I have to admit, I never know what to expect with online art and design magazines but I was really surprised by the quality of the work and the curating by the editors of Digital Temple Magazine. It’s a great flip through and there is some really spectacular work for both design and photography there that is ready to inspire. It was nice to see some artistic nudity and some racier work as well that isn’t afraid to go out on the edge. It is liberating to see artists being unafraid to express themselves and not being censored as a result.
Geoff McFetridge has finally launched an official website that chronicles some of his work at Champion Don’t Stop. A lot of people have been waiting a long time for him to gather some of his work on an actual site and here it is.
If you want to see the images larger, be sure to click the ‘download’ button.
Ben Lawson is a unique individual who defies explanation. I love people like that. I can’t say it better than he does himself so I may as well let his own words do the talking:
“I kicked around as a physicist and engineer for many years before becoming an artist and I’ve done some pretty random things in between including finding squirrels for Rumanian TV and reporting on nuclear terrorism for the Japanese government.
Much of my work describes a fascination with scientific illustration, the antiquarian imagination and the blurring between the real and the obviously not true.
I live beyond the borders of the Roman Empire with my wife and 4 year old son in Newcastle upon Tyne.”
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The brilliant and amazing Sam Weber recently updated his site with a lot of new work. It is all spectacular as always and he continues to be my favorite illustrator of the moment. Gorgeous work. All of it.
“An organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers. Constructed of carbon glass, spanning over four meters, and containing more than 65 kilometers of fiber optics, the Cloud encourages visitors to touch and interact with information in new ways, manifesting emotions and behavior through sound and a dichotomy of luminescence and darkness.
Located in downtown Florence outside the Fortezza da Basso. the Cloud is part of the “Redesigning Fashion Trade Shows” project that Pitti Immagine launched with MIT Mobile Experience Lab in January 2007. It is a long-term project that will creatively rethink the trade show concept and will propose innovative technologies, perspectives and sensory experiences for fashion trade shows.”
There is some pretty tasty stuff in the newest issue of online art ‘e-magazine’ IdeaFixa. You have to create a free account to login and flip through it but there is always quality work in it and it’s always an inspirational flip-through. Buy the ticket and take the ride if you catch my drift.
I wrote about Ronald Kurniawan on my last blog but that was a long time back and he has updated with some really spectacular new work that is bursting with vibrant color.
Here is his bio from his site as I am too lazy to rewrite it:
“Ronald Kurniawan graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Inspired by ideograms, syllables, letterforms, beasts and heroic landscapes, he slowly but surely continues to create a visual language where the wilderness and civilization could merge happily together. With the belief that the sublime and nuclear age could coexist, he paints romantic environments and breaks the quiet scene with juxtaposed imagery taking the shape of icons and letterforms. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he paints meticulously and happily accompanied by his pug Ruffles, an avid artist himself.”
Dan Tobin Smith is another highly talented individual that I was certain I had written about but hadn’t. His work is almost hard to describe because he is so talented at so many different things. His primary emphasis is photography but he has some exceptional art on his website as well. It’s all good though and it’s all inspiring.
To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t a big fan of Anthony Lister’s work when it first hit the artistic airwaves. I thought it was kind of gimmicky and the kind of tongue-in-cheek pop culture low brow superheroes and monsters kind of thing that I am not always a big fan of. I am just being honest. I guess that is a little hypocritical for me to say though since I was pretty into that scene for a while before I did a 180 back into graphic design and typography.
Since then, I have been keeping up on him and now I have to say he is winning me over. There is something going on in his work under the surface that serves as an ironic social commentary on the mental state of America. I like that a lot. I am also a die hard fan of any and all things Francis Bacon and there is a link between Lister’s work and Bacon. I like that a lot too.
I have to first apologize outright for never having posted anything about Dan Mumford. I can swear I thought I had already. His work is really exceptional and I am a huge fan of his illustrations. His use of color and the amount of detail he manages to pull in his screenprints is stunning.
Johan Lorbeer is a German street performer who has become famous over the last few years for his impromptu and seemingly impossible street ‘still life’ performances. He stands in a relaxed state suspended as if on an invisible platform above the street as onlookers crowd around him. As far as I can tell he doesn’t really talk to anyone although he does look at the crowd. His refusing to verbally communicate with the crowd heightens the anticipation of what is happening and sometimes inspires people to reach out and touch him just to confirm what they are seeing is real. It’s an interesting idea and I am always a fan of anything that inspires people to wonder. Even if it is only for a moment. If you can spark people’s imagination you have reminded them they are alive. I love that.
You can read see a brief video of one of his performances, see more images and read more about him here.
