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Do you have trouble making yourself appreciate classic art? Then these photoshopped paintings of modern celebrities are a great way to slowly ease yourself into something more classy. Wether we’ll admit it or not, most of us enjoy a good gossip magazine. So why not convince yourself that classic art is just as entertaining. Flip through [...]
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Michael Wolf, whose works we just can’t get enough of, has a fairly new series focusing on makeshift chairs in China and Hong Kong. Endearingly dubbed ‘bastard chairs’ thanks to their questionable origins, these snapshots show a lot of spunk and personality from their unseen makers.
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Jeremiah Kille is a native of Santa Cruz, CA, who began his career as a custom surfboard builder. An opportunity working alongside renowned artist Thomas Campbell would profoundly impact him. He has since exhibited work extensively in Northern California, and currently has a Los Angeles show at PROJECT Gallery. The show runs through June 21.
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Matheus Lopes is an illustrator/designer from Brazil who embraces mixed media and digital techniques to create vibrant artworks. What inspires me the most about him is the way he connects nature to mankind, such as in Unlimited Thought, which shows a child drawing on the pavement with an unrealistically big quill and butterflies coming out [...]
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Twaggies is a website that takes funny tweets from Twitter, and creates quirky visual interpretations from them. It was launched back in 2009 by editor and web producer David Israel. More than two dozen artists and illustrators have since teamed up to make the site what it is today.
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Cages, the new series from self-taught Canadian artist Sandra Chevrier, is about the never-ending struggle with conventions, society and expectations. Women all over the world have to face society´s twisted and artificially created preconceptions of being beautiful and perfect. Chevrier´s approach is to make this inner struggle visible and perceivable. By using heavy textures of [...]
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Berlin-based artist Thilo Frank has this fascinating installation work, The Phoenix Is Closer Than It Appears, a 4m x 4m x 8m room that is entirely lined with mirrors and lit with streaks of neon green. It looks like it came straight out of The Matrix. Hmm, looks really cool, but we wonder if people [...]
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If you’ve ever wanted to know what your beloved belongings will look like 100 years from now, you’re on the right page. Japanese artist Maico Akiba has been painting a range of everyday belongings to make them appear like they have decayed over time. All items are still fully functional, though. I think it would [...]
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Malaysia-based graphic design studio LIE (or Little Ideas Everyday), which has done a staggering amount of good work ranging from identity design to illustration, recently ran a project on their blog where whimsical visuals, such as a polaroid that spews colours and a suitcase opening up to reveal a sea of paper waves, come to [...]
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Know these mechanical alphabet-by-alphabet motion flapboards at the airport that make flight announcements? Mumbai-based interdisciplinary artist Shilpa Gupta’s work, 24:00:01 — so named to represent a time that does not exist, or a space that cannot exist within conventional boundaries — takes the flapboard out of its familiar airport setting and displays statements inspired by [...]
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With her minimalistic China vs Chinatown split-panel graphic series, New York-based art director Mengwen Xiang views Chinatown as a stereotype of China, and contrasts the two against each other. It’s brilliant, subtle, wicked and makes for a quick educational crash course about the world’s most populated country.
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Artist-designer Grace Tan from Singapore, who regularly makes gorgeous spatial and wearable textile pieces with kwodrent, a creative practice she founded in 2003, recently displayed an equally gorgeous cloud-like sculpture at the Singapore Art Museum made out of the sort of polypropylene loop pins you find in a stationery store. She said to a magazine [...]
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Since 2002, the Netherlands has had a Party for the Animals. Yes, standing up for the rights of animals and including animal rights in the body of legislation is certainly a sign of even more control by man over nature, but how much further will this interference go? Will the eating of meat become equivalent to a [...]
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The first and only magazine that consists entirely of stickers has just put out its fifth edition. This time it’s hosted by the infamous LODOWN MAGAZINE. According to the press release, there was no preconceived plan, no theme in mind. But what stood out was still a high degree of skulls, satanic stuff and sex. So order [...]
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Kirsty Mitchell created this incredible photo series in honor of her mother who passed away from brain tumor in 2008. Her mother was an English teacher, and Mitchell’s series commemorates her mother’s imaginative and inspiring personality. Mitchell’s storybook-like photos were a source of comfort from her grief, but the results of her hard work are [...]
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