Italian fine artist, graphic designer and typographer Tommaso Guerra likes nothing better than a bit of pavement chalk lettering when he’s not creating signage for restaurants and businesses around the world.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Miniscule, highly detailed illustrations by Cape Town based artist Lorraine Loots.
Rendered with fine tipped pencil, teensy paintbrush and magnifying glass, her series, 365 Postcards for Ants is the continuation of an illustration-a-day project, started in 2013.
Aladdin Sane, The Man Machine, Thriller and Country Life by Kamil Bialogryzywy – the first installment of an ongoing series.
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The spectacular hand-carved marble and bronze neoclassical sculptures of Armagh-born artist Kevin Francis Gray – anonymous, veiled depictions of the street folk he encounters near his London studio.
Gray’s work is currently on display at Pace Gallery in London
Moon Rabbit – the latest giant animal installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman (he of the 14m tall rubber duck that sailed into Hong Kong harbour last summer).
Gazing skyward, propped up on the side of a military bunker at Dayuan Town Naval Base in Taiwan, the plywood and styrofoam bunny covered in 12,000 sheets of Tyvek paper, was inspired the East Asian fable of a giant rabbit that lives on the moon.
Sadly, Moon Bunny caught fire and was destroyed while being disassembled by local workers yesterday.
Mmf.
Of his upcoming show dealing with mental health issues on Friday the 19th of September at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway, graffitoi artist FACT writes: .
I have suffered from mental health in the past and the aim of the show is to highlight some of the issues i experienced and give an insight into mental health. With the show i want to help break down the stigma attached to mental health, inspire people to tell their story in their own way and in particular inspire young people
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Porcelain dishes and dinnerware overrun with hand-pained ants by German artist Evelyn Bracklow – a collaboration between the Riksmuseum in the Netherlands and Etsy, where she sells them.
Calvinist street art in Portland.
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Brazilian street artists Os Gemeos contribution to the Vancouver Biennale: six 21m tall silos on Granville Island transformed into the giant figures that have become the duo’s trademark. The indiegogo-funded project (their largest to date) took a full month to complete.
Oh, oh, they could do Bolands Mill. Or the Diageo booze missiles.
Someone should organise that.
Above: Viggo Mortensen and Natalie Portman; Joey and Ross; Audrey Tautou; Christopher Walken and Tom Cruise; Christian Bale; Dwayne Johnson and Jim Carrey; Mel Gibson and Bruce Lee.