Web designer, Jane McDevitt, has collected some wonderful matchbox label designs from the 1950′s and 1960′s. They are mainly of European origin, but there are some gems from around the world too.
The Soviet-Russian ones really intrigue me, they were the masters of post-modern design and produced some eccentric and under appreciated artists (Constructivsm being a notable example). It’s only in fairly recent years that some of the amazing works produced behind the iron wall are being released to the wider public (there is a blog dedicated to discovering inspiring Russian posters).
Gary Baseman is an excellent artist who coined the term “pervasive art” to describe his iconic and often disturbing paintings. He also created the cartoon, Teachers Pet, which I watched purely for the art.
You can see his works on his website (NSFW) (the pictured work above is from his ‘Happy Idiot’ collection).
Thomas Huyghe is a belgian experimental artist who has been working with different shaped surfaces and mediums for his paintings. The outcome is quite surreal in appearance (especially when viewed through a 2D photograph of the work/s).
The paintings are almost turned from realistic to abstract works just by simply changing the shapes and the surfaces they are painted on.
Feel free to see more of his works on his website.
Every image has its own story to tell which is what the illustrations/works of Reey Whaar are all about. His works are very striking and bold, yet consistent and flowing. You can see more of them on his LiveJournal.
After looking at James Jean’s artwork it is apparent that he’s a talented artist, but what is most intriguing to me are his drawings in Moleskin notebooks.
The level of detail, the scale, imagination and his style of drawing has a certain consistency and a flowing feeling; from a distance the forms take on a more general abstract aesthetic, but looking closely unveils more.
This is a stunning and emotionally chaotic video pieced together to the sound of a progressively ambient/electronic song. It’s called ‘Luv Deluxe’, by the ‘Cinnamon Chasers’, from the album ‘A Million Miles From Home’.
Typography is the art of fonts and text. It is by no means a new thing, but awareness of the importance of typography has been increasing in terms of design in recent years.
As an artist who has been faced with this rather broad question lately, I decided I would tackle it head on, or at least give it a good shot.
This subject was brought up on a community forum that I use where the opinions of art were relatively straight forward and irrational (and clearly not made by artists themselves). Put simply, those people were wrong.
