_ we like how Paul Blow walks on air but keeps drawing with a firm hand
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_we love stumbling upon stuff like this: Shigeru Mizuki’s book Yōkai Daizukai includes diagrams on the anatomy of traditional Japanese monsters.
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_ it won’t be long before we are literally swimming in plastic. Luckily for us, David Edgar gives a fascinating twist to that expression with his Plastiquarium.
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_ we know Mark Jenkins’s installations shout loud and clear by themselves, but good things are always worth a second visit.
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_ Grab that pencil! Eric Ellis and Chad Kouri’s website illustrates what the world would miss if notebooks had no margins
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_ever wondered how life looks like from a dragonfly wing? Architect Vincent Callabout’s insane designs answer the question.
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_as secret, creepy lovers of Mike Perry’s work, we urge you to visit this interview conducted by the lovely folks at GrainEdit.
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_we all smile watching how Dameon Lester weighs clouds and feelings as easily as he chokes pigs.
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_remember Michael Rolph from about a week ago? well, if you liked him, check out the better-known Rasmus Norlander.
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_Mind Lab is an amazing tool that lets you “explore the unconscious functions of the brain with visual illusions and mysterious perceptual phenomena.”
Carol Salmanson’s light and refraction
Some of the Gopher staffers grew up surrounded by Op and Kinetic art: stripes of fluorescent color, geometric forms of dubious contours and beams of tinted light were part of our childhoods in the Caribbean. Given our record, it is not surprise that we find a home-y feeling in Carol Salmanson‘s work, a kind of warm sensation provoked not only by the glow and hue* of the LED lights that she uses in her work, but also by that familiar feeling of [...]
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_rain, color and ink. Or Rafael Karcz’s painted photos
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_Jaime Van Wart “puts her OCD to good use by obsessing over typography and designing original typefaces”
Julia Haltigan’s cure for boredom
People, papers and Julia herself tell us that Julia Haltigan’s musical family, a hundred-piece band that includes a singing-quartet alum grandmother and a father talented in the guitar-arts inspired her pursuit of music. Not having been fortunate enough to witness family reunions, we will say this: Julia Haltigan’s music is all leather boots, smoky rooms and whimsy in a way that makes us want to burn our bras while wearing pretty lace and red lipstick; confusing, wonderful, inspiring and astoundingly infectious. Gopher [...]
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_another case of the navel-gazing Fridays: we saw the ad for the Art Students League of New York and we couldn’t stop ourselves from clicking. The logo is beautimous.
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_we were thinking about the phrase “panties in a knot” and this drawing by David Coquelin a.k.a Easy Hey suddenly appeared.
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_Breda’s Graphic Design festival starts in a week, if you’re in the Netherlands don’t forget to enroll / drop by!
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_Alba Machado writes: “How to Trick People into Reading” (there’s some lovely footage at the bottom)
