May 20, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Dont Panic |
Ulan Bator is so cock-frosting cold, homeless drunks live in hot water pipes underneath the city. Basque photographer Migel Aristregi travelled to the coldest capital in the world to document the lives of the city’s many homeless residents. [read an interview with Migel Aristregi at Don't Panic online] Read more
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.
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’.
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’.
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’.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Dmitry G. Pavlov is a photographer from St. Petersburg with a liking for strong black and white contrasts and gloomy color settings. His fashion photography is quite evocative. I’m particularly moved by the full body portrait of the woman in veils. Read more
Where, oh, where was this chair when I was an impressionable youngster, licking sherbet spoons and fantasizing about being lost in the sugar-coated world of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Dutch-German designer Pieter Brenner, take a bow. Just don’t bow down too close to my goddamn sugar chair. Read more
Seldom has black humour been done so well. On the surface, this film about the everyday lives of some unusually mundane characters, sounds extraordinarily boring. But it is instead a cutting comment on the absurdity and drudgery of everyday life. The characters try to break out or change their lives without success, and the results are bleak and hilarious. Read more
Aesop’s signature space in Fitzroy, Melbourne, looks amazing, we’ve got the word on how and why. Why was Gabriel Garcia Marquez chosen as the featured author? ‘There are literary giants and then there are writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose talents redefine not only the genres they choose to work within but what’s possible in literature as a whole. The fact that his work has transcended his own language and culture has also prompted our decision to pay homage’. Read more
How could you not love a website that is full of photos of cute little bunnies, and absolutely nothing else? The Daily Bunny, our new two minute productivity killer. Read more
Metal icon Peter Tägtgren has produced the harshest and most underground music of the European metal scene — Immortal, Dimmu Borgir, Celtic Frost, among many others. His own band, Hypocrisy, is one of the most revered melodic death metal bands in the world. Read more
‘Les gens courageux’ is French for ‘the fearless ones’, and if you wear this slim-fitting white v-neck combed cotton t shirt, with the Vaughn de Heart logo on the left sleeve, you’ll be fearless, too. Yes, we promise.
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How ’bout this Jose Manuel Hortelano-Pi guy, huh? Quite the illustrator, yessiree Bob. From Spain, too. Spain is great! Read more
Francoise Nielly’s Yellow series
Parisian visual artist Francoise Nielly brings technicolour to the forefront in her latest series, Yellow. Featuring thick impasto palette knife strokes and trippy neon hues, Nielly captures the vulnerable expressions of her muses to a tee. Read more
Christoph Niemann illustrates a nightmare flight
New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann has created a brilliant visual diary outlining the peril and pitfalls that beset the everyday passenger based on his recent experience flying from New York to his home town of Berlin. Read more
Baltimore Mural by Josh Van Horne
My friend Josh Van Horne, a local Baltimore artist, did this amazing mural in our neighborhood that depicts the history of this warehouse-laden area.
Benjamin Edminston’s psychedelic heads seem to have some fearful wisdom behind their blissed-out eyes. Read more
Okayboss is an illustrator based in sunny Sydney who combines the powers of PB&J sandwiches, cats on the Internet, and a pocketful of edible crayons into a rainbow Voltron drawingbot. His shirts are anything from abstract space particles, to hands with expressions, while his music-inspired art prints are playful, witty, and gorgeous. Okayboss items are available for sale in the Lost At E Minor Store. Read more
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