art + design

Striking artworks in unexpected places

Incredible rainbow houses in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Praça Cantão, the square at the entrance of the community of Santa Marta, has been the scene of a spectacular art intervention where it has been turned into a vibrant artwork of monumental scale.

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Jimon Magazine. Art. Fashion. Aaaand our current new obsession.

Independently published straight outta LA, this bi-annual publication is pure aesthetic delight.

Focused on cutting edge imagery, experimental art and fashion (as featured above) where “the only limit is taste”… and it tastes good. Read more…

It’s like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.

Sometimes you stumble across something/one that is just so darned inspirational and those creative, community minded folks over at the Art House Co-op are just that. In particular, The Sketchbook Project, their ‘open for participation’ project where anyone – from anywhere in the world – can be a part of the project. Read more…

Jon Burgerman to launch The Lossy Botany Lab in Hamburg!

1st July – 6th August 2010 @ Helium Cowboy Artspace

Jon Burgerman is back in Hamburg town for his second solo show in the city. “The Lossy Botany Lab” promises a whole new, never before seen, set of works by the UK artist not to mention a botanical installation on site. Read more…

“All I Heard Was The Echo In The Light” Solo Show

Christopher Bettig x Analogue Books, Edinburgh

5th June – 10th July 2010

The super talented and awesome bloke that is Christopher Bettig will be back in the UK this week with his solo show for Analogue Books. His art show promises to be incredible with all new collages, prints, wooden people and lots and lots of flags! Read more…

Giant Robot, San Francisco April 17, 2010 – May 12, 2010

Giant Robot is proud to present The Boys Are Back in Town, a group art show featuring new works by Matt Furie, Le Merde, and Johnny Ryan. And oh boy, just another reason to wish we had a studio in San Francisco! That’s one for the “one day” list but for now, if you’re SF based, check it out! Read more…

Featured: Kidrobot Black, SSUReal From the Cradle to the Grave

Kidrobot Rules Spies?

Bang! Here goes the conspiracy theories…

Finally I concede defeat to Tumblr! My girrrlfrrriends have been banging on about its right royal tumblrishness and yeah, it kills me to admit it but… I am hooked. Sucker.

If you’re have the inclination or are bonkers enough to actually want to ponder my personal tumblrings, Sleep Deprivation & Wanderlust, why not cruise over and say hello.

Anyways, being a complete Tumblr newbie, it ain’t exactly hard to scout out new followers and learn a lil’ bit about them – and this is where it gets a lil’ bit juicy and a lil’ bit creepy!!! Read more…

Paint on walls by farkFK at Scooter & Jinx.

Stupid. Dope. Fresh.

This weekend the S&J crew had a lil’ paint party in their designer toys shop with farkFK. Newly whitewashed walls quickly became well and truly fark’d… the boy got some killer paint skills fosho. Check it! Read more…

Kids are so inspiring!

Woke up to a lovely email from my 7 year old god child, Lola. The subject “this may help you with your work”… and yes, it totally will. She’s such an inspiration and is clearly totally down with modern surrealism. This is one of her artworks, a collage she made. I couldn’t be more proud to have her in my life.

Exit Through The Gift Shop. A Banksy Film.

The world’s first street art disaster movie

Exit Through The Gift Shop, Banksy’s debut movie, a spoof documentary in which he agrees to be the subject of a film by Thierry Guetta, an obsessive French (self-proclaimed) film maker. Read more…