 

"Big car, small chick!" 

"Big car, small chick!"
(Chick is Portugeuse slang for penis).

Found here, thanks for the translations Fabio!

July 24, 2008

Zulmira — nice pen and ink sketches

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Zulmira blog

July 25, 2008

Toy Soldiers Unite!

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Dr. Steel envisions living in a world where fun is the top priority. He imagines a landscape filled with endless possibilities based on the ideology that life should be spent doing the things that make us happy.

Dr. Steel's Army of Toy Soldiers are active supporters of this cause. A Toy Soldier knows that by rejecting fear, embracing inspiration and by uniting in a singular focused vision, that the world can and will be transformed into a Utopian Playland.

By becoming a Toy Soldier you are an integral part of Dr. Steel's success. You are Dr. Steel's eyes and ears. You are the legs on which he stands.

Only YOU can help Dr. Steel take over the world, so sign up today and begin making this world a better place!

 

 

 

 

Link to site

August 6, 2008

Inspired Business Cards

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Link to huge collection

August 11, 2008

Variety of natural and created smoke images

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more pictures at darkroastedblend 

FONTPARK — Crazy yet cool Japanese type illustration game?

Here are some users entries: 

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All these drawings were done using these characters:

 

Link to FONTPARK

August 15, 2008

Queens of the Stone Age posters

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August 19, 2008

The packaging of Migros — Swiss Food Chain

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Link with more images 

Vespa Butterfly — Print work from Dentsu, Toronto.

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More of the series here.

August 20, 2008

What you are about to see is a wholly computer generated animation…

The team at Image Metrics - which produced the animation for the Grand Theft Auto computer game - then recreated the gestures, movement by movement, in a model. The aim was to overcome the traditional difficulties of animating a human face, for instance that the skin looks too shiny, or that the movements are too symmetrical.
Link to Times Online 

August 21, 2008

Ads for Eyeglasses and Opticians

 
Here’s a clever print ad for a Belgian optician, by LG&F in Brussels. View larger

Copy at the bottom of the letter:
“Is it difficult for you to read these letters? If it is, than please drop by for a free eye test”

See more of these vision express ads. 

August 22, 2008

Daily fly drawings by Jeff Kennedy

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Link to Jeff's site

August 25, 2008

Michael Gilette James Bond Book Covers

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Link to Michael Gilette's website. Read about Ian Fleming

Reverse Graffiti Project — The Broadway Tunnel, San Francisco

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Real name, Paul Curtis, Moose is the grand-daddy of reverse graffiti. He’s been cleaning the streets of the UK and beyond for around ten years.

Using detergent and a wire brush, the tools of many a cleaner, he works with advertisers to create innovative clean messages and slogans that inevitably turn into works of art. One of his more recent works, the Reverse Graffiti Project, was on San Francisco’s Broadway tunnel in conjunction with Green Works, to promote a plant-based cleaner.

 


August 26, 2008

Haruki Murakami to speak at Cal Performances Oct 11, 2008

Link to Cal Performances website.

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Click here to see more Murakami book covers by John Gall and Chip Kidd.

August 29, 2008

Banksy in New Orleans

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More images after the jump. Via

September 2, 2008

Banksy on the move, takes on the KKK in Birmingham, Alabama

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As reported by the Wooster Collective:

After leaving New Orleans, it appears that Banksy is now heading through the Deep South.

The piece below was spotted on an old abandoned Chevron Station near Birmingham Alabama. (We're told it's somewhere between where the 59 Freeway meets the 65 going South near a large Home Depot on the 59)

Link

Previously about Banksy on P&F:

Banksy in New Orleans

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV

Banksy returns to Bethlehem

Banksy's debt to Warhol revealed in London show

Photos from Banksy’s Cans Festival — 05.07.08

Time lapse video of Banky's 'Cans Festival'

September 3, 2008

Stina Persson — Swedish illustrator

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Stina Persson is an illustrator based in Stockholm, Sweden.

September 16, 2008

By Alexandros Vasmoulakis in Karditsa, Greece

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Source 

October 6, 2008

Cute interactive piece to promote J. Otto Seibold's pop-up book, "Alice in Wonderland."

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THIS ON-LINE TREAT was put together to help Scholastic Books promote J. Otto Seibold's pop-up book, "Alice in Wonderland." 

Go ahead, pretend its 2001 and 'click around' a bit. Then, get back to your homework.

FGA: animation, audio supervision, edit
PERSONNEL: Matt Eller, Bill Morrison
AUDIO: Hatfarm
CLIENT: JOTTO
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Books

Link

October 15, 2008

Connect-the-dots tattoo

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From Core77:

Giraffe obsessed Colleen Venable has taken the conventional tattoo to another level, you know she'll be a great hit at kids parties.

Link 

November 12, 2008

The Art of Kris Kuksi

From Artist's statement:

I get inspired by the industrial world, all the rigidity of machinery, the network of pipes, wires, refineries, etc. Then I join that with an opposite of flowing graceful, harmonious, and pleasing design of the Baroque and Rococo. And of course I add a bit weirdness and the macabre.


Propaganda Am-Bush Machine


Churchtank Type6.6F with Mine Rollers


Church Tank Type 5A


Venus Admiring Mars' Gun

Link to site

Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin

Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin makes images of unexpected buildings – that is, he "combines photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures," Mark Magazine explains.

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Link Via BLDGBLOG

November 20, 2008

Album covers inspired by Superheroes

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Show me more covers…

December 4, 2008

100 illustrated horror film posters

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Link to collection

December 5, 2008

The photography of 'Chenman'.

Chenman is a Beijing born photographer. She does all her own post work including 3D renderings. These samples are for Beijing Skateboard.

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December 8, 2008

The Illustrations of Martin French

Vibrant and frenetic:

California born illustrator Martin French graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and now lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He spent 10 years working as a designer and director in digital media before opening an independent studio in 1996. His diverse, dynamic body of work includes street murals in Sao Paulo, Brazil, posters for the Olympics, and portraits for the Grammy Awards. Martins' clients are among the top institutions, magazines, and publishers throughout North America and Europe  more about

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Esperanca II


Duende 2


Jump 33

 Betty Carter


Savoy 33


Protest

Link to portfolio

December 9, 2008

Baroque Obama

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Thanks Noah.

The Bento boxes of 'Anna The Red'

Apparently she makes them for her lucky boyfriend who has posted a Flickr set here, she also has her own blog too.

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Via SwissMiss

December 10, 2008

Helvetica at Sea — The collages of Carol Padberg

 

From her own statement:

Using the “modernist DNA” of typography fonts such as Bauhaus, Futura, and Helvetica, I create visual improvisations. I use fragments of found typography to take apart and put back together language. My work employs traditional painting media (encaustic and polymer resins) as well as materials that extend the medium of painting (adhesive vinyl, flocking and metallic films).

 

 

 

Lovely stuff, more paintings and installations can be found on her site.

New work from Anthony Lister

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Link to Anthony Lister's website. Link to Flickr Set. Via

December 12, 2008

30 Ways to Die of Electrocution

Here are 30 illustrations from the book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern. These diagrams outline causes of electrical accident. Thanks bre pettis.

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December 16, 2008

I Lose Myself — A unique fashion spread using Flash

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Clicking on images launches Flash movie.

From The Behance Network:

Title: I Lose myself

Magazine: Hintmag

Photographer- Paco Peregrín (www.pacoperegrin.com )

Art Direction, digital art and illustrated- Calvin Ho (www.atomicattack.com)

Styling- Kattaca (www.kattaca.com )

Make up artist and Hairdresser- Beatriz Matallana.(beatrizmatallana.com)

 

 

 

 

December 17, 2008

The Art of Géraldine Georges

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Lots more samples

December 18, 2008

Pencil Drawings — Actually Drawings on Pencils

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Link to more

January 13, 2009

Photoshop Adbusting in Berlin

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Link

Similar to the 'Bubble Project' in New York

January 15, 2009

Hitchcock's "The Birds" — Posters and graphics

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As far as I can tell, this is the original poster. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

From IMBd:

Media from The Birds (1963)

 

January 16, 2009

The Pelican Project — Book covers from 1930 – 1980

Things Magazine have a great collection of Pelican Books' covers spanning the last century. Amazing stuff. These samples are from the 1960's.

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Andrew Wyeth 91 — RIP

PHILADELPHIA - Renowned American artist Andrew Wyeth, famous for landscapes of his native Pennsylvania and Maine, died on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for the Brandywine River Museum near his home.

Wyeth, who was 91, died in his sleep early in the morning, surrounded by his family and friends, after a brief illness, the museum said in a statement.

He is best known for "Christina's World" (1948), in which a disabled woman appears to be striving to cross a largely empty landscape. It was painted, like many of his other works, in egg tempera, a technique that he said forced him to slow down the execution of a painting.

 

 

 

 

 

January 29, 2009

The Art of Joshua Petker

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 From Fecal Face interview:

I like juxtapositions. Putting blue on top of red is fun for me. Life and the world can be pretty dark but I believe, all in all, in good, even when it's bad. I see the bright neon colors like too much sugar. Like the way too much happy, makes you sick to your stomach. Not sure why I'm attracted to that. Life is brutal yet so awesome and great! I think I'm trying to paint what I cannot to say. 

 

 

Link to Joshua Petker's gallery

See also:

February 9, 2009

Bottles and Tins — Found Flickr Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Link to katwood on Flickr

February 11, 2009

A Collection of Newspaper Masthead Clip Art

I love Flickr. While looking for some reference material I came across this excellent collection. The prints look like lino-cuts or wood blocks.

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From Oldtasty's Flickrset

This is an outstanding collection of Cultural-Revolution era imagery and propaganda, made available with thanks to Webster University (for use of their scanning station) and Flickr. Translations will be added over time.

 

 

 

Link to Flickrset

February 12, 2009

Lamborghini Stilettos.

Perhaps to go with the knitted Ferrari?

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Found here.

See also:

Woman knits full size Ferrari for art school project

Nude blonde, gold stilettos and a Ferrari… (Updated)

February 13, 2009

Classic Polish Film Posters

Huge collection and variety here, amazing. I only grabbed a few as examples.
Click on images for larger versions.


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Author :
Ewa Frysztak
Poster :
"BALLADA O DZIEWCZYNIE", 1965

 
Author : Maciej Hibner
Poster : "IDIOTA", 1959



Author : Anna Huskowska
Poster : "MARIA CANDELARIA", 1959


Author : Wladyslaw Janiszewski
Poster : "LOTNA", 1959



Author : Waldemar Swierzy
Poster : "DREWNIANY ROZANIEC", 1964


Author :
Andrzej Onegin - Dabrowski
Poster :
"SYNOWIE I KOCHANKOWIE", 1963



Author :
Andrzej Krajewski
Poster :
"MAX I FERAJNA", 1972



Author :
Anna Huskowska
Poster :
"CZARNY ORFEUSZ", 1960



Author :
Maciej Hibner
Poster :
"ROCCO I JEGO BRACIA", 1962



Author :
Wojciech Fangor
Poster :
"EUGENIUSZ ONIEGIN", 1960

Link to Polish Film Posters homepage.

February 18, 2009

Vintage Posters and Ads — Found Flickr Set

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Lots more at mpt.1607's Poster and Advertisements Flickr set.

February 19, 2009

Cool Flash Game — The Fancy Pants Adventure

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With really nice fluid animation, this game may be too good to stop playing. Thanks Luc L!

March 5, 2009

Fabric illustrations by Lilia Trizotto

All Lilia Trizotto's Flickr profile says is that she's female and taken.

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Link to Flickr set.

President Obama Unveils New Logos Designed by Mode Project

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Creative director Steve Juras led designers Aaron Draplin and Chris Glass in the assignment to create two logos, one for projects completed under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the second for the  U.S. Department of Transportation’s TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) team. ModeProject.com

Found images — snow boxes

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Photos by simonk

March 9, 2009

Bringing Art to Life…

Mike Ruiz's editorial Masterpiece for Zink Magazine makes use of Lichenstein's techniques and staple imagery (tears, telephones, speech bubbles) to create a dotted technicolor vision.

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and Gustave Klimt

 

 

 

and Egon Schiele

 

March 10, 2009

Harry Potter books redesigned in the classic Penguin style.

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Seee the rest of the collection.

Post No Bills — Funny Graffiti

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SCX_Tyler:

Found at a Construction site near St George subway station Toronto, Ontario.
From left to right:
Bill Murray, Bill Crosby, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton 

 

 

chumptastic

March 12, 2009

Found Art — The Linocuts of 'arcticcobalt'

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Link to more of arcticcobalt's work on Flickr.

March 17, 2009

Happy Paddy's Day from Father Jack.

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Link to larger version.

Okay, this isn't a comic BOOK character, but it is an Irish-centric comic character ....from a sitcom. Father Jack Hackett from the absolutely fantastic comedy series Father Ted.

This series wouldn't be well known to anyone outside Ireland or the UK but it is without a doubt the best thing to come out of Ireland, and i include myself in that. No point in ranting on about it, but i will link to a couple of clips, just cuz i think it's so feckin' great. Here's a short clip as a taste and a slightly longer scene (filmed in my home town!). I sure know how i'm celebrating today; watching some classic Ted episodes.... and maybe havin' a couple o' pints o' cider.

Source: EclecticMicks

March 18, 2009

The Murals of Alexandros Vasmoulakis —Updated

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Alex tries but misunderstands Aug 2008

 


Alex tries but misunderstands Aug 2008 Detail

 


I smell something burning May 2008

 


I smell something burning May 2008

 


Cheer up Sep 2007 Detail

 


Cheer up Sep 2007

 



Fly baby fly Aug 2007

 

 


Fly baby fly Aug 2007 Detail

 

 


love me madly Oct 2005

 


Panopticon Aug 2004

Bel's Nook has some more pictures and info on Alexandros Vasmoulakis.

April 9, 2009

"The Simpsons" — US Postage Stamps

I want to get the set already—just because.

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From CNN:

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Homer Simpson and his cartoon family soon will help you get letters, bills and packages to their destinations.

On Thursday, the U.S. Postal Service revealed five first-class stamps featuring characters from the Fox animated series "The Simpsons" -- Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie -- that will hit a post office near you May 7.

"This is the biggest and most adhesive honor 'The Simpsons' has ever received," creator Matt Groening said.

The TV show, the longest running prime-time sitcom, was chosen from about 50,000 stamp subject suggestions submitted last year, the Postal Service said.

"We are emotionally moved by the Postal Service selecting us rather than making the lazy choice of someone who has benefited society," said "Simpsons" producer James L. Brooks. Read on

April 14, 2009

The Illustrations of Florian Nicolle

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Vintage Boston Brewery Posters Color Proofs

Found at Boston Public Library's FlickrStream.
The rest of The Brewery Posters are here.

All images link to higher resolution versions.

 

 

I really like the old school registration marks and color bars.

 

 

 

 

 

April 16, 2009

Warsaw Metropolitan Police PSA Ads

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Tagline: Thinking Saves Lives Wear A Helmet
Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson Polska, Warsaw, Poland
Creative Director: Teresa Biernacka

Meet Adobe Illustrator 88 — Presentation video from 1987

April 20, 2009

The Art of Oleg Dou

Selection from the "Tears" Exhibit.

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"I worked hard to create my own style and technique. The main tool is computer photo-manipulation and a mix of several photos. I’ve already created several art projects and showed them in a few countries, including France, Belgium and the USA."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selection from the "Toystory" Exhibit.














April 21, 2009

Google announces 'Similar Images' search feature

This seems like a feature Google should have had all along. When browsing images you get the option to select similar images based on results.

 

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I still prefer Flickr, here are some Flickr and non-FlickrTools.

1. Multicolr Search Lab

Select up to 10 colors and get image results that use that palette. Pretty cool.

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We extracted the colours from 3 million “interesting” Flickr images. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour.

Link to Multicolr Search Lab

 

2. CompFight

Unsure how this site does it, but it generates search results twice as fast a search on Flickr itself, even displays the pixel dimensions of the largest version of the image available. I use this site ALL the time.


3. Flickr's slideshow.

April 22, 2009

2 HP USB Drive ads

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Hitler.

Tagline reads: 8 GB of political speeches.

 

Chaplin.

Tagline reads: 8 GB of classic comedies.

April 23, 2009

7 Deadly Sins — woodblock prints

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These illustrations come from the book “The Frenchmen and the 7 Deadly Sins”, by Cyril Satorsky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Related

April 30, 2009

Isaac Tobin — Sketches and Collages

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Large suitcase burden.  

 

Untitled.

 

Banana suitcase music.  

 

Untitled.

May 1, 2009

The work of Ben Tour

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May 4, 2009

Art student creates invisible car

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From The Telegraph:

The 22-year-old student at the University of Central Lancashire spray painted a battered Skoda Fabia to match the car park and entrance to her art studio.

Her work, created as part of her drawing and image making course at the university, creates the illusion that the car is see through.

She was given the car from a breakers yard and worked for three weeks to ensure that it blended perfectly with its surroundings.

"I was experimenting with the whole concept of illusion but needed something a bit more physical to make a real impact." said Miss Watson, who is from Ashton under Lyne.

"People have been stopping in the street to look and coming up and almost bumping into it, so it's had the desired effect."

The car is reminiscent of the work by pavement artist Julian Beever, whose attempts to trick people's minds into seeing perspective on the flat surfaces of paving stones.

Steve Jackson, owner of Recycling Lives, the firm that gave Miss Watson the car, said: "When I first saw the photos I was convinced it was something which had been done on the computer, but when you look more closely you see the effort and attention to detail she has put into it. It is just amazing."

 

 

link to more images

Previously:

May 7, 2009

The Art of Souloff

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These samples found on deviantART and Souloff's blog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 8, 2009

Great Escape Games — Excellent Collection

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This series of 'point and click' games by Armor Games is really well done, I particularily like the music in the The Great Attic Escape — when it changes.

May 19, 2009

The Illustrations of monsieur Qui

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monsieur Qui lives and works in Paris, here are some samples from his website. He's also  known for his wheatpastes, a flickr search produced these results but I can't find his personal Flickr account.

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 27, 2009

June 1st New Yorker Magazine cover painted entirely with an iPhone app

Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square.

May 28, 2009

Crush the Castle — cool little Flash Game

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Play Crush the Castle. Thanks Chris C.

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