L.A. designer Dr. Romanelli hasn't been to an "accredited medical university," but Chuck Taylor has decided to let the good doctor operate on a pair of limited edition Converse. The sneaker giant has teamed up with Bono's African AIDS charity…
Continue Reading →Of the top three places architects look for inspiration, we'd say nature would be number one (two and three are always "art" and "the dumpster behind Frank Gehry's house"). For Orquideorama in Medellin, Colombia (yes, the same place where Pablo…
Continue Reading →Are you from DC? Are you an undergraduate design student? Most importantly, are you sexy? We reported on some other AIGA sanctioned throwdowns in the Deep South. This year the DC chapter of the AIGA is taking on getting off,…
Continue Reading →Always on a quest to save space in the 50 sq ft we call a living room, furniture that fits into other furniture seems like an inspired idea. Well, an inspired idea that doesn't involve beanbag chairs. Brussels-born Marina Bautier…
Continue Reading →Using the digital printing process, known to the French as Giclée, UK-based gallery Cosh offers a fairly low-cost (about $200-$300...more than poster, but less than hanging plasma TVs everywhere) art alternative, and some wicked good artists. Among their stable are…
Continue Reading →Domont loves DuPont. Not so much the prominent American industrialist family, but the producers of plastic film Mylar. Artist Jordan Domont uses the translucent son-of-Dacron(TM) to produce these multi-layered images using color drawing ink on 18" x 24" sheets. The…
Continue Reading →Oh Michel Gondry, we're so sorry. You have no longer cornered the market on stop-motion videos using toys. Montreal band Miracle Fortress (which is mostly just multi-instrumentalist Graham Van Pelt from Think About Life) made a dazzling day-in-the-life video for…
Continue Reading →Paul Pope (aka Pulphope) went from being a DC comics virtuoso (including his excellent Batman: Year 100) to designing his own clothing line. And, while Bruce Wayne did have certain debonairly style about him, we're pretty sure the bat cowl…
Continue Reading →We're not sure what your relationship with lighting is like, but we've had a long love/hate thing with lamps. There was the Banned-In-College-Halogen-Torch-Lamp phase in college, the First-New-York-Apartment-Track-Lighting phase, and currently the Take-Me-Seriously-I'm-A-Professional-Writer-Goose-Neck-Lamp phase. What London artist Georgiosi Ignatiou does…
Continue Reading →Look. Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's New York artist Paul Villinski. The glider-flying sculpture artist makes it no secret that flying is at the heart of his work. Whether it's the fragile beer can…
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