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A New Year, An Awesome Book, and the Candy-O-Matic…

By Katherine • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Books and Magazines, Drawings, Illustration, Print design, Recent Posts, Reviews, Traditional Art

For whatever reason, there comes a point when our logic and experiences take over. To put it frankly: our internal grown-up wins the war against our imagination. Which brings me to just a few words about an amazing book, rather, an awesome book, as in: An Awesome Book by Dallas Clayton.



From The Shooting Range

By Katherine • Dec 28th, 2008 • Category: Design Ethics, Industrial Design, Product Design, Recent Posts, Sustainable Design

These little personalities are part of Rachel Pfeffer’s Bullet Buddies collection. Each Bullet Buddy is unique labored over until it obtains its own form and expression.



OCDD…Andrea Joseph’s illustrating super power

By Katherine • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Drawings, Illustration, Recent Posts, Traditional Art

Coming across this work, I just had to share. UK based artist Andrea Joseph shows her talents in her remarkable illustrations mostly of everyday objects and a few creative interpretations.



19 Amazing Playing Cards from Around the World

By Katherine • Dec 13th, 2008 • Category: Illustration, Industrial Design, Print design, Recent Posts, Reviews, Traditional Art

A comprehensive list of the most creative playing cards from around the world gathered in one place.



Space Face and Blubber…Stirring Imagery by David Prosser

By Katherine • Nov 27th, 2008 • Category: Illustration, Recent Posts, Traditional Art

Though not much can be found about this artist, David Prosser’s illustrations are certainly stirring, filled with expression and quirky details to intrigue.

[Images from: http://ilikepencils.blogspot.com/]



15 Mysteriously Inspirational Images

By Katherine • Nov 25th, 2008 • Category: Drawings, Illustration, Painting, Photography, Print design, Recent Posts, Traditional Art

A list of some intriguing artists and their inspirational work.



David Sims Unites Color and Form

By Katherine • Nov 9th, 2008 • Category: Fashion Photography, Photography, Recent Posts

Yet another post on fashion photography (sorry to those who don’t enjoy looking at it as much as I do). I’ve always been a fan of the Benetton ads. There’s just something about the clean images with the bold colors that grabs your attention. After seeing one of their ads in a magazine, I was [...]



Hedi Slimane: High Fashion, Hard Edge

By Katherine • Nov 8th, 2008 • Category: Designers, Fashion, Fashion Photography, Photography, Recent Posts

A recent issue of V Magazine featured photographs by designer and photographer Hedi Slimane. He is Paris-born and is accredited with a wide range of accomplishments to date, in addition, he signed with Art + Commerce in October of this year. Though there are rumors, according to New York magazine, that he is secretly planning [...]



Victoria Vesna Presents at Parsons the New School for Design

By Katherine • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Digital Art, Exhibitions, Installations, Recent Posts

Speaking on Friday (tomorrow), at 10:00 AM at the New School at Wollman Hall, 65 W 11th St., will be media artist Victoria Vesna. After doing a little more research I found her projects extremely interesting and I was actually surprised at myself that I had never heard of her prior to this circulating email [...]



Solar Sailing Super-Yachts

By Katherine • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Design Ethics, Engineering, Industrial Design, Recent Posts, Sustainable Design, Transportation Design

Super-yachts owned by super-billionaires aren’t usually thought of as being environmentally friendly. They are, first and foremost, symbols of in-your-face wealth, (and, in some cases, possibly signs of having to compensate for something.) But a new interest in making sea transportation energy efficient has been emerging.
CNN’s article,  “Solar sails could turn super-yachts green”, points out [...]