Panasonic’s Next Generation Talent

Posted on December 9, 2008 Under Design

Panasonic is out looking for new talent, and they've turned to art colleges to borrow the eyes of the next generation of designers. Students were given an image toolkit and a brief of the product -- the rest was up…

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World of Wes

Posted on December 8, 2008 Under Art

A lot of artists are adopting blogs to show their work. The World of Wes (or as he calls it WOW) is more of a blog showing the life around his work and of course his paintings. Putting up post…

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SpearTalks: Jesse Hora Dot Com

Posted on December 5, 2008 Under Art

You know what we like? When the names of people we love (Jesse Hora) start winding up next to names of artists we worship (Si Scott; Alex Trochut; Hellovon). Not that we would expect any less of the designers, illustrators…

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Exclusive Sickboy ‘Stay Free’ Pics

Posted on December 5, 2008 Under Art

I had a chance to go to the private viewing of Sickboy's Stay Free show. When an announcement was made that we were going to have to wait out in the cold because one of the oompa loompas was acting…

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Jonathan Ball’s Shrooms

Posted on December 5, 2008 Under Art

The mushrooms in Super Mario worked great for getting bigger and scoring extra lives, but we're well past our 8-bit years and by now, those fungi are a little stale. So Jonathan Ball, a Welsh illustrator and graphic designer who…

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Monsieur T @ Hecklewod Gallery

Posted on December 2, 2008 Under Art

Skateboard art just keeps getting better and better. Like graffiti, it's made its way from street level with a flare for deliquency, to carrying content dope enough to warrant a gallery show. If you happen to be in Portland this…

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Own a Piece of Storefront

Posted on December 1, 2008 Under Art

When the Storefront for Art and Architecture renovated its New York City space this past summer, some things had to go. Among the items that got the ol' heave ho were the iconic letters that adorned its facade since 1993.…

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Viction:ary Sale

Posted on November 27, 2008 Under Books

The only thing better than having a few days off and pouring over beautiful books in the family living room? Saving money and having your choice of artistic topics to choose from. The Hong Kong-based viction:design team is offering 20%…

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SpY

Posted on November 12, 2008 Under Art

We've covered a few urban reinvention projects, Guerrilla Gardening and Aakash Nihalani come to mind. Madrid street artist SpY has been making the Spanish laugh with is comical, ironic works involving surreal extensions of what we find commonplace. A basketball…

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Amy Casey

Posted on November 12, 2008 Under Art

If you were to ask Amy Casey what she would have been had she not been an artist, she should answer a city planning manager. Just taking a quick browse through her work gives you a peak at her visionary…

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