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New Illustration / Jessica Fortner
July 3, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak 
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Toronto-based illustrator Jessica Fortner creates really elaborate 3D scenes that she photographs to make final images that resemble stills from a claymation movie. Read more
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New Illustration / Benjamin Johnson and Vince Agostino
July 2, 2009 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
I like the retro colours and subtle detail that permeates the work of Australian illustration and design duo, Benjamin Johnson and Vince Agostino.
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New Illustration / Lauren Nassef
June 30, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Chicago-based RISD graduate Lauren Nassef has some unimpeachable skills as a draftsman, but I appreciate her work for its restraint and elegant minimalism. Check out her A Drawing A Day blog to keep up with what she’s working on. Read more
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New Illustration / Andrew Schoultz
June 29, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
I’m totally digging Andrew Schoultz’s dense line-work and limited palette. The San Francisco-based artist deals with political and social issues, but isn’t overtly a topical artist — the textures he achieves are similar to what I strive for in my own work. Read more
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New Illustration / Matt Taylor
June 26, 2009 | New Illustration | by Kate Barnett |
I’ve been searching for the artist of the clever Day Of The Dead Presidents piece since it flashed past me somewhere last year. Luckily Brighton based Illustrator Matt Taylor has just contributed to Graniph, throwing his work back into the spotlight. Along with National Geographic Taylor is influenced by comic books. There’s a definite Paul Pope vibe in some of his more detailed pieces.
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New Illustration / Anna Melcon Bond
June 26, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
I love the first image on the website of illustrator Anna Melcon Bond: the snarling bushes and the little dog in the wagon snarling back as his owner blithely skips along trailing the wagon behind her. Melcon Bond’s work oozes with wit. There’s not an image of hers that I wouldn’t tack on my wall for a good laugh and a smile.
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New Illustration / Claudia Pearson
June 24, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
In a very serendipitous moment the other day, I walked into the cafe, Picnic, the latest arrival in my Fort Greene, Brooklyn neighborhood. Not only do they serve some of the best coffee I have ever tasted, but the store is a virtual paean to Brooklyn illustrator Claudia Pearson. I can’t wait to snap up her Tribal Alphabet book. A copy for a friend’s kid and, um, a copy for me. Read more
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New Illustration / James Blagden’s neon fantasies
June 23, 2009 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
New York illustrator James Blagden’s work is so wonderfully trippy, I feel like I need to wear shades and a top hat when looking at them just to do them justice. Read more
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New Illustration / Adria Fruitos
June 22, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
Wandering through the website of Barcelona illustrator Adria Fruitos, the first image I stumble across is of an enormous angry bear on a rampage, with tiny blood smeared policemen strewn across his path. It’s pretty funny, I swear! Not to mention lovely. If you don’t believe me, have a gander yourself.
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New Illustration / Kenny Irwin Jr.
June 19, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Kenny Irwin Jr. makes absurd, apocalyptic collages, mainly drawing from images from the Middle East. He also makes videos, but the most compelling stuff to me are his florescent, ballpoint pen drawings that deal with similar imagery, but bind everything together in a more limited palette. Read more
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New Illustration / Yuko Shimizu’s Ultimate PC illustration
June 17, 2009 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
I love the bold use of color and dramatic thematic overtones that characterises the work of New York-based illustrator, and Lost At E Minor contributor, Yuko Shimizu. This award-winning piece was for Microsoft’s Ultimate PC project, in which artists were asked to create series of five personal works using their PC instead of their Mac to showcase in Microsoft’s new experimental art site.
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New Illustration / Max Kauffman
June 15, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
If the zombie apocalypse looks anything like Max Kauffman’s artwork, we have nothing to fear because there will be cute zombie birds. Also, zombies in Kauffman’s universe prefer Eskimo kisses to brains. Read more
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New Illustration / Saddo Jdero
June 13, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
When I was in high school, I’d sometimes eat a Slim Jim at the end of the day and pass out, face-down at a table in the little snack shop in the school’s basement. I’m not sure if it was the processed meat, the florescent lighting, or my awkward sleeping position, but invariably I’d have horrible nightmares. They looked not unlike Saddo Jdero’s artwork. Read more
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New Illustration / Valerie Pensworth
June 11, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
Being a serious history nut and fawning over just about anything pre-twentieth century that crosses my path, I stopped in my tracks when I stumbled upon the folksy watercolors and decorous Edwardian ladies of Georgia-based artist Valerie Pensworth. Read more
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New Illustration / Eddie Martinez
June 10, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
I am utterly head over heels for the loose, childlike paintings of New York artist Eddie Martinez. The unconscious seeps its way onto the page for us to savor in all its colorful, impulsive, and impressionistic glory.
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I’ve been admiring the works of Scott Barry for years without ever knowing much about him. The San Francisco-based artist, designer and founder of the Birdstand website has had gallery showings worldwide. He also works with the brilliant production studio, Mekanism, and has directed the 50 mini-shorts for their new website. Read more
Last weekend I went to the Golden West in Baltimore to check out the What Cheer? Brigade, a marching band from Providence. I wasn’t expecting much, but when they opened with a cover of Slayer’s Raining Blood, my knees buckled. I think I could hear a musak version of that riff, and I’d still bang my head. The rest of the band’s set was just as riotous, with people dancing so hard, you’d think we were at Mardi Gras. I haven’t had that much fun at a show in ages.
Mercedes Helnwein’s pencil portraits are hyper-realistic and expressive at the same time. She stays apparently faithful to her subjects, but utilizes poses and lighting to obtain dramatic and expressive images. Read more
This website hosts a nice collection of quirky, sometimes mind-boggling, sculptures from around the world. There’s a certain Dali-esque feel to a lot of them – those surreal, dreamy hallucinations turned into a warped reality. I’ve always been a sucker for art that really catches you out for a few seconds, and these certainly do that.
Films involving characters faced with an impossible choice never make easy viewing, an example being the Nick Cave Australian gem, The Proposition. A nightclub manager, played with understated power by Joaquin Phoenix, is the victim here, and you actually feel truly uncomfortable as his predicament unfolds. Set in the 1980s, We Own The Night shows a real nostalgia for that period — particularly in the costumes. Read more
You don’t have to venture far in Bangladesh to encounter a rickshaw, the nation’s most popular means of transport. Read more
MyPetsQuare loves you, and you will love them too. Two Sydney girls with a desire to design and create form the basis of this label. Vicki Lee and Angelique May-Bennett play with the idea of individualism and the longing to stand out from the crowd. Read more
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Saira McLaren is a Canadian born, Brooklyn-based artist whose blurred paintings of the natural and spiritual world are disturbing for what they reference as well as what they deny. McLaren has shown at Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, and Mississippi State University. Read more
Marci Washington’s gothic paintings have an Edward Gorey-esque romanticism about them, her vampiric figures suggesting dark and mystical narratives. Read more
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The work of Chicago artist Nigel Evan Dennis is emphatically modern and sparse, with textures and clean geometric shapes dominating the frame. I get the feeling I could really relax and breathe deeply with one of these beautiful images hanging on the wall. Read more
While I am as impressed as anyone with an artist’s ability to render accurate and lifelike human figures, I’m more often compelled aesthetically by looser and more stylized images such as Camilla Engman’s. The wide-set eyes, bulbous bodies, and skewed proportions of the people and animals in Engman’s paintings lend them a certain expressiveness and melancholy. Read more
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