Pottery is the oldest known human handicraft, dating back 10,000 years to the Neolithic period. In these prehistoric times, lifestyles in the Middle East and Africa were transitioning from nomadic hunters and gatherers to farmers who put down roots and planted crops. This was long before hoses or irrigation systems were available and yet farmers [...]
Using only her hands as tools, Orly Genger knots industrial rope into monumental sculptural installations that take over both indoor and outdoor spaces. After studying fine arts at Brown University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she became obsessed with the process of working with her hands, directly with materials, and contradicting [...]
Amber Byrne Mahoney is a New York-based photographer that has shot for the likes of Refinery29, Alternative Press Magazine, Worn Magazine, Hello Giggles, The Impossible Project, Brightest Young Things and many, many more. While her latest editorial for Worn Magazine, featuring Gaby Cetrulo, is so dreamy and beautiful, it is her insanely gorgeous polaroid outtakes [...]
Wallpaper Magazine asked Fort Standard to design a piece for their Handmade Exhibition in Milan. What did they decide to make? A survival kit, of course. Calling it “Life is Precious”, they set out to design a kit which looked and felt as important as its contents. Fort Standard’s design became largely about the packaging as it needed to [...]
If you can’t actually transport yourself to California at this very moment, Harper Smith’s photography is the next best thing. Her dreamy California-scapes are at once romantic, nostalgic, poetic, and still gritty and grimey. Hailing from the dusty midwest, Harper studied photojournalism and went on to photograph some of the biggest names in music, including [...]
Bohemian chic style seems to be going nowhere and lately we’ve been seeing a new spin on floral headdresses. Wearing flowers in your hair is tricky business and can go from cool to cheesy fast, so for this look you’re not gonna want any old daisy chain. We found a DIY recipe for floral wreaths on [...]
I was browsing The Impossible Project for some film last night and happened upon the “Make Your Mark” project. I love the idea of a polaroid being the perfect canvas for expression, doodles, words and drawings. See all of the submissions here, but a good sampling below. I dare you not to smile while looking [...]
Kaye Blegvad is an illustrator, designer, and general maker-of-things. Born and raised in London, she studied illustration at the University of Brighton, moved to NYC shortly after, and has spent the majority of her time between the two cities ever since. Besides making rad drawings, Kaye has tried her hand at every creative pursuit she [...]
Black was one of the first colors used by artists in neolithic cave paintings. It became the color of mourning during the Roman Empire, and over the centuries was frequently associated with death, evil, witches and magic. If black is in fact the lack of color, New York artist Banks Violette uses it to symbolize [...]
Publishing behemoth Condé Nast, owner of the one-and-only Vogue, recently launched its very own fashion school in London, the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design. Given that Vogue more or less controls global fashion, it seems only right that the publishing giant who produces it should also have its own fashion school. Launching with a ten week [...]
Olivia Malone was born and raised on the East Side of Los Angeles and now divides her time between LA and living in New York City. Her photography explores the transitions between youth and adulthood, emphasizing the period where freedom and independence define the essence of youth’s unabashed allure. Though her client list is impressive, [...]
For her photography series, She Can Leap Tall Buildings, artist Heidi Lender posed wearing a black wig (along with the occasional prop) in front of varied black graphic backgrounds, representing all the different roles women take on. Her series is inspired by her own mother and all the hats she wore in Lender’s life. We found her work to be apropos, [...]
Before pixels, computers and CGI, there was Ray Harryhausen – the individual responsible for bringing monsters to the big screen and making you want to be the hero. Harryhausen was a true master and pioneer of visual effects including stop motion filming and life-like scale models that graced theater screens around the world. Some of [...]
Spewing her 6×6″ canvas with wax only to refine the clean simple lines with a delicate coating of paint, Cindy Neuschwander cooly tailors her abstract piece to kindly meet the eye. Take a step back and watch a collection of 15 similar pieces come to fit perfectly together, with the alluring use of lines and [...]
We fell for Mel Kadel’s drawings the instant we saw them. Born in Pennsylvania in 1973, she has been living and working in Los Angeles for the last 12 years, composing chimerical pen and ink drawings on antiqued paper. Her mostly female characters are drawn fastidiously and often included warm patterns that layer or twist on top [...]
Clouds are about to spread over California. This is dirty meets pretty. Black on High is a Brooklyn takeover of Hollywood featuring the dark and gritty work of Alexander Heir, Jess Poplawski, Dilek Baykara, Tamara Santibanez and Othelo Gervacio, who will be showcasing a new body of work based off his childhood obsession with magic. This clan [...]
We’ve heard it our whole lives, “Don’t play with your food!”, but good thing Malaysian artist/architect Hong Yi (who also often goes by the nickname Red) decided not to listen. Yi spent the month of March creating a recent project, with one photo a day and her parameters being simple: the image had to be comprised entirely [...]
Kapil Bhagat is Mumbai-based artist who recently created a typography series for India’s National Science Day. His series piques the interest of both art lovers and science nerds alike. Bhagat’s project celebrates the discoveries of renowned figures like Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton with unique typographical designs crafted just for them. Newton’s tribute, for example, shows the letter [...]
When you first see the work of Massachusetts-based artist Walton Ford, you might quickly be mistaken for the pages of an illustrated natural history textbook. That’s his point exactly. Ford uses watercolors to create larger-than-life paintings influenced by the style of John James Audubon, the French-American (1785-1851) and other similar artists from the Naturalist Illustration [...]
Jonathan Levitt posts his photographs on a magical blog called Grassdoe. He documents his home state of Maine with its rocky coast, its forests, farms and homes along with his acquaintances that reside within them. What makes his photography so unique and interesting to me is his eye for shadows and darkness. Overcast days layered with [...]
We’re excited to announce the release of the second issue of our biannual print magazine, Human Being Journal. Issue 2 includes work by contributing photographers Charlie Engman, Ashley Florence, William Godwin, Matt Licari, Olivia Malone, Duy Nguyen and Harper Smith, along with 192 pages of 9 species, 1 haiku, 5 colors, 2 paper stocks, 9 [...]
Adrian Morris does it all and does it all so well. The photographer, illustrator, graphic designer and painter currently resides in London but his work documents travels from the far reaches of Sri Lanka to New York City. I really admire people who have an interest in a number of mediums and can truly execute [...]
Shibori is a Japanese term for several methods of resist-dyeing cloth to make a pattern by binding, folding, twisting and compressing, from the verb root shiboru meaning to wring, squeeze, press. There are an infinite number of ways to manipulate fabric for shibori, each way resulting in different resist designs and patterns. Various forms of [...]
Amy Troost is an Ontario-born, New York-based fashion photographer. She has quickly found a voice of her own among the newest generation of fashion photographers with images that are fluid, feminine, sophisticated, and effortlessly provocative. First introduced to photography by a friend, Amy has gone on to establish her signature style through self-taught techniques. In addition to shooting editorials [...]
“Pat Perry is from Michigan and is committed to real things”, declares the Info section of the artist’s website. And Pat’s time working with the National Park Service on a residency in Katmai National Park, Alaska appears to be as real and as authentic of an experience that one can commit themselves to. While in [...]
Trevor Triano is a photographer based out of Aspen, Colorado and New York City. Equally skilled at capturing dramatic, wide landscapes as he is at capturing quiet, close up moments with people and objects, I found myself very drawn to Trevor’s diverse body of work. I think that he especially has a great eye when [...]
For our native Richmond art lovers, Chihuly has come and gone at the newly renovated Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. But the VMFA isn’t stopping there. As they continue to bring outstanding exhibits to our great city, they give us the gift of the late American painter, Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004). Wesselman is greatly recognized as [...]
Olivia Larrain Heiremans is an excellent photographer from Santiago, Chile. Her photographs are very nice and she has a great eye for light. But, I think that my favorite part about her portfolio is that she organized her photographs by color. I found it to be a uniquely clever way to display one’s work and [...]
Jen Zahigian is a photographer currently living and working in Southern California, though looking at her work, you might guess its from the 1950s. Per her bio, she loves to photograph America’s worn-out, offbeat, and forgotten corners with California’s highway establishments and their signage being her primary subject. We think her color-saturated and heavily-retro prints [...]
Dan Zvereff is an all around rad creative and skateboarder. I first caught wind of him from Patrik Wallner‘s skate/travel video series, Visualtraveling, that explores developing areas of the world through the vehicle of skateboarding. When I discovered Dan’s personal work, I was immediately drawn to how he was documenting his trips. With a mix of [...]
Seetal Solanki is a graduate of Central St Martins and since graduating 10 years ago she has spent her time honing her skills as a textile printer. She has freelanced for loads of studios and created collections for numerous high street retailers. Her client list includes Topshop, New Look, Zara, All Saints, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, [...]
Alana Paterson splits her year between working on organic farms in the Northwest and traveling the world photographing for companies such as Lifetime Collective and Norse Projects. Her unique lifestyle results in a great blend of subject matter that I’ve been really into following from the concrete of Burnside to the top of mountains.
One of our favorite places to visit, Freunde von Freunden, visited another swell place, Charleston, South Carolina and assemblage artist Hirona Matsuda. The artist lives in a forgotten and often flooded neighborhood, collecting found objects to create “miniature scenes that tell big stories” from all over the community. As you can imagine, her home and [...]
Film royalty (and real life first cousins) Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman conspired with YouTube virtuoso Graydon Sheppard of “Sh*t Girls Say” fame to create the above video. The quick-witted love letter features the two cousins bantering on about love and obsession in six-second vignettes shot on iPhones and inspired by Twitter’s new mobile app, Vine.
The names Christo and Jeanne-Claude are certainly not unfamiliar ones in the art world. Together, the two have draped more fabric across the global landscape than you could possibly imagine. Take their 1984-1991 installation in Japan and the US entitled “Umbrellas,” where large, temporary umbrellas were installed on inland valleys to represent similarities between the [...]
Jordan Bruner is a illustrator and visual artist based out of Brooklyn. Her work has been described as being full of ”whimsy and intellect” and we think that is pretty apt. She has appeared in galleries around the world, been nominated for an Emmy, is sought after by bands and filmmakers for music videos and graphic [...]
For more than 35 years, riders on the New York City transit system were graced with posters of beaming young women. While the women featured in each poster — all New Yorkers — were billed as “average girls,” they were also beauty queens of sorts in the nation’s first integrated beauty contest: Miss Subways. The [...]
According to the bio on her website, “Shae Acopian DeTar is a life-long artist and style devotee that has of late focused her unique aesthetic on film and digital photography. For the past 3.5 years she has built a reputation for her whimsical, hand painted photos”. According to us, the bicoastal artist is a megababe [...]
Illustrator Rachel Levit was born and raised in Mexico City, studied at Parsons the New School of Design and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She’s got numerous illustrations awards and achievements under her belt, both American and Mexican given, and it’s not hard to see why. Rachel’s style is often described as nostalgic, [...]
Established last year by French artists Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Egry, Études is a mix of menswear staples with a streetwear sensibility featuring innovative uses of prints, dyes and patterns. The Études Studio also boasts a publishing house and creative services, functioning as an art collective and clothing line based in both Paris and New York. [...]
Shawn Huckins is a New Englander able to find the funny in a status update and making very cool paintings combining a bit of pop-cultural humor and post-modern theory. In his series An American Revolution Revolution, Shawn “explores 18th century American painting and portraiture in context of 21st century lexicons – facebook status updates, tweets, texting [...]
Photographer Joni Sternbach combines two things we love: tintype and looking at surfers. Tintype is a developing process that first appeared in the 1850s and peaked in popularity in the US during the Civil War. To create tintype images, a very underexposed negative image is produced on a thin iron plate, lacquered or otherwise darkened, [...]
Instead of the title of “designer,” Alessandro Mendini should be given the title of investigative designer, for what he discovered and revealed easily made him one of the most influential designers of our time. With several international awards under his belt (the Compasso d’oro in 1979 and ’82 as well as an honorary title from [...]
I’m always looking for new ways to display my favorite magazines (like any of these ones over here) and this DIY from Annaleenas Hem is the perfect way to show off covers that are too beautiful to be sitting in stacks.
Located on a unique projection of land in Region Nordjulland on the northernmost tip of the Vendsyssel-Thy, a part of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark, lies the quaint town of Skagen. Skagen, also referred to as “The Scaw”, is picturesque and noted for its iconic Scandinavian architecture, yellow houses with red tile roofs settled perfectly [...]
Beautiful photos by Claire Cottrell. She also has the online bookstore (plus tumblr!) of my dreams.
As soon as Jacky Tsai created his iconic floral skull pieces for Alexander McQueen, people started to notice. And they should. Tsai’s incredible attention to detail and construction would impress even the greats of the art world. Born in Shanghai, Tsai moved to London after finishing his BA at the China Academy of Art to study [...]
It’s a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning and we can’t help but be thankful for spring. Take your cup of coffee outside today, as we take some time to appreciate a small, unassuming perk of the season that we’ve been missing for quite some many months: flowers. A love for the simple beauty of flowers has [...]
Ana Kraš was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1984. After graduating from the University Of Applied Arts in Belgrade she immigrated to the United States and very quickly began to be recognized for her unique and personalized design work. We first learned about Ana from her large and colorful hand-woven lanterns that she calls “Bonbons“, but [...]
