team art

Team Art's coloring books are pretty hilarious. From Hunky Dudes (Anderson Cooper, Michael Fassbender, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jon Hamm, Paul Rudd, Ryan Gosling) to Nineties Pop Divas (TLC, Alanis Morissette, Vitamin C, Lisa Loeb, Mariah Carey, The Spice Girls), not to mention books specifically on Cats, Game of Thrones, John Hamm, and Canadian Wildlife, there's pretty much something for everyone to color.

(Via Sho & Tell)

2013 calendars: part 5

For my 5th 2013 calendar post, the focus is entirely on the letterpress. Now, I know that I've managed to feature a few letterpress options already, but today, with so many more fantastic creations to share, I thought that they needed a post to call their own. Plus, not only do these feature a wide range of illustrations, but each offering also gives you a different calendar format to choose from. Now that's a lot of options.

First up, from South African-based Essie Letterpress, we've got collective nouns of the animal kingdom in a lovely perpetual calendar form. Hand drawn and printed in grey and bright pink, this calendar will both keep you apprised of the date and give you the plural of a host of animals, from spiders to owls and trout.

If animals, and perpetual calendars, aren't your style, INK + WIT's 2013 Vortex Letterpress Calendar may just fit the bill. Featuring an unusual two-month format, this calendar will take you around the world with illustrations of such diverse locations as Joshua Tree, California, Govardhan Hill, India, and Machu Picchu, Peru.

Then again, maybe you prefer your calendar to feature only one month at a time. In that case, you can still get away from it all with 1canoe2's nature and pattern-inspired 2013 letterpress calendar. Not only is it a calendar, but it comes with its own wooden stump for propping up each month, which, after the year is done, can be used for notes, photos or just as decoration on your desk.

And finally, who doesn't love a year-at-a-glace calendar, particularly when it's by the wonderful Satsuma Press? Their 2013 calendar, with its jewel-toned triangle pattern, is a simple and lovely option to take you through the year.

Markus Reugels - liquid sculptures

It's pretty incredible what high-speed cameras can capture these days, but what really gets me are the wonderful ways that this technology is being put to use. In the case of these fantastic photographs, German photographer Markus Reugels has taken an overly cliche subject - high-speed images of water droplets - and captured them in a whole new light.

By dyeing the droplets contrasting colors, thickening them with guar gum to create the consistency of milk or cream, and modulating the time between drops - 6 drops per second for hat-like shapes forms, 10 drops per second for mushrooms, and 15 for flying saucers - Reugels manages to create and capture remarkably beautiful, glass-like sculptural images.

(Via Fast Company)

if I had a million dollars

I would buy...{the fashion edition: t-shirts in shades of blue}

A blue/white little mountains t-shirt, by Things Like Diamonds.

Creatures of Comfort's Dyed Julie Tee, available at Of a Kind.

A Gradient Top from Need Supply Co.

Rachel Rose's Cara Black Silk Tee.

And this grey cellular tee, from raeburn ink.

Aakash Nihalani

New York-based Aakash Nihalani's geometric, site-specific installations are absolute marvels. Not only are they unexpected in their placement and design, but the combination of bright colors, optical illusions, and playful quality of the works make you want to look, and then look again.

As Nihalani explains:

I’m not trying to push a certain highbrow logic or philosophy or purposefully communicate through the esoteric medium of art. I work instinctively, trying to follow my gut about the sensation of color and space, and have fun doing it.

People need to understand that how it is isn't how it has to be. My work is created in reaction to what we readily encounter in our lives, sidewalks and doorways, buildings and bricks. I'm just connecting the dots differently to create my own picture. Others need to see that they can create too, connecting their own dots, in their own places.

You can see much more of Nihalani's work, including his fun interactive works and sculptures, on his portfolio website and blog.

(Photography by Noah Kalina, Lovis Ostenrik and Mark “The Cobra Snake” Hunter. Via Design Milk)

Tauba Auerbach - rgb colorspace atlas

I absolutely adore this project. New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach has taken the concept of visualizing every single RGB color possible in physical book form with her RGB Colorspace Atlas (2011). The perfectly cubed 8in x 8in x 8in book was designed by Auerbach in collaboration with Daniel E. Kelm, and bound by Kelm in assistance with Leah Hughes at the Wide Awake Garage. Isn't it beautiful?

(Via designboom)

ecole maternelle pajol

Quite possibly the most colorful school in the world, Ecole Maternelle Pajol, located in Paris’s 18th arrondissement, can't help but make you smile. And if it has that effect on me, I can only imagine how the kids who go to school there feel.

I love Palatre et Leclere Architects' riotous use of bright colors throughout, especially the bright orange in places that tend to be decidedly less cheerful, such as the exterior spiral staircase, banisters and floors.

(Via The Design Ark)

Jung Lee

Why, 2010. 170x136cm. C-type Print, Diasec. Courtesy of ONE AND J. Gallery.

Only god knows, 2010. 136x170cm. C-type Print, Diasec. Courtesy of ONE AND J. Gallery.

My heart is yours, 2010. 170x136cm. C-type Print, Diasec. Courtesy of ONE AND J. Gallery.

I still remember, 2010. 136x170cm. C-type Print, Diasec. Courtesy of ONE AND J. Gallery.

How could you do this to me, 2011. 136x170cm. C-type Print, Diasec. Courtesy of ONE AND J. Gallery.

Korean artist Jung Lee's photographs of bright neon words and phrases within stark landscapes are simply luminous.

(Via The Jealous Curator)

meeting a little bird (les oiseaux)

With its bright colors and sweet storyline, Meeting A Little Bird (Les Oiseaux), by Young-jun Kim of Earth Design Works, is quite the charming animated film.

I'm very sad to say that since posting this, the film has been made unavailable. Sorry!

(Via BOOOOOOOM)