7Stories is my new Locative Literature project set along Melbourne’s Swanston Street and the Bourke St Mall using the beautifully crafted QR code designs by Csilla Csongvay. So if you’re up for listening to the stories of homeless guitarists, wannabe skaters and Romanian refugees in the places where these stories are set, then grab a smartphone and head on down to Melbourne.

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Collagist and book artist Lynn Skordal has a fantastic collage series, Scientific Re-Illustration, where prim and proper Victorian figures find their way into the droll world of detailed scientific illustrations. It’s all deliberately absurd and simply hilarious.

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One Week of Art is a project by Rinpa Eshidan, Japanese based artists who over the course of 7 days paint and re-paint a wall, shifting from black and white designs to vibrant and colourful ones. The opening scene is futuristic, making way for more nature based images before moving back into the future. The jazzy background music makes a lovely accompaniment for watching the artists work.

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Is an image a photograph if it wasn’t made using a camera? Photographer Alexander Harrington questions just that with his series Untitled I, comprising images that originate not via a camera, but via a computer with Photoshop. His reasoning: “If you ask most people what the difference between a painting and a photograph is, they would tell you that one is made with a camera and one is made with a brush, but I always think of an inkjet print as being a mechanical grid painting.

It’s still pigment in dots, just made by a machine. It doesn’t matter if you make it chemically or photomechanically or whatever.” Makes sense, though he might want to pick a fight with a dictionary next.

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When checking out Mark Maggiori’s art, it takes you by surprise to hear that he’s French because his work feels so American. His edgy, brutally honest photographs go wonderfully with the paintings in his series, The Blessed Event, which asks the question: what would happen if Jesus was living with us? This is a pretty intense portrait of American ‘white trash’ in their daily grind.

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Mexican artist Damián Ortega started out as a political cartoonist, but has since gone through down a decidedly artsy slant to comment on anything from consumer culture to perception. His 2007 sculptural series Controller of the Universe had him dissembling everyday objects like cars, and then freezing them in mid-air in an explosive motion. These are so beautiful.

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Erik Reichenbach was a two-time contestant on the hit reality television show Survivor. Although Erik is not an extremely popular contestant among fans and viewers, he’s notable for coming 5th place in both seasons. Outside of the TV realm, this Santa Clarita-based graphic artist has been creating picture books filled with wild characters since grade school.

His illustrations focus on the importance of imagination, a humbling sense of wonder, and our constant placement within a beautiful and overwhelming palette of emotions. You should check out there rest of his work here.

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Misery City is a new surreal noir comic from Markosia Publishing in London. The illustrations, by Vassilis Gogtzilas, are beautifully daring and dark. The story is written by Kostas Zachopoulos and tells the tale of Max Murray, an unlucky trench coat detective, forever damned in the concrete labyrinth of Misery City. Hunted by Hell’s lurking horrors, he has to struggle to just remain in one piece.

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The black and white photography of Andre D. Wagner creates a bold statement while maintaining a simple image. Wagner uses everyday lives and routines to perfectly portray different aspects related to humanity. He uses the language of expression to directly relate to his audience. The power of suggestion is forceful in his work, alongside the beauty in individualism. Simple yet bold, Wagner manifests prints specific to the realities life beholds.

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More than 100 of the world’s most exciting and influential artists, illustrators and designers including Oliver Hibert, Tatiana Arocha, Insa, Stanley Chow, Kai and Sunny and Pete Fowler have taken a paper dog and made it their own as part of the two-year Gerald Project. Culminating in an exhibition currently at New York Design Week, the collaborative sculpture exchange is one of the most ambitious in the history of art and design.

Stood on four legs with his nose proudly pointed to the air, Gerald really is a dog like no other. Designed by British design house, Lazerian, the free standing model of a Bracco Italiano breed of gun dog made entirely of paper uses up to 88 individual components for each large format dog. His construction is a prime example great design giving strength and grace to the most unlikely and underappreciated of materials. Joining Lazerian to celebrate the completion of the project is James Cropper, the 170 year old British paper mill who will use their publishing experience to create a high quality, limited edition, large format hardback book featuring all 120 of the paper dogs alongside artist reflections on what the project and Gerald means to them.

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Sometimes artists draw still life. Sometimes artists do portraits. Sometimes some artists find it’s needed to not only stray away from a more conventional path, but to pull its pants down and examine its naughty bits. This is where Birdfood’s artwork pulls out its magnifying glass and goes to town.

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US-based Educause Review recently commissioned me to illustrate three stories in their March/April issue. Educause Review is an award-winning magazine which takes a broad look at current developments and trends in information technology and how they may affect colleges and universities.

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We’ve seen many types of maps, and most of them share one characteristic: they are minimalistic, topographic representations of a particular physical area. Now Sohei Nishino has gone ahead to blow our minds with his spin on maps of cities he has visited. Comprised of his stash of photographs, these recreate the city as one large collage, and are intended to function as a accurate-to-memory record rather than a accurate-to-scale map. He has crafted at least 14 of these over the last decade or so. These are plain fascinating.

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Chinese Liverpudlian, Donshi, has created a new series of prints as part of a story called I’m Looking for Someone, Something, Somewhere. The subject matter revolves around futuristic cityscapes with a mixture of reality and the fantasy blurring the boundaries between the two.

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In my paintings, I combine the figurative and non-figurative to create a world that can only exist in a painting. I want to tell a story, visualize a feeling, or capture a certain atmosphere that can move the viewer. Sometimes the process is as important as the picture itself. The painting Mistranslation is based on a photo of a screen playing an old low-resolution TV commercial. This process has distorted the picture to such a degree that the characters have been transformed into somebody new, telling a whole different story.

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Chinese street artist DALeast states on his profile that he is “currently a human being”, which seems a bit of an understatement seeing how he creates all these ambitious spraypainted mural works wherever he goes. He’s been out and about in London in the last few weeks, doing some eye-popping 3D-like damage in places like Hanbury Street off Brick Lane and Rivington Street in Shoreditch.

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Graphic designer Jherin Miller fused the disparate aesthetics of old-school Polaroids and pixelated 80s video game graphics for his Pixels and Polaroids project, so what emerged was a new world combining the two. It’s a fun concept. We dig it.

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It´s funny how popular TV shows can shed a new light on art. A very good example is the Black Acid Co-op installation from 2009 by the two US-American artists Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe. It´s their third collaborate project of alchemy in a modern context and community and basically a large scale installation of several rooms including a meth lab, commissioned by Deitch projects.

To enter the installation the visitor has to climb through a big hole in the wall and as soon as he/she is inside a hidden world of abandonment and decay opens up. The exhibition gives the “average” citizen the possibility to experience a sub-culture he is probably surrounded by every day without noticing and without even imagining that his neighbour might have a drug lab next door…

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Alexa Meade, who regularly blurs the line between reality and art by painting directly on human bodies, recently collaborated with performance artist Sheila Vand. With Vand painted and submerged in a pool of milk, Meade had to fight against time to capture her shapeshifting form as portraits while the paint on Vand seeped into the milk. The actual snaps are beautiful, but so are the behind-the-scenes shots that show the process.

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Henry Hargreaves is a fine one indeed. It looks like he’s on a roll destroying all sorts of stuff from deep-frying gadgets to cracking colorful substances from eggs.

Now, he’s on to Burning Calories, literally, by dousing junk food with lighter fluid and setting them on fire. Frankly, the sight of ice cream going up in smoke is quite magnificent.

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