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New Illustration / Linda Kim

September 3, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

The work of Linda Kim makes me think a lot about the motifs that seem to be seeping into every artist’s work these days — forests, mythological creatures, crystals, geometric patterns, and new age psychedelia. Read more

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New Illustration / Botanize by Yoshi Tajima

September 2, 2010 | New Illustration | by Yoshi Tajima Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

These stunning new illustrations by Japanese designer Yoshi Tajima were inspired by the work of biologist Ernst Haeckel. Read more

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New Illustration / Bec Winnel

August 31, 2010 | New Illustration | by Courtney Beck |

The sensuality and mystery of the women that Melbourne artist and illustrator, Bec Winnel, draws will whisk you away to a dreamy land where natural beauty and quiet confidence abound. Winnel is a self-taught artist with formal training in Graphic Design. Read more

New Illustration / PaperMonster

August 30, 2010 | New Illustration | by Contributions Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Combining both stencil and collage techniques, PaperMonster’s work is truly one of a kind. When first looking at his work, there appears to be a single image of a woman expressing a certain emotion. Take a closer look and you will see all the chaos beneath the surface.

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New Illustration / Kaeleen Wescoat-O’Neill

August 27, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |

Recent Art Center College of Design Kaeleen Wescoat-O’Neill utilizes light acrylic washes and smudged graphite to lend her images a luminous, mystical quality.

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New Illustration / Paola Gaviria

August 26, 2010 | New Illustration | by Jessica Parra Nowajewski |

Illustrator Paola Gaviria works out of Cali, Colombia, doing Action Drawing at Lugar a dudas, having spent last year in Amazonia, where she set up a club through which her neighbors could learn more about the arts, themselves and their environment. Another project she is involved is a blog where a group of female artists communicate through short vignettes.

August 24, 2010 | New Illustration | by Zolton Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

This series by Russian-based Yulia Brodskaya combines intricate paper art with brilliantly conceptual typography in a colourful flourish of artistic elegance. Read more

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New Illustration / Denice Bartels

August 20, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Denice Bartels does photo-realistic drawings of rippling water and the craters of the moon. Her painstaking process evokes a sense of zen.

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New Illustration / The Marbling Typeface

August 20, 2010 | New Illustration | by Zolton |

This beautiful Marbling Typeface was created by Tiana Vasiljev after a visit to a museum in South Vietnam: ‘each character was created, shaped and photographed individually to create these abstract fonts. The project involved creating and capturing the organic forms that come naturally with the marbling process. All 26 letters of the alphabet were created in upper-case letters’. Read more

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New Illustration / MessyMsxi

August 19, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Illustrator MessyMsxi has a diverse, distinctive style. She does lots of cleaner text based work, but also some wonderfully loose drawings. I love the way she does faces.

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New Illustration / Dain Fagerholm’s monster art

August 18, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

A lot of Dain Fagerholm’s work is cute and would be appropriate for a children’s book, but it’s his more meticulously rendered, creepy images that really strike me. What can I say, I’m a sucker for monsters. Read more

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New Illustration / Christina Christoforou

August 17, 2010 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Christina Christoforou is a London-based illustrator and artist, her delicate and dreamy drawings are commissioned for book covers, music, film and editorial. Read more

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New Illustration / Symbolon

August 16, 2010 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Japanese illustrator Symbolon works with his signature ‘shadow graphic’ style to create fashion illustrations for clients including BBC, Polaroid, Macy’s and American Airlines. Read more

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New Illustration / Dan Mumford

August 12, 2010 | New Illustration | by Michelle Wilding Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

London-based illustrator, designer, and screen-printer, Dan Mumford, uses pencils, pens, a tablet and Photoshop to create meticulous and creatively exciting pieces of art.

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New Illustration / Junkboy Demakes

August 9, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Game designer Junkboy recently posted a bunch of these amazing 8-bit ‘demakes’ of contemporary video games. Read more

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Aurel Schmidt’s intricate drawings make me want to start a band just so I can use it as album art. The DIY-outsider tack many artists have taken of late has produced some art that makes you think ‘I could do that’, but Schmidt’s work is inimitable — her rendering of hair must make other artists furious with envy. Read more


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I love the bold colours and childlike themes in the illustrations of Atlanta, Georgia-based artist, Jessica Gonacha. It’s like Spring time all year round. Read more

Our celebrity-saturated culture makes many of us irrationally hateful of the faces we see on our TV screens and magazine pages. Good thing there’s Celebrity PunchOut to let off some of that steam.


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One of the things that hotels, and international hotel brands in particular, are often criticised for is a lack of identity, the feeling of being somewhere but nowhere simultaneously. However, this doesn’t have to be the case. One of the emerging trends in the industry is the personalization of hotels around a style or a theme, so feast your eye on 7 of the coolest and most individual themed hotels from around the world! Read more

The Australian film collective behind the sci-fi spoof, The Time That Time Forgot, perfectly capture the look and feel of awkward, low-budget rip-offs from the ’70s — the psychedelic lighting, bad dubbing, and amazing hair. One almost wishes Italian Spiderman was for real. [more about Italian Spiderman]

It doesn’t transform or actually play music, but this watch with a face that looks like a cassette tape, is still pretty cool. Read more


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The hottest indie act around right now? Perhaps. Fullerton, California’s Cold War Kids not only have the slickest name going, but they have a batch of songs that are so good it’s frightening.

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Cube Dudes: famous icons made from Lego

Now we’ve seen it all! Under the name Cube Dude, Angus Maclane creates disarmingly accurate Lego reinterpretations of pop culture icons, including Homer Simpson, Batman and Robin and Darth Vader. Read more

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Matthew Dear’s Black City album totem

Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool! We liked the idea, and checked in with Ghostly creative mind Will Calcutt to find out what the totems are, what they do, and what’s next. The totem is a black, industrial-style metal bar that unlocks stuff on the web, right? ‘The totem is a sculpture cast in bonded aluminum and it has a code that can be used to download/stream the new Matthew Dear album, Black City.’ Read more

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Pencils made from recycled newspaper

The problem with awesome things like these pencils made out of recycled newspaper is that you almost don’t want to use them.

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Michelle Blade’s psychedelic artwork

Michelle Blade’s washed out paintings are deceptively simple, her washy acrylics creating psychedelic textures and conjuring ghostly figures from the past. Read more

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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.


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Maximum Balloon is the debut release from David Andrew Sitek (TV On The Radio). We have a prize pack to give away to five LAEM subscribers featuring the 7″ vinyl single Tiger, Groove Me single (feat. Theophilus London), and two Maximum Balloon red balloons! To enter, just tell us the city you’re in under this post. Read more

This pendant by Portland designer Stephanie Stimek hangs from an eighteen inch 14 carat gold chain. Made from a Japanese quail egg, the entire shell has been coated in plastic for strength and is available for purchase through the Lost At E Minor store. Read more


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