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New Illustration / Patrick Kyle

June 9, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Toronto-based illustrator and comic book artist Patrick Kyle definitely appeals to people who use the word “rad” a lot. His crude, counter-culture-informed images reference pop culture — heavy metal paraphernalia, the Simpsons, toys from the ’70s — as well as mystical, psychedelic, and scatological themes. Read more

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New Illustration / Rich Tu

June 8, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Simple, colorful and somewhat esoteric, I really dig the work of New York illustrator, Rich Tu, a new SVA graduate student. It was something else to see his finely textured images blown up to poster size and beautifully displayed at the recent SVA student show. Read more

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New Illustration / Chet Zar

June 6, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

I’m not so much into Chet Zar’s comic-book and noir-inspired stuff, but his more fantastical and straight-forward horror images, many of which remind me of a combination between Mark Ryden and H.R. Giger, really appeal to the metalhead in me. Read more

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New Illustration / John Hodany

June 5, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

As I sit here trying to figure out what exactly to make of the work from New York City-based artist John Hodany, I come across many elements which I’m sure resonate with the day-to-day life of all us city folk. Sushi, yup, had that for dinner last night. Alarm clock, a few hours ago (hit snooze three times). Locks, always. On everything. Pigeons, oh my. It’s all so familiar but ultimately pieced together in a way as to make it feel rather disorientating. That about sums up a typical day in the city, no?

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New Illustration / Matt Leines

June 4, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn |

The work of artist Matt Leines is a perfect mash up of folk, ethnic and outsider art. It’s smart, colorful, graphic eye candy. In fact, there’s not one piece on his site I wouldn’t sell my hypothetical soul for.

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New Illustration / Ben Tolman

June 4, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Ben Tolman almost make me want to give up drawing. Despite a Mormon upbringing, the DC-based artist makes incredibly intricate pen-and-ink pieces that feature a lot of skulls, monsters, and Bosch-like horror. Drawing freehand, sometimes without preliminary sketches, Tolman puts my draftsmanship skills to shame. Read more

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New Illustration / Linda Avramides

June 4, 2009 | New Illustration | by Zolton |

I like the fluid styling in the illustration work of Australian-based designer, Linda Avramides, whose passion for fashion (ah, bad rhyme) has resulted in her producing a small range of hand-made and hand-finished vintage clothing designs.

New Illustration / Emily Eibel and Tomby

June 2, 2009 | New Illustration | This post contains an interview. by Ilana Kohn Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Illustrator Emily Eibel and the pixel master Tomby are, surprise, surprise, one and the same. Emily-Tomby took a moment to chat with us about what it’s like leading such a fascinating double life and we started off by asking how she would characterize the two different styles: ‘I guess Tomby is the technophile in me and Emily is the luddite. They seem disparate, but it’s really just one style in two mediums. Tomby is a digital manifestation of my love for painting. The digital work is built in layers of increasing detail, much like paintings are. The stitchings are just drawings with thread’. Read more

New Illustration / Carson Ting

June 2, 2009 | New Illustration | by Casper Johansson |

Named as one of the 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide by Lürzer’s Archive, Carson Ting works as an advertising art director by day where he has won numerous international and national advertising awards for brands such as Sony, Lexus, Vespa, Goodyear and Dunlop. He co-founded Chairman Ting Industries, an illustration and design workshop based in Vancouver, with his fiancé, Denise Cheung earlier this year as a side project. Read more

New Illustration / Heejin Roh

May 30, 2009 | New Illustration | by Ilana Kohn Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

I consider myself lucky to have had the opportunity to revel in New Jersey artist Heejin Roh’s impossibly subtle graphite drawings in person recently. Roh is a fresh out graduate of the SVA Illustration Master’s Program, which had it’s annual student show recently. Having been so impressed with Roh’s work at the show, I was pleased to discover that her images translate so nicely into a tiny jpeg on my computer screen. I only wish there were more!

New Illustration / Davide Zucco

May 28, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

There is some strange, crypto-voodoo occult type stuff going on in Davide Zucco’s eerie, fairytale-ish work. Zombie-looking humans, crazed animals, and god and demon-like beasts stare vacantly but perhaps knowingly from half-shut eyes as flames burst around them, trees erupt from their limbs, entire galaxies appear in the palms of their hands, and an all-seeing eye occasionally gazes down. Read more

New Illustration / Craig Phillips

May 28, 2009 | New Illustration | by Nikki Savvides |

I really like the work of Craig Phillips, an Australian illustrator whose notable achievements include creating the cover art for the new EP from Sydney band Lions At Your Door and being named as one of the 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide (Leurzers Archive). Read more

New Illustration / Say Hello To My Little Friends

May 27, 2009 | New Illustration | by Kira Heuer Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

Finding inspiration from his childhood doodles, artist Loren Kreiss brings his new solo show Say Hello to My Little Friends to New York’s Fuller Building on May 28. I not only want to say Hello, I want to meet these evolved beasts. I treasure the moment when I see the direct relationship between artist and art work and recognize the defining moment when the artist let’s the pieces go to create a life of their own. The sense of humor behind Kriess’ work is such clever wit: each name is an ode to pop culture and playful minion-making. Selfishly, I am partial to The Allegra Twins, as this is my middle name, and smirk in the knowledge that these jovial gals are up to no good.

New Illustration / Pablo Auladell

May 25, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |

Whoa! Spanish illustrator Pablo Auladell totally rules. I use the word ‘haunting’ to describe a lot of things I like because it’s a quality I look for in art, but Auladell’s images look like elaborate storyboards found in an attic of an old Victorian house where consumption patients were once quarantined.

New Illustration / Richard Beacham

May 23, 2009 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak Highly recommended by the LAEM team. |

British illustrator Richard Beacham plays with both cartoony styles and more traditional draftsmanship, drawing from archival photos and film stills as well as his own imagination to create really expressive images. Some of them (look around on his site) are strangely reminiscent of Simon Bisley’s work, only less muscles-and-boobs-centric.

 

Maybe it’s because I’m regularly checking in on her profoundly candid blog, or because her work speaks to me in some uncanny way, but I’ve always felt a powerfully calming and comforting relation to the work of illustrator, Penelope Dullaghan. With a complete lack of pretense, Dullaghan creates softly textured images that amazingly, even when commissioned, still manage to feel as if they’re just as much a piece of the artist’s state of mind. She makes you feel as if she’d rather draw nothing more than bubblegum and desk lamps, and darn it if she doesn’t make you feel the same way. Read more


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French duo Trop Tard make straight-faced, Suicide-esque, synth-and-guitar electro tunes that sound like dark rituals performed in the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris. Repetitive, bleak, and cold, this is dance music for the shambling undead.

I’ve had bloodsuckers on the mind lately, which is better than having them on the neck. But that’s a different story altogether, and not one I want to contemplate on this windswept Brooklyn evening with the moon hanging low and the faintest quiver of mid-Fall chill sending all little creatures scrurrying for the shelter of their urban brick palaces. Read more


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I spent the formative first six years of my life in Wellington, New Zealand, a beautiful windswept city framed by a magnificent harbour in one direction and a stunning collection of green, rolling hills in the other. It was here, on a return visit many years later and deep amongst the clipped accents and ruddy faces of the weather-beaten locals, that I stumbled upon the vast catalogue of the then Dunedin based record label Flying Nun. And what a roster of acts they housed — The Chills, The Bats, The Clean, Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, and my favourite guitar-pop band, Straitjacket Fits. Read more

I went to a Isol/Zypce concert in Buenos Aires last week and fell in love with their sound. This experimental singer-songwriter brother and sister duo proves that Argentinean music is not just about Tango. Though, of course, I love Tango, too!

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Chris Ware

Chris Ware is my favorite comic book artist. If there’s a new Chris Ware book out, I buy it, no questions asked. He writes the most somber, sad stories about the simplest of people, but they’re written and illustrated with such beauty and elegance. All of the text and graphic design is done by hand. It’s absolutely mind blowing. Read more

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Guido Daniele’s amazing hand painted animals

Italian artist Guido Daniele creates the most surreally brilliant portraits of wild animals using little more than body paint and a hyper-realistic imagination. Read more

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Marci Washington

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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Joe Sorren

We asked Arizona-based artist Joe Sorren what we would have been if he hadn’t been handed the most ridiculously generous serving of artistic talent: ‘Art historian and conservationalist. Or a botanist. Or I’d work with horses. It would be interesting to be behind the scenes in politics, at least for a while. Or maybe a studio musician, or invent games, or a … I would rather paint’. Ah, we agree.

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Scanwiches

When I did the Master Cleanse diet a few years ago — the one where you consume nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper for ten days — I sat at work looking at pictures of food as if they were porn. Scanwiches would have gotten me hot and bothered like nothing else.

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Warning at Work is a silkscreen mini-print from Sussex based illustrator Andy Smith which comes in a limited edition of just 50. Dimensions are 20cm x 15cm. We have them available through the Lost At E Minor store.
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