To finish off my four years of art school, I decided to base my thesis on something near and dear to me: indie folk band The Decemberists. Their music is some of the most inspiring I have come across; each song tells a rich, nuanced story with a whole cast of compelling characters. The lyrics can be vague enough to be open to interpretation, but contain enough specificity to make a detail freak like me joyfully hunt down reference images of columbine flowers and mistlethrushes.

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I had the pleasure of seeing The Bellowing, a show by Koak (aka Kristin Olson) this past April. The show was comprised of her intricate animal drawings, including a short comic featuring her character Rabbit, who looks like Peter Cottontail but seems to live a life as harsh as any to be found in Watership Down.

The centerpiece of her show was a taxidermied possum, which she built a to-scale home for, complete with clothing, a bed, a writing desk, and a window glowing with soft light, suggesting a world beyond it.

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Ask any industrial designer what their goal at the end of the day is, and they’ll most likely tell you this: to make an object that is both beautiful and efficient. But what happens when an object can no longer function as it was designed to? Is it still beautiful, or is it a piece of junk?

Jeremy Hutchison has put together a collection of objects that ask just this question. He asked factories around the world to send him a product with an error that would render it useless. The resulting products are nestled right on the boundary of object and art.

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She may have only graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010, but it’s easy to see why Yelena Bryksenkova is already working for big name clients such as Bust Magazine and Urban Outfitters.

She has mastered the art of painting beautiful pale girls lounging about (most likely on lazy, overcast Sundays). Each piece contains cozy details, such as the cable knit on a sweater. The girls she paints are varied, but all have a sense of whimsy, be they Alice (of Wonderland), a mermaid, or a Ziegfeld girl.

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Self-proclaimed Glamadermist David Hevel is, in a word, ridiculous. His pop-culture inspired sculptures are delightfully whimsical, tacky, and slightly disturbing all at once.

He decorates taxidermy forms with rhinestones, fake flowers, and wigs, paying tribute to divas and jerks such as Tyra Banks, Lady Gaga, and Bernie Madoff, while also asking: why are they so important anyway?

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IWDRM is a collection of GIFs from scenes in various movies. Except they’re so much more than that. The GIFs often isolate a small moment, a blink, a breath, a shift in the light, turning a brief moment from films such as Rosemary’s Baby, Blade Runner, and The Truman Show into their own self-contained pieces of art.

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