Saturday, January 10, 2009
I came across her prints on Flickr, but Helle Jorgensen’s Gooseflesh has some great things on sale at Etsy. Sea-inspired soft crocheted urchins and corals? Go buy now!
Illustrator Linzie Hunter takes subject lines from everyone’s favorite unsolicited emails and turns them into lettering wonderpieces.
View her full set of Spam One-liners on Flick here.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Jill Bliss & Saelee Oh have once again teamed up to bring unbelievable cuteness in calendar form. These 13-month calendars are printed with vegetable inks on 100% recycled paper, so not only will you be adorning your living or working space with splendid illustration, but you’ll be supporting Earth-friendly printing practices! And cuteness!
$15 makes it yours here. Act quick before they sell out, because I’ve been too slow for the last 2 years. Learn from my pain!
Read more on Jill Bliss & Saelee Oh’s “Hidden Habitats” 2008 Calendar…
Apple’s Pro series covers some very interesting uses of Apple technology in the arts and music. Their previous feature was on Bjork’s technical director, Allan Pollard, and talked about all the different crazy technology used in her live shows. This current feature on the French “new media” agency Trafik is not only a beautifully shot video, but also talks about the agency’s installation where they used a bunch of projectors, Adobe Illustrator, and Xcode to make some crazy giant sound-reactive cube, most recently shown at the contemporary art center La Ferme du Buisson in Paris.
Read more on Trafik: Art of Code at Apple.com…
Saturday, November 4, 2006
I was lucky enough to catch a recent bit on PBS’s modern arts showcase, SPARK, about LA-based painter Sandow Birk. He said that he was staying in San Francisco for a week or so, and as he’d tell people he was from Los Angeles, their usual response wore on him. He got tired of hearing their diatribes against the smog, and traffic, and all the other things people tend to hate about The City of Angels, and thus, he was inspired to create.
Read more on Sandow Birk’s “The Divine Comedy”…
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Tiel Seivl, of Tsk Tsk, shares the quick and easy way to do relief prints at home. All you need is some linoleum, ink, a brayer, a cutter, paper, and a spoon!
Read more on LINK: A quick guide to relief printmaking…
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Los Angelean Crafters: This Saturday is the launch party of Craft, a magazine all about crafting from the makers of MAKE! The launch party is being presented by the venerable Felt Club, those crafty kids who throw the monthly craft fair in and around Los Angeles!
Read more on CRAFT Launch Party in LA this Saturday presented by Felt Club…