The unbelievable Tixinda team knock is straight out of the park with their Mayan stylings. The colours, lines and a spirited take on traditional art keep me going through these hot summer nights.
Archive for the ‘Art and installation’ Category
Tixinda + Nike
Posted in Advertising, Art and installation, Illustration, tagged graphic design, maya, nike, South America on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Big Picture + art without commentary
Posted in Art and installation, Photography, tagged art, installation, Italy, The Big Picture, Venice, Venice Biennale on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A London artist once explained to me that art often doesn’t take on meaning to the artist until its completion – the press releases and exhibit handbills are composed solely for those who seek explanation. If this is true, why do we care so much about what art ‘means’?
The Big Picture gets it just right [...]
Irina Troitskaya + Russian dolls
Posted in Art and installation, Illustration, tagged figurines, Russia, Russian dolls, wildlife on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Irina Troitskaya + River Styx
Posted in Art and installation, tagged Greek mythology, Illustration, Russia on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Two illustrations inspired with the legend of the River Styx”
Source: Irina Troitskaya
AJ Fosik + George Korsmit
Posted in Art and installation, tagged acrylics, mixed media, Netherlands, USA on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Soure: George Korsmit, Jonathan Levine Gallery
Degas + deviantart
Posted in Art and installation, tagged Degas, deviantART on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not very familiar with the deviantART culture but I love looking at people’s drawings and doodles, and an hour on the website is like rummaging through a yard sale of sketch books and textbook covers. One user profile I especially enjoy is Hong Kong’s Cellar-FCP whose Prostitute series lends a classic air to a [...]
Sam Songailo + mola
Posted in Art and installation, Tactile and Textile, tagged abstract painting, mola, Sam Songailo, South American art, tapir on March 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been especially hyped on South American art, textiles and illustration lately. Sam Songailo’s paintings remind me of Panamanian molas, unfinished fabric panels embroidered with a reverse appliqué technique. A reverse appliqué involves several layers of fabric quilted together, the top layer being cut to reveal coloured fabrics underneath (a sort of textile equivalent to [...]
Scriptographer
Posted in Art and installation, Illustration, Typography, tagged Europe on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Scriptographer is beyond my grasp first thing in the morning. The Adobe Illustrator-based script plug in facilitates “the creation of mouse controlled drawing-tools” which appeals to all my vector-graphic-loving sides – the same aspects of myself that prefer to watch people play video games rather than take the controllers myself. I am always happy to [...]
Catucinno
Posted in Art and installation, tagged Italy, UK on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“[...] what I will always remember of the work – the Leopard looking at me a split second before leaping at the camera, hitting the fence between us with unbelievable force. My heart and every heart in the room pounded with fear despite knowing we were perfectly safe.” – Hugo Glendinning
Source: Galerie Perrotin, Hugo Glendinning
High flight
Posted in Art and installation on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I always take a window seat in airplanes, and can justify the cost of any flight for the first five minutes of take-off and landing when the world below shrinks to the size of Mr. Roger’s neighbourhood, semi-trucks become Micro RCs and loud humanity ceases to exist. Equally, I can justify the cost of admission [...]
