It’s difficult to have a series of typographic posters and not include Helvetica in the mix. Above is a sampling of the rich annual crop of conceptually driven typographic posters by artist, design educator and award-winning graphic designer Tom Davie. You can see more of this collection here. These printed beauties are available for purchase at Society6.
Canadian photographer Andrew B. Myers snaps pictures of the sort of quotidian stuff old people equate with fond childhood memories, from hamburgers and Popsicles to swimming pools and baseball games. The compositions are crisp and the color palette’s full of bleached-out sherbets that have a seductive, pastel-y nostalgic effect.
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Amazing journalism photo set by Viktor Gårdsäter from Stockholm, Sweden. You can view the rest of his portfolio at gardsater.se.
“As Above, So Below” is a one of a kind public art experience, a projection mapping installation for multiple surfaces and multiple dimensions made for Immersed Surfaces by Light Harvest. Audiences physically entered the story and explored the shimmering surface as it ignited with messages and symbols. The production tested every technique in image-making conceivable in the short time frame, including stop motion animation, and the suspension of over twenty performance artists from fly wires at sixteen feet off the ground.
Brooklyn-based firm I-Beam to design the Pallet House, a 250-square-foot low-cost shelter constructed of 100 discarded pallets.
Nearly 21 million pallets end up in landfills every year; if repurposed, they could house more than 40,000 refugees. And since the pallets are designed for transport, they can first be used for carrying shipments of other types of aid, including food and medicine.
The Pallet House is far sturdier and more permanent than the tent structures common in refugee camps, where displaced individuals stay an average of seven years. I-Beam has built prototypes in New York, Indiana, and at the Architecture Triennial in Milan and is currently working on housing for those who lost their homes during the earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan.
From several feet away, Cayce Zavaglia’s portraits look like hyper-realistic oil paintings. Zoom in, though, and you realize that each portrait is entirely hand-stitched. The larger ones measure about a foot tall and 3 feet wide, and take as many as six months to complete.
Zavaglia is trained as a painter. But when she got pregnant with her daughter, she decided not to use oils anymore (what with all the turpentine and varnish fumes wafting around). So she vowed instead to “paint” with wool thread.
Her biggest challenge was getting the thread to act like oil paint. “Initially, the most frustrating part was not being able to mix the color that I was seeing so I approached the portraits with more of a pointillist sensibility. Laying down variously sized stitches in a variety of colors gave the illusion of the color I wanted but didn’t have. My stitches are layered on top of one another, which allows some to peep through and others to be obscured underneath.”
Those thoroughly talented Arcade Fire people have only gone and blown our minds again. www.sprawl2.com is the interactive website for the stand out track from last years album The Suburbs.
For best results you need a webcam and a decent broad band connection to pick up your dance moves, otherwise you can use your mouse, to control a dancing Regine Chassagne as she whirls round a deserted football field. We can say but only one thing about this… Amazing.
Brooklyn based artist Shane McAdams is taking the ordinary and doing extraordinary things, namely, ball point pens. If you told me that Shane created the images above using just ball point pens I’d tell you that you were crazy. There’s so much depth in the color and shape, it nearly looks like something you’d have to make in Photoshop.
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Check out artist Mark Wagner whose amazing dollar bill collages can be found in the collections of institutions like the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, and the Smithsonian.
“The one dollar bill is the most ubiquitous piece of paper in America,” he explains. “Collage asks the question: what might be done to make it something else? It is a ripe material: intaglio printed on sturdy linen stock, covered in decorative filigree, and steeped in symbolism and concept. Blade and glue transform it — reproducing the effects of tapestries, paints, engravings, mosaics, and computers— striving for something bizarre, beautiful, or unbelievable… the foreign in the familiar.”
You can go to the Wagner’s website to see even more of his work, as well as some fascinating detail shots.
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