After three weeks in the new New Ezra and Style Hatch office space it is finally starting to take shape. Now there is plenty of room to expand the team with two or three talented people in the coming months.
As you can see all the walls are bare and empty. I would love to fill the walls with art, prints and interesting books. As I start to look for the right pieces this week, any suggestions you have would be amazing. What do you think should go on the walls?
Four and a half feet tall bottles painted on laser cut oak by Jeremy Pettis as a part of an upcoming art show. Also, check out Jeremy’s previous installation “26 Types of Animals—Typography, channeling the essence of the beast”.
“Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.”
Digital artist and matte painter Swinspeed beautifully composites multiple stock images to create imaginative and surreal landscapes. His Flickr photostream is full of inspiring landscape compositions, but some of my other favorite images are The Healing Nimbus and Last Days.
Deconstructed alarm clock as a part of photographer Todd McLellan’s Disassembly project (filed under New Work).
London based visual artist Quayola transformed traditional Baroque paintings by Velazquez and Tiepolo into digital fabrications using custom software. The process follows the paintings rules of visual composition and colors, and turns the works into shifting geometry. Quayola’s work is currently on display at London’s BFI Gallery.
Found on The Fox Is Black and FastCoDesign
Artist Shinichi Maruyama creates sculptures and still art out of typically fluid materials. In his Water Sculpture series he shapes falling water with his hands, and then freezes it in time with a high frames-per-second camera like the Phantom. Check out his other works Kusho and Nihonga.
Found on Fubiz
“Good design defuses the tension between functional and aesthetic goals precisely because it works within the boundaries defined by the functional requirements of the communication problem. Unlike the fine arts, which exists for their own sake, design must always solve a particular real-world problem.”
After smashing an iPod Touch that his two boys constantly fought over artist and former Apple employee Michael Tompert realized he should do something with this piece of technology as liquid poured out of the shattered screen. The series of photographs were recently featured in a small San Francisco Gallery, Small Worms Gallery.
From an art critic’s point of view, the destroyed gadgets contain strains of Dadaism and Surrealism. Everyday products are turned on themselves and made to seem unfamiliar again.
Images found on Fubiz and full story on Michael Tompert and his art on LA Times.
Artist Jenny Odell created a series of digital prints using a collage of cutout imagery from Google Maps. See more of her projects at Jenny’s blog.
Via Kitsune Noir
Visual artist Andy Denzler has created a series of paintings on oil canvas that remind you of a broken and over-compressed JPG. See the other 50+ paintings in the series.
I always love seeing how other designers approach their work, and this chance to see how James White, Signalnoise, creates his complex and beautiful artwork is fascinating. I’ll be buying this one later today to dig in.
For those of you who have been around digital for quite some time it might remind you of when Joshua Davis sold his Praystation hard drive. I still have mine sitting around here somewhere.
Reblogged from Cameron Moll
How do you lead a creative enterprise through crisis while trying to stay true to your core as an artist and a designer?
How do you bring colors to life? Denstu London created this fantastic spot for Canon’s Pixma brand that sculpt color using sound waves and high-speed photography. The shoot was directed by self-taught Christopher Hewitt—the best education is always hard work.
Denstu London was also behind the recent Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting experimental project. Also, see Christopher Hewitt’s Sphere’s of Fury music video.
Film maker and artist François Vautier installed an ant colony in his scanner five years ago, and every week for five years he has scanned the colony.
François also created BLADE RUNNER revisited as 3.6 gigapixels which is equally impressive.
