Pencil Sets by Melbourne Graffiti Artist Ghostpatrol

Pencil Sets by Ghostpatrol

For someone who supposedly has a satirical black sense of humor, these pieces of artwork (which consist of assembled pencils, carved or cut to make the wood core a canvas and then painted upon) are some of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen. Framed as shown below, artist Ghostpatrol (aka David Booth) has created variations of these assemblages, using different types and colors of the pencils and numerous colored backgrounds on which they are mounted. (more…)

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Why Only White from TEDA Showers Us With Color

teda totem collection

Update: Sadly this company and their products -as well as the sites listed in this post, no longer seem to exist. But I’m not removing it because the items are so great to look at at may inspire someone else to produce something similar. (more…)

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United Nude: Shoes With A Blueprint

United Nude shoes

In 2003 a Dutch architect from an architects family and an English shoemaker from a shoemakers family decided to start a brand. Disillusioned with fashion and not wanting to be yet another shoe brand or architecture firm, a design company was born – set on releasing specific, iconic products and rejecting broad seasonal ranges. The products evolve in projects from international teams (United) in an open way with direct recognition (Nude). (more…)

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The Unusual Art of Christian Faur. Portraits Made With Crayons and More.

the art of Christian Faur

Artist Christian Faur is the Director of Collaborative Technologies in the Arts at Denison University in Granville Ohio and his title couldn’t be more apt. He works with shredded paper, hand cast encaustic crayons and mathematical formulas to create pieces that in addition to being aesthetically pleasing, say much more. But I will let his work and his own statement speak for themselves. (more…)

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