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Ian Davenport’s Poured Lines And Puddle Paintings

Brit Seaton — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:00:17 +0000

For over two decades, English painter Ian Davenport has been celebrated for his simple abstract paintings, which assemble vertical lines in a rich variety of colors.

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Bertjan Pot’s Jolly Masks

Sarah Press — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:00:27 +0000

Most of Bertjan Pot’s experiments begin on the impulse of a certain curiosity, working with various manufacturers to explore the possibilities and push the limits. The ‘Masks’ series of the Dutch designer was initially the result of a materials experiment that started out in 2010, and has become an ongoing project. The idea was created by originally making a carpet, realizing that once the textile assembled, curves and shapes can be formed. The possibilities designing various masks are endless, using rope with bright colors that create extraordinary patterns. Each mask has its own color palette and style, some are more human, others are more animal, and some are very abstract. The handcrafted masks have both fetishistic and frightening connotations, seeming to tell stories. Studio Bertjan Pot works with manufacturers such as Arco, Established & Sons, Feld, Gelderland, Montis, Moooi and Nike.

All images © Studio Bertjan Pot

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Colorful Interior By Waterfrom Design Studio

Sarah Press — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:00:34 +0000

Influenced by patterns created on clothing and garments, Taiwanese Studio Waterfrom Design has realized a colorful home interior in Taipei for a female fashion designer.

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Marine Coutroutsios Creates Colorful Artworks Of Australian Birds Made Of Paper

Jessica Jungbauer — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:13:20 +0000

French artist Marine Coutroutsios created paper artworks of Australian birds inspired by the beauty of nature that surrounds her.

Being born in Paris, she now calls Sydney her home and the move has had a huge influence on her creative work and how she sees the world today. By using paper and foam, the abstract and vibrant artworks document various species of birds like parrots, rosellas and wild cockatoos in the city.

Marine Coutroutsios calls herself a “paper artist” and states: “With my work I’d like to inspire and engage you to reconsider the value of your surroundings. I think beauty is everywhere and it’s a powerful source of energy.”

All images © Marine Coutroutsios | Via: Booooooom

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Alejandro Duran Turns Found Plastic Into Colorful Installations

Caroline Kurze — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:05:48 +0000

Artist Alejandro Duran collects bits of trash that washes up from locations around the world, transforming them into color-based, site-specific sculptures. Duran aims to create a harsh juxtaposition that draws attention to the global catastrophe of ocean pollution.

He states: “Over the course of this project, I have identified plastic waste from fifty nations on six continents that have washed ashore along the coast of Sian Ka’an. Conflating the hand of man and nature, at times I distribute the objects the way the waves would; at other times, the plastic takes on the shape of algae, roots, rivers, or fruit, reflecting the infiltration of plastics into the natural environment.

More than creating a surreal or fantastical landscape, these installations mirror the reality of our current environmental predicament. The resulting photo series depicts a new form of colonization by consumerism, where even undeveloped land is not safe from the far-reaching impact of our disposable culture.”

All images © Alejandro Duran | Via: Colossal

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Josie The Chair That Pops

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:52:34 +0000

Anyone seen the 1999 hit high school romcom ‘Never Been Kissed’ starring Drew Barrymore? It’ about geeky Josie, who spent her high school years on the social outer-harassed and tormented by the cool kids. Cruelly nicknamed Josie Grossie, never invited to the prom and always the one left sitting alone on a chair at parties.

Italian-based creative studio Mathery imagined what it would look like if the party came to her. They created ‘Josie The Chair That Pops’, a performative chair that celebrates the person who is seated and moreover, celebrates design. Josie lives for the act of sitting down and responds with a joyous burst of colour.

All images © Mathery Studio

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A Thing of Beauty by Dawn Ng

Caroline Kurze — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:03:28 +0000

Dawn Ng created the series ‘A Thing of Beauty’ as a bold celebration of the everyday and ordinary. She collected various objects in over 100 shops around Singapore and arranged them by color in beautiful still lifes.
As she explains each installation is meant to be ‘an anthropological documentary of things we collectively own in this day and age’ while the work aims to challenge common canonizations of what we find beautiful. We should rather hold on to objects that actually mean something to us or as the artist puts it, we should ‘see a bit of ourselves in the things we keep.’

All images © Dawn Ng

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Pizza is the New Black

Caroline Kurze — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:30:25 +0000

You can find various fancy Pizza creations out there these days but Parisian design studio Black Pizza created some really interesting combinations for their food art series ‘Pizza is the New Black’.

They teamed up with photographer Erwan Fichou and food stylist Julie Basset, inventing Pizzas like ‘Pink Lady’, ‘WTF’ or ‘Coin coin’ adding ingredients such as Tiger balm, Chopsticks, pink lipstick or even a goldfish to the usual toppings. The mix of edible ingredients and strange objects results in a quirky and colorful composition of inedible Pizza creations. If you like these, you should check out the Fat &Furious burger creations.

Coin coin: Soy beans, cape gooseberry, lemon, bananas, Mirabelle plum, banana purée, pineapple, snapdragon flower

Hot Chinese: Goji berries, Litchi, Orchid flower, Chilli, Tiger balm, Chopsticks, Dried dates, Goldfish

Pink Lady: Coulis, raspberries, French strawberry gum Tagada Pink, radish, snapdragon flower, Malabar, nail varnish, pink lipstick, glossy case

WTF: Red cabbage, beetroot, blueberries, beetroot shoots, Finger monster

Pong : Crab, scallops, salmon sashimi, muscles, pink prawns, salmon eggs, ping-pong ball

Brown Sugar: Chocolate, walnuts and hazelnuts, mini-chocolate cake, star anise, cinnamon, linseeds, coffee beans, Westers Original

Bio: AB organic certified label, Cactus, rocket, peas, mint, green beans, pea shoots and shiso, cress

Acid: glitter, Dummy, Smurf, toothpaste, Dragibus, small elastic bands, Lindt chocolates

Concarneau: Fishing net, hooks, oysters, sardine, black mushroom, muscles, bolts, black pepper

White Myst: Button mushrooms, Hesperia flower, fennel, coconut, endive leaves, enoki, sesame, sugar, child’s hand

Dark Moon: Black rice, balsamic cream and jelly, capelin roe, black mushroom, blueberries, blackberries, coarse-ground black pepper, seaweed

All images © Erwan Fichou | Via: Inspiration Grid

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Ilhwa Kim Forms Colorful Images From Paper Rolls

Caroline Kurze — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 09:54:54 +0000

Seoul-based artist Ilhwa Kim hand-dyes, cuts, and rolls thousands of sheets of Korean mulberry paper to form colorful, three-dimensional works of art that form vibrant patterns and shapes. The artist developed this nearly sculptural way of creating artworks using layers of paper, which she calls “seeds,” to make the surface and sense of her images change from morning to night.

Depending on the angle, distance and light situation, each of her pieces transforms in a constantly shifting wave of texture, dimensions, depth, and color while the viewer can spot subtle impressions of eyes, hearts, human figures, and more in the densely packed images.

All images © Ilhwa Kim | Via: My Modern Met

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Valerie Phillips explores girlhood with Arvida Byström

Caroline Kurze — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:53:49 +0000

We recently introduced you to Tumblr goddess, fashion icon and rainbow enigma Arvida Byström. The 22-year-old Swede has drenched the Internet with her glitter-covered vision of the world for most of her young life. We’re fascinated by her work and the fact that she isn’t afraid to be who she is and to do what she wants. Meanwhile she moved to London, where she works as a part-time artist, photographer, model and feminist with opinions about everything from body hair (she lets it grow) to monogamy.

Who likes Arvida Byström will loves this project she did together with photographer Valerie Phillips who is just as dope as Arvida herself. Since 2001 the New York-born fashion and documentary photographer explores what it means to be a teenage girl, capturing different girls at an important crux in their lives, publishing the resulting images in books and zines. Valerie’s works zone in on young women and reveal something about their journey to adulthood in nuanced tones. She published six books already, the latest entitled ‘hi you’re beautiful how are you?’ features Arvida Byström. You can find an interview with Arvida and Valerie here.

All images © Valerie Phillips | Via: Huck

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Illustrations By Jaya Nicely

Caroline Kurze — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:07:00 +0000

When we first discovered Jaya Nicely’s intriguing and neat artworks, we were immediately drawn to the bold colors that she applies with pencil on paper. After we took a closer look at her Tumblr, we’d love to meet the LA-based illustrator for an interview as she seems super fun and talented. Jaya Nicely works on various commissioned works but she also brought personal projects such as “Real houses with made up stories”, a little zine of drawings of real houses paired with completely fictional families inhabiting them and the food-inspired Compound Butter Magazine into being.

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Colorful analog photography by Davis Ayer

Caroline Kurze — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:24:59 +0000

LA-based photographer Davis Ayer is more of a visual artist than just a photographer. He uses his camera as an instrument and paintbrush, mastering the art of double exposure with an unbending attraction toward what is beautiful.

Shooting mostly on a Mamiya RZ, Ayer’s work features a dreamy host of colors and moods. Light leaks, double exposures, solar flare, and other manipulations make the colors in his film bleed so majestically and form the spine of his work. You can see more of his amazing photography on his Flickr and Tumblr or purchase prints here.

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Paint Chip Art By Peter Combe

Caroline Kurze — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:21:53 +0000

San Francisco-based artist Peter Combe creates three-dimensional artworks out of confetti, that he stamps out of paint swatches and other everyday materials.

The artist states: “I am consumed by the subtle magic that occurs when playing with light, color and movement in my art making. These artworks transform and change subtly as the viewer shifts from his/her vantage point. There is a magic that occurs, a trick of the eye where color seems to occupy space – a void – at once ethereal, yet seen from another angle the whole appears as if a ghostly image, veiled in gossamer. It is these characteristics that propel me to experiment with the interplay of color, light and movement.” You can also follow the artist on Instagram.

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Make Art Not War By Mr. Blick

Caroline Kurze — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:12:57 +0000

French artist Mister Blick replaces guns and weapons in vintage black and white photographs with colorful illustrations of flowers. The monochromatic pictures depict men at war, though instead of guns in their hands, Blick has seamlessly replaced them with luscious blooms. The juxtaposition between the two different source materials and of the fantastic with the real creates a beautiful statement saying: ‘Make Art Not War’.

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Humorous illustrations By Reto Whale

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:52:49 +0000

Reto Whale is an illustrator living and working in LA, where she lives with her son, her husband and her two dogs that she often turns into subjects for her colorful works. As she states, she feels inspired by random oddities, movies and music that are funny or interesting, strange characters in her neighborhood, animals, family and friends.

She scribbles ideas in her sketchbook before she starts with the actual working process, that is very intuitive. Sometimes she colors her works after scanning them at the computer, other times she draws and paints them directly with sharpies, ink, acrylic and oil on paper or wood. Her aim is to make the viewer laugh with her quirky characters and stories. You can shop her prints here.

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