London-based illustrator, designer and photographer Allan Deas has got a thing for boobs and dicks and he isn’t afraid to put them in his artwork. Solid blocks of color and a strong sense of humor define his work. How could you not love a giant dick sea monster?
“MY NAME IS ANDRES GUZMAN AND I LOVE CREATING AND LEARNING. I WAS BORN NOVEMBER 27TH 1986 IN LIMA, PERU AND ARRIVED IN THE UNITED STATES WHEN I WAS 6 YEARS OLD. I’M FROM DENVER, COLORADO AND NOW I AM A SENIOR AT THE MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN IN MINNESOTA. I WILL GRADUATE IN 2009 WITH A DEGREE IN ILLUSTRATION. I LOVE TO PAINT, DRAW, DESIGN, SKATEBOARD, SNOWBOARD, EAT, AND MAKE MUSIC.”
Great illustration work. Thank you so much for the link Micah.
Amazing graffiti work from big-time graff artist Trans 1. Awesome work. I love looking through black book sketches.
A bizarre but fascinating blend of eroticism and war in the paintings of Hu Ming.
There is some nice illustration work on display in the blog of Joh Del. I love the cootie catcher above.
It is going to take me a while to get the images of the sculptural pieces in Patricia Piccinini’s latest exhibit at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery out of my mind. Fantastic yet incredibly disturbing at the same time. Especially with the use of small children. Bizarre and awesome.
Wow. Just flat out amazing drawings, illustrations and paintings and all manner of absolutely wild artwork from Keith Thompson. What an imagination and what a talent to bring that imagination to life in so many forms.
I believe I may have written about him before but German artist and illustrator Mario Wagner creates some really interesting photo collages that have landed him on the pages of Juxtapoz.
Michael Wandelmaier is an illustrator and graphic designer who currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Though formally trained as a civil engineer and geologist, Michael has chosen to pursue a career in the arts. He uses both traditional and digital media in his work.
“Using digital technology, graphic designer Hans Weishäupl has carefully reconstructed portraits of 13 dictators over the past 100 years. However, the photo montages, which measure 1.8 m x 2.3 m do not contain a single piece of original picture material, but are made of countless tiny, specially shot portraits of the citizens of the country the dictator ruled over. Christian Lechelt and Hans Weishäupl photographed over 350 people between November 2007 and March 2008, in Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Dresden, Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam, Moscow, Belgrade, London, Barcelona, Paris and Milan.
The portrait of Hitler is made up of 37 people. His nose belongs to an estate agent from Berlin, his upper lip is from a locksmiths in Dresden, and so on. Each wrinkle, each mole, each eyebrow was reconstructed to resemble the original.”
Wow.
The first volume of what I can only assume will be the first of several Gig Posters Coloring book has been released and is available for an incredibly reasonable 10 bucks. Can’t beat that with a stick.
“NEL is a platform for experimentation formed by an evolving collective of Mexican designers. The collective, founded in 2004, serves as a channel to create and exhibit projects that focus on the conceptual and playful side of design. The organic nature of the collective allows for an ever changing pool of designers, which in turn generates a wide variety of projects that range from political statements to playful storytelling or aesthetic explorations.
The current members of NEL are Ricardo Casas (1979), Alejandro Castro (1983), Héctor Esrawe (1968), Emiliano Godoy (1974) and Cecilia León de la Barra (1975).”
Great conceptual work.
I really really like the collage and illustration work from Lisa Congdon. Excellent work. You can visit her home website or just skip straight ahead to her work on her Flickr page.
Las Hermanas are Lisa and Janelle Iglesias, the youngest of 4 daughters and second generation Americans. They used to share a studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn but they recently received an upcoming 6 month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris through the lower Manhattan cultural council for October 2008 through March 2009.
Really interesting work.
I am really really digging this piece created for the Illustrative 08 exhibition by Julien Vallee. Really really clever. The more of Vallee’s work that I see the more completely taken I am. He just keeps getting better and his work is so strikingly original.
You can learn a little more about Illustrative 08 here.
