Tommy Matthews

Posted on February 12, 2008 Under Art

If Portland-based Photographer Tommy Matthews were to visit New York City, odds are he wouldn't bother snapping shots of landmarks like Times Square or the Empire State Building with his trusty 4x5 Sinar rail camera. You'd probably find him under…

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SpearTalks: Simone Legno

Posted on February 8, 2008 Under Art

Not so many years ago, an Italian by the name of Simone Legno created a site from which he could display his artwork. A successful Rome-based illustrator, Legno had formed a love of Japanese culture in his early childhood, and…

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Yusuke Nishimura

Posted on January 31, 2008 Under Art

New York-based photographer Yusuke Nishimura may be just out of art school, but he has already accomplished a great deal in his brief career. His unique brand of cinematic photography has already garnered him plenty of praise and prestigious awards;…

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Julia Fullerton-Batten

Posted on January 30, 2008 Under Art

Welcome to the wonderland that is the work of photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten. Building on her growing rep as one of fine art photography's rising stars, her photo series Teenage Stories landscapes are populated with seemingly indifferent giant girls. Even if…

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Carlos Motta

Posted on January 30, 2008 Under Design

I love this desk by Carlos Motta, which looks like it's been partially drilled into the floor. It's not one of his newer works, but it's a sample of the expansive and non-stop imagination that this Brazilian furniture crafter and…

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Tycho x Iso50: Chill Out Momi

Posted on January 28, 2008 Under Art

As we've previously mentioned, our pal Scott Hansen a.k.a Iso50 has quite the penchant for producing premium prints. Okay, now that we've got all of the alliteration out of our system we can tell you that he's also one hell…

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Jeremy Dower

Posted on January 25, 2008 Under Design

Welcome to Jeremy Dower's universe. It's a bizarre world inhabited by phenomenally strange symmetrical creatures like Schmoopy and Planky, just begging to be mimicked for a line of mimobots. The Australian character designer and concept artist has created works for…

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New Chuck Prints!

Posted on January 23, 2008 Under Art

. Our boy Chuck Anderson just updated his site, No Pattern, with twelve new additions to his already burly print collection. Like his older pieces, these newbies represent more of Chuck's incredible light-saturated, brightly surreal work, and we think they're…

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Studio Joseph Shaeffer

Posted on January 22, 2008 Under Art

It would not do Joseph Shaeffer justice to simply adorn him with the titles sculptor, fabricator and conceptual artist. You'd be hard pressed to encompass to overall scope of his talents using just those terms. The Boulder, Colorado based principle…

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Daniel Firman

Posted on January 18, 2008 Under Art

French artist Daniel Firman's work is a diverse bunch of opposites. His life-sized body cast plaster sculptures stand in impossible formations - balanced on each other's feet or crawling upward into an inner tube. Clothed and proportioned, but with faces…

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