The dark fairytale world of French artist Ciou

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By Joyce de Gruiter in New Art on Friday 19 April 2013

French artist Ciou is inspired by a wonderful mix of music, pin ups, manga, primitive religious art, art nouveau, tattoos, old toys and Mexican culture. She combines her own marvellous lowbrow Necro Kawaï art style with forms from popular pictures and old techniques. The little girls and monsters are cute and sweet but with an [...]

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Menacing cat monsters

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Wednesday 20 March 2013

For all their fluffiness and flakiness, we knew the cats weren’t just messing about on Earth. These terrorizing feline monsters remind us who’s boss. We should just roll over and play dead right after we surrender everything to them.

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Brian Castleforte’s Papertoy Monsters

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By Didu Losso in New Products on Thursday 7 March 2013

Brian Castleforte is a independent artist, creative director, motion graphics designer, and animator based in Los Angeles and the founder of NicePaperToys, the first papertoy social network. For anyone who hasn’t heard of papertoys, think of it as a mash-up of origami and designer toys, a viral Internet art movement that used to be limited to [...]

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Cavity Colors: grotesque art by Aaron Crawford

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By dAVE inden in New Art on Thursday 3 January 2013

Aaron Crawford makes monsters. With beautifully grotesque detail he puts them on prints, t-shirts, books, and even buttons. He draws out original and frightening works while also making pieces inspired by classic horror elements like Night of the Creeps and Goosebumps. A lot of his work is limited edition, but new stuff is constantly coming out. I always get comments on the t-shirts I have.

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Post-It Note drawings by John Kenn

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By Stuart McBratney in New Illustration on Thursday 25 October 2012

Next time you scribble ‘buy milk’ on a Post-It Note, you’ve just deprived John Kenn of a canvas. This Danish artist conjures creepy monster scenes worthy of a midnight movie marathon, all compacted into small yellow squares.

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Sawdust Bear makes anxious monsters

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By Michele Banks in New Art on Tuesday 25 September 2012

Shing Yin Khor (aka Sawdust Bear) describes herself as ‘a sculptor and illustrator inspired by monsters, tentacles, mediocre science fiction movies, bikes, Dungeons and Dragons, and really adorable cats’. Some of her sculpted characters appear in Marlowe the Monster, a webcomic about a lumpy, multi-eyed monster who goes on bad dates and suffers from social anxiety, which he soothes by eating cake.

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Sea beast desktop icons by Jamie McCanless

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Tuesday 26 June 2012

There’s nothing like sea monsters, cascading across our computer screens masquerading as desktop icons, to motivate us to get down to work fast. Plus, it comes in five colours. Thank you, Jamie McCanless.

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NF and Lover’s Cell Phones Kill street art in the Bronx

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By JL in New Art on Friday 7 October 2011

Street artists NF and Lover have been getting up quite a bit lately. Here’s a recent collaboration that was spotted in the Bronx illustrating the dangers of cell phone use.

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Metal-influenced pop art by Cezar Berger

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By Gerry Mak in New Art on Tuesday 2 August 2011

Brazilian artist Cezar Berger, aka Berje, does the metal-influenced pop art really well, his demons, monsters, melting faces, skulls, and goats taking on a sort of counterculture, skateboarder vibe.

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Monster shoes that glow in the dark

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By J Dubbs in New Fashion on Friday 5 November 2010

These shoes of all different kinds sport different monsters that glow in the dark. Fun! From Iron Fist Clothing.

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Little Monsters

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By Andrew Fox in New Illustration on Friday 8 October 2010

Considered considerably less than average in height on their home planet, the affectionately dubbed ‘little monsters‘ grew tired of the constant jibes and fled to the nearest inhabitable planet: Earth. There they lived happily ever after, causing havoc as only giant alien monsters can. They currently reside in New York City.

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Jordan Metcalf

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By Gerry Mak in New Design on Thursday 1 July 2010

I love bulbous heads and weird monsters, so South African artist Jordan Metcalf’s work is right up my alley.

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J. Shea

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By Gerry Mak in New Art on Monday 15 February 2010

J. Shea’s 3D, multimedia works look like single frames from stop-motion animation versions of classic fairy tales, full of sea monsters, dragons, and quirky characters.

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Monsters in Real Places

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By Gerry Mak in Cool Websites on Monday 15 February 2010

Monsters in Real Places is a cute blog where artists superimpose imaginary monsters onto photographs of real scenes.

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Alice Duke

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By Gerry Mak in New Illustration on Monday 1 February 2010

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.

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