Art: Josh Keyes Painting

The imagery of US artist Josh Keyes has been described as a response to the endless storm of information, events, and visual phenomena that we encounter in today’s culture…

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Design: Ithemba light bulbs

In 2003 two South African designers, Cyrille Varet and Scott Hart, started to ask well known fashion designers and artists to design light bulbs. And since then more than 60 of the best know artist in the world have joint their efforts to support women affected by AIDS. The list includes Fashion designers like John Galliano, JC de Castelbajac, Vivienne Westwood, Thierry Mugler, Calvin Klein and many others (full list below)…

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Happy Birthday Tomi Ungerer

Today Tomi Ungerer, satirist and illustrator, turns 75. When Tomi Ungerer is compared to other artists often the names of the very best like Goya, Hogarth, George Grosz or Daumier are used to describe his work. He became famous with witty children books but also for his erotic, sarcastic and political drawings. 1998 he was given the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his life work on children books. But still until today it is almost impossible to buy one of his books in the UK or the US…

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Manufactured Landscapes

Last month Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary “Manufactured Landscapes”, a portrait of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky won the Toronto-City Award for the Best Canadian Feature Film. The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country…

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New Yorker: Four cover pages for Thanksgiving edition

Every year the magazine New Yorker provides us with one of their excellent cover pages for Thanksgiving. This year they have decided to top that. Chris Ware drew four different covers plus a comic page…

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Video: Rokkit online archive

If you like great animation clips, good advertisements or short films head over to
Rokkit. It is actually a well known agency in London but they have dozens of high quality videos online. Try out our suggestions below or go to their director page for a start.
There is one you absolutely must see - the video [...]

Dance of the Flight Attendant

For Californian Artist Jen Wang the pre-flight safety routine “performed” by cabin staff is the most exciting about flying. It reminds her of maiko dance routines. Have a look at the beautiful sequence of drawings she has created to depict this.
See the drawings and more information at her web site.

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Worldprocessor: Data as Globes

Ingo Guenther’s “Worldprocessor” project that started in 1988 has created some of the most outstanding globes. Currently there are more then 300 different designs visualizing world statistical data as globes.
This project has been going for quite some time but the online catalog with hundreds of globes is still worth a look. We have selected a [...]

Outstanding Street Paintings

Outstanding temporary street painting
Photos: Max Borge via Flickr

Flickr: Cardboard paintings

We just came across a really great Flickr photo stream with cardboard paintings. Never thought you could use these old boxes for something. Now we know.Have a look at Flickr user señor_b’s photos and his outstanding cardboard stuff stream.

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