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Cardboard sculptures by Bartek Elsner

Rubens — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:51:53 +0000

Bartek Elsner is a designer and art director based in Berlin, Germany. Among his projects I found this cardboard sculptures series very interesting. Sometimes indoor decorations, sometimes street installations.

Tattoo Paintings by Shawn Barber

Rubens — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:52:49 +0000

Shawn Barber is an American artist, lives and works in San Francisco. The main theme of his works, is the tattoo. Or rather, that the world revolves around the art of tattooing. Its artists, its instruments, the places where they are made and people who live this kind of art on your body.

“Alphabetcha” by Nathan Walker

Martina Cavalieri — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:33:15 +0000

Nathan Walker is a designer working in Austin, Texas under the name All The Pretty Colors (ATPC). He is a passionate designer whose creativity isn’t limited between 9 to 5. Much of his illustration work is done as the Texas sun goes down. Mr. Walker’s primary design weapons of choice are his Micron pen and Technico Lead Holder…not to mention illustrator and photoshop in his arsenal.

For the longest time he wanted to create the alphabet in his illustration style.
Much of his inspiration came from watching shows like Ren & Stimpy and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters growing up.

“Bambi Chair” by Kamina&C

Martina Cavalieri — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:04:39 +0000

From Japan with furor, here comes the little chairs and fun design born from the idea of group Kamita&C !

Bambi Chair is part of a series of seats for children.
The stylized shapes are inspired by some forest animals ranging from deer and sheep in general.
The structures are made of oak and the seat takes the fleece of the animals.

These are other chairs (in order)
1) No,0052 inspired the head of a deer.
It ‘was made from oak, deerskin, walnut and ramifications
2) No, 1452 in maple wood and deer skin
3) No, 1453 Oak and deerskin

Dreams of Glory by Rems182

Rubens — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:20:33 +0000

New series by Rems182, member of the italian collective Truly Design. Acrylic and spraypaint on paper

“Memento Mori” by Fiona Krüger

Martina Cavalieri — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:35:56 +0000

Fiona Krüger is a designer working on projects ranging from the intricacy and precision of watch design to more conceptual sculptural installations.
A passion for hand-made objects, tradition and craftsmanship are at the core of her work.
“Memento Mori” watch, diploma project for the MAS LUXE at ECAL , reinterprets the theme of mortality in horlogery, drawing inspiration from the 17th century skull watch of Mary Queen of Scotts, Mexican Dia de Los Muertos decoration and beautifully decorated skeleton movements found in today’s luxury watches.
The case is fashioned from solid silver and mineral hand cut glass and is engraved by hand as well, inside of the watch is a Swiss ETA 2824-2 automatic movement.
Each piece is decorated and assembled by hand resulting in a unique timepiece rich in tradition, know how and symbolism.

LostFish

Martina Cavalieri — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:25:33 +0000

LostFish (Elodie is her real name), is a french illustrator. Self-taught, she began her creative development as a freelance character designer, but quickly turns to an artistic universe, creating digital paintings for exhibitions and books.

Her influences are mostly classical, inspired by the Flemish painters and the art of the 19th century, both in painting and photography, she draws mostly strange and sometimes disturbing girls, half woman and half child.

Honey Hunters of Nepal

Danilo — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:33:37 +0000

Éric Valli is a French photographer and film director. Valli spent most of his career as a geographical photographer working for the National Geographic Magazine and The Sunday Times, capturing more inaccessible locations in the world on camera. Valli has shot a documentary with Diane Summers on the Honey hunters of Nepal documenting honey hunting by the Gurung tribesmen of west-central Nepal. In it, they enter the jungle in search of wild honey where they use indigenous tools under precarious conditions to collect honey.

The Barbatonics by Elisa Sassi and Quailstudio a.k.a Amaury Lemal

Martina Cavalieri — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:06:05 +0000

The Barbatonics are inhabitants of Sassiland. Each one has a special story to be told, together they are a set of 7 characters designed by Elisa Sassi and digitally sculpted by Quailstudio a.k.a Amaury Lemal. The Barbatonics are the Vinyl Toys. These two artists are working to bring these characters into your home as a collectible series of Vinyl Art Toys.

Kukula

Martina Cavalieri — Sat, 05 May 2012 16:01:08 +0000

Kukula was born in a relatively isolated village about an hour north of Tel Aviv.

Her few neighbors were mostly retirees, many of them Holocaust survivors. As a result her childhood imagination was nourished by equal parts princess fantasies and World War II horror stories.

Thus the attempt to reconcile real life horror with fantasy life sweetness emerges as an almost constant theme in her work.

Kukula’s paintings center on feminine, doll-like figures, often surrounded by objects with sometimes clear, sometimes obscure symbolic meaning. The work registers the influences of both classical European art forms and contemporary pop culture.