Three designs for the cases of Penguin audiobooks by Indian illustrator Talha Nazim depicting Shakespeare, Twain and Wilde as if ready – headphone style – to whisper the text directly into the listener’s ears.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Sacred Space by London based artist (and former computer technician) Leonardo Ulian is a series of artworks inspired by the meditative depictions of the cosmos in Hinduism and Buddhism.
From flat geometric patterns to the miniature tree sculpture entitled Centrica Bonsai, all are made from soldered-together defunct radio and computer components of which Ulian sez:
“We live in a society that worships electronic technology,” he states “both for necessity but also because it makes us feel better, not unlike its own new form of fashionable spirituality.”
Sacred Space is currently on exhibitiion at the Beers Contemporary Gallery in London.
An exhaustively researched (currently in its fifth iteration with future updates including Dune and Mass Effect planned) fictional spaceship size comparison chart by German digital artist Dirk Loechel featuring craft of all descriptions from Star Wars, Warhammer, Babylon5, Star Trek, Wall-E, Serenity, Farscape, Silent Running, Independence Day, AvP, Battlestar Galactica and dozens more.
Link to gob-smackingly massive version here.
UPDATE: Still not sufficiently sated by the rocket-scaling above? Check out Jeff Russel’s Starship Dimensions – an entire site dedicated to this sort of thing.
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What Will You Leave Behind? is a thought-provoking if slightly morbid exhibition by artist Nino Sarabutra in which visitors are invited to walk barefoot on 100,000 miniature porcelain skulls in a room decorated with skull-covered pillows, chairs and a table and heart-shaped wall-hangings with exhortations like ‘act now’ and ‘do today’. Sarabutra sez:
“I don’t see the skulls as images of fear or sadness. They are liberating: look at all the opportunities, all the lives you could live, how serious your life is. Then go out and make the most of it.”
A deliciously hideous Chilled Monkey Brains chocolate cake by Bubble And Sweet inspired by the feast scene from Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom.
Full instructables here.
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The Fallen: 9000 sand stencils on the D-Day landing beach of Arromanche in Normandy: a collaboration between British artists Andy Moss and Jamie Wardle of Sand In Your Eye (along with hundreds of volunteers who turned up from all over the world to help) in honour of last Saturday’s International Day of Peace.
It does not propose to be a celebration or condemnation, simply a statement of fact and tribute to life and its premature loss.
Each stencil (all of which were washed away by the tide within hours of completion) represents one of the 9000 Allied and German troops and French civilians who died on June 6th 1944.
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Using ballpoint pens, Jonathan Bréchignac makes large scale drawings of intricately designed Muslim prayer mats. Each one takes about eight months to complete, and Bréchignac believes them to be:
…a “noble” subject for a series of large illustrations meant, by their very nature, to be meditative. “Repeating the same pattern over and over again works for me like a mantra,” he says. “It’s my technique of meditation. It’s how I empty my mind.”