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Archive for the 'Art' Category
Christmas Shopping ideas: Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings
There are seemingly still some copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s silk screen print of “Trout’s Tomb” available. Two links for those of you that don’t know who “Kurt Vonnegut” or “Kilgore Trout” are…
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Art: Manhole covers in Japan
We got interested when we saw the great selection of Japanese manhole covers from Flickr streams by Haha.nu…
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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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