Hiyoko Imai constructs intricate illustrative works using tiny fragments of paper. The Japanese-born, Amsterdam-based designer and illustrator follows a minimalist style, employing simple shapes to create new compositions. Her work is inspired by cooking, balcony gardening, walking, and dreaming.
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Ribbonesia is a project by artist and illustrator “BAKU” Maeda that combines his interest for both wildlife and 3D design.
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The incredible concentric forms you see above is part of the world’s largest artwork on Lake Baikal, which spans nine square miles. Creator Jim Denevan headed out to Siberia this year to draw these beautiful patterns on ice with a team of helpers and a broom. Denevan is known for creating expansive, meditative works with repetitive patterns and endless scale. Because of the harsh Siberian winds, this art piece won’t last forever. But momentary speaking, this grace of work is stunning.
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Singaporean designer Fung Kwok Pan has managed to capture the flow of water in solid form. It’s called Fluid Vase, and it’s pretty much what the name suggests.
Pan photographed water being poured into a vessel at 500 frames a second. Then, he used the images to produce 3-D simulations, creating a virtual mesh vase. Finally, a real vase was built layer by layer with a Selective Laser Sintering machine—basically a laser that prints stuff out of powder.
Check out more of his work here.
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Nice illustrations from Johnathan Wilkins.
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Zhuang Hong Yi manipulates thousands of rice paper flowers in his first U.S. show at NYC’s Keszler gallery. Yi creates large-scale fields of petals—both on canvas and in coffee tables by combining them with layers of acrylic and oil paint. His work is inspired by his life in the Netherlands, his cultural heritage, and Western impressionism.
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French artist BLU is back with BIG BANG BOOM an animation using paint surfaces and stop motion.
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Here’s a collection straight from that unstoppable spraypaint fiend, Banksy. He’s taken to the streets of USA—this is some of the work he’s done in 2010 so far. Says WFDJ:
If you’d like to contact Banksy: good luck. If you’d like to look at additional works, take a peek at banksy.co.uk. If you’d like to buy Banksy artwork, beware of fakes. If you want to be Banksy, get drunk and spray up your local city. It’s all just that easy.
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Erika Iris Simmons started cassette-tape portraiture after noting how similar Jimi Hendrix’ hair looked like coiled reels of old cassettes. Since then, the 26-year-old self-taught artist has created some pretty amazing art including a portrait of Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson, and other legendary musicians and icons to her impressive body of work.
Her “Ghost in the Machine” series is a somewhat philosophical manifesto to the notion that our spirits live on in our bodies long after we’re gone (much like the tape spun around the wheels of a cassette).
To see more from the Ghost in the Machine series, check out iri5’s flickr page.
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Belgian artist Christopher Coppers rips up magazine covers to create beautiful works of art.
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