Category Archives: Art/Craft

‘Exodus’ by French paper artists Zim & Zou: an armada of magnificent flying dirigibles – each one hand made, with its own unique geometries of form and colour built up from cut and stacked paper.

They also sell them, if you’re of a mind.

colossal

Excerpts from the Instagram account Royalty Now created by graphic designer Becca Saladi.

To wit: historical figures digitally reimagined as if they were modern folk.

From top: Alexander The Great, Nefertiti, Napoleon, Mary Queen Of Scots, Louis XV, Agrippa, Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Caligula and Anne Boleyn.

Previously: The Absolute Spit

mymodernmet

‘Bombs’ – a limited edition offset lithograph print by Ai Weiwei featuring ’50 conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction developed by a number of countries’.

Yours for about €680 (+P&P).

hypoallergenic

“Piccalilli Moths” by Australian/Finnish illustrator and Graphic designer Vlad Stankovic – twinkling fluttering scenes of moths, larvae and flora commissioned as artworks for a restaurant in Culver City, California.

Rendered here as gifs, each piece was created in watercolour and pencil, transferred to Photoshop, then printed using a lenticular process that confers the illusion of depth and movement when viewed from different angles.

Previously: A Probing Expression

colossal