Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
Here is a selection of images straight from the portfolio of the sought-after illustrator Steven Wilson. Because Steven’s impressive client list includes everyone from Coke to Nike, BBC and MTV, it is likely that you have already come across one of his beautiful works.
Steven is inspired by circus imagery, tribal art and 70s rock posters among other things, and he can often be found sifting through flea market stalls looking for obscure books to use as reference. All of this ensures that his work stands out. There is no question that his pieces define and represent a new wave of illustrated art. He has a particular passion for working on albums covers. By Brendan McKnight.
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
Joanne Gair is an artist and image maker who has emerged as the premiere make-up artist/body painter in the world.
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
What do you do after becoming one of France's highest-paid male
models? You become a fashion photographer, of course. Or that's what Robert Jaso did, anyways, and by looking at the fruits of his work, we think his change of career was a wise choice.
The Slovakia-born Jaso who moved to France with his family at the
age of five and fell into the fashion world by accident when he was
spotted by a booker This started a successful 10-year stint in front of
the cameras. A decade is a quite some time for a model, so when Jaso
was looking for a change and something with more longevity, photography
seemed like the next obvious step in his career. Having already had
such an amazing first-hand look into how the fashion industry works,
Jaso then spent several years working on and refining his own signature
style that can now be seen in magazines around the world.
Still based in Paris, but being sent to all corners of the globe to
work on various campaigns and shoots, he currently spends most of his
time working for Italian Vogue.
With a passion for creating stories and a keen interest in all
things technical and aesthetic, Jaso creates carefully constructed
images that are strong and beautiful with a hint of quirkiness. By
Brendan McKnight.. By Brendan McKnight.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
Primary Flight
is graffiti art at its finest. The curated graffiti installation was
created in four days in early December during Art Basel in the Wynwood
Art District in Miami, Florida, by more than 25 graffiti artists from
around the world.
The riot of murals is a result of cooperation between the Spinello Gallery, creative agency Blackbooks, New York-based creative-project think tank Landsea Ventures and paint maker Sabotaz.
According to the organizers, Primary Flight, curated by Books III,
Anthony Spinello and Lynn Yohana Howard, showcases some of today's most
respected graffiti artists. The organizers recognize that as graffiti
has become “art,” it has often left the back alleys and bridge arches
of the world. Primary Flight’s purpose is to bring the essence of
graffiti back by making concrete outdoor wall space available to
artists and giving them free reign over it. This way, graffiti art can
be viewed on the streets, in its most appealing format and in its
original environment.
What is most fun about massive open-air projects like this is that the
actual creation process is accessible to all. Photographer Jeremiah Garcia
documented the Primary Flight creative process ensuring that the art
and its birth are preserved long after the walls are painted over. By Tuija Seipell
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 |
Forget about wandering through an art gallery and wondering if you’re
the only one who has no idea what anything means. Hannes Broecker
has brilliantly invited the cultural elite to grab a glass at an
exhibition in Dresden, Germany, and drink away the art.
Regardless of what we do or do not understand about art, we can all
agree, it stimulates our senses. Broecker has aroused our sense of
taste (not to mention eliminated the need of elbowing our way to the
bar) by hanging flat, glass containers with a variety of cocktails in
the exhibition space. As the night progressed, the levels of the
multi-coloured infusions diminished. By the end of the event, the art,
itself, ran dry, and empty drinking glasses were returned to where they
were originally placed. By Andrew J Wiener (spotted by CH reader, Chris Bothge)
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
The beauty of the art of Origami has always been the tradition of which
its based on. The digital masters program at Sydney's University of
Technology has appropriated the very tradition with it's digital
origami. By asking students to study trends in parametric modeling,
digital fabrication and material science, the team created an
amazing display which reflects on the beauty and tradition of the Japanese art but
delivers its aesthetics in a modern and current practice. The
digital Origami exhibition is a progressive display of re inventing
ancient traditions in digital parameters.
Using 3500 recycled cardboard molecules, University of Technology
design students, under the guidance of lecturer Chris
Bosse, examined various aspects of architectural foundations
through small elements of design.
The result is a cool installation which examines space and
the elements of design including arches, walls tunnels and traditional structures. The room full of Geometric paper
shapes, placed on top of one another and adhered to ceilings and
walls are brilliantly illuminated by expressive neon lighting
which further emphasizes the angular structure of the work itself.
Bosse cites the aim of the project as " testing the fitness of a
particular module, copied from nature, to generate architectural space,
with the assumption that the intelligence of the smallest unit
dictates the intelligence of the overall system. By Andy G. See also WALL ART
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
Originality is rare these days in the art world but we’re pleased to
report that we’ve stumbled upon an artist whose work is both innovative
and modern. Matt Bilfield, California based artist, won us over with
this incredible three-dimensional piece “Peggy,” a brilliant and
ambitious interpretation of a painting by famous artist Roy
Lichtenstein. The mammoth work - it’s seven feet wide and three
feet tall - is comprised of 2788 hand cut, sanded, and painted dowels
that where then assembled together to recreate Lichtenstein’s image.
The result is a cross between a graphic art image, sculpture, and
installation which offers the viewer a different experience from every
angle. By Billy T
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
Sydney based artist, Brian Walker, credits his desire to seamlessly
fuse fashion, illustration and the element of surprise as the driving
creative force behind his artworks.
In a time where the line between hyper-realities and those of our own
is becoming finer, the Sydney artist's work speaks a relative language.
The digital artist is inspired by surreal landscapes, the evolution of
fashion and changing popular culture . Walker takes these inspirational
genres and merges them with his concept of 'using photography as a tool
to represent the ideas of the impossible'.
Noting David La Chapelle as a major influence, Walker strives to create
a hyper-real visual language which at first glance appears real, and at
second, evolves into the surreal. More of the Sydney artists work can
be seen at lickthesun.com By Andy G
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Tuesday, 06 March 2007 |
For years now, the London Underground have been running their
underground art programme 'Platform For Art' in order to promote
London's eclectic art scene and to entertain and enlighten commuters on
the cities bustling underground.
Gloucester Road Tube station has been graced with the imaginative and
beautiful work of artist Chiho Aoshima , who's digital prints on vinyl
cover all 17 arches of the underground station. City Glow, Mountain
Whisper , is on display until the end of the month and is Aoshima's
first solo exhibition. The inspiring landscape she has created runs
along all 17 archways which sees the scene graduate from day to night
and from urban to rural. With such a rich visual focal point to enjoy
whilst traveling, one can almost enjoy the daily commute. By Andy G
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Thursday, 08 February 2007 |
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With the phenomenal success of sites such as postsecrect.com, comes a socially responsible and highly creative site encouraging smokers to quit the dark habit.
www.theartofquitting.com is a Dutch website which asks visitors to contribute a quit smoking message in the most interesting way they can create.
From
a bent cigarette mimicking the Nike symbol with the slogan 'Just Quit
It', through to personal images of the smokers themselves, the
site is constructive, creative and inspiring. By Billy T
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
The V&A museum in London has a display of a new interactive audio-visual
installation in the John Madejski Garden. Volume is made of a series of
vertical light columns and will respond to visitors' movements,
triggering a display of light and sound.
The collaboration
is between lighting designers United Visual Artists (UVA) and Robert Del
Naja (aka 3D) of Massive Attack and his long-term co-writer Neil
Davidge (as part of their music production company, one point six). The installation is part of the Playstation Season, a
series of contemporary, interactive events at the BALTIC Centre for
Contemporary Arts, The English National Opera, Sadler's Wells, The
British Film Institute and the V&A.
Times: Daily, 10am -5.45pm. Late night opening until 10pm on Wednesdays in 2006 and Fridays in 2007.Prices: Free Nearest Tube station: South Kensington
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
Kenji Hirata work
looks like graphic design, but it's bigger and hotter, it's graphic
wall painting.
In his productions, the New York based painter from
Nagasaki, Japan incorporates water, fire, metal, wood, and oil, fusing
a complex narrative out of the five elements. He moves confidently
between compositions of layered density and vast areas of open fields
and clean forms.
Strongly inspired by nature, his work also has strong
reference to the vibrancy of Jamaican dance hall sound systems, the
billboards and hand painted signage of Southeast Asia, the sci-fi
futurism and structure of H.R. Geiger, Phase2, Doze, Skwerm, Mike Ming,
and the Barnstormers crew. As an original member of the Barnstomers,
Hirata has created large-scale public mural paintings in New York,
Miami, Tokyo, and the rural town of Cameron, NC, where the artist
collective was founded. Hirata is an artist who creates work in an
impressive variety of situations, from huge colorful public murals, to
more personal paintings, from animated works for film to illustrations
for books. by Yvan Rodic
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Friday, 16 June 2006 |
Going to a fancy dress party but stuck for a costume? Forget the gorilla suits or French maid outfit and make one hell of an entrance with ‘the baby suit’. This crazy costume will see you covered (literally) with hundreds of baby dolls. We’re not sure if creator Phillip Toledano is actually selling the suits or just photographs of the suit. Whether it hangs on your wall or your body doesn’t matter, it’s still art to us. They are limited to only 12 and cost $2,300. by Lisa Evans
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Tuesday, 11 April 2006 |
Eggciting news from China! Sorry it had to be said. When one thinks of amazing structures in China, the great wall usually springs to mind. Well here is amazing structure number two. This awesome egg structure represents a currency note to its very last detail. As amazing as it is, one might have thought up of a better foundation than a Hello Kitty inspired tiled floor to place it on. by Andy G
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Thursday, 30 March 2006 |
While it’s a little fantastical Balenciaga’s fabulous shoot, which was featured in the New York Times magazine for its trend on platform shoes is a perfect metaphor for the hotter-than-hot label. Photographed by Miles Aldridge, the image features two Godzilla sized Balenciaga-clad-feet stomping aggressively on a cityscape complete with freeways and cars. Following in Godzilla’s formidable footsteps, Balenciaga takes over the world! Indeed. by Lisa Evans
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
Parisian nightlife is difficult to capture in only one image. A former scientist-type come night photographer, Nyctaloop, aka Julien Taylor has developped the answer. The 29 year-old French artist treats each parameter of the night separately: the people, the attitudes, the light and the colors. Then he puts all the elements together and plays with persectives to achieve astonishing photo-cubism results. But at the end its just his own fiction: "It enables me to tell stories that didn't happened". Warning to all the DIY'ers: his cut/paste method follows strict criteria for coherency. But that's all we can say, because in the end, it's his secret. by Yvan Rodic
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Thursday, 16 March 2006 |
Artist Cees Krijnen has collaborated with with Freundenthal/Verhagen, Jason Wallis-Johnson and Oscar Süleyman to create this striking image which is both fantasy based and humorous. The work injects the penile imagery and literally sugar coats it in order for it to compliment its surroundings. This piece tackles the issues of virility and fantasy in a naive manner. by Andy G
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