The BBC has an interesting little piece about Ben Wilson, an artist who has taken to the streets of London in an attempt to brighten them up by painting on bits of used chewing gum.
Over the last 6 years he has completed over 8000 miniature pieces of art ranging from personal paintings to commissioned works.
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Digging the work of Melbourne based Graphic Designer Leif Podhajsky
Mr David Callow, the gent with some mad pencil skills at his disposal, has got some new pieces on his site definitely worth checking out. The man has an incredible ability to combine delicate drawing techniques with a more robust collage style in a harmonious fashion. The juxtaposition of the two mediums just works to great effect and creates a synonymous style.
Whilst he isn’t sharpening those pencils and generally being a nice guy he’s teaching his trade to young hopefuls back at his old university on the south coast.
Meet Dear Dana, a youngun screen printer / artist working out of New York, hustlin her stylized portraiture of some of New York’s favorite personalities. Using subjects from everywhere to Olivier of Purple Magazine, to Weezy, to pets, she applies the same recognizable handrawn element to her drawingss, while still keeping them interesting. She recently filled me in about working over at Damon Dash’s new studios in NYC and helping with some promotion work, including a shirt for Curren$y. Chyea! I’ll hopefully be working with this talented chiki soon for the upcoming Harold Hunter run… keep you posted. Keep your eyes out for her awsomely simple T’s in boutiques in NYC or check out her site for more info.
Artwork by Jesse Spears, available from bloodisthenewblack
Anyone over in New York at the moment for fashion week who has a spare minute between viewing shows or discussing what unusual head piece Tavi Gevinson might possibly be wearing tomorrow, should really take a trip to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to check out the Tim Burton Exhibition that is currently showing.
Along with the usual array of film memorabilia, including the very small looking Cat Woman leather all in one suit that Michelle Pfeiffer wore in Batman Returns and a giant Beetlejuice sandworm jaw, there is a fantastic selection of personal art work from Burton’s early life as an animator, when clearly his day job was not providing the best outlet for his vividly creative imagination. The 1980-86 pencil on animation paper doodles collection is not only a must see, but also quite amusing… images after the jump.
One of the best things I got for Christmas this year was a set of twenty books, forming the first collection of the Penguin Great Ideas series. Across four collections and a soon-to-be-published fifth, Penguin draw together works by influential writers and thinkers, emphasising the thesis that it’s ‘great ideas’ that shape the course of history. Fair enough. In series one, for example, you get everything from Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life, to George Orwell’s Why I Write, via Machiavelli and Marx, and a whole bunch of other familiar-sounding stuff that you should have probably read but actually know nothing about. Aside from being a fascinating collection of books, however, the real key to this series is in the beautifully designed covers, each one good enough to frame on your wall.
See more covers and continue reading after the break.
Jonathan is an Australian illustrator/graphic designer/art director. He’s worked for a whole bunch of music and fashion brands including Modular, ksubi, urban outfitters, something else and ministry of sound . I fully aspire to this kind of thing, check out his site.
