Nicky Birch

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image

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photo

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graffiti

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propaganda

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WHAT IS GRAPHIC DESIGN

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GLEN BAXTER

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david earl dixon

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www.showchicken.com/

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richt

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Luke Ramsey

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tim biskup

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sam flores

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john romita jr

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frank miller

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ralph steadman

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ninja tune

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mr scruff

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mf doom

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ben edlund

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Any form of visual artistic representation.
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The use of graphic elements and text to communicate an idea or concept
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Graphic Design is an older term for the field of Visual Design. This term refers specifically to the use of graphic media (such as color, symbol, and type) to communicate a style or expression. ...
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Design based on drawing or use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface. GSVQ General Scottish Vocational Qualification. Scottish equivalent of GNVQ. GTTR Graduate Teacher Training Registry. ...
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Commercial reproduction of artworks such as printing, including text, decorative techniques and illustration.
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The process and art of combining text and graphics to communicate an effective message in the design of logos, graphics, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, and any other type of visual communication.
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visual communication intended to be used with commercial printing/reproductive processes in both two- and three-dimensional presentations.
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â€“ Commercial art or design eg signs, logos, advertisements
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the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. It may be applied in any media, such as print, digital media, motion pictures, animation, product decoration, packaging, and signs. ...
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The branch of visual arts concerned with the aesthetics and production of layout, design and typography. ...
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All factors that govern the physical appearance of a web page.
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Art which designed for commercial purposes. Such as: Letterheads, packaging, posters, advertisements, and brochures.
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Graphic design is the process of communicating visually using text and/or images to present information, or promote a message. Graphic design practice embraces a range of cognitive and aesthetic skills and crafts, including typography, image development and page layout. ...
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what is graphic design

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Any form of visual artistic representation.
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The use of graphic elements and text to communicate an idea or concept
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visual communication intended to be used with commercial printing/reproductive processes in both two- and three-dimensional presentations.
www.ket.org/artstoolkit/visual/glossary.htm

â€“ Commercial art or design eg signs, logos, advertisements
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The branch of visual arts concerned with the aesthetics and production of layout, design and typography. ...
https://www.ncsbn.org/836.htm

All factors that govern the physical appearance of a web page.
sensacom.com/web_glossary.html

Art which designed for commercial purposes. Such as: Letterheads, packaging, posters, advertisements, and brochures.
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yet more Gamma Go

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DR Otto van Sofaking III

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DR Otto van Sofaking the III is an alter ego i created for the book of 100 brief in which i developed 100 monsters out of every day problems and annoyances, which was a great chance to dress up like a mad scientist and mess around with the image in photoshop, there are heavy influences from Frankenstein of course and Herbert west "Re-animator" as well as the evil genius behind the giant robots in the super-man cartoon from the forties

Gama Go post cards

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Tim Biskup 100 paintings

2008-06-02T16:46:00.000-07:00

Tim Biskup is one of my favorite illustrators his work is very simplistic in its form but as i've learnt over the past year simplicity is very difficult, as a founder and artist for clothing and nick nac company Gamma GO its possible to purchase Biskups work in many different forms here are some of which i have collected.

kung fu master

2008-06-02T16:33:00.000-07:00

when i started the speaking from experience brief and realized i wanted to do a video. i remembered that the second years produced company icon animation like the desk lamp skit pixar use or the universal globe, i had no preconceptions that mine would look that polished or even work, and i was right because it did neither but it was fun and i learnt alot by doing it. The company i was inventing was going to be called TWO MOVES FASTER, its from a Beastie boy track the lyrics are 'i'm a kung fu master who's two move's faster'

Yoshimoto Nara

2008-06-02T15:59:00.000-07:00

I dont know a lot about Yoshimoto Nara i find his grumpy looking children and folorn animals really heart warming, i know he has expanded into sculpture and toy design. I am going to see the man himself at the Baltic gallery on 12/06/08

monster mash cards

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These are some playing cards a good friend bought me for my birthday every card has a different illustrators "monster" with stats very much like top trumps but way cooler.

Guy McKinley

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Guy McKinley is a liverpudlian illustrator who i feel has a truly elegant style, with from the work ive seen is two pronged, a stylized but sharp comic book inspired technique, and a style which is much akin to the super deformed anime.

DRINK AND DRAW LEEDS

2008-05-30T00:04:00.001-07:00

I designed this crest for the drink and draw club my friends and i run in Leeds at the swan (on swan street opersite muji in town), its been going well and other places have ripped us off so thats a good sign, its really nice to be able to do this, i cant help but get a warm feeling about community arts, its why i like graffiti comic books and graphic design, its for every body, unlike the fine or high art you see with its pomp and layers of implied hidden meaning, even the name high art and/or fine art implies that its some how better than any thing else that has been rendered, im ranting now so ill stop

Glen Baxter

2008-05-19T02:30:00.000-07:00

A SPATE OF HEPWORTH RUSTLING WAS SPREADING ALARM ALONG THE TEXAS BORDER.
This was in the Leeds City Art Gallery as part of the ‘Cult Fiction: Art and Comics Exhibition’, September 21st-November 11th, 2007. This touring exhibition featured a selection of graphic novels, sculpture, fine art, illustration and comics. The premise of the show was to examine the relationship between these disciplines. Glen Baxter contributed two pieces to ‘Cult Fiction’, “Looks like you’re slipping inexorably into figuration” 2006 and A spate of Hepworth rustling was spreading alarm along the Texas border, 2006, both placed in the second room of the show (along with their incredibly long titles).
The piece entitled A spate of Hepworth rustling was spreading alarm along the Texas border is set at twilight and shows a pulp fiction style cowboy complete with a bandit’s neck-a-chief, stealing a Barbara Hepworth sculpture. Interestingly both of the art works by Baxter show cowboys juxtaposed with works of fine art as well as concepts from the world of modern art. I find the size of the work remarkable when you consider the media in which the work was created. At 134cm by 108cm, giving just over one square metre, all coloured in pencil crayon, this seems a painstaking approach to image generation at this scale. This adds a certain amount of value to an image which itself is not overtly complex outside of its context of the humour.
Glen Baxter was born in Leeds and studied at Leeds College of Art and Design. He describes his attitude to his work as ‘a deadpan Buster Keaton kind of approach’. This is no more apparent than his representation of a cowboy on a horse, stealing a stone Hepworth sculpture, possibly weighing over a tonne. Although it does not appear to be a direct representation of an actual Hepworth sculpture, its form signifies her abstract organic style. The hole in the sculpture is a strong reference point because Hepworth was the first modern sculptor to use this in her work (e.g. Pierced Form of the early 1930s).
The composition of the image placed above text is very reminiscent of the Farside cartoons by Gary Larson. The newspaper style, one frame comic and punch-line humour attracted my attention in the gallery, but also made me want to investigate the image further, because like Larson after the initial one liner there is normally another subtler joke hidden in a expression or gesture. This is true of Baxter’s work in this case as well, the cowboy checking over his shoulder casts a comically rye squinting gaze for would be pursuers or the rightful owners of the stolen sculpture which is as important as the statement beneath the image. The whole image has particular significance if you think retrospectively about the time it was produced (2006). Baxter is obviously referencing real life ‘rustling’ of a Henry Moore and Elizabeth Frink taken from The Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, respectively.
Going back to the obvious juxtaposition of cowboys and a Modernist sculpture, I wonder if this is a metaphor for the relationship between comic book illustration and fine art. Rough course men like cowboys are not unlike how patrons of fine art view the work of comic books, and what better icon of high arts refinery and sophistication than the clean organic forms of Dame Barbara Hepworth. So is one stealing from the other? Are they equal? Is there a dependency of one on the other, but with benefits for both? Is Baxter feeding off Hepworth’s place in the canon, but at the same time raising awareness and introducing new audiences to her work, like a symbiotic parasite? Yes to all of the above and that is why it is so important.
In conclusion, I find Baxter’s work funny and well informed. It’s easily conceivable how Baxter could gather a cult following, I am curious to find out more about him and from this will actively hunt out any shows, books or catalogues which include his work.

CULT FICTION Art and Comics

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ARRGH I DIDN'T WRITE THIS REVIEW,BUT I'VE LOST WHO DID, AND I DONT WANT TO REMOVE IT BECAUSE ITS GOOD
Cult Fiction explores the reciprocal relationship between comics and art. The exhibition foregrounds links between the two genres in works where current social and political issues are aired in frank visual narratives.
The visual language of comics and graphic novels has influenced many contemporary artists, who have employed its conventions of pictorial narrative and unique fusion of word and image. Fine artists Adam Dant, Kerry James Marshall and Olivia Plender have published their own comics attracted by the mediums democratic format and its ability to reach and influence a wider audience than a gallery context would permit. Glen Baxter, Raymond Pettibon and David Shrigley use a combination of word and image in forms that are reminiscent of popular cartoons. The recurring themes and characters typical of comics iconography can be seen in Laylah Ali’s cast of bowling-ball headed characters, or the ragged furry felines that appear in Jon Pylypchuk’s sculptural tableaux. Liz Craft, Kerstin Kartscher and Paul McDevitt employ graphic elements from comic book imagery to create works that suggest narrative without using words.
The comics artists and graphic novelists are mainly from the generation of independent author-draughtsmen, whose subject matter tends to be offbeat and transgressive, and sometimes controversial. ‘Real life issues’, often approached in biographical or autobiographical styles, supplant moralistic tales of good and evil. Julie Doucet’s diaristic portrayals of her character in vulnerable and compromising situations exemplify the genre’s ability to communicate difficult emotional information, as do Debbie Drechsler’s candid autobiographic explorations of childhood abuse. The true realities of life within a war zone are sensitively charted in Joe Sacco’s award-winning Palestine, while everyday characters such as R Crumb’s and Harvey Pekar’s file clerk in American Splendor and Daniel Clowes’ misfit David Boring become unlikely heroes of everyday tales. Classic Literature gets a make-over for the twenty-first century in Posy Simmonds’ Gemma Bovery which is based on Flaubert’s adulterous heroine Madame Bovary, and Melinda Gebbie’s and Alan Moore’s epic Lost Girls (shortly to be published in the UK) charts the sexual awakening of three characters from children’s literature – Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz and Wendy from Peter Pan – as told by their older selves.

Artists: Laylah Ali, Glen Baxter, Stéphane Blanquet, Daniel Clowes, Liz Craft, R. Crumb, Adam Dant, Julie Doucet, Debbie Drechsler, Marcel Dzama, Melinda Gebbie in collaboration with Alan Moore, Mark Kalesniko, Kerstin Kartscher, Killoffer, Kerry James Marshall, Chad McCail, Paul McDevitt, Travis Millard, Kim L Pace, Raymond Pettibon, Olivia Plender, Jon Pylypchuk, James Pyman, Joe Sacco, David Shrigley in collaboration with Yoshitomo Nara and Chris Shepherd, Posy Simmonds, Richard Slee, Carol Swain
Cult Fiction was originated by artist and curator, Kim L. Pace, and is co-curated with Hayward curator Emma Mahony. A fully illustrated catalogue, designed by Jacob Covey, Art Director of Fantagraphics Books, features essays by Paul Gravett and Emma Mahony and a picture-essay by Kim L. Pace. All of the participating artists in Cult Fiction have contributed a drawn self-portrait together with their handwritten answers to questions posed by the curators. The book is distributed by Cornerhouse Publications.

Nufonia Must Fall by Kid Koala

2008-05-19T02:11:00.000-07:00

Highbrow lowbrow art

Nufonia Must Fall is probably the world's first comic by someone with a cartoon-character side persona. In this case, that would be Montreal DJ Kid Koala, probably best known for being part of the animated pop super-group Gorillaz.

And what a project Koala has turned in: a graphic novel that is 300-plus pages, almost entirely dialogue-free, and drawn in bleak charcoal hues. It's too bookish and highbrow to be a mere comic book, yet also too slapstick-y and hastily drawn to feel completely literary. In a world where Dave Sim and Alan Moore clearly try to bridge the gaps between the planes between pop art and something much more rarified, Koala's graphic novel seems to occupy a bizarre space in-between.

While Nufonia certainly isn't flawless for all its invention, the book is still strangely compelling when thumbed through quickly. (The entire thing can be devoured in no more than 15 minutes.)

Koala, whose real name is Eric San, has had a long-standing fascination with the sequential arts long before he allowed himself to be rendered into a two-dimensional member of Gorillaz, which also features Blur's Damon Albarn, hip-hop producer Dan the Automator and Del the Funkee Homosapien, among others.

Koala's last solo disc, 2000's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome , even came with a small bonus comic book far superior to the CD itself -- a sometimes hard to take, stream-of- consciousness pastiche created from his sprawling, eclectic music collection.

Nufonia, however, is the exact inverse: the book is the main attraction here. At the same time, the accompanying 16-minute CD of ambient incidental music isn't a mere trinket. It's actually an improvement over Carpal . (More about that in a moment.)

In Nufonia, we meet a headphones-wearing robot facing impending obsolesce at his cafeteria job who, additionally, has trouble standing on its own two feet. So when it falls for a cute office drone, a human electrical engineer, it really falls for her in the most literal sense. However, she's charmingly won over by the nameless robot's clumsiness, despite also harboring reservations about its imperfections. While the robot goes about writing love songs for its newfound source of admiration, she goes about internally picking daisies: Will she or won't she come to love the imperfect machine?

This has sort of topic has been tackled before elsewhere, but it's the medium that Koala uses, and the way he uses it, to express his point that is simply novel. The book is infectiously drawn in sketchy pencil lines and colored in murky black-and-white textures, a style that has been favorably compared to the feel of an old silent movie by other reviewers. You can sometimes see the sprocket holes, however. The world these characters inhabit occasionally has trouble containing itself within its own borders, as though Koala couldn't wait to let his thoughts and ideas pour out onto paper. The few words that are sparingly peppered throughout Nufonia sometimes leak out of their confined spaces.

This failure to stay within the lines appears to be an amateurish mistake at first glance, but, on second observation, the book could very well be a treatise on the perils of perfectionism. Koala has told interviewers that he felt an inordinate amount of pressure delivering a debut record other people wanted to hear, so he made one for himself instead. This, of course, turned out to be the dreary Carpal Tunnel Syndrome .

But where that record was needlessly self-indulgent, Nufonia effortlessly opens into the realm of communal, shared experience. Koala has learned something over three years, it seems: if you're going to create something, you'd better make it something that resonates with someone else.

By stripping away names and dialogue, Koala gives his characters an every-person kind of quality that transcends cultural or gender identity. While it is easy to slip into the poor robot's shoes, just about everyone in Nufonia shares his problem: they wander about, clumsily incomplete in their own ways, often paranoid that some impending sense of failure might gum up the works. And when things do go wrong, they're all caddish enough to take their frustration out on the next person down the food chain.

On a more microcosmic level, Nufonia sees Koala recovering from the sins of Carpal without resorting to kicking anyone in the street. The book's incidental CD is quiet and sullen, and successfully accentuates the somewhat downbeat yet whimsical atmosphere of the book. The 10 'songs' here can probably even be described as a much less-visceral distant cousin to Tom Waits's junkyard cabaret. Think Town With No Cheer from Swordfishtrombones and you'd be along the right track.

However, trying to actually enjoy the CD along with the book is something of an unintentional challenge. Page numbers on the compact disc's outer label seem to indicate that certain tracks are only meant to be played against key sections of Nufonia . Due to some kind of publishing oversight, these numbers are rather puzzlingly only listed on the CD's label itself, and the book offers no further instructions as to how you can align the disc with the book.

Maybe this error is the whole point. Or perhaps that's reading too much into it.

Make no mistake, though, Nufonia Must Fall is as compulsively 'readable' as a child's flipbook, where you absolutely must get to that very next page as quickly as possible to not shatter any momentum. True, $25 might seem to be a rather hefty price for such a simple pleasure. Yet, Koala has done something truly worthy here: he has created an imperfectly perfect two-dimensional work of art. We can only wonder what this cartoon kid might have up his sleeve next.

CARD BOARD ROBOTS

2008-05-13T10:00:00.000-07:00

In my next project im hoping to use card board box's to make loads of card board robots here are some of the robots i found on the web

chip Kidd BATMAN obsession

2008-05-13T09:11:00.000-07:00

Chip Kidd BATMAN obsession

2008-05-13T09:09:00.000-07:00

Alumnus shares Batman obsession, collection with University students

By JAMES REID
Collegian Arts Writer
Chip Kidd always felt a little strange about his Batman obsession. He really enjoyed scouring flea-markets for toys, nightlights and even pocket-combs in the shape of the Caped Crusader, but he had to wonder if he wasn't a little strange.

Chip Kidd
spoke in Kern Auditorium on Wednesday (Collegian Photo / Clinton Marchant - click for full size image) That was before he was humbled by another collector, a guy who lived alone and spent most of his money acquiring the largest collection of Batman memorabilia in the country.
"I did realize I was a human being after all . . . and this person was not," Kidd said.
At a lecture yesterday afternoon in Kern Auditorium, Kidd displayed his appetite for Batman kitch and how he turned it into a book for Bullfinch Press, titled Batman Collected.
Kidd, though, a 1986 University graduate in graphic design, is better known for his work in book design. He has gained national esteem designing covers for books by the likes of Anne Rice, Dean Koontz, John Updike and Michael Crichton, including the ubiquitous dinosaur logo from Jurassic Park.

Adventures of Batman and Robin Episode Guide
His highly visual and distinctive covers stand in contrast to the "plain brown wrapper" covers that first adorned books in 1840s London.
"Chip Kidd has, I think, re-thought the dust jacket," said James L. W. West III, Distinguished Professor of English, when he introduced the lecture.
Kidd's lecture, sponsored in part by the Center for the History of the Book, provided a short history of Batman through his many guises--comic books, television, movies and even tortilla chips.

Batman Encyclopedia
It's the tortilla chips and other strange spin-offs, like a pathetic and crumpled Robin marionette, that Kidd is most interested in. These things, which he calls "the archaeology of our time," are the subject of his book.
"I wanted everything in the book to be inanimate, with the arguable exception of Adam West," he said.

Leading dust jacket designer and alumnus Chip Kidd shows slides from his new book, Batman Collected. (Collegian Photo / Clinton Marchant - click for full size image) An avid collector of Batman memorabilia since he was four, it wasn't until a party at a professor's house that his hobby was legitimized. The house, filled with board games, toys, and other pop culture remnants, was something of a relief to Kidd.
"I thought I was in an insane museum," he said. "I realized you could be a reasonably well-adjusted adult and collect this stuff."
The topic was something of a surprise to many of the 200 or so people who attended the lecture.
I was actually expecting more about his graphic design career, said Faith Chang (senior-journalism).
Graphic design majors, though, were happy to see someone who has become so successful in their field.
"It's good to see what people are doing (after graduating in graphic design)," said Nicole Cummo (senior-graphic design). "It gives our program a good reputation."
A collection of Kidd's book jackets will be on display until February 16 in Kern Lobby.

Chip Kidd

2008-03-06T03:21:00.000-08:00

This is work by Chip Kidd, who seems to be the staff graphic designer at D.C. He developed the new splash titles for the all star series. i also found out that he has released a book completely devoted to his own collection of batman memorabilia. I have read his book on batman memorabilia and his passion for the subject shines from every page, its really very good, he owns packs of biscuits from 1989 when the first film was realized and has managed to make then look just as intricate apart of the batman mythos as the original comic book art he also owns. It brings back the excitement of looking at toys as a kid, some of the things make you jealous that he has them some of the thing make you think I'm glad I'm not that obsessive about batman, but the book and the photography of what is obviously his passion is crisp, fun and at times window into the mind of a true collector, it also fills me with confidence about my chosen career, because half the things in the book must have cost a fortune

Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley

2008-03-06T03:16:00.000-08:00

the work of luke Drozd

2008-03-05T14:32:00.000-08:00

Luke Drozd is a local artist from Leeds who has exibited at the Reliance Bar and at Whitehall Waterfront Exhibition Space (now Project Space Leeds) it wasn't until i met him in one of his shows that i realised i lived in the flat below him for a year about two years ago (d'oh)

BigFoots ahoy

2008-03-05T10:15:00.000-08:00

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era

2008-03-04T07:11:00.000-08:00

Critical Studies

2008-03-04T07:07:00.000-08:00

Here is some stuff i've been looking at for my essay

Chip Kidd

2008-03-03T03:00:00.000-08:00

I have recently been introduced to the work of Chip Kid, this is one of his book covers for a book by James Elroy it looks like he's cut into the cover of a old pulp fiction novel with a scalpel and created a really interesting pop up effect. i like Elroys books anyway so im going to try and find this book to buy

alice in popup land

2008-02-28T08:51:00.000-08:00

I think this is fantastic, i really enjoyed Lewis Carroll's books as a child and have been working on (on and off) a stylized piece involving some of the characters for some time now this has really sparked my interest, the complexity of the playing cards is a perfect back drop, if and when i finish it, i will post it up.

Book of lights

2008-02-28T08:40:00.000-08:00

This is one of my favourite things i've found, its a great idea. Im certain it would be too expensive to do, but it would be great to make a lighting catalog like this, where all the lamps where made this way, and you take it home to see which is best before you buy, ok ok i know thats a pointless gimick but it would be cool, (and not a waste of resource really errrm)

pop up phobias

2008-02-28T08:30:00.000-08:00

this is a pop up book of phobias i assume this one is dentist, although i am uncertain why they have an atomic death ray in the back ground and a tooth from a wooly mammoth on the left, i guess fear does make you irrational. A friend of mine from sheffield has a crazy phobia, he is terrified of small spherical objects, e.g. peas, marbles, bubbles, broken down polystyrene

prometheus

2008-02-28T08:27:00.000-08:00

beyond worlds and prometheus by Barbara brown

2008-02-28T08:13:00.001-08:00

Barbara brown from the looks of things create quite crisp (if a little to craft-based) books like the prometheus and the beyond worlds, i like the beyond worlds but find the prometheus dull and obvious, its a figure in flames, she could just as well called it Nicky lauder, but prometheus sounds like she did some research.

beyond worlds by Barbara brown

2008-02-28T08:10:00.000-08:00

chinese star by Rackycoo

2008-02-28T08:03:00.000-08:00

i know everyone will have this on their blogs but i had to acknowledge this piece, but it looks so incredabliy well crafted.

this is a chinese star, handmade book by rackycoo

2008-02-28T07:50:00.000-08:00

2008-02-25T02:49:00.000-08:00

i wanted to find out what other people found monsterous so i printed out these templates and asked people to create monsters over the template

2008-02-25T02:48:00.000-08:00

cthulhu

2008-02-20T17:23:00.000-08:00

man eating trees

2008-02-20T17:22:00.000-08:00

Minze's 100 monsters

2008-02-20T16:34:00.000-08:00

I was looking through the net for other artist monster pics and came across Minze. check out all the 100 on www.atarts.thuemler.com/100Monsters.php - 17k

2008-02-20T16:30:00.001-08:00

Mona Hatoum's Hot spot

2007-10-18T06:58:00.000-07:00

Mona Hatoum is an Israeli artist/sculptor. I saw her exhibition in the white cube in london last year there are two pieces which really caught my attention this the hot spot and a giant steel web which had dew symbolized by glass balls. beautiful art really inspiring

Mona Hatoum's Hot spot

2007-10-18T06:56:00.000-07:00

Chris Cunninghams "All is love"

2007-10-18T03:54:00.000-07:00

Chris Cunninghams "All is love " Bjork video inspired my work in the summer i loved the organic/robotic juxtaposition and tried to incorporate that in the graffiti font i was working on.

MF Doom, All Caps

2007-10-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

MF Doom's collaboration with Madlib not only yielded a fantastic album but in my opinion this is one of the best music videos to come from the hip hop canon. the animation of old comic book adverts is inspired and wonderfully executed. In a time when hip hop videos are all crouch grabbing, bling boasting waste's of money and resources (see anything by Puff daddy), this is a more than refreshing change.

DJ Q-Bert's Wave Twisters

2007-10-17T11:34:00.000-07:00

In WaveTwisters DJ Q-bert provides all the music, sound effects and even dialogue in what's been described as a kung-fu sci-fi epic. The range of insane characters is vast and hilarious, the main character for example is a blue skinned break dancing intergalactic dentist and the arch villeins are couple of infants with mexican wrestling masks and evil symbiotic worms protruding from there navels.

Where the wild things are

2007-10-16T08:03:00.000-07:00

This one of my favourite childhood books fantastic images on every page and i've just descovered that its been made into a film and shit the bed only spike jonze of beasty boy video fame is set to direct. Best work on having some kids so i dont look like a complete weirdo when i go to the cinema five times to watch it.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

2007-10-16T07:49:00.000-07:00

2007-10-15T09:30:00.000-07:00

Tim Biskups work is crisp and colourful but its the humour in every image which makes him so sucessful. This picture of Samurai jack surounded by a horde of monsters and robots is typical of Biskups work, the look on jacks face as he realises he's probley going to have to fight his way out, is the same expression we all pull on a long day at work when we FEEL like its four o'clock but when we check its only quarter past two.

tim biskup's samurai jack

2007-10-15T09:18:00.000-07:00