Monthly Archives: January 2008

Understanding art for geeks

Paul, the wine guy, presents his Flickr set Understanding art for geeks. My first impression was a big shock, and I asked to my buttons: what the hell? After three of four images, my artsy side went to walk and … Continue reading

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Game Over Project

GAME OVER is a brilliant video performance project created by the Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond, using stop-motion (pixelation) technique to visually reproduce classic arcade games, pixel by pixel. It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some … Continue reading

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Joy Ang

Joy Ang is a Canadian multi-artist: illustrator, photographer and designer. On her portfolio there are few, but lovely, whimsical illustrations, sketchbook images, design projects, and photos. She also started a blog with craft projects, the crafty joy, with images of … Continue reading

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Recycled Words

Will Ashford searches for interesting discarded old books. Then he explores each page of the book hunting for words. That’s just part of the process of his artwok Recycled Words: At some unpredictable point along the way, in my mind, … Continue reading

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La Grivoise card game

The pretty humorous cards above are part of the deck of the French card game “La Grivoise” (The Spicy). That page contains all 32 cards and the box of the game released by Grimaud in the 1960′s. According to the … Continue reading

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Lunch in a Box

Some mothers are better than others, I mean, when the issue is kids’ lunch box. Biggie, from Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento, is one of those dedicated, talented and with a lot patience, mothers and wives, in … Continue reading

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Butterflies’ wings alphabet

Those beautiful patterns aren’t photoshoped, they are photos from wings of moths and butterflies. They are part of the project of the photographer Kjell Sandved to capture them and create this amazing butterfly alphabet, with every letter from A to … Continue reading

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Classics of everyday design

On November 9, 2006 Jonathan Glancey started a blog at the Guardian Unlimited‘s Arts blog dedicated to the Classics of everyday design. The almost weekly articles keep going updated, and now there are 40 (and counting) Classics of everyday design. … Continue reading

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Recortables

The Spanish blog Recortables shares papercraft models with political criticism, created by Sento Llobell, comics illustrator, and Toni Vaca, “speciallist on wasting time“. There are papercraft caricatures of George W. Bush – El Carnicero Global, the king of Spain Juan … Continue reading

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Melanie Pullen

Melanie Pullen presents some great pictures of her portfolio “High Fashion Crime Scenes”. Melanie Pullen’s collection of more than one hundred photographs that comprise High Fashion Crime Scenes is based on vintage crime-scene images she mined from the files of … Continue reading

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