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New Illustration / Stencil Art by Skye
February 8, 2010 | New Illustration | by Nikki Savvides |
The twenty minute walk from my house to Newtown takes me down cramped backstreets and past run-down buildings decorated with some of the best stencil art I’ve ever see. One of its creators is Sydney’s Syke, a member of a group known as the Original Art Club, who ‘busk’ their art on the streets of the inner-city suburb. Read more
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New Illustration / Justin Bryan Nelson
February 6, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Tampa-based illustrator Justin Bryan Nelson’s obsession with hair, wire, and entangled/woven rope and string yields some pretty eye-catching images.
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New Illustration / Linn Olofsdotter
February 5, 2010 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
Looking at a Linn Olofsdotter illustration is like confronting every deep, dark fantasy you’ve never imagined but probably should have.
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New Illustration / Frederik Jurk
February 3, 2010 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
Despite his name, I’m guessing German illustrator Frederik Jurk must be a cool guy because his images, his limited palette and gorgeous textured line work are awesome.
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New Illustration / Alice Duke
February 1, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
The illustrations and character designs by UK-based artist Alice Duke are completely captivating with their moodiness and wonderfully textured rendering. Her monster designs have more of a storybook quality to them rather than a fanboy fantasy aesthetic, making her work versatile enough to suit both video games and rock posters. Read more
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New Illustration / Aya Kakeda
January 29, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Brooklyn-based illustrator Aya Kakeda has used a wide range of materials for her Yoshitomo Nara-esque images, but there’s something particularly compelling about her embroidered work. The constraints and distortions inherent in the medium suggests a struggle and a roughness not apparent in her other work and fits nicely with some of her folky subject matter and child-like narratives. Read more
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New Illustration / Zena Santos, teen prodigy illustrator
January 27, 2010 | New Illustration | by Michelle Wilding 
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Teen prodigy Zena Santos’ love for Photoshop developed at a young age. Now the 19-year-old has further developed her uniquely dazzling illustrative style. She’s halfway through completing a Multimedia Design degree at Sydney’s Billie Blue College of Design. If she’s this good now, imagine the calibre of work she’ll be producing in another few years. Read more
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New Illustration / Olaf Hajek
January 26, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Olaf Hajek’s work blurs the distinction between illustration and fine art with his advertising and assignment work on the same continuum stylistically as his personal pieces and garnering similar critical acclaim. The German-born artist’s colorfully lyrical treatment of his subjects infuses his work with a mysterious innocence. Read more
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New Illustration / Zach Paul
January 23, 2010 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
I was immediately taken with the work of California artist Zack Paul. Especially the images created on various bits of driftwood and found natural objects. The most perfect backdrop to his clean, geometric images.
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New Illustration / Ben Zen
January 20, 2010 | New Illustration | by Deanne Cheuk |
I’ve just fallen in love with the work of Melbourne-based Ben Wright, aka Ben Zen, the cutest, sweetest drawings and small worlds, which leave me longing for more. [see more creative work from Australia on our sister site, The Colour]
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New Illustration / Kareem Rizk’s birds
January 20, 2010 | New Illustration | by Michelle Wilding |
Melbourne-based collage artist Kareem Risk’s series of birds are a wonderful example of great colour combined with a fascinating subject and effective typography. Zazzle now features post-card versions of the prints. Get mailing, kids.
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New Illustration / Vanessa Davis
January 14, 2010 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |
Stumbling across the comics of artist Vanessa Davis just made my day. Her personal meanderings and sketchy style just make me want to read every little thing I can get my hands on. I especially enjoy the memior-esque series she’s been creating for Tablet Mag. I can’t think of any better way to procrastinate on a weekday afternoon.
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New Illustration / David Jien
January 14, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Pop-culture references, typography, monsters, and grotesque imagery permeates so much of contemporary 2D art these days, but never have I seen these elements integrated with as much of a sense of storybook-ish mystery as with David Jien’s pencil drawings Read more
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New Illustration / Theo Ellsworth
January 13, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Theo Ellsworth, author of the innocently hallucinatory graphic novel Capacity, has just come out with a new paperback, Sleeper Car.
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New Illustration / Jericho Santander
January 12, 2010 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
I love this surreal series of illustrations by Spanish artist Jericho Santander. Read more
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There’s a wonderful cheekiness and sense of visual mischievousness about the illustration work of UK-based Jonathan Burton, who counts Time magazine and Saatchi & Saatchi amongst a slew of high profile clients.
Jen Hseih’s illustrations are a wonderfully exciting explosion of colour and subtle innuendo, finely detailed windows into a world that I’ll never know. Read more
Those of you who are based in Australia and are into sports might like to check out the other website the Lost At E Minor team runs, The Roar. Read more
Every now and then you encounter a band whose sound cannot be confined to CD, Vinyl or a MySpace Music Player; a sound so incredible that it must be experienced first hand, in the flesh, where it can do some well-deserved damage to your eardrums. Sydney’s Dead Farmers are one of these bands. Read more
Located by the Atlantic Avenue Station, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the BAM movie theaters are as genuine as it gets in New York when it comes to going to the movies. It features a small selection of the latest releases actually worth seeing, or you can immerse yourself in the BAMcinématek, which presents repertory classics, retrospectives, festivals, premieres, and rare films.
Andrew Fagan, lead singer of The Mockers, the poppiest New Zealand band of the 80s, came around to my place once when I was an impressionable 10-year old with stars in my eyes and a head full of shiny, shiny melodies. Read more
Finding an original accessory these days is a bit of a rarity. I mean, when every second person you see is wearing one of those damn Palestinian scarfs, you know the industry is crying out for a fresh take. Enter Sydney-based jewellery label August + Pemberton. Read more
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Wheeeeee! This game is so freaking fun! You move your cursor over each dot to make them split into four smaller dots ad infinitum.
I live the upbeat, feel good tempo of the new single — A Hundred Hearts — from Philly group, The Swimmers. Off their latest album, People Are Soft, this song is a strangely fitting anthem for the blustery day outside.
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Scanners’ new single Salvation
I love this track by London based rock group, Scanners, which is off their latest album, Submarine. Having toured with acts such as The Horrors, The Wedding Present, The Charlatans, Electric Six, and Juliette & The Licks, Scanners could well blow up in 2010. Figuratively speaking, not literally. No, that wouldn’t be fun.
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Damn hipster dogs coming in here with their parents’ money, acting like they own the place, not respecting us real dogs who know what real culture and art are. We were here first and we knew about all those bands before they did. Read more
There is not a medium that UK illustrator Lizzy Stewart cannot wrap around her little finger to make the most beautiful, whimsical images. Read more
This Spider Necklace by Andrea Corson is made from oxidized sterling silver and is a one of a kind: a blackened creepy crawly on a bed of Caviars that will freak and treat. We have them for sale in the Lost At E Minor online store. Read more
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