_yes, Marcel Dzama did the illustrations for Guero, but his artwork spans way beyond record covers. Did you know that he often employs root beer base?
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_Julius Santiago is making a bear for every day of the year. Too cute to pass up.
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_from the Amsterdam Law Forum – Should we want art to transgress moral norms?
The Handmade tale of Lido Pimienta
Lido Pimienta is a mother, an artist, a singer-songwriter, a screamer, a banana-sandwich eater, a student, a Colombian in Canada, a Canadian with dreams of Colombia. She also has one of the best names we can think of. So we did what we do best, emailed her all starry-eyed and asked her questions about her life, her music and her plans and her views. This one is a real mixed media portrait, all images songs and text are of the artist’s [...]
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_art director Romain Lenancker lives in Lyon, makes corporate, packaging and print media solutions.
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_every now and then we spend hours looking at pretty pretty fonts online. Today [ yes it was one of those days ] we liked Badona by the people of Gravitart. ALSO: did you know about the iKern service?
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_for those of you into music monday’s and stuff, here’s our contribution: Boompa, canadians and into watercolor websites.
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_Alberto Hernandez is a graphic designer based in London who is looking for a gig. Check his stuff out!
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_and on a lighter mood: you can download Abstruse Goose‘s book here.>
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_paranoia thursdays: did we post something about Michael Northrup‘s amazing photographs? did we? looks like we haven’t… but we’re not so sure.
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_Jeff Hamada, is a “friendly Japanese Canadian artist living and working in beautiful Vancouver, BC”
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_Dieter Rams gives us a lesson in good design.
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_Martin Klasch has a blog that is retro, nostalgic and smart. Oh space age, how we long for thine PVC promises.
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_friday and some geek fun: Anatoly Zenkov‘s Mouse Path application traces your movements around your computer and by doing so, it shows how complex our day-to-day activity can be; do download ! pc and mac version available!
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Julia Haltigan has stolen our Gopher hearts without even knowing it. Tune in for a heavenly experience here, the favourite is “Goodbye Cowboys & Rocket Men,” but they are all gradations of the sublime…
Ana Pais Oliveira’s Strange Dwellings
New Strange Place to Live
We fell in love with the woozy, eerie colors of Ana Pais Oliveira’s work immediately. Twenty-eight year old Ana has had a busy year, receiving a bevy of prizes and being a part of the faculty at Oporto University in her native Portugal. Her most recent body of work New strange places to live “reflects about the places where we live, the spaces we inhabit, occupy or pass by, and also the ones that we don’t really know [...]
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_Song, Myung-Jin is a Korean artist with a website full of leaves.
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_you should check Alexander Apostol’s Residente Pulido series. You should. I mean, it’s Wednesday.
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_Allison Schulnik is an art powerhouse living in Los Angeles.
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_on top of this words a detail from the Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy by the folks of Eco-Labs.
Flying Lotus shows his Nintendo bleeps
GNG BNG – Flying Lotus (Los Angeles)
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Steven Ellison, a.k.a. Flying Lotus is a musician and producer from Winnetka, California. His music is often categorized as “experimental” and was at least once called “California’s answer to the Aphex Twin” (see Tong, Pete) – a band, incidentally, also signed to Warp. According to the man himself, this experimental-ness can be attributed to the Nintendo-generation: “I’m used to hearing bleeps and [...]
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_here’s something we love: creative publishing that is handmade and has numbered small print-runs. Duke Press, marry us?
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_the weekend is always a good time for freebies, this saturday: Quicksand, a free sans serif typeface by Andrew Paglinawan [ via Typophile ], enjoy!
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_we seem to have a bit of a Brazil fixation as of late: here’s André Azevedo
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_Federico Jordán! Federico Jordán! If you don’t know him, meet him now,
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_colors and doodles, the wonderful world of Celyn Brazier.
Freddie Stevenson needs our supreme indifference
Freddie Stevenson, the English-born singer-songwriter is a self-taught musical genius. Freddie gives his listeners the kind of musical and lyrical experience usually reserved for the likes of Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon and Bob Dylan. When he told us he loved The Gopher we, quite understandably, nearly fainted from jubilation. Following our celebration [which may or may not have included unstoppable underwear-dancing], and several e-mail exchanges analysing Creed’s “My Own Prison” later, we bring you a story written especially for Gopher-fanatics where he gives us [...]
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_artist and designer Bruno Kurru’s work isn’t “born from certainties, but from questions about what to do and how it should be done”
