Magnetic poetry became passe long ago (sorry to burst your bubble Mr. Fridge Poet). Motifo is selling packs of magnetic pixels to turn your refrigerator into a work of art. Their cool black, white, and gray pack, or the warmer…
Continue Reading →In the mid 70s BMW began asking artists to paint their cars, getting the likes of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Esther Mahlangu to turn racers into artwork. You can take a look at the art cars from 1975 to…
Continue Reading →It would be a sin of omission to call Sean Tubridy a photographer when he's in fact a publisher/activist/graphic designer/salesman. And by salesman, we mean the "stuff" he sells, that includes screenprinted shirts with illustrations of Leica M3s and transistor…
Continue Reading →We posted about the Firewinder last year -- a decorative outdoor light powered by the wind. Well, these breezy Brits just won the 2008 Green Dot Award for creating an invention that aims to show people just how breathtaking clean…
Continue Reading →This is going to sound like a sin, but I think Photoshop is cheating. Yes, yes, I've heard the business about what professional photographers used to do back in the darkroom, but I'm still not convinced. Then I stumbled onto…
Continue Reading →Sao Paulo street artist extraordinaire Titi Freak tells stories with his work, but now they'll actually be in print. His first book, released in sponsorship by Nike Sportswear, is the 200-page Freak. It traces the Japanese-Brazilian's art trajectory from his…
Continue Reading →Takashi Murakami, the Japanese artist who makes intriguing work out of cartoon mushrooms and whose style we most covet, currently has a retrospective going on at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The best part is SuperTouch is giving us a personal…
Continue Reading →There's not a huge amount of crossover between athletes and toy collectors. But when that intersection occurs you'll be sure to find a handful of fit fanboys -- like the ones drooling over art superstar KAWS and Lance Armstrong's bike…
Continue Reading →While some bands are well connected enough in the music biz to get producers like the Neptunes or Rick Rubin to work on their debut album, Brazilian metal-industrial band Omega Code is more concerned with getting artists like Joshua Davis…
Continue Reading →If you've seen images at the Whitney, SF Museum of Modern Art, or Minneapolis' Walker Art Center (or the Magnum Photos archives for that matter), the shots of photographer Alec Soth may have caught your eye. The Minnesota-based artist's photos…
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