From the unfortunately named but otherwise productivity-sappingly excellent Tumblr Jim’ll Paint It wherein folk request the cartoon depiction of bizarre imaginary scenes and jim obliges.
Above: ‘Tony the Tiger is dead’; ‘Alan Davies, pickled onion impersonator’; ‘ Tragic Roundabout’; ‘Madonna drying out cigarette ends under a hand drier in the ladies toilets in Wetherspoons’ and ‘ Morrissey Ruins Christmas’.
Alon Hetzroni’s short film about the hand-setting, printing and binding of Pointe Shoes, a book of verse and illustrations by Israeli poet Ronny Someck.
A bespoke production by book artist Ido Agassi that results in a print run of just 88 copies.
Los Intocables (The Untouchables): artworks by Argentina-based Cuban artist Erik Ravelo, featuring children crucified on the backs of child persecutors (of one stripe or another).
The images are part of the ‘provocative’ Benetton sponsored UNHATE campaign started in 2011.
Above: Japan, Priest, Thailand, Syria, Brazil, USA and McDonalds
(Thanks Stephen Schwartz)
The work of Stamatis Laskos, a 29 year-old street artist from Athens whose wonderfully unhinged portraits of his friends (along with other folk and occasionally animals) adorns walls all over Greece.
Databased pages from the one existing copy of a 1692 book entitled Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau by a Dutch artist known only as A. Boogert.
Housed at The Bibliothèque Méjanes at Aix-en-Provence in France, the book’s 700+ handwritten handpainted pages are a guide to creating just about every conceivable tone, hue and tint of watercolour known at the time, 271 years before its modern-day descendent, the Pantone Guide (1963)
A Colourful Book (Erik Kwakkel)
Previously: Six Books In One
The two opening salvos in a video series from Delve addressing misplaced connections between creativity and success.
Late starters, losers, rejects, also-rans, directionless 30 year-olds, take heart – there’s hope for us all.
Kidding.
We had our chance, it’s over.
Kidding.
Inspired by 3D pavement art, New Zealand artists Jamie Harkins, Lucia Lupf, David Rendu, and Constanza Nightingale muck about on the beaches of Mount Maunganui.
More here.
The most overused cliché of the day usefully organised into alphabetical order here.
A nifty festival headliner-themed promotional typographic for Visit Dublin by illustrator Steve Simpson.
(Thanks Amanda at In The Company Of Huskies)
Pop culture carved deftly into crayons then painstakingly coloured with wax melted from other crayons then offered to you, the discerning wax-crayon-sculpted-popculture-mini-figurine aficionado, by Etsy seller Hoang Tran.
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