Curious Light Painting
Finnish artist Janne Parviainen uses a really intriguing technique in his photography, that could easily be mistaken for fancy Photoshop work. But no post editing here… Parviainen traces patterns and shapes using light sources caught with a camera on a long exposure setting. “I have traced entire rooms with a single LED light with the…
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Brick-by-Brick
We’ve shared our fascination with Legos before (here and here and here), but we’d be remiss to not mention New York-based artist Nathan Sawaya. He has taken the use of Legos as an art medium to a whole new level. With more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York art studio at any…
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Pumped Up Kicks
Filipino illustrator Rhafael Aseo has a really great style and bold sense of color, as exhibited in this series of Nike shoe illustrations. Love the contrast of the shoes in an organic setting… like he’s capturing them in the wild. Also love Aseo’s portrait work, very talented dude! Via Behance and aseo.prosite.com
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Keep Calm and Type On
We’re all familiar with the “Keep Calm” series that seems to be everywhere lately. Super talented Mexican designer/typographer Alan Guzman tackles his own version from a designer’s perspective. Looks great, love the flourish-y hand lettering, and the pens are a nice touch. Not sure how/where to purchase the shirt, but I want one, please! Be…
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Good Vibes
Our own Francisco Hernandez laid out these stories in the latest issue of Hash Magazine!
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Patten Prints
Madrid design firm Patten has a very interesting style… part whimsical, part uptown. We particularly love some of their illustration work, especially these city prints. Via studiopatten.com
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Pushing the Boundaries of Portraiture
Michigan portraitist Eric Daigh creates these impressive mosaic portraits with pushpins. I’m sure these photos don’t even do them justice (his piece for The Armory Show remains the largest pushpin mosaic in the world), but still striking nonetheless. It’s like digital images created by hand, each made up of just five different colors. Strategically placing…
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Helvetica Heroes
Granting a classic font superpowers seems like a tall order, but French design student René Mambembé has done just that. Drawing inspiration from major comic book and movie characters (as well as a few unexpected ones), Mambembé dresses Helvetica letterforms in capes, masks and the like, to assemble this imaginative series. An original take on…
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Olympic Art
With the 2012 Summer Olympics coming to a close this weekend, we thought it fitting to dig up some Olympics-inspired art. We love Texas photographer Cody Hamilton’s take on the Olympic rings, as well as “Liquidated Olympic Rings” print by street artist Zevs (pronounced “Zeus”). Then there’s this fantastic 60s inspired print by German illustrator…
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