We’re pretty sure this well-worn table doesn’t need protection from coasters, but who can blame anyone for wanting to show off these letterpress numbers by Atlanta’s Red Bird Ink print shop? Printed from antique wood type, each number is hand set and hand printed onto thick card stock in the — Continue reading
Our fondness for printmaking and admiration for a great illustration make this exceptionally striking silkscreen print by Todd St. John a favorite find for anyone interested in well-priced, original art. Rings is an immediately recognizable, yet gorgeously stylized mark that references nature at its abstract best. St. John, who runs — Continue reading
New Yorkers longing for a dog that doesn’t need to be walked will want to mark their calendars for the Gerald and James project, on view during New York Design Week in May. An impressive collaborative art installation spearheaded by the UK design firm Lazerian, the Gerald and James project began — Continue reading
“As an artist I am interested in the boundaries created by form, shape, and color. This subject matter interests me because these boundaries are a metaphor for the different types of boundaries we encounter in our everyday existence.” Oregon-based artist Janet Sherman, whose work we discovered earlier this month at — Continue reading
The City of Boston wants a new public transportation map, and anyone interested in designing one is free to submit a proposal. Small problem: it doesn’t pay, and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will own the rights to all submissions. Needless to say, designers are most displeased, and with good — Continue reading
Post-digital generations in search of their roots will have a nightmarish volume of mediocre photographs and other ephemera to sift through, thanks to our preoccupation with self-documentation; imagine how many Instagrams of coffee alone to suffer through! But no such worries for anyone searching for clues to the lives of — Continue reading
The Affordable Art Fair made its annual spring appearance in New York City this weekend, and we dropped in to check out the scene and to see if maybe—just maybe—we could walk away with a little something. That, of course, is the point of the event (featuring original art priced — Continue reading
In an increasingly digitized world, collage may be the artistic medium most at risk. The components of collage—typically cut or torn printed matter—lend themselves to digital replication in ways that thick applications of oil paint or delicate washes of watercolor simply can’t. And, thanks to cheaper and more sophisticated — Continue reading
The Australian multi-disciplinary design studio cul-de-sac has just released a suite of graphic Giclée prints informed by their fondness for Mid-Century Modern aesthetics. Most of the prints benefit from a fail-safe visual device—repeating a single geometric module to form an allover pattern—resulting in hard-edged, vividly colored abstractions that would warm — Continue reading
The notion of “living in the moment” was never, we suspect, any easier when there were fields to be plowed than it is today, with tweets to be read and texts to be sent. Which may be why this big, bright typographic composition by Maine designer Christopher David Ryan caught — Continue reading
If you’re an architect, interior designer, illustrator (or just an enthusiastic bystander), try not to be completely won over by Three Houses, a temporary tattoo design by illustrator Judy Kaufmann. Created for the designer tattoo brand Tattly, the Barcelona-based Kaufmann has cleverly applied her talent for simple, stylized and colorful illustrations — Continue reading
Maybe it’s that we’re particularly attuned to the visual cues of Easter, with its accompanying subtle hues and promise of spring, but we’ve found ourselves beguiled by the still life photography of Kate Mathis. A New York-based photo stylist with a host of shelter magazine clients, Mathis specializes in creating blissfully — Continue reading
The next time you’re in New York, and find yourself baffled by its signage, take heart. That unintelligible parking sign may, in fact, be part of Rap Quotes, an ongoing project by the artist Jay Shells. Shells, who has shown a fondness for street signage in the past, has recreated — Continue reading
The Berlin-based shop Citoyennes offers a quaint and quirky selection of illlustration-based paper products and home accessories, of which this Eames-centeric wrapping paper is one. Featuring images of three famous Eames chairs and a nicely-balanced color palette, each repeat pattern sheet may just as easily be framed as a poster—though we — Continue reading
“We like to use the word handcrafted to describe our approach, which may seem odd in the digital world, but we think it speaks toward our commitment to bringing an artisan’s touch to everything we do.” No arguing with Woodhouse, a small Michigan graphic design studio, whose commitment to balancing cutting-edge — Continue reading
Our penchant for order and symmetry would never allow us to bypass the still life photography of Justin Fantl. Fantl, a commercial photographer, finds personal creative expression in, among other things, obsessively arranging mundane objects—like vitamin capsules and folded paper—into beautifully balanced compositions of color and shape. By limiting his — Continue reading
The northwest corner of Bowery and Houston Street in downtown Manhattan has become a plum site for the commissioned work of once subversive street artists. A revolving public exhibition space comprised of a single mural, the spot first gained notoriety in 1982 when Keith Haring used Day-Glo orange and his signature — Continue reading
“Geometry, like physics or mathematics, defines how our world is constructed. I find endless beauty in this construction. I see god in there.” We confess to being impressed by anyone disciplined enough to keep a daily project going for 15 months (and counting), never mind seeing God in the process. — Continue reading
“I strive to achieve an emotional feeling in my paintings, a captured time, a refined balance between simple form and a more defined visual.” The artist Jason Wright has studied both painting and graphic design, and each discipline is starkly evident in his landscape paintings. Houses reduced to their fundamental form—a roof, walls, — Continue reading
If you’re trying to avoid the color green or that other standard Irish symbol, the shamrock, you’re out of luck—for the next week, at least. But we do think the stylized shamrock that appears on these postage stamps is anything but kitsch. Issued by Ireland in 1970 to commemorate European Conservation — Continue reading
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