The Art Of Ian Coyle

Check out Ian Coyle’s letterpress project. He puts words on things.

The Art of Viktor Hertz

I just stumbled across the amazing graphic design work of Viktor Hertz.

With stark gray backgrounds, Hertz takes literal interpretations of song titles and turns them into cheeky posters.

Have a look at a few of my favorites below. 

The Art of Arian Behzadi

Utterly amazing.

Have a look at a few of my favorites below, or click here to see the rest. 

Paper Cuts

 
Olly Moss’s blog Paper Cuts is painfully addicting. 

Featuring silhouettes of nearly every pop culture icon, movie character, and cartoon imaginable from the past 60 years, the site will absorb far too much of your time. Be warned.

Have a gander at a few of the more amusing ones below, and head over to here to see the rest.

The Art of Pae White

“Smoke Knows” from a 2009 exhibit

I’ve always found smoke to be endlessly fascinating. Aesthetically speaking, I’m completely enamored with it, from its undulating curls that spiral upward to the bluish hue it can take on in daylight or its fleeting lifespan yet seemingly endless supply.

I suppose it’s this interest that has drawn me to the recent works of Pae White who playfully explores the ephemerality of smoke. In massive tapestries that can measure up to 40 feet, White “[uses] heavily digitally manipulated photos of crumpled aluminum foil, plumes of smoke and dynamic image collages of collected scraps of image, pattern, color, and text as their content.”

The Whitney sums up her work best: “In 2006, White began creating tapestries with photographic images of crumpled aluminum foil and plumes of smoke. Still, Untitled, one of her most recent smoke tapestries, stages what White describes as the cotton’s “dream of becoming something other than itself” by contrasting an image of something immaterial with the physicality of fabric. This vision of an ephemeral moment suspended in space—the slight and fleeting unfurling of smoke monumentalized in the heroic tradition of tapestries—transforms an everyday image into a seductive evocation of transience and longing.

Check out a few of her recent works including some from her recent exhibition Material Mutters that just wrapped up at the Power Plant on January 2nd.

Deadly Artistic PSA

Solidarités International: Water talks from La Boite Concept on Vimeo.

Check out this amazing PSA/art installation done in Paris that brings awareness for the world’s deadliest killer. More than smoking, war, and heart disease, the answer will certainly surprise you.

Done for Solidarites International by the clever French ad firm BDDP & Fils, they’ve put an amazingly artistic and catchy campaign together for a very serious issue. Given the recent deadly outbreak of Cholera in Haiti and the increasing pressures of climate change on teetering infrastructures amidst the most heavily poulated boiling fleshpots of civilization, this issue is more important than ever.

Watch the video to find out more.

The Art of Jenny Holzer

I just came across the artwork of Jenny Holzer, an American Neo-Conceptualist artist. She utilizes notable buildings around the world as her canvass by using light to project short platitudes. Naturally, she has an amazing way with words projecting intimate and provocative phrases in massive letters for the world to see.

Enjoy.