Dominic Wilcox was born in Sunderland and educated at Edinburgh College of Art. After obtaining a degree in Visual Communication he spent time in Japan before returning to England to undertake an MA at the Royal College of Art in the renowned Design Product course led by Ron Arad. He is a ‘thinking’ artist whose work is always highly conceptual blending pop culture, satire and politics seamlessly into new art forms.
Whoah. Not entirely sure what is going on here but I am entirely sure that it’s awesome. This was crafted by the aspiring minds behind Super Bien.
Steve Seeley struck a special cord with me considering my longstanding fetish for all things He-Man. I actually have my original Castle Greyskull sitting on my new desk in our studio. So when I dropped in on Seeley’s work at The Delicate Matter I was immediately made a fan when I saw the above image and the addition of the bear’s head only managed to up the volume level on the awesome dial. Seeley paints in acrylic and it doesn’t stop at He-Man and bear heads. Might I also recommend looking into his Creature Project as well. Ok, I guess I just did recommend it. So there.
It’s been a really long time since I dropped in on the work fo Travis Millard at Fudge Factory Comics. I met him a really long time ago at a show in Denver and was impressed by how nice of a guy he was. He just keeps on rolling with some of the funnest, funniest and smartest doodles around and there are few things better than one of his zines. I just punched in his URL today out of curiosity and was once again impressed by his unique work.
Illustrator Jasper Goodall sat down for a moment during the Sydney leg of the Semi-Permanent event this year to talk about his work, his inspirations and his experience. He will also be speaking at the Brisbane Semi-Permanent event in early June.
Founder and Creative Director of Staple Design & Reed Space, Jeff Staple sits down and talks, no BS with internationally known graffiti artist Futura.
Anecdotal story: Futura’s studio is really close to Lifelongfriendshipsociety and last time I was there I stopped into his store and picked up a shirt and a crewneck sweatshirt for something like 20 bucks. Both are still two of the coolest shirts I own. Totally made my day at the time.
Artist and illustrator Alex Lukas has a fascinating portfolio that mixes all kinds of strange things like apocalyptic art collages and comic book style art and illustration. Just when you think you might have figured him out you click on something else and voila, more talent is exposed. You can also purchase some of his prints at Cantab Publishing.
Born in Concrete is the artwork of Vancouver based Derek Stenning. His focus is on astronauts, flight and sci-fi and he puts an enormous amount of work into crafting his highly detailed visions of an alternate reality.
Moonassi artist statement:
“I draw something I’d like to draw and I can draw well. I draw people because that’s what I’d like to talk about. I prefer to draw in a small scale as I wish to capture my everyday thoughts and feelings during a limited time of the day. If I think I want to touch you my drawing reflects that thought. I draw an act that I’m upsetting you if
I think I want to distress you.
The reason why these ephemeral and scattered thoughts are so significant for me is that I can see myself as a tiny fraction like those thoughts, and also I’m the collection of those fractions. I’m the mundane being, a sort of dust everywhere. I’m anyone or anything in anywhere. I want to sweep and gather all those tiny little fractions on paper so as not to be scattered.”
The drawings of Moonassi are absolutely divine. I could only imagine how a large series of them would look hanging in a gallery. Beautifully contemplative work.
“XimeraLabs is an ongoing archive collecting freeform and self-initiated work that lives outside the client brief: sketches, visual experiments, remixes, design tests, etc…”
The recently relaunched site serves as the personal playground of designer Tom Muller.
Wow, I am really digging some of the recent work of Polish illustrator Raphael Vicenzi A.K.A. My Dead Pony. You can check out his work at his website (which I have featured before) but you can also see some more recent uploads in his Behance portfolio.
“Final Decline & Total Collapse is a series of 50 posters dealing with themes of loss and decline through the image of antiquated chairs from bygone eras.”
Illustrator Anthony Gerace is responsible for this collection of images that I had no choice to post because of my love of print, illustration and vintage furniture. Ace.
“From the Latin “venter” meaning belly.
Ventral is fifty percent of the visual cortex, associated with object recognition and form representation. Connected to the brains’ limbic system, it elicits emotive stimulation throughout the body.
For all the times you get that feeling of warm, golden uncertainty in your belly.”
Ventral is an artist currently based in Leeds. You can view work via the Ventral website, Flickr or the blog.
I have taken a much more profound interest in interior spaces and how people, especially creative people choose to express themselves within their living and work spaces. So I was pretty excited to stumble upon The Selby where you can take a peek at the work and living spaces of people like Philippe Starck (whom I love), Karl Lagerfeld and Stephen Powers aka ESPO (whom you can see in the image above).
Soft subtle, hues, scenes and tones blend in the dream sequence images gathered up by photographer Brigitte Heinsch.
Sex, art, surrealism, trompe l’oeil, violence and consumerism all slam together in the pop realist meets surrealist paintings of Swiss artist Till Rabus and there are moments of sheer brilliance happening in the mixto-art-soup that looks absolutely delicious. It’s rare that the word fabulous is apropos but alas here we are.
The people behind The Brighton Freak Show followed up informing us they had posted a video about the show detailing their efforts and explaining why they wanted to host the exhibition. They also sent a link to a Flickr page where you can see some images of both the work, the process and the end result. It was nice to see such comprehensive coverage of the event. I just wish we could have been there.
“CitID is a project were designers and artists from around the world are encouraged to create a visual interpretation of the city closest to their heart. CitID is a non-commercial project. Our motivation is to create a one-of-a-kind library of designs that will inspire and hopefully create a better understanding of the world we live in.”
This looks like it could be an interesting project that could eventually make for an inspirational book. Submit something from your city today. I am thinking about putting something up for Denver at some point.
