Tavis Coburn’s BAFTA Nominees Retro posters
Graphic designer Tavis Coburn designed the program covers for this year’s BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards. Each one is in a retro-style and features elements from the nominees for the Best Picture Award. Bigger versions of the posters after the jump…
Mike Giant. Benvenuti a Frisco!
Si definisce un “vecchio hipster” Mike Giant, colui che, dopo aver studiato architettura, aver lavorato come disegnatore di grafiche, aver riempito muri con i suoi graffiti e aver aperto un suo negozio di tatuaggi, oggi invade anche lo spazio di gallerie d’ARTE. E già! Adesso è proprio di arte che si parla.Fotografie e carta disegnate con gli indelebili neri trasportano nello spazio della galleria l’intero repertorio figurativo appartenente alla cultura street (quella di San Francisco, nello specifico) dal gusto harleysta e rockabilly. Questa volta, però, bici da pista e iconografie religiose ne fanno da protagoniste. La galleria Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea di Milano ha inaugurato la sua ultima personale “Welcome to Frisco” il 25 Febbraio aprendo la scena italiana all’artista californiano. E’ possibile vedere fotografie e chine su carta in bianco e nero, oltre un video in loop realizzato da Colin Arlen e Sean Patrick, che mostra la vita di Giant tra tatoo, graffiti e disegni su carta, il tutto raccontato dalla sincera voce dell’artista. San Francisco ne fa da sfondo.
I Meravigliosi Mondi di Federica
Federica Bellinato è un’illustratrice di 24 anni e abita a Rovigo, e con la sua sensibilità e il suo talento viaggia in mondi fantastici e onirici. Conducendoci per mano ci fa scoprire posti nuovi e incontaminati, quegli stessi luoghi tanto sospirati che stanno nelle favole. Fiabe contemporanee, le sue, racconti a tratti un po’ noir dove ogni trama è valida, ogni vicenda possibile e anche il più incerto finale può realizzarsi, in un amalgama di sogno e realtà, astrazione e concretezza.
I mondi di Federica sono piccoli inferi popolati da faune e flore che giocano tra loro in un’atmosfera appesa e congelata: omini, armate di conigli fluttuano come tanti violinisti di Chagall, cullati in questo fluido intenso dove attecchiscono funghi, spore e speranze, dove nascono fiori e nuove vite. Dove tutto è un rincorrersi tra serenità e amarezza, quell’idillio spesso zoppicante, quel rapporto strano tra il desiderio di libertà e il mondo duro, quello là fuori, quello delle stoviglie e dei televisori, del rumore e del disincanto.
Wonderland by Yeondoo Jung
Artist Yeondoo Jung takes children’s drawings and creates photographs based on them.
Good Things are coming soon: N.1 Love
Good things is a new project from the american creative agency Honeycomb, based in NY and Buoens Aires. The factory collects different artists (designer, stylists,…) under the name The Hives and organizes exhibitions of their works internationally. Good Things is a concept following a positive approach to a better life and a chance to make the world better with less. Every year Good things chooses an idea and the artists are called to represent it in their creative way. The Good Thing of 2010 is Love and supports are a limited edition series of t-shirts (16 different pieces), each for every designer’s ideas. But there is something relevant: the series will help the environmental cause. For each shirt sold, 50 square meters of deforested land will be purchased, regenerated and protected by Wild Again organization with a lot of important benefits. The pieces are available in pre-order on the Honeycomb website, and official released on 7th of February.
Mr. Villains Class of 1983
A funny poster by Christoper Lee, a freelance designer from South California. Buy it here.
Rivet Gallery in Columbus, Ohio invited me to participate in their group art show entitled “We’ll Be Right Back…After These Messages”. The show pays homage to the classic cartoons of the 80’s and early 90’s. Those two time periods were the prime of my childhood, so I created a piece that showcases one of my favorite shows from that era…He-Man and The Masters of the Universe. I’ve been dying to do a fan piece for a while now so this was the perfect way to celebrate nostalgia. This is a giclée print made in a edition of 50. Please visit my online shop for purchase information. – C.L.
BBC Knowledge
BBC Knowledge from Grandchildren. Ad by Agency “Three Drunk Monkeys” for the “BBC Knowledge channel”. | Via
Robert Samuel Hanson
Robert Samuel Hanson is an illustrator from UK. His portfolio is filled with excellent work from ( among the others) Monocle, The Economist, The New York Times, Analogue Books, Fiat UK, Readymade Magazine, Shots Magazine, The Times andTiny Showcase. His style is clean and simple, nice use of humour ( don’t miss the ABC series) and smart vector graphics. We have asked Rober to tell more about his experiences, influences and future projects.
Guitar Lessons
Max Dalton, an illustrator from Argentina, has created a new poster featuring the rock guitar heroes of all times. Looks great. Featuring: Frank Zappa, George Harrison, Slash, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Brian May, Johnny Ramone, Jack White, The Edge, Chuck Berry, Angus Young, Pete Townshend, Tony Iommi, Eddie Van Halen, David Gilmour, Ace Frehley, Ritchie Blackmore, Duane Allman, Kirk Hammett, Carlos Santana, John Frusciante, Yngwie Malmsteen, Kurt Cobain, Mike Bloomfield, Jerry Garcia, Ry Cooder, Bo Diddley, Jeff Beck, Tom Morello, Brian Setzer and Peter Green. Prints available on his website.
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I appreciate 3D work when we see not the 3D but the actual animation.
This work was made by Benjamin Ducroz. He uses several techniques , 3d, painting in watercoulour, prints…
Director and animator – Benjamin Ducroz | Sound Designer – Samuel Acres
via: Two Dot Two
Mario Sughi
Take a look to the uncommon irriverence of Mario Sughi ,an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and historian, living and working in Dublin. He is a member of the IGI (Illustrators Guild of Ireland) and AI (Associazione Illustratori Italiani) and the author of nerosunero. In Rome, at the end of the seventies, he worked as humorist in Italian satirical magazines Il Male and Zut, . He moved to Dublin in the late eighties where he studied Medieval History and in 1995 he was awarded a PhD by Trinity College Dublin. His colourful illustrations and cartoons, satirical in humour and minimalist in style have been published in international exhibition catalogues ( Offf Barcelona 2007, Semi permanent, Sidney 2008, Ink 01 International Illustration Rally, Bilbao 2008); magazines (3×3 Mag / New York, Shift Calendar 2010 / Tokyo, The Dubliner/Dublin, Clam Magazine / Paris – New York, Ideafixa/Brazil, Fluro Magazine / New Zeland), websites ( Juxtapoz, Paintalicious, Yay! Monday! Evilmonito, Design Milk) and art galleries (Sexy Art Gallery, London, The Shiny Squirrel Gallery, NY; Little Paper Airplanes, Los Angeles; Umber Studios, Minneapolis; 180 Gallery Cambridge, Ontario; Wannabee and DOZ Gallery, Milan; Irish Art House, Tullamore and The Loft, Dublin, Ireland, Turn-Berlin, Germany) LÜrzer’s Archive included Mario Sughi in their compilation “200 best illustrators worldwide 2009”.
Empty Words
Empty Words is an installation by Jürg Lehni and Alex Rich. A plotter punches characters into paper, mechanically visualizing the artists’ favorite song titles. The sheets are installed as a narrative panorama on the gallery walls. Visitors are invited to produce their own artworks and to find the balance between auto-manifestation and technological constraint.
You can go and see it at the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York till October 31st.
