May 16, 2009 | New Illustration | by Dont Panic 
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Horses are a recurring for Isabel Rock. Pastel colours, gnomes, glitter and unicorns adorn other pieces. But this light-heartedness is balanced with dripping illustrations, gushing elaborately in swirls and fat blobs. Block color and a feel for excess hint at the distraction of love, yet darker undertones of struggle and conflict exist.
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May 2, 2009 | New Art | by Dont Panic |
Kate MccGwire graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 and has since exhibited all over London, winning a solo show at 2009’s Heart of Glass. Her most recent installations are taken from thousands of pigeon feathers, flowing water and even a mouldy growth on a wall. We asked her why she uses pigeon feathers: ‘I’m currently using pigeon feathers as they come from a bird that is generally reviled — regarded as vermin and referred to as “rats with wings”. I started to collect pigeon feathers that moulted from the birds in a shed next to my studio. I realized that they were actually very beautiful’.
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April 29, 2009 | New Design | by Dont Panic |
The latest Don’t Panic poster artist to create free art for your walls is Johnny Kelly, who drew on the theme of Democracy. Rather than just opening Illustrator and vectoring out something about Obama and his dog, Kelly created a super-detailed paper sculpture of the human head as a giant machine, and then photographed it. Of the project, he says: ‘The model was first sketched out a number of times in my notebook. Once that was fully worked out, I planned out the model more rigidly on computer, then got cutting. After everything was stuck into place, my friend Linda Brownlee — a photographer — came over and shot it with a Hasselblad camera. The actual model is A1 in size, so we needed to shoot it on film rather than digital to make sure we could capture as much detail as possible’.
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April 23, 2009 | New Illustration | by Dont Panic |
Christopher Sickels creates 3D illustrations which have appeared in numerous magazines, books, newspapers and adverts. He has conjured up a world full of endearing, intricately made puppets. Of his work, he says: ‘The desire to illustrate was what I pursued in college, but even as a kid, I always enjoyed taking things apart and making toys from things we had around the house. The interest in puppets and models really grew after college and it was then that I wanted to find a way to combine my love of building puppets with my passion for illustration’.
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April 18, 2009 | New Photography | by Dont Panic |
Daikichi Amano produces weird films and photos involving girls with bugs, frogs, goldfish and eels. All of which they eat afterwards, to avoid wasteful animal cruelty. Read more
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March 20, 2009 | New Art | by Dont Panic |
Illustrator Nick Hamilton has designed a poster for the latest issue of Don’t Panic magazine which is a futuristic take on the concept of ritual, using minimal colours and crisp bold imagery.
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March 20, 2009 | New Trends | by Dont Panic |
Suzie Templeton is an award-winning writer and director, specialising in stop motion animation. Known for her Oscar-winning film Peter and the Wolf, Templeton takes us into a world filled with beauty and emotion. Her vulnerable characters are honestly depicted and unbelievably human. Read more
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March 18, 2009 | New Photography | by Dont Panic |
At first glance Li Wei’s photographs seem to come from either digital gimmickry or are the work of a suicidal madman. But Wei is neither. He’s just fascinated with his environment. His stunning visuals are composed with the help of strategically positioned wires, mirrors and his own athletic prowess. Since stumbling into the art world at the turn of millennium he has grown increasingly prolific, exhibitions regularly all over the world.
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March 16, 2009 | New Art | by Dont Panic |
Installation artist Benedict Radcliffe creates wire cars, including a Lamborghini Countach, which are painstakingly crafted from ten millimetre welded steel tubes.
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March 12, 2009 | New Illustration | by Dont Panic |
Valerio Carrubba is a hyperrealist painter. His images are anatomically accurate, showing his peaceful patients with their internal organs exposed. Shocking, realistic and, at the same time, extremely surreal, Valerio’s paintings are technically beautiful and provocative.
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March 10, 2009 | New Art | by Dont Panic |
Riikka Sormunen’s paintings are stylised depictions of fantasy worlds. She also paints novelty figurines to immerse in these beautiful environments, where darkness seeps in, lending them unusual and thought-provoking qualities.
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March 6, 2009 | New Illustration | by Dont Panic |
Brighton illustrator Sam Ashton depicts everyday objects in a unique way, drawing upon the ancient Japanese technique of woodblock drawing.
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March 5, 2009 | New Photography | by Dont Panic |
With no survival advantage to gingerism, it has been suggested that the gene may die out. Is that really the kind of evolutionary progress we want to see? Photographer Jenny Wicks has documented this increasingly elusive breed in a photo series called Root Ginger. Read more
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March 2, 2009 | New Events | by Dont Panic |
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, or ‘Le Corbusier’ is considered by many to be the most influential architect of the twentieth century. His designs are responsible for urban structures around the world, from the grid-city of Chandigarh in India to London’s Barbican Centre, which is currently hosting an exhibition of his work. But to peg him as an architect overlooks an awe-inspiring body of work that also takes in art, literature and even a new system of measurement. With this display, the first serious UK solo exhibition of his work for twenty years, we can finally appreciate the scale of his contributions.
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February 28, 2009 | New Design | by Dont Panic |
This superbly original billboard culture jam from the FTW-Crew (Epoxy One, Mr Tailon and Baveux Production) in Berlin shows how much work goes into looking effortless.
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We love the work of Canadian-born, New York raised illustrator, Benjamin Marra. We asked him about it recently. Read more
While the Belizean Islands are some of the most beautiful and tranquil in the world, Belize City is one of those uninspiring places that most people travel in and out of very quickly. However, if you do find yourself stranded there, as I did, the city does have one redeeming attraction. Approximately twenty kilometres west of the centre, you’ll find the Belize Zoo — which the founders call the ‘best little zoo in the world’. It relies on charitable donations and has gained huge respect for housing native Belizean wildlife, such as jaguars, howler monkeys, tapirs, ocelots and toucans, in natural, tropical surroundings. If you’re there on the first Friday in April, you can even join hundreds of visitors in celebrating the birthday of the zoo’s resident tapir, April. The zoo has an awesome rasta-vibe, and the hand-written information posts are guaranteed to make you giggle.
Quiksilver, the surfing apparel company, has just released what is being considered the world’s first eco-friendly watch. Made of sustainable ebony wood and running on automatic movement instead of batteries, this limited-edition watch is green down to the shipping of the raw materials. Every raw material used in making this watch is recyclable (the aluminum, the steel, and the mineral crystal are all 100% recyclable), and it also includes solvent free links and is shipped by sea rather than by air. The Ray has a five-year warranty, meaning that it has a longer life than normal watches.
With so many photographers these days making over-stylized digital images, it’s great to see someone like Marlene Marino still working in 35mm. Her use of only natural light, and her languid, straight-forward framing result in intimate, grainy, and candid-feeling pictures that feel like they’ve come out of a forgotten drawer somewhere. Read more
The sky is falling. The world is ending. How do we deal with it? Since we can’t nail the CEOs and bankers that got us into this mess (instead, we’re bailing them out), let’s make light of the misery of people who make a living abetting the broken system.
Heavy metal and hip-hop are perhaps the most popular forms of rebellion for kids the world over. In Malaysia, metal — particularly black metal — has taken such a strong hold that the Fatwa Council there banned it, fearing that the music would compel listeners to rebel against religion. Contrary to the council’s intentions, black metal is as popular as ever in Malaysia, and is a recognizable cultural touchstone there, as indicated by the above clip from the 2005 film Filem Rock.
The new Antony and the Johnsons album, The Crying Light, is the band’s follow up to the Mercury prize winning I Am a Bird Now. The album is available for instant digital download — along with a bonus track, My Lord, My Love — if you pre-order it from the band’s website as of today. This gives you a chance to hear the album in full before the official release date on January 19th. We have their track, Another World [listen below], available for free download in the Music Downloads section in the third column of the Lost At E Minor site.
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Cambodian born photographer Frederic Chaubin is the editor of French magazine Citizen K. His photo series on bizarre buildings built in the former Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s is absolutely fascinating. Read more
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