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Michael Kagan | painting

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:02:43 -0700

Written By The Victors
80 x 100 inches | Oil on linen

“Fascinated with using thick semi-abstract paint to study personal, historical and fictional experiences of space travel, Michael Kagan’s Space images have opened up outlets to expand painting technique, brushwork, and abstraction in his work. Inspired by artists such as De Kooning and Richter, he walks the line with tension and anxiety between abstraction and representationalpainting. The iconic images of astronauts and rocket launches become the vehicle to express this tension.” — Space Gallery Barth

If You’re Not Already Dead, You Are Dead To Me
42 x 36 inches | Oil and linen

A Dense And Terrifying Sound
80 x 60 inches | Oil and linen

These Are Not Dark Days
42 x 36 inches | Oil and linen

Pilot
36 x 36 inches | Oil and linen

Based On Actual Events: Scene 3
24 x 24 inches | Oil and linen

No Alarms And No Surprises
24 x 24 inches | Oil and linen

Based On Actual Events: Scene 2
24 x 24 inches | Oil and linen

Blink Once For Yes… Twice For No
24 x 24 inches | Oil and linen

Ignition 2
12 x 12 inches | Oil and linen

Based On Actual Events: Scene 1
24 x 24 inches | Oil and linen

Ignition 1
12 x 12 inches | Oil and linen

Liftoff 5
5.5 x 3.5 inches | Oil on photo

Liftoff 4
5.5 x 3.5 inches | Oil on photo

Liftoff 3
5.5 x 3.5 inches | Oil on photo

Untitled(Rocket)
60 x 33.75 inches | Oil on linen

Thunder Kiss 2
60 x 80 inches | Oil on linen

Thunder Kiss 1
60 x 80 inches | Oil on linen

visit Michael Kagan’s website for more …

Vault49 | print

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:27:00 -0700

“Design and Illustration studio established in London in 2002 and now based in New York City.” — Vault49

“Silk screen promo/tutorial made for the Beyond Art festival in Seoul, Korea, where Vault49 painted a 1000sq ft mural and hosted a silk screen workshop.”

Target Practice numerals

“We’ve kept this labour of love under wraps for the most part but are stoked to finally be able to share it. We initially came up with this idea upon celebrating Vault’s ten year milestone. If not for our unhealthy obsession of setting ourself targets and putting (almost) everything on the line to achieve them, we doubt we’d still be around today surrounded by a great team and a body of work we’re all proud to be associated with. Using that as inspiration and our love for type, we came up with a series of posters from 0-9, one of each of our 10 years.”

Vault49 silk-screened table

“Silk-screened conference table for the studio! We thought it only fitting to show a bit of love to the 5 boroughs that we call home with this typographic collage. Guaranteed to keep you distracted during early morning monday meetings.”

for more process shots visit the Vault 49 Facebook page

vist Vault49’s website to view their work …

Stuntkid | drawing

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:47:19 -0700

“Jason Levesque, known better by the online moniker ‘Stuntkid’, is a self taught artist living in Norfolk, VA. His work borrows from his fascination with biology and the earth sciences. Stuntkid’s illustrations have been commissioned for use in magazines and periodicals worldwide, from playstation magazine to german latex fetish magazines.”

All images are ink on heavy watercolor paper

process:

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Shamil Karim & Kristina Udovichenko | graphic design

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:06:23 -0700

Gifts Workshop | corporate identity by Shamil Karim & Kristina Udovichenko

“Gifts Workshop is a company which offers to it’s customers a range of exclusive handmade souvenirs. Custom way of making each gift only from natural materials is valued attribute in workshop. It is located in Stavropol, and we drew our inspiration from an old postcards with city sightseeings. Some of them were used as a brand pattern.”

Raymond Biesinger | illustration

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:49:25 -0700

“Raymond Biesinger is a self-taught illustrator based in Montreal, Canada, who spent a very long time in that country’s west. He likes concepts, making music, progressive politics and a curious mix of minimalism and maximalism. He deploys physical things, electronic means, and a BA in European and North American political history to make his images, and has done so since the year 2000 in over 1200 projects on four continents.”

[above: MISC.MONOCLE SPOTS]

PHIL & SEBASTIAN COFFEE ROASTERS

“this crest is one dozen feet wide and stuck to the wall of Phil & Sebastian’s Marda Loop shop in Calgary. Within it are two dozen symbols representing everything from the founders’ foundational coffee soujourn to South America to roast profiles and bean competitions. At bottom: the original (very popular) P&S stand.”

NOTHING MAJOR

“a combination of Marlena Dietrich’s legs in fishnets and a broken North Korean T-34 tank just might be a metaphor for the bankrupcy but attractiveness of violence. Put out as a four-colour tee shirt by an offshoot of Pitchfork called Nothing Major in the summer of 2011, art direction by Michael Renaud.”

AN EDMONTON CIVIC CREST

“this is a simple trace and mangle of the actual Edmonton crest. ‘Industry,’ ‘integrity’ and ‘progress’ were ditched for the first three toilet words imagined. The rifle was original, but removing the pioneer’s head and putting it in Minerva’s arm was not, as well as replacing the hunter’s head with a Soviet flag (re: ‘Redmonton’) and Minerva losing her book of knowledge. Other changes? All are explained right here. Has been deployed as shirts, prints, stickers, and tattoos.”

CITY OF OTTAWA ON 7 MAY 1945

VILLE DE MONTREAL 27 APRIL 1967

VILLE DE QUEBEC ON 3 JULY 2008

CITY OF TORONTO ON 26 JUNE 1976

WARSAW ON 1 AUGUST 1944

“Print gave me six full pages in their Oct. 2012 issue to fill with a visual essay on the theme “international.” The result: a personification of the NATO, Coca-Cola, the Koreas, the UN, increasingly stateless graphic artists, the USSR, the Freemasons, and TICA (the International Cat Association).”

Europe 1919 Game Board Map

“This is a one-colour silkscreened map of Europe circa 1919, made to be simply viewed or played as if it was the classic Risk board game. It’s mostly geographically and historically accurate, and I was happy to put my BA to use making it in early 2007 and revising it in late 2011. The board enjoys 106 squares and 21 national bonus areas. Also included: 112 different pre-cut country cards on cardstock.

Why 1919? It’s when Europe was shell-shocked and decentralized. France, Germany and Britain were spent. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Hungary, Turkey, etc. were in different kinds of revolution (some successful, some not). Seemed a nice year to express the backstabbing, chaotic tumult of a game like Risk, no? Also, note that you can find an in-depth interview about the game and peripheral topics right here.”

HOW ILLUSTRATIONS ARE MADE

“the 18x24” silkscreened print isn’t just paper and ink in an edition of 100. No, it’s studio visit by you to any illustrator in the world. It’s a tour not just of the desirable, creative, parts of the studio (which are actually just a fraction of the clock’s face) but one from tip to tail showing all the unsexy billing, researching, toiling, incinerating, etc. This is how illustrations are made.

Contents include: an observatory, life preserver, lightbulb, anti-stylistic theft defence system, photocopier, hidden shame, a globe, paint, misc. art supplies, watercolours, infinite toil, a sketch incinerator, literacy, scheduling, cash flow, budgeting, shaking down deadbeat clients, telephone negotiations, a computer zone, photo reference studio, reference library (with canon of saints), a timeclock, the illustrator him/herself, booze distractions, minding the copyrights, an input of coffee, ink reservoir, a locked entryway, a stairwell, shipping room with flatfile, and a stunted little domestic life. Look familiar?”

visit Raymond Biesinger’s website for more …

Maria Rubinke | sculpture

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:39:00 -0700

“Danish-born Maria Rubinke’s (1985) small porcelain figures are reminiscent of the illogical compositions of surrealism, transforming the character of what are traditionally charming and passive objects into expressions of more taboo feelings that oscillate between desire and sadism.”

process:

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Raul Alejandro | typography [two]

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:01:38 -0700

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“This was an a self motivated project to illustrate the alphabet. Each letter is hand drawn. Enjoy!” — Raul Alejandro

Love Letters - Hand Drawn Alphabet

Raul Alejandro | typography [one]

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:23:00 -0700

“Raul Alejandro graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with a heavy concentration in Motion Graphics and Typography. He is currently a freelance Illustrator and Broadcast Designer / Animator in New York City.”

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Hinterland Design | object design

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:38:24 -0700

“Hinterland creates unique work for people to use, enjoy and cherish. We are artists, woodworkers and craftspeople who build by hand using natural materials. Drawing on fifteen years’ experience, we believe in and stand behind our techniques, designs and finished products.

To us, materials are at the heart of what we make. They provide the initial inspiration for the design, and also provide the user with an innate and ongoing connection to the natural world. We care about where we source, prizing salvaged, found and local materials, along with recycled and eco products. And we care about how we treat those materials through the building process.

Everything we build has a story. It starts with the materials, is shaped by the design and build, then develops through the many hands that use it throughout its lifetime.” — Hinterland Design

SCATTER/GATHER PENDANT LIGHT

“This pendant gets its name from its materials: wooden branches scattered far and wide along the rugged Pacific shoreline, that are gathered up. Hand-constructed using pegged and glued through-tenons, no fasteners detract from the abstract and natural beauty of each unique fixture.”

MATERIALS | Found ocean-washed branches, black or white cloth-covered twisted electrical wire, medium-base porcelain lamp socket

LITTLE GEM

“A side table and sculpture for indoors or out, it’s made from cast-off cedar logs given second life as a crystalline form. It’s hand-shaped and faceted based on the different characteristics of each log, and variations in wood grain, top surface and finish further ensure that no two are alike. Left to weather outdoors, this piece will acquire a natural silver finish.”

MATERIALS | Western red cedar

NURSELOG

“These dual-purpose side tables bring the outdoors to the indoors. Mimicking rain forest stumps that grow mosses and ferns from their tops, a round insert allows a small arrangement of plants to add a living element to a useful surface. No two are alike.”

MATERIALS | Western red cedar

TREETOP DINING TABLE

“Inspired by the sentinels of the forest, these salvaged and dried hardwood logs from coastal B.C. create unique, tree-like table legs that only reveal their modernist leanings at the chamfered intersection with the table’s top surface. This knockdown table flatpacks, and is easily assembled.”

MATERIALS | Salvaged hardwood legs FSC-certified hardwood top

visit Hinterland Design’s website for more …

David Arias | graphic design

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:04:13 -0700

“David Arias is an independent graphic design professional based in Vancouver, BC, Canada … He is, ultimately, a creative problem solver, who carefully combines design aesthetics and marketing ideas, resulting in well formulated design solutions.”

Vegan Yarn

“Vegan Yarn—for the knitter with a conscience and like the name suggests, it is a specialty yarn made from a variety of natural plant fibres such as: bamboo, soy and cotton. Heidi, the owner and founder of Vegan Yarn, hand-dyes the yarn with love in small batches, often creating limited yarn collections. Her colour dyeing technique is unique in that her inspiration for colours often derives from Japanese anime films. Vegan yard needed a way to present the product so that customers could pick up the yarn and really feel it without having unnecessary labels around to cover it. The design also needed to suggest natural and earth-friendly. Hang tags were created to easily appreciate the yarn without any obstructions. Items were printed on recycled paper. Vegan Yarn—yarn for everyone, not just vegans.”

MK Cards

“After designing a promotional poster/flyer for Modern Karibou, they came back and asked me to design new business cards for their trip to Milan, Italy. After having discussed printing options with them, we decided to go with letterpress as the business cards needed to generate a good first impression at design shows. Their wordmark was also simplified and a more modern type treatment was presented. Cards printed on 4 ply 100% cotton rag, and hand painted edges.”

Modern Karibou

“Modern Karibou is a Canadian online design and lifestyle shop. Modern Karibou highlights the creations of established and emerging designers and artists from around the world, and champions and celebrates home-grown, innovative talent. In an effort to promote their online products at design shows and home decor shows around Canada, Modern Karibou came to us to develop a promotional poster/flyer—to briefly showcase the variety of products which could be found on their online shop. We created something bold and typographically driven in order to capture the attention of their costumer base, which primarily consists of designers and design-savvy professionals in various fields and disciplines.”

visit David Arias’s website for more …

Matthew Woodson | illustration

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:35:00 -0700

“Matthew Woodson [aka. Ghostco] was born in the woods sometime in the early 80s. He graduated from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in early 2006 with a focus in Natural History Illustration.”

visit Matthew Woodson’s website for more …

Agnes-Cecile | painting

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:26:00 -0700

Silvia Pelissero was born in 1991, Rome. She is an Italian painter best known as agnes-cecile. She went in an art high school in Rome, than she has continued as a self-taught.

follow Agnes-Cecile on tumblr and check her website for more …

BMD Design | typography

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:34:46 -0700

BMD Design | Bordeaux, France

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Helen Eady | illustration

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:51:29 -0700

“I believe that idea driven design, done beautifully and effectively, can go a long way towards a client’s success.” — Helen Eady

Rum Running

“An interest in local history led me to create this piece. Researching Vancouver’s secret underside at the turn of the century was a great learning process. It appears in the March 2011 issue of Vancouver Review Magazine.”

R&B Brewing

“When R&B Brewing decided to move their most popular beer from big single bottles into 6 packs, it gave the opportunity to rethink the packaging. Drawing on the independent, DIY spirit of the brewery and the surrounding East Van community, everything on the packaging was hand done, right down to the barcode. — Designed at St Bernadine Mission Communications”

One A Week

“Every week, I try to do at least one illustration that I post to my instagram and twitter accounts. This is my chance to get silly, have fun and draw some of my favourite things.”

visit Helen Eady’s website for more …

Rory O'Sullivan | graphic design

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:04:19 -0700

Guitar Instruction Card

East Side Bitter

Wayward Arts

check out Rory O’Sullivan’s website for more …

St Bernadine | packaging

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:30:00 -0700

R&B Brewing | six pack packaging
by Saint Bernadine Mission Communications

East Side Bitter
designed by Rory O’Sullivan and Saint Bernadine Mission Communications

Raven Cream Ale
designed by Helen Eady and Saint Bernadine Mission Communications

Visit the St. Bernadine website for more …

Nick van Woert | sculpture

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:28:00 -0700

Nick van Woert
Reno, Nevada 1979
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Not yet titled
skeleton, urethane adhesive
44 x 65 x 20 in
2011

Dissect
Fiberglass statue, urethane, garbage
94 1/2 x 36 x 36 in
2012

Untitled
Fiberglass statue, urethane plastic, steel
2012

Untitled
Fiberglass statues, urethane rubber, steel
2012

check out Nick van Woert’s website for more great work …

also visit The Heavy Mental for a peek inside Nick van Woert’s studio

Giuseppe Salerno | typography [3of3]

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:43:00 -0700

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Monogram C for Calligraphi.ca

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Giuseppe Salerno | typography [2of3]

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:09:00 -0700

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Evencki

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Giuseppe Salerno | typography [1of3]

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:15:00 -0700

“Hi, I’m Giuseppe Salerno aka Resistenza.es, an Italian graphic designer, specializing in web design, currently living and working in Berlin. I’ve spent more than 13 years working in creative design. I have been working in Torino, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Valencia.

I’ve studied graphic design and multimedia and as soon as I finished I went to work for a great art director in Torino, Simona Alborno. I learned a lot working with her, especially in print design.

I studied calligraphy since I was young.”

— Giuseppe Salerno
(calligraphyinberlin.com | CoFounder of letteringvscalligraphy.com)

Pappas

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