Let me just open with this: a priority postage-shipped package painted especially pour vous! Its "contents," maybe Freedom or Love or Happiness, even. The simply named The Priority Boxes project, realization of painter Franck de Las Mercedes, is a public/global…
Continue Reading →So what happens when you take a seven-year-old, extremely successful online business and move it into reality? Well, the phrase "sink or swim" comes to mind, but only time will tell for the chaps over at Threadless. That's right, the…
Continue Reading →The team at Brooklyn-based Mishka NYC streetwear packed a ton of new amenities into their relaunched site, which is as dope as the punk approach they take to their clothing designs and graphics. Read up on their daily ruminations and…
Continue Reading →My most favorite artist in the whole wide world, Takashi Murakami (see: Superflat, Louis Vuitton), is co-curating an exhibit with Giant Robot publisher Eric Nakamura, selecting the cream of the crop from Murakami's respected GEISAI art expos in Japan and…
Continue Reading →It's nice that the U.K.'s It's Nice That keeps pointing me towards so many outstanding artists. What's even nicer than that is how Danica Novgorodoff, on top of being an incredible master of enchanting aesthetics, has the kind of last…
Continue Reading →This Friday, Colorado artist Rafa Jenn will be showing his new collection of work at Boulder's Joy Engine. "Pin-Ups," which features 50 drawings by the multi-aliased man, will pack out the Engine with plenty of hand-drawn nakey from 8-12pm, then…
Continue Reading →Just had a great afternoon hopping around downtown Portland with none other than SpearTalks own Jeff Rooney (Capacitor Design Network). We popped by Upper Playground and the Fifty24PDX gallery to see the Ricky Powell show-- if you're interested in large-format…
Continue Reading →Fleming Creative Group, a firm in Vancouver, Canada, recently called on Eric Chan, a.k.a. Eepmon (see also: one of our favorite techie-slash-artists) to create an installation piece for their reception area. Chan was given the company's motto, "The Story Through…
Continue Reading →The beauty of art is that there is nothing that its defines boundaries or rules; you can work with any media on any surface and it is art. Daniel Edlen found his niche painting portraits of American legends on original…
Continue Reading →Ever find something that makes you regret not knowing about it sooner because in some esoteric, inexplicable way it makes your life better? I'm feeling exactly that way upon the discovery of artist Brian Dettmer's amazing, amazing work. With surgical…
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