Joe Fenton  

London-based artist Joe Fenton creates large drawings using graphite, ink and acrylics on paper over many weeks and months.  His surreal visions examine death and the meaning of life.

Joe Fenton is a London based artist that works mainly in monochrome. His large drawings are produced using graphite, ink and acrylics on paper.

Fenton's art work is influenced by many of the early surrealists. Embracing the grotesque by his employment of Hieronymus Bosch like figures that are gangly, writhing and cramped.

Fenton also uses motifs that suggest Eastern philosophy and Middle Eastern architecture whilst maintaining a feel for European Baroque and Rococo with complex frame ornamentation and plant like details. A common theme in all his works which recurs again and again is that of death and the fear of death. The fanciful and even freakish nature of his images seem to spring from the need to distance himself from the fear while at the same time acknowledging it.

 Tony Plant  

Tony Plant is a time based, environmental artist, photographer and surf creature whose imagination stretches to the far and hidden corners of the coastline.

For over 20 years Tony Plant has made ethereal, time based works to be washed away. His works are as simple as coloured water, a track through snow, or a group of painted rocks – left for nature to absorb and passersby to discover.

These Guerrilla style installations, above and below the tidal zones of some of the most exposed coastal locations in the land, are purely ephemeral, and may be gone within a few waves, a tide or a storm, deliberately made to disappear.

  Scott Robertson  

Continuing from his boyhood obsession with soap-box racers, Scott Robertson has for years instructed artists and designers the 'drawthrough' method and continues to work in the transporation and entertainment industries developing exciting concept art and design.

Born in Oregeon, concept designer and artist, Scott Robertson grew up in the country. When he was a child, his artist father, Richard, taught him how to draw and design the toys in his imagination.

After two and a half years at Oregon State University, Scott transferred to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1986, California where his father had studied illustration.

Robertson graduated in 1990 with honors and a B.S. in Transportation Design. He then opened a consulting firm in San Francisco, where he designed a variety of consumer products, the majority being durable medical goods and sporting goods. In 1995, he began teaching at Art Center, first with a year-and-a-half stint at Art Center Europe in Vevey, Switzerland (now closed), and then in Pasadena, California.

 Urban Art  

PEACHBEACH is an art- and design collective from Berlin, made up of designers and illustrators Attila Szamosi and Lars Wunderlich.

PEACHBEACH is the collaborative project by the two designers and illustrators Attila Szamosi also known as Vidam and Lars Wunderlich a.k.a. Look. Together they realize loads of different projects in the field of urban art, illustration, graffiti, and design. —

Wunderlich is from a small town in the north-east of Germany where time runs a bit slower than the rest of the country. Drawing since he was yound, Wunderlich crashed into graffiti in his youth. Then he studied art in a small town up north. After this he started studies again, this time in Berlin and it was graphic design.

Szamosi was born in Budapest, and raised in a small town near Cologne in the west of Germany. He started drawing also really early and was always fascinated by comics and electronic dance music. After school he came to Berlin during his design internship and also to study graphic design.

 Li Hongbo  

At first glance, Beijing artist Li Hongbo's sculptures resemble typical white plaster models, but take a closer look, and pull it the true wonder of the art is revealed.

What at first look like delicate works of carved plaster are actually thousands of layers of soft white paper, carved into busts, skulls, and human forms by Beijing artist Li Hongbo.

A book editor and designer, the artist became fascinated by traditional Chinese toys and festive decorations known as paper gourds made from glued layers of thin paper which can be stored flat but then opened to reveal a flower or other shape.

He applied the same honeycomb-like paper structure to much larger human forms resulting in these highly flexible sculptures. Hongbo recently had a solo show at Dominik Mersch Gallery in Australia who made the video here, and you can see much more of his work on their website.

  Casey Reas  

Artist Casey Reas uses software code to express his thoughts—starting with a sketch, composing it in code, and witnessing the imagery that it ultimately creates. Using the software he helped to create, Reas uses color to convey emotion and movement.

F or Casey Reas, software is the most natural medium to work with. He uses code to express his thoughts—starting with a sketch, composing it in code, and witnessing the imagery that it ultimately creates.

In the video above, Reas is at work his studio where he uses color to convey emotion with his programming language Processing. —

Together with Ben Fry, he created the software while at MIT, and it is now used by thousands of artists and designers worldwide.

A former student of John Maeda, Reas is an artist whose conceptual and minimal works explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software. Reas’s software and images derive from short text instructions explaining processes that define networks.

Reas attributes his involvement in the creation of the programming language Processing to Maeda’s book, Design by Numbers however while Maeda tends to be considered a “digital” designer, he has consistently explored the boundaries—and possibilities—of varying expressive modes, from pencils to computers, and his reputation, until recently, was built on his penchant for innovative thinking and an insistence on making computation accessible to all.

 Design  

The Art of Product Design by Hardi Meybaum explains the rise of Open Engineering, a way of breaking down barriers and taking advantage of web-based communities, knowledge, and tools to accelerate the design and manufacturing processes.

Product development is a team sport, but most companies don't practice it that way. Organizations should be drawing on the creativity of engaged customers and outsiders, but instead they rely on the same small group of internal "experts" for new ideas. Designers and engineers should be connecting with marketing, sales, customer support, suppliers, and most importantly, customers. The Art of Product Design: Changing How Things Get Madeexplains the rise of "Open Engineering," a way of breaking down barriers and taking advantage of web-based communities, knowledge, and tools to accelerate the design and manufacturing processes.

The book helps explain how to establish open flows of information inside and outside an organization, increasing the quality and frequency of input from different groups and stakeholders.

 Art of Bonsai  

Kunio Kobayashi is one of the most revered bonsai masters in Japan.   Kobayashi has travelled the world teaching his art to bonsai enthusiasts, and  operates the Syunkaen Bonsai museum in Tokyo.

Kunio Kobayashi is revered in Japan as a master of the art of bonsai. In the image above, the tree is reported to be over 800 years old and has been trained, carved and cared for by the master Kobayashi. He opened the Syunkaen Bonsai Museum in West Tokyo eight years ago to promote the art of miniaturized plants to a wider international audience.

Thousands have strolled through the gardens, workshops and display areas of the 15-time winner of the annual Kokufuten Competion, taking away a new understanding and wonder for a cultural heritage synonymous with Japan.

Kobayashi, author of the definitive Bonsai says, "Through Bonsai I have been taught many things, they display the beauty of nature in all four seasons and the majesty, grace and power of trees surviving in the harshest of conditions; something which helps me in my life."

 Alex Kozhanov  

A frequent poster on the ZBrush Community Forum, Alex Kozhanov's work has been described as a cross between H. R. Giger and Terry Gilliam.

Alex Kozhanov is a freelance artist operating in Kaliningrad, Russia. He works for commercial industry, as a concept artist, matte painter.

A frequent poster on the ZBrush Community Forum, Kozhanov's digitally-created work has been described as a cross between H. R. Giger and Terry Gilliam.

 Cesc Grané  

Artist Cesc Grané's work has evolved from two dimensional scenes, produced on vinyl stickers to more three dimensional digital prints and animations. He is also currently working to release some of his characters as art toys.

Cesc Grané is a digital illustrator whose iconography is inspired by Japanese aesthetics and Art-Toys. His imagination is inhabited by loads of simple characters through which he builds particular worlds and elaborates dreamy and positive stories.

In his early works he made two dimensional scenes, usually with ink and often in the form of vinyl stickers. Currently, and in order to create volume for the scenes, he also uses three dimensional, mainly formalized in digital prints and animations.


Parallel to this shift in computer applications, he is studying the details that give personality to his characters.

Grané commenting on the toy concept in the top image:

After staying some time in Japan and soaking up its culture, I've created this character - inspired by Mount Fuji and Tengu, a Japanese mythological creature. Presented in a toy-matryoshka form, it is expected to be produced some day...

 Art  

Artists Patrick Plourde and Floyd Elzinga have both created giant pine cones from old re-purposed shovels.

Shovel Pinecones, credited to artists Patrick Plourde and Floyd Elzinga are actual old shovels re-purposed and arranged to look like giant pine cones just sitting there on a field.

In the image above, the re-purposing of these common, useful tools is doubly effective: partly that they get a new life as art; and partly that they are both realistic and surreal in looking like something familiar but being wildly out of proportion. The unexpected but perfectly natural resemblance of the shovels to pine cones is very effective.

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 Gil Bruvel  

With the Flow series, Bruvel continues to celebrate the imaginative and the real, yet here his vision seems to penetrate the veil of material form. These striking, evocative sculptures, comprised of graceful sinuous ribbons of cast stainless steel, reveal an essential underlying fluidity that exists simultaneously within the physical, quantum, and metaphoric realms.

For his more than thirty-year career, artist Gil Bruvel has passionately followed an ever-changing, organic flow of artistic expression as it has moved through a series of mediums and forms.

Each one is a reflection of the artist’s aesthetic sensibility and thoughtful perspective at the time, while continuously remaining open to the inner nudges inherent in a truly creative life. In each approach—from his surrealist-inspired and fantastical imagery to three-dimensional functional and sculptural art, to the current Flow series—he has drawn on threads of creative stimulus and artistic mastery that began very early on.

Bruvel absorbed precision of hand and an eye for design from an early age watchin his cabinet maker father work. Studies in the fundamentals of drawing and sculpture began when he was nine. Later, apprenticeship in an art restoration workshop provided an excellent art history education with intimate, hands-on insight into techniques of the Old Masters as well as a fluency in 20th-century art.

By the time the young artist set up his own studio, he was combining these and other creative sources with a finely honed eye for recurring patterns and motifs in the natural world. In 1990 he settled in the United States and now lives near Austin, Texas.

 Takahiro Iwasaki  

The artwork of artist Takahiro Iwasaki consists of small buildings and electrical towers that are excruciatingly small and delicate. The Japanese artist creates sculptures from the unexpected materials like electrical tapes, toothbrush bristles or towels and displays them alongside their source materials.

The artwork of Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki may be overlooked if you are not careful.  Not only are his small buildings and electrical towers excruciatingly small and delicate, but they also rest on absurdly mundane objects: rolls of tape, a haphazardly wrinkled towel, or from the bristles of a discarded toothbrush.

Only on close inspection do the small details come into focus, faint hints of urbanization sprouting from disorder.

Some of his pieces are topographical maps that have been carefully cut from thick rolls of gray and blue electrical tape. Many of these objects were on view as part of the Constellations show at Cornerhouse in Manchester back in 2011 and at C24 Gallery last year.

Iwasaki currently has a new collection of much larger works at the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at GOMA in Queensland, Australia.

 For the Home  

Artists kozyndan's Black Bunnies pillow represents the great results that chance and error can sometimes bring to art and design.

New from artist partners kozyndan, the "BLACK bunny blossom" limited edition art cushion.

kozyndan have released several cushions with them in the past and we have to say, they make a great product. The cushions are so soft and the print quality is very fine.

As the artists prepared to create the silk screen edition of our "Bunny Blossom" earlier this year, their printer showed a misprinted version of the print as a color proofing. In it he had printed the bunnies black instead of white. "We thought the image rather striking, but it was just a one off misprint and never recreated… until now for this cushion."

The cushion is now available from Click For Art.




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 Zaria Forman  

The photo realistic pastel drawings of Zaria Forman, record the ever-changing beauty of regions affected by climate change.

Zaria Forman, takes up to a month to complete one of her beautiful pastel landscapes.  Through her art, the goal is to document the ever-changing beauty of regions affected by climate change.

Forman's drawings were recently used in the set design for the Netflix series, House of Cards.

Forman, from Brooklyn in New York, USA, led an Arctic expedition to the north west coast of Greenland purposely with the aim of creating art inspired by the dramatic geography.

Her mother, Rena Bass Forman, originally came up with the idea but died before her daughter could see it through, and so she promised to carry out the journey in her name.

Thompson Lake #4 25"x42", Soft Pastel on Paper, 2010

 kozyndan  

Artists Kozue and Dan Kitchens are collectively known as kozyndan. This husband and wife team work collaboratively to create highly detailed paintings and drawings for both illustration and fine art, many of which are based in their obsession with the ocean and underwater life.

Husband and wife artists Kozue and Dan Kitchens are collectively known as kozyndan.  They work collaboratively to create highly detailed paintings and drawings for both illustration and fine art.

The pair met while majoring in illustration at California State University, Fullerton. Since then, their projects have included CD covers for bands such as Weezer and The Postal Service, clothing (including lines of illustrated shoes), and posters for companies such as Nike, Inc.

Their work is also featured in the books, Urban Myths and The Unknown Portraits.

Kozyndan care deeply about the topic of shark finning. In December 2012, Dan Kitchens posted a controversial statement about finning to accompany an Instagram photo of shark fins for sale.

It is understandable then why in the image below, "The Best Sushi In Town."  Set in a bustling kaiten (conveyor belt) sushi restaurant, no one knows just what makes this particular joint's sushi so delicious, all they know is they can't get enough. Everyone in town is raving about it. If ONLY they knew what the secret ingredient really was, and who was really serving it to them!

 Bruce McCall  

Artist Bruce McCall paints images of 'Retro Futurism,' with a tongue-in-cheek humorous approach. future that never was full of flying cars, polo-playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, "The Biggest Thing in All the World."

The art of Bruce McCall is so wonderful, because it combines a look at the future, from the vantage of 'Retro Futurism,' with a tongue-in-cheek humorous approach.

Born and raised in Canada, where he was a high-school dropout, McCall is a largely self-taught artist and writer who returned to his first love, humor and satire, after careers in commercial art, journalism, and advertising.  

A longtime contributor to the New Yorker, McCall's best-known work draws on the big-shouldered hubris of the middle 1920s and the early 1950s to create future paradises where the skies are fllled with zeppelins and every car has wings. He's a wry observer of contemporary life and a witty writer.

 McCall began his career as an illustrator for car ads -- by his own account not a very good illustrator. He'd left the field and became a copywriter when, on a whim, he and a friend sent some humorous drawings to Playboy. He soon connected with the founders of the National Lampoon, a pioneering humor magazine, and went on to create some of their most enduring images -- finding in the 1970s counter-cultural media a rich audience for his satirical take on the Atomic Age. He's now working the same magic at the New Yorker. His latest book is called Marveltown , and is exactly what it sounds like. McCall's latest book is called 50 Things to Do with a Book.

  The Creators Project  

As part of a part of a collaboration of SOFTlab with The Creators Project uses algorithms and 3D printing to create data visualizations of your Facebook relationships.

Crystalized is a unique 3D representation of your Facebook relationships , it is part of the collaboration of SOFTlab with The Creators Project to create data visualization that can actually be printed via Shapeways.

SOFTlab is a design studio based in New York City. The studio was created by Michael Szivos shortly after receiving a graduate degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

The studio has since been involved in the design and production of projects across almost every medium, from digitally fabricated large-scale sculpture, to interactive design, to immersive digital video installations. As the studio adjusted to a wide range of projects, we began to focus less on the medium and style and more on ideas.

You can check it out here along with other projects done by Sticky Monster Lab and Sosolimited.

  3D Printing  

Designer Jessica Rosenkrantz of the firm Nervous System has been busy experimenting with full color 3D printing. The 'Colony' prints are perhaps inspired by underwater creatures and their vivid colors.

3D printing and design are the specialties of the firm, Nervous System.

Now designer Jessica Rosenkrantz has been busy experimenting with full color 3D printing. Nervous System was founded in 2007 by Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg. Jessica currently acts as Creative Director and Jesse as Chief Science Officer. Together they lead a team of seven.

Nervous System's designers create using a novel process that employs computer simulation to generate designs and digital fabrication to realize products. Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena, they write computer programs based on processes and patterns found in nature and use those programs to create unique and affordable art, jewelry, and housewares.

Each print in the new collection is 4 to 6 inches, the meshes are generated by the Processing computer language and 3D printed by Shapeways.

Rosenkrantz must have been inspired by her coral-filled fish tank because these gorgeous "Colony" prints remind one of diving in the Caribbean.

  Sculpture  

Jonty Hurwitz's nano sculptures were created using bleeding-edge technology.  Too small for the naked eye to see, the sculptures were created using multiphoton lithography.

Aartist Jonty Hurwitz’s new sculpture series recreates the smallest human form ever at 20x80x100 microns, a scale too small to be seen by the naked eye. According to Hurwitz’s website, the size of these sculptures approximately equals the amount your fingernails grow every 5 or 6 hours.

The sculptures, “Trust”, “Cupid and Psyche: The First Kiss”, and “Intensity”, explore the idea of science vs. legend, myth vs. reality.

They were created using a ground-breaking new nano 3D printing technology and a technique called multiphoton lithography. Ultimately these works are created using the physical phenomenon of two photon absorption. As Hurwitz puts it, his art is literally created with quantum physics.

When a light-sensitive polymer is illuminated with ultra violet wavelengths, it solidifies wherever it was irradiated in a kind of crude lump. Some of you may have experienced a polymer like this first hand at the dentist when your filling is glued in with a UV light.

If however longer wavelength light is used, and focused tightly through a microscope, at the focus point, the polymer absorbs two photons and responds as if it had been illuminated by UV light. This solidifies the polymer.





This two photon absorption occurs only at the tiny focal point - basically a tiny 3D pixel (called a Voxel). The sculpture is then moved along fractionally by a computer controlled process and the next pixel is created. Slowly, over hours and hours the entire sculpture is assembled pixel by pixel and layer by layer.

"We live in an era where the impossible has finally come to pass. In our own little way we have become demi-gods of creation. "Contemporary" art, in my humble view, needs to reflect the human condition as it is today, it needs to represent the state of society at the time of its creation," states Hurwitz.  "Take a moment to consider that only 6,000 years ago we were painting crude animal images on the walls of caves with rocks. We have come far. This nano sculpture is the collective achievement of all of humanity.  It is the culmination of thousands of years of R&D."


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