_being a TED Fellow has been without a doubt one of the most important experiences we have ever had here at the Gopher. Applications are now open, so fill the application and lets meet up in Edinburgh in the Spring!
_695
_ as you gear up for turkey gobbling, consider the lovely printed matter. The FPO Awards Book is available for pre-order now!
_694
_it was done over a decade ago, but we’re still completely in love with the Mended Spiderweb project by Nina Katchadourian. “In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread.” Beautiful.
_692
_as simple as possible: Larissa Kasper lives in Zurich and studies visual communication. She’s also a good friend of Rosario Floro‘s.
_691
_we’re digging [ no pun intended ] Jae Rhim Lee’s TED Talk on her Infinity Burial Project, an alternative for the postmortem body. In other news, a sky burial sounds beautiful, but the images prove otherwise.
_689
_last week at the TXContemporary we met the lovely folks behind Cosmocosa‘s art space in Buenos Aires.
_687
_busy week for Mario Wagner: yesterday he published a new website and on Monday announced a couple of exhibitions featuring his work.
_686
_our dear Nathan Rothstein sends word of his latest project, in which “people raise money for the cause they care about by selling their used clothing.” Interested? Contact them at buymyne@gmail.com
_684
_today we met some fine folks from Austin Beerworks. Be sure to check out their rad website and overall stunning image, created by Helms Workshop.
_681
_you know you’re a fffound nerd, when you start talking about images as if they were household names. Sarah Illenberger, you have made us err more than once.
_677
_it has been a while since our last free typography Friday, but we’re back with the amazing Kirimomi Swash, developed in a collaboration by Néojaponisme (Fontspring) and Onitsuka Tiger.
_676
_”this is my website, there are many like it, but this one is mine” Yes, we really like Curtins Jinkins‘ portfolio (and he’s in Austin!)
_675
_word of the day at the Gopher HQ: rigmarole! Wonder what is NOT a rigmarole? Michael Bojkowski‘s Lineread magazine!
_674
_we’re sure you have seen it already, but in case you haven’t: Stephen Tillmans‘ Leuchtpunktordnungen series show cathode-ray-tube televisions being switched off.
_673
_”the Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs of buildings with no neighboring structures, I hope to draw attention to new ways of seeing the common impact of divergent investment processes on urban communities” -David Schalliol.
_670
_there’s not a lot of information on Si-Chan Park out there: he was a student of Peter Bialobrzeski and has worked with the Lothar Albrecht gallery at Domstraße in Frankfurt. That’s pretty much it.
_667
_the RE-tooling program “considers the most relevant methods for supporting knowledge development” with an emphasis in residencies. Collab programs include CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Akademie Schloss Solitude, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Gasworks and Botkyrka Konsthall [ via e-flux ].
_666
_today we bumped into an article titled “Matthias Hoch – To the Beat of the Techno-Systems“, after reading it we wanted more and more of Mr. Hoch.
_665
_together, hard at work: Richard Perez [ a.k.a. Skinny Ships ] made this beautiful artwork for the second installement of Jez Burrows‘ In Radiolab We Trust series.
_664
_today a post for the Spanish-speaking crowd: Blanca Haddad is not only one of our dearest friends, she’s also the creator of the Caribe Contracorriente poetry series.
_663
_what’s up with Glasgow this week? Sandy Smith lives in NYC now but G-city is all over his portfolio.
_662
_even if we couldn’t even begin to imagine how Genadii Berёzkin‘s name is pronounced, we like his work.
_661
_we like Freytag‘s photography, but we adore Berg Design‘s brochures. Is this how Glasgow looks like?
_660
_the new edition of Ácido Surtido [ featuring a Gopher collab ] is out now, the theme is “pair” and is their 22nd issue!
_659
_”how can we avoid fictionalising this reality?” This and other uncomfortable questions, present in the work of portuguese photographer André Cepeda.
_657
_last year the Association of Illustrators and Transport for London had a poster competition that was a major success [ just look at the sheer number of entries available on the interwebs ]. One of our favorites entries was by our buddy Thom Lambert in London.
_655
_illustrator Karan Singh runs the beautiful Pig Bimpin’ blog from his homebase in Melbourne, Australia [ on the image, Matt W. Moore ].
_654
_today we had a blast watching Shohei Shigematsu‘s architecture talk at TED Global, also in the news today: problems at Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House project [ image vía World Architecture News ].
_653
_Amilcar sent word about this VBS vid shot in Caracas, which is the perfect way to kick off the weekend.
_652
_designer Adam Parks [ a.k.a. Gigawatt Design ] have been making Illuminated Mixtapes for four years now, each one with an original illustrated cover.
_650
_we just found out about Wrap Magazine, a quarterly designed to be used as wrapping paper for gifts! In related news: today is the birthday of our lovely co-editor Michu Benaim!
_649
_”[ this work ] examines humans’ relationship to land formations of cultural construction, namely that of the ‘border’ and/or ‘wall’[ ... ] the project is a series of public performances, assembled into video works, and a series of landscape paintings – paintings of paintings on walls” On the Rock, In the Land by Danielle Adair.
_648
_aaand we’re back! After a crazy week working on the release party of our second volume, we’re finally back at the studio. Wednesdays are the new Mondays, and Torbjørn Rødland still looks cool.
_647
_”…when he painted The Kiss Klimt was 45 and still lived at home with his mother and two unmarried sisters – but behind the respectable facade he was a man with a ferocious sexual appetite.” Another take on Der Kuss: The Bite, by Simon Noynay.
_646
_if planning to delve into the Texas art scene, look no further than Might Be Good [ pictured: the non-Texan Setareh Shahbazi ].
_645
_we don’t know what to like most: Ben Pieratt‘s logos or the amazing projects that carry them: The Lunch League, The Ministry of Imagery, ReadyMech. Yep.
_644
_applications for the TED Fellows Program are open again! Deadline is July 25th, so check out the application process as soon as possible.
_643
_you, Suzy Poling, caught our attention as soon as you said these words: “photographs of mental asylums and shipwrecks”.
_642
_and since we’re talking about Barça: our buddies at No-Domain rock the motion / print / audio triumvirate.
_641
_after a little over a year without activity, the Rojo® Artspace Barcelona is back! They’re presenting Valero Doval‘s Hidden Compositions series and we couldn’t be more thrilled!
_640
_last week we went to the amazing exhibition of Claire Falkenberg at Champion Gallery, kudos on the great work!
_639
_his personal site reads “this site will return in a new mutant form at an unspecified date”, in other words: Wyeth Hansen is part of Labour NYC now.
_638
_for those of you who enjoy a Dwell-like life [ and also speak German ]: the Ripollés-Manrique house, by architect Teo Hidalgo Nácher [ via Studio 5555 ].
_637
_it reads: “Torbjørn Rødland is to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop music: a master of the delicately orchestrated clichée overload”
_636
_Layflat folks send word: they’re releasing two amazing artist book editions [Dune and Visible Library]. You can preorder them now!
_634
_one of the most amazing features we’ve ever seen in a portfolio website: Paul Sahre‘s “regrets” include missplaced inch marks, un-printable silkscreen posters and even a diaphragm inserter on a photo shoot.
_630
_looking for something beautiful to hang in our office walls: Kellie Talbot‘s typographic paintings definitely make the cut.
_629
_if you feel like you must download something today, download McNair Evans‘ photography portfolio zine [ here! ].
_626
_it reads: “Colma is the only city in the United States where the dead outnumber the living. Cemeteries make up 73% of the city’s land.” – images by Mark Mahaney.
_623
_today we published a brief recap of some of the stuff we’re working on, do check it at the TED Fellows blog!
_622
_”my first foley kit” and “how to run an airport” are among some of the works art-directed by Lukas Muellner.
_621
_it reads: “George Boorujy attended the University of Miami in order to pursue a career as a marine biologist. Appropriately, in 1996 he received a BFA degree in painting.”
_620
_”Adrienne Miller is a Nashville-based artist whose work deals with themes of secrets, memory, and shared personal experience.” says here.
_619
_a public service announcement for our dear readers in Brooklyn: world-famous Two Arms Inc. is a neighbor of yours.
_618
_we’re doing two collaborative projects at the Fusebox Festival 2011, one of them is with La Sombra Restaurant and you can try it already! [ more info on the other one next week ]
_616
_in honor of the breadless wonder-week that rhymes with flassover: Psychedelic Judaism brings the tunes.
_610
_our beloved Senior Designer Alexander Wright was featured in Design Work Life! also, he overhauled his website so do check it out!
_604
_first we learned that Louise Fili, Steven Heller and Lita Talarico are organizing a workshop in typography and design history in Rome and Venice, then we found out that, at $6,700, it doesn’t come cheap.
_602
_remember that soccer team we mentioned about a month ago? We’ll it also has painter Christa Palazzolo as one of their teammates!
_598
_a must-read rejection letter: from editor Brian Doyle [ University of Portland Magazine ] via Tracy Mueller.
_594
_it’s March, you’re in Honolulu and you bump into “Comforter” by Geoffrey Chadsey: do you keep drinking?
_592
_cant. stop. listening: police scanner and hypnotic drone music mashed up = you’re listening to Los Angeles.
_589
_today we remembered the work of photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, thanks to E-Flux for refreshing our memories!
_585
_if being in NYC in the Spring is not enough reason to hop on a JFK-bound plane, then the Armory Show might help you decide.
_584
_relief sculptures made using found photographs of the same place taken at different times: Abigail Reynolds.
_today we were completely stunned by the work that Heatherwick Studio presented at TED, the seed cathedral is amazing!
_581
_you Nicholas Feltron, should have some coffee with some Gopher Magazine editors that follow your blog. Soon.
_580
_coming back to America: “[ the term ] Ghost Riding involves walking or dancing alongside a car while a vehicle is still moving” – videoart by Timo Bredenberg.
_580
_the GridLondon’s “Takeaway Box” is one of the most amazing brochures we’ve sen in a while, do look!
_575
_the series “Corporate Franchise Architecture and the National Landscape” is something you should definitely see if you’re interested in contemporary USA.
_573
_our friend Estelle Hanania has a new book! This time it is about her Dondoro series and it’s published by the folks of Kaugummi.
_572
_probably you’ve seen this around, but in case you haven’t: the Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names by Pop Chart Lab.
_568
_finally we know who made the video that we saw at the Parc de Collserola in Barcelona! Javier Jaen!
_567
_do you know who moved into Alvin Lustig‘s studio in NYC after he passed away? Josef Müller-Brockmann!
_565
_music Monday indeed! listening once and again to Diamond Rings, specially this and this [ via Jess Sauer! ].
_564
_the Gopher and its co-editor Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz are featured in Wired Magazine!!! Awesome Thursday and kudos to Lope! Larger images here and here!
_563
_what an amazing set of images: “El Pardo” by Carlos Sanva [ more to come in the next edition of the Gopher! ].
_560
_how is it possible that we’ve never recommended Ghostly International‘s amazing podcast, the Ghostlycast?
_558
_the folks at House Industries have just put up a trailer for their upcoming documentary! Coud this be the next “Helvetica“? [ Hum! ]
_557
_the categories in Gina Tuzzi‘s portfolio website: drawings, paintings, projections, sculptures, beards.
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_things we do repeatedly: as soon as we enter a portfolio website we go to the “personal work” tab; today Johan Theeuwes.
_552
_and with the Monday, a couple of tunes under three minutes and over 45 years old: Chuck Willis [ 1956 ] and William Bell [ 1964 ].
_slowly waking up and thinking about the legend of Ts’ang-chieh (仓颉) who created the Chinese script inspired by the movement of celestial bodies and living creatures.
_548
_besides being an amazing designer, Timba Smits is also an editor: he publishes the Wooden Toy Quarterly and is the brains behind the Lyrics and Type series.
_545
_we absolutely adore this clip of Marty Robbins singing Devil Woman [ and loathe this one by Bruce Willis singing the same song - sorry Bruce! ].
_540
_what can you do with that old typewriter, you say? Write poems on it? What are you, a hundred and forty? Hey! So Keira Rathbone’s got an idea!
_538
_this is awesome because we may or may not be guilty of making geometric patterns with our knick-knacks-
_537
_the London-based Sara de Bondt is much more than a graphic designer, sometimes she also co-curates exhibitions.
_536
_this series of a superhero grandmother by Sacha Goldberger is absolutely amazing (and greets you with “what? don’t you have anything better to do? — well, no, I will never have anything better to do ever again, grandma Mamika!)
_535
_hum, second time in less than a month that we follow a link straight to Adam Ellison‘s website. Is this some kind of plan that you are up to Mr. Ellison?
_534
_ now I kind of wish that all fashion editorials were drawn by the ladies at “Fashion from Old People”
_532
_apparently developed by Place studios in Argentina, Sudamerica is a type with a message: Sudamerica no es Latina.
_529
_”in early 1971 Sun Ra was artist-in-residence at University of California, Berkeley, teaching a course called “The Black Man In the Cosmos”… one half-hour of each class was devoted to a lecture, the other half-hour to an Arkestra performance or Sun Ra keyboard solo”.
_528
_broadcastr, that brainchild of the folks at Electric Lit is launching tomorrow. Not gonna lie, kind of excited.
_527
_hey and since we’re talking about internet, if you have a friend in a country with internet censorship, send them the Alkasir browser [ made by our buddy Walid al-Saqaf! ] so he can circumvent censors.
_526
_one of the best projects we’ve seen in years: some friends are buying a satellite from a bankrupt company and using it to send free internet to the countries that need it the most.
_525
_”i hate perfume” says Christopher Brosius, so he’s bottling experiences. Like the smell of a Library, or Gathering Apples. He’s won awards.
_524
_free online lectures might be the David to the university system’s Goliath. Or so says The Telegraph.
_523
_we ended up with one of these postcard-sized prints by Rand Renfrow. Turns out, it’s Rand Renfrow’s card. Now look at his portfolio!
_522
_it’s no secret that we can’t wait to get Granta’s “Best of Young Spanish Novelists” (Best of Young Novelists Writing in Spanish” didn’t have quite the same ring to it, I guess). Until then, sneak a read at Conditions for the Revolution.
_521
_designer Matt Stevens told designers in Dallas to work for free last month. And probably other stuff too. Here’s the poster for the event.
_520
_obsessed? We’re not obsessed! Obsessed is such a strong word, man. (okay, we reeeally like Micah Lidberg)
_519
_the latest issue of Kaleidoscope just landed in our mailbox [ thanks Lili! ], we still can’t believe that this magazine is free.
_518
_”her art is both humorous and sentimental while exploring her love for nostalgia” – Lyndsey Lesh, on Lyndsey Lesh.
_515
_Eleanor Rudge is an illustrator based in Brighton blah blah, look pretty, colorful mountains say hello! Hello! Hello pretty mountains! (visit Eleanor’s site, for serious)
_512
_this is “a video report on data visualization as a storytelling medium“, produced during a 2009-10 Knight Fellowship.
_509
_reading our interview with Hanif Kureishi for the next edition of the magazine and remembering the Paisley design motif.
_508
_”I’m a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary.” there are academic ghostwriters? Shocking! Truly shocking! Never heard of such a thing! . (This guy is seriously prolific, though)
_506
_”this is a video created so I don’t have to have a Facebook page” – meet Chad Kouri of The Post Family
_505
_not to judge a book by its cover, but some of these are beautiful! Check out Featherproof for more.
_503
_a commentary on mythical-creature idiosyncrasy by Iain Burke (sounds like it should be a book, no?)
_502
_okay, we may be late to this party, but Burbia is for “hip suburbanites” and we, frankly, are neither. That said, we can’t stop laughing at their funny pictures section.
_501
_a few days back we wrote about This Gallery’s new show. And through them we found Eduardo Hernández Vaca’s project NRMAL. Click.
_498
_This Gallery in Los Angeles just opened a Latin American Graphic Design show. If you’re around there, please go and tell us how it was!
_497
_Ben Wilson scours the streets of London with only one thing in mind: to transform the gum that everyday folks leave behind into fine art.
_487
_expect some spectacular images of Haikyo in the next edition of the Gopher, here’s one photographer that dwells in such a field: Abandoned Kansai.
_485
_thinking of building a bookshelf with all those crayons hanging around in your desk drawers? Dominic Wilcox teaches us how to.
_483
_Amberlee Rosolowich‘s whimsical illustrations, now showing at the Hespe Gallery! Hide, seek, click, and reminisce.
_481
_taiwanese artist Pei-San Ng simply cannot resist the urge to burn down her art once it’s completed. Pyromaniacs, this one’s for you.
_479
_stop biting your tongue and go to Mural Locator, an easy-to-use tool that will make the lightbulb over your head turn on immediately.
_474
_we visit once in a while but this week FSG’s Work in Progress blog seems to be in the zeitgeist. So you should visit too. Maybe.
_472
_it reads: Wevolve is a New York-based, future-oriented think-do tank that lives, breathes, studies, and drives the vanguard of socio-cultural change.
_471
_not exactly a young boy, but we just felt like showing this image anyway. We’re talking about Robert Melee.
_470
_the week starts and we found out that I Love Dust is the studio responsible for those amazing covers for The Ride Journal.
_467
_yesterday, we were rescued by a taxi driver who adorably plugged his kid-sister’s music project – successfully, clearly. Denitia Odigie, we’d love to see you live!
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_only twelve days left if you are from South America / Asia / Europe and want to enter the Cut & Paste competition.
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_it reads: “I always feel that the margins tell you more than the center of the page ever could” – Fluent~Collaborative.
_461
_some days ago we ran into the inimitable Andrew Losowsky and he showed us the goods: if you haven’t seen STRANDED you should go get one now.
_459
_two days in Austin and we have already seen the book “I was told there’d be cake” by Sloane Crosley three times.
_458
_and now we’re in Austin! if you’re in the city and want to meet up for coffee / drink / burrito, just drop us a line!
_457
_two days ago we mentioned Grant Willing, ends up he had an exhibition at the very interesting Preteen Gallery.
_456
_would somebody tell us how can we get in contact with Marta Marcé?
_would somebody tell us how can we get in contact with Marta Marcé?
_449
_we saw only one photograph and decided to post it: Trevor Burks [ but he's actually an illustrator! ].
_445
_hello NYC ! we just arrived in the city [ after a looooong delay in Miami ] and would love to see you all newyorkerites! so feel free to drop us a line if you’re in NYC and want to meet some Gopher-type people!
_444
_and since we’re a talking about Gallery Hanahou why not mention that they had an exhibition by Berlin-based experimental platform Bilderklub?
_443
_just a couple of days ago Stina Persson opened her exhbition Perfectly Flawed at Gallery Hanahou @ NYC.
_441
_ever wonder where all those lonely orphan suitcases at the airport go? To Alabama’s Unclaimed Baggage Center, of course!
_437
_this is like parents’ gentle colorful nagging – or as Erin Hanson puts it “childish treatment for childish behavior”
_434
_if you’re in Barcelona and the beautiful city doesn’t make you happy enough, fill your bottle with some Happy Pills
_432
_our in-house-trickster Marc Caellas mentions the Disseny Hub Barcelona in the first edition of the Gopher, Kobi Benezeri designed its logo.
_431
_as a follow-up of the previous post about the times of yore: electrofist circa 1957, vía Mister Asta.
_430
_a couple of years ago we went to this event called the Intuit Show @ Chicago, there we heard J. J. Cromer‘s name for the first time; now we pass that name to you.
_428
_the amazing folks at 2×4 created the image for the Harvard Museums that we like so much, but also the one for the Brooklyn Museum which we don’t fancy that much.
_423
_when someone says the word “Redman” we really don’t want to think about Wu Tang Clan: Craig Redman.
_417
_haven’t you heard that eskimos have many words for snow? Proof that language shapes your experience of things (via the Wall Street Journal)
_415
_this series by Eric Fisher plays right into our obsessive nerve: “Locals and Tourists” maps tourist photos in red and locals’ photos in blue for hangout maps around the world.
_408
_good thing Emmanuel Gutiérrez finds time between his work and his music to bring us some Costa Rican color
_400
_our second Russian photographer this week. Frank Herfort brings us refreshing images on these sunny summer days
_397
_Jess Atkinson’s series NO! is “is a plasticine illustration about a little creature who discovered he can only communicate his thoughts with others by telepathically having his limbs severed to spell it out”
_396
_ok, ok, we got a little distracted from usual monday’s rush by looking at Olya Ivanova‘s photographs. Now, back to work!
_392
_ armed with ink and paper, Hannah Stouffer faces “”the inevitable oppositions between love, lust and gore, decadence, wrath and fate”
_390
_Katharina Grosse knows of course no roofs, no walls, no surfaces limiting her mountains of powder and spreaded colors
_386
_Justin Gray Morgan brings us buddhist skateboards (we’d volunteer to try one!) and wondering digital gorillas
_385
_if the concept of ‘fingering a wall’ sounds weird to you, let your mind be further blown by Judith Ann Braun‘s graphite-charged work.
_383
_Betsy Walton‘s imaginative creations entertain our sleep-deprived eyes this morning and make us long for drea…m…y… dre…am…s…
_381
_our love for diving and the underwater world makes us go crazy over Guillaume Néry and Julie Gautier’s Base Jump video.
_379
_old newspapers come back to life in the streets of NYC as they take part in Nick Georgiou‘s humanoid slash animalesque set of sculptures.
_378
_ we always knew common objects were up to something, so thank you David Trautrimas for proving us right
_377
_ live in Chicago? Hurry to The Family Room Gallery and check out their expo “There, Now it Will Last Forever.” It closes Friday.
_376
_yes, yes. Admittedly, it was hard picking only one of Anne Faye Gillespie’s drawings for this note. Why don’t you give it a try and find your own?
_375
_spanish freelance illustrator Joseba Elorza (MiraRuido) has some wicked digital collages featuring characters of the 50s and 60s. (Also: Happy Birthday to Gopher editor Michu!!!)
_373
_with an arachnid-esque technique, Chiharu Shiota’s massive installations seem to capture objects like dresses and pianos in space and time.
_372
_Venezuelan photographer Antonio Briceño found the missing pieces of a green and complicated puzzle in Rwanda
_371
_tackling the issue of fragile urban expansion, Thai Chinese artist Nippan Oranniwesna builds entire cities out of just… baby powder.
_369
_when graphic designer Corey Holms put together food dye, vegetable oil and water he wasn’t particularly thinking on cooking lunch. The result, equally tasty, was an explosion of abstract colorfulness.
_368
_a toy to make your children cry: handcrafted wooden figures of recently extinct animals, by mixed-media designer Josh Finkle.
_367
_Tokujin Yoshioka‘s natural crystal chair emerges from the water using the laws of nature and with ‘beauty that exceeds our imagination,’ sends its message to the future.
_366
_you know those screens that show video art in Harvard Square? well, they’re part of a project by Lumen Eclipse.
_365
_a whole year of posts! Wow! We’re celebrating with Papelote, a Czech papermaking firm looking to reinvent… er… paper.
_363
_dutch artist Mike Thompson redefines the symbiotic relationship between lamp owners and their artifacts. Owners of Latro are required to treat it like a pet – feeding and caring for the algae in exchange of its light.
_362
_we think that a painting of the series Volo Interno by Marco Neri would go perfectly fine with one by Guy Yanai.
_361
_artist Mia Liu has transformed her daily routine of eating donuts at the Guggenheim Museum café into the topic of her creative work.
_360
_truth be told, we had no idea that Ding Yi is one of China’s leading abstract painters, we just liked his artwork as soon as it we saw it on a book.
_359
_Keetra Dean Dixon (FromKeetra) is the mind -but not the body- behind the Anonymous Hugging Wall, part of her series ‘Methods & Apparati for Social Facilitation and Mood Elevation.’
_357
_straddling the genius and the bizarre: feather creations by Kate MccGwire. Nature-bending seems to be the thing this week!
_354
_monday and something to recommend: Museo Slab 500 is an amazing, amazing, amazing typography, we Gophers loooooove Jos Buivenga‘s work.
_351
_Eric Ellis is the mind behind NoonStudio in Chicago, but something tells us he works around the clock.
_350
_we were quite sure that we had posted him before, but apparently not: James Roper everybody offers much more than color and space.
_346
_hey, if you’re still up for checking the England & Co. gallery from Georgia Russell‘s link, make sure you look at Shane Bradford’s work.
_345
_Alexey Malina’s design work is inspired by dance, music, architechture and everyday life (in Moscow)
_342
_dear Lord, is there anything that doesn’t exist in Josh Keyes‘ imagination? a bird-spitting, concrete-breaking shark? for real?
_337
_we love stumbling upon stuff like this: Shigeru Mizuki’s book Yōkai Daizukai includes diagrams on the anatomy of traditional Japanese monsters.
_336
_ 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.
_332
_ we know Mark Jenkins’s installations shout loud and clear by themselves, but good things are always worth a second visit.
_331
_ Grab that pencil! Eric Ellis and Chad Kouri’s website illustrates what the world would miss if notebooks had no margins
_330
_ever wondered how life looks like from a dragonfly wing? Architect Vincent Callabout’s insane designs answer the question.
_328
_as secret, creepy lovers of Mike Perry’s work, we urge you to visit this interview conducted by the lovely folks at GrainEdit.
_324
_remember Michael Rolph from about a week ago? well, if you liked him, check out the better-known Rasmus Norlander.
_323
_Mind Lab is an amazing tool that lets you “explore the unconscious functions of the brain with visual illusions and mysterious perceptual phenomena.”
_319
_Jaime Van Wart “puts her OCD to good use by obsessing over typography and designing original typefaces”
_316
_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.
_314
_we were thinking about the phrase “panties in a knot” and this drawing by David Coquelin a.k.a Easy Hey suddenly appeared.
_312.5
_Breda’s Graphic Design festival starts in a week, if you’re in the Netherlands don’t forget to enroll / drop by!
_310
_Alba Machado writes: “How to Trick People into Reading” (there’s some lovely footage at the bottom)
_307
_this tumblr is a sideproject of Spaniard-in-Paris illustrator Puño, and you shouln’t miss it for the world.
_306
_two days ago we forgot to mention how much have we enjoyed the short story The Halloween They All Dressed As Darth Vader by John Minichillo @ Nashville Review. We love it!
_304
_man, we’re loving the Nashville Review these days, we like it so much we got a bad case of the magazine-envy.
_303
_el Avionazo is Said Dokins‘ street intervention of La Plaza del Aguila in Mexico City. Wooster calls it inspired. We think it’s fun!
_302
_the newest edition of La Más Bella is on sale now! it features collaborations of hundreds of artists including one by the Gopher. Kudos Pepe & Diego!
_301
_for all musicians and music enthusiasts: this information graphic illustrates what it takes to make minimum wage selling music. Yikes!
_308
_the guys from idealworld.org should be very proud of the web domain they landed. Now, what in the hell is the website about?
_296
_believe us, we had a hard time choosing which of OVNI’s images we were going to put up here [ and yes, we're going through a phase of graffiti-from-barça ]
_294
_about a week ago we featured Icelandic illustration, today we bring you Icelandic painting via Eggert Petursson, who like many other Icelandic fellas, is obsessed with local fauna.
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“LCPL. Blake H. Howey, 20, was killed by an IED on February 18, 2007, in Falluja, Iraq. He was from Glendora, California.” This is his room.
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_Livia Corona’s photographic series “Two Million Homes for Mexico” focuses on mass development housing projects. What do you think?
_290
_founded in 1983 as a community photography initiative, Belfast Exposed Photography now functions as a gallery for contemporary photography with emphasis on commissioning and publication of new work [ says the website's home ]
_289
_what the frick is wrong with Eileen Wunderlich?! Oh well, buy her work, she’ll sign it in blood. Look for her at Bongout.
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_”visual artist Andrea Maack graduated from The Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 2005. She currently lives and works in Reykjavik” says her website.
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_and while looking for more information on Shauna Born we found Lauren Hall‘s art. Internet have we said we love you lately? well, weloveyou.
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_doesn’t look like Shauna Born is into updating her website, but it doesn’t matter to us, what we like is the portraits she makes.
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_colorful drawings (and even a wonderful Flickr account) by Paris-based artist Julien Kedryna of modelepuissance.
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_our dear friend Elizabeth Nuñez did an amazing piece for CNN about the Trail of Dreams, be sure to check it out !
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_a hate briefly that starts with a confession: we google’d “art + prick” and the first link was this one, which incidentally is something we hate.
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_ an “Iranian Underground Art Studio, Arabic and Persian Graffiti style, stencils, paintings, posters” awaits here.
_270
_we’re pretty sure you already know Christopher Payne‘s photography –being such a savvy art-dweller of a gopher yourself- but we just can’t resist posting about it. Go. Now.
_269
_New research suggests our brains react almost instantaneously to statements that challenge our moral values. Read more here.
_268
_don’t even ask us why, today seems a perfect day to listen to Debussy’s “La Cathédrale Engloutie” some nineteen-ten stuff for all.
_262
_is it us or is everybody designing logos with lions or dragons these days? our dear ol’ Gopher looks so harmless!
_258
_after looking at all the images on Nick Harrison‘s website you’ll find this message: “thank you for scrolling all the way down here”, nice!
_257
_studiofolk is the brainchild of French Illustrator Denis Carrier, featuring vector and hand-drawn works that fill us with joy!
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_the man behind the Indie Rock Coloring Book – graphic designer, art director and illustrator Andy J. Miller - is available for commisions!
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_check out this photostream by ‘P is for Philip’/Philip S. Maybe we’re bad internet detectives, but we couldn’t find the website behind the whiz!
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_the submissions for the 2010 edition of Curvy Book & Exhibition are now open. Curvy presents a selection of female graphic artists and illustrators from around the world.
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_Alex Varanese “is an artent believer in hard determinism” – perhaps it was fated that he would create a series of found art typefaces
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_it keeps happening: we choose a photo and after choosing it we find a thousand we like even more. Exhibit number n, the work of Luke Gregory.
_248
_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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_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?
_242
_for those of you into music monday’s and stuff, here’s our contribution: Boompa, canadians and into watercolor websites.
_241
_Alberto Hernandez is a graphic designer based in London who is looking for a gig. Check his stuff out!
_238
_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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_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…
_228
_on top of this words a detail from the Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy by the folks of Eco-Labs.
_227
_here’s something we love: creative publishing that is handmade and has numbered small print-runs. Duke Press, marry us?
_226
_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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_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”
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_words by Seek and Peak: “I’m Brandon Schaefer, a 25 year old graphic designer. I make things, and am available for freelance and commissions. Please, no crimefighting requests”.
_216
_we’ve never featured a booking agency, but we just felt for the name of this one: Approaching Serpents, hey the even book Eliot Lipp!
_214
_this is Good William and the Eye of the Dead by Andy Kehoe [ makes us think in some bearded Bowie lurking in a wood ] [ can Bowie grow a beard? ].
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_today we’ve got a bad case of the nerds: we’re effing loving the obssesive Photographic Periodic Table of Elements.
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_Jesse Corinella is a dynamo. Check out his illustration/ design/ photography/ retouching work HERE.
_210.5
_looking trough the window, enjoying vodka with some friends and wondering how Sauerbruch Hutton‘s building of the Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt is going? this is the last thing we heard about it.
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Freddie Stevenson will make your heart explode. I usually can’t get through the day without a fix. Don’t tell him I said that.
Stream his music on MySpace, or alternatively, listen and download here.
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_don’t know much about Choi Nam Yang other than she’s Korean and she has some pretty good work to her name.
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_we’re almost sure this is an indexing website by someone named Harsh Patel. Or whatever, we’re uncool, but his “drawer” is not.
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_Scott Jarvie “believes that the solution to any design problem can be assimilated by creative interrogation, research and thought.” Take, for instance, this chair made of straws.
_202
_how is it possible that we spent the whole 2009 without making a single post about Pietari Posti‘s work?
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_Antje Herzog loves to draw in the Zoo. And she’s awfully good at drawing other things too. Also, adorable website.
_198
_what type are you? video test made by the people of Pentagram, apparently we are Universal [ via Gopher friend Siera ].
_197
_continuing with this bookish theme we seem to have going, Andersen M studios makes fantastic paper stop motion animation. Also check out this work for the New Zealand Book Council,
_195
_some of you have asked about Matt Kish’s inspiration. Here it is: Zak Smith’s illustrations for Gravity’s Rainbow.
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_that thing about following blogs in languages we don’t understand, this week: Janine Viveka does photographs and general linkage.
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_inspired by a similar project on Gravity’s Rainboy, Matt Kish set out to illustrate every page of Moby Dick.
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_we begin the year with a nod to our beloved [ and snowy ] London: the creative agency Airside is one of our favorites out there.
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_peruvian born, Oregon dwelling Santiago Uceda is a lot friendlier than he appears on his bio picture. He also makes beautiful posters.
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_this nice Line_A font (and a couple of other fonts) are available for free at Rodrigo Fuenzalida‘s website! Also: Today is Gopher Editor Lope’s Birthday. Be sure to drop him some birthday love.
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_Tabitha Gwyn Osler lives in Halifax, but used to live in Vancouver. She takes pictures, draws, makes sculptures and jewelry, and we hope everyone in Vancouver is that cool.
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_Michael Latimer’s words: “I am a freelance artist and designer, I have worked as a creative director for many years for various companies, if you give me some pounds then i can do the same for you too.”
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_the fellas from hangar.org in Barcelona just released an online magazine featuring their resident artists.
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_no gifts under that tree? Fret not. Tao Lin is the author of Shoplifting From American Apparel. He also has a blog that is very funny. Go buy his book or read his blog.
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_for those of you looking for an agent, 2agenten is s nice German agency. They even represent our beloved Mario Wagner [ check out their store! ].
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_We Are The Friction is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators, published by Sing Statistics.
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_Spencer Charles lives in Salt Lake City. He created the packaging for his band on his kitchen table. Look at some more of his work here.
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_the posters that Paul Rogers has been doing for the Los Angeles Metro are so nice that they keep getting stolen out of the train cars. Also, check out his “name that movie” series.
_177
_Christina Ung retroactively affirms she left her native Bangkok for the Barbie Doll rich lands of Canadia. Her images are geared “towards young adults”
_176
_”your mind, a wild monkey” the website of Ommwriter told us. Oh yeah? well, your mind a bunch of 00101010110111′s, you, dumb website.
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_wow! the Gopher is featured on Kickstarter!!! we’re making our first edition and you can be part of it! go! go! go!
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_we may be a bit late in catching this, but Brock Davis makes something new and different every day.
_172
_the answer to a question we had for months [ and keeping the Dutch theme in this little blackboard ]: the wonderfull Jazz-a-Palooza Festival @ Utrecht artwork is put together by the people at Autobahn studio.
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_nerdy fan confession time: one day we would love to work with “Studio on Fire” design and letterpress studio. For now, drooling over BeastPieces will have to do.
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_it’s tuesday and we’re listening to Jenny Lewis with the Watson twins, and by “we” we mean Lope, ‘cuz Michu doesn’t like Jenny Lewis even a little bit.
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_what you see here is part of a campaign for MAMBO by the Australian art and design collective Rinzen. They have offices in Berlin, Brisbane, Melbourne and New York.
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_Greer Honeywill is an artist, photographer and sometime educator living in Melbourne, Autralia. We also like her work with birdcages.
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_Carolina Raquel Antich is an Argentinean currently based in Venice, she won the Italian Youth Art Prize in 2005, and exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale. In recent years she has held solo shows in New York, London, Rome, and Art-U-Room @ Tokyo.
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_Scott Campbell is a printmaker, illustrator and musician and one of the founders of the Young Monster collective in Tennessee.
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_hey! Print Magazine is following us on Twitter, we just found out today, we looove Print Magazine and especially their index of competitions.
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_Jonas Bergstrand is “no lone wolf” – and neither are his illustrations. Very I Dream of Jeannie at times. (via GrainEdit)
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_Shigeru Ito is a Japanese-born designer who moved to Bangkok to be with his wife. Romantic, yes, but also very talented.
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_as soon as you enter the website you read: we have decided not to die. Bold statements in the Arakawa + Gins website.
_153
_from WIRED’s GeekDad blog, a cute little list: Top 10 Bad Messages from Good Movies. Oh stop it, you know I’m a sucker for lists.
_152
_we had no idea that the people of Lineto were behind the amazing typo, graphic identity and signage of the Köln-Bonn airport in Germany that we visited in April, thanks to Billy Ben for the link!
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_San Francisco Illustrator and Artist Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch has a show at Fecal Face Gallery righthisminute. We wish we could go.
_150
_Tohyto is a good old friend, and his work gets more amazing each day. You should check out the Wall of Light visuals he made @ York with the people of Wassergate, go! go!
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_Diana Marie Behl’s work references “memory and narrative… metaphor and humor” She lives in South Dakota.
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_we want to have a freebies section soon, just like the people of the Subtype Foundry or Font Shop or even Toyota.
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_not everyday you bump into a “wearable textile sculpture”, so kudos to Nadine Byrne for surprising us, even deep into the XXI century.
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_In her website’s own words: Emily L. Eibel wants a cabin in the woods, but for now, she lives in Brooklyn.
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_Michael Paulkner works around “information technology and new media as it relates to branding, communications and design.” We basically think he’s awesome
_137
_Miss Lotion is a Danish-born artist who resides in Copenhagen. Apparently she has some sort helpless compulsion to draw?
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_”and from that moment every time I hear the words funiculi funicula I remember Asako Narahashi“ said Mike over some wine this week.
_135
_ Lumadessa is Josh Brill’s art and design label, where he aims to construct ‘visual reinterpretations of life’. We like his birds.
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_Mikey Burton is a midwestern designer living in Philadelphia who “still wants to make beautiful things for awesome people.” This is his dissertation project: New covers for required reading. Double nerd joy!
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_we can’t believe we have forgotten to feature our friends of La Más Bella experimental magazine until today. Sorry Diego & Pepe !
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_Agan Harahap is a self-taught photographer and illustrator in Indonesia. He plays around with photos.
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_”Ji Lee is a polymath of all sorts of creative pursuits” says a 99 Percent interview, check her work at pleaseenjoy [ be sure to check the New Museum campaign ].
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_About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. This website works to create web patterns for the colorblind.
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_her exhibition at ZingerPresents might be about to end, but we’re sure that Marijn van Kreij is up to something already.
_107
_“I can Read” is a picture blog with a simple concept: posting images with words in them. Kind of like PostSecret, but without all the guilt.
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_ Mauro Gatti’s website exclaims “Welcome, Stranger. While you are in my territory, no boring thoughts will fill your head.” We believe him.
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_amazingly, the sculptures that Jessica Fortner builds are even more complex than her illustration work.
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_Kim Sooja is a Korean-born installation/performance/video/everything-else artist living in New York City. Check out her work here.
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_All we know about George Myers is that he is a freelance illustrator and that he’s somewhere in the UK.
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_if you went to NYC recently and attended some undergound-ish concert, chances are that NYC Taper recorded it [ in the image, a set by Blood Warriors ].
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_Today (and tomorrow and forevermore) we bring you Julius Von Bismarck and his Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus.
_094
_the folks at NowNow [ Melbourne ] continue their series on studio visits, this time checking Dylan Martorell‘s place.
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_ We were saddened to learn that San Francisco bookshop Babylon Falling closed shop. They kept their website as an archive
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_oh come on! How are supposed to become anything BUT an artist if your name is Stephanie Wunderlich ?
_089
_Central Office & Co. is in Portland, Oregon. We like their webpage, and we think you’ll like it too.
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_Marc Alcock’s website tells us he is a graphic designer who believes “design begins with ideas.” This is the result.
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_ just thinking that it would be so amusing to find a website that draws inspiration / makes fun of the head of Monocle Magazine, and bam! Being Tyler Brûlé.
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_today the Gopher is divided, [ divided ! ] in civil strife: those who like the work of Norwegian artist Kristian Hammerstad and those who… well.
_083
_We got this 1958 illustration for Canada Dry from the amazing canadiandesignresource.ca / you must go there immediately.
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_google a phrase you hear on the street and in most cases some artsy art appears! . This week: “were never married” heard on the subway / photographs by Jackson Eaton.
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_Philadelphia based artist AJ Fosik makes bears out of paper. They kind of make me feel like i’m in a very cool NatScience museum.
_072
_what’s the idea behind the Complete Publications in PDF Format collection ? some of the books don’t even make sense at all.
_067
_Check out this article by Michael Bierut, a Critic in Graphic Design, titled 26 Years, 85 Notebooks. Also, the Gopher wishes Lili a happy birthday.
_066
_if you ever drop by Cheltenham don’t forget to visit the Meantime Project + Space. On top of this words some work by Freya Gabie [ no link for her because we just can't find anything on the interwebs ].
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_Sarah Cain is an American artist living in Los Angeles. Her work incorporates doilies, sometimes. via ArtNet
_062
_we had no idea that Sanna Annuka was half Finnish and half English, although we did figure out that the Kalevala had some sort of influence in her work.
_061
_Jill Lin made the scratch-n-sniff version of everyflavor beans, and in gorgeous tiny card form. See more of her work here
_058
_not only do we enjoy how Steve Raura’s website behaves [ all smooth movements and stuff ], but we certainly like his illustration work as well.
_056
_Mark Silipo from Magic Sweater has a zine well worth a check if you’re into illustration: Teen Vomit [ and yes, we're not that much into the mag name ].
_054
_ok, ok, we swear is the last time we feature somebody from the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, but truth is that we saw the work of Alec Soth also at the CCCB [ Barcelona ] website. Some saliency syndrome happening around here, sorry folks.
_053
_Independent book publisher Lines&Shapes has just launched OtherBooks, which “originated for the sole purpose of publishing more ambitious book projects…” We like the sound of that. via randominspiration
_052
_since we’re still checking the Stephen Wirtz Gallery from two posts ago, we’ll like to feature some Deborah Oropallo today; also, her book Pomp was just released so you might want to check that too.
_051
_Cardon Webb brings his design skills to the aid of missing cats and babysitter services in New York City. Sharpies, beware. For his complete portfolio go here.
_050
_in Raymond Saunder‘s work graffiti meets botanical meets chalk meets blackboard meets stencil, more images at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery.
_049
_Dirk Fowler’s work profile describes him as an old man stuck inside a young man’s body – who is not that young anymore. But look at these posters! via random inspiration
_047
_in the style of American paper-boys, rolled art pieces are distributed by bicycles in the streets to random passers-by, says the website of Papergirl, an art project that takes place once a year in Berlin since 2006.
_046
_just wondering how many anarchist / zine / activist shops like Irregular Rhythm Asylum are up and running in Tokyo.
_045
_ A few artists collaborated with cloudycollection to make a limited edition print set that reminds us of out parent’s childhoods. This one by Stephan Britt.
_043
_check out the Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists – because you don’t have a reason not to. This one by Leo Morey.
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_From the rare trove of unintelligible sources in the internets: the nonsense infographic here is credited to Viget via makenosound
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_We’re suckers for catalog-work, so we were thrilled to find the Museum of Flight’s airline logo archive. In other news of vintage interest, it’s Michu’s father’s birthday today!
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_if you drop by Morld‘s website don’t forget to check the Human’s Favorite Color [ 人間の好みの色 ] project.
_038
_we know this should be in the Sound part of the website, but what the hell, we’re really enjoying Minger Records music these days.
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_according to her website: Johanna Dery not only illustrates but also makes short films, drawings, prints, little books, and occasionally music & papier-mache creatures; multi-tasking, Rhode Island-style.
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_Rip: a Remix Manifesto is a documentary about copyright and the current generation done by Canadian activist Brett Gaylor. Another example of his position about copyright is the project Open Source Cinema.
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_the Tour De France wouldn’t have struck us as particularly artsy, but photographer Brent Humphrey has made its sights his muse.
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_nothing visual today, just Daniel W. Drazer‘s column at Foreign Policy and Tyler Brûlé‘s one at the Financial Times. Airport reading you may say.
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_yesterday’s Jared was 21 years old and from Boone, USA. Today some Pekka Niittyvirta, 35, and from Helsinki. That thing about taking photos of people from behind them.
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_if the title is to be taken literally, the guy bending in the photo is a priest. More info at Jared Boger‘s website [ can you believe that Boger is just 21 years old ? ].
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_ These seats are a part of Charlott Markus’ “Cinema de Erotique“. We guess these are shot in Amsterdam, where she lives.
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_the new week gets us thinking about color and gradient. Fitting our mood - Jordi Ferreiro [ Barça ].
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_we’re still wondering if the some of the portraits and landscapes by Lane Coder are shot in Polaroid.
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_and now that we’re talking about blogs: Boicozine was a project from Press Publish that we still miss, their new blog -just called Press Publish- is excelent, but has quite a different interface and feeling [ in the image some work by Beci Orpin featured on the PP blog ].
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_we had no idea that Adam Scott [ the painter not the golf player ] had showcased his work at Kavi Gupta Gallery.
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_Nathanael Rich of Slate asks why Scandinavians write such great crime fiction. RedRum in Oslo? (that legendary home of the accords) Click on the link for the story.
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_Here at the Gopher we love lists. Lists make up the geography of our minds. So when we found Webdesigner Depot’s list of 100 extraordinary paper designs we had to post it.
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_This is not a portfolio, but it is free content in easily digestible meta-format. Check out Chris Anderson’s Wired piece on why freebies are the future of business.
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_as if proof was needed that the editors of The Gopher [ Illustrated! ] spend a lot of time online [ particularly editors of the male gender who will will not <LOPE> name that tend to scan the interwebs for pretty tchatchkes all day long ] here’s a link to byAMT design, home of the Incredible Key-Shaped USB device. We were tempted to put a tiny picture of the I.K.S.U.S.B.D. here but decided to create an image instead, their [...]
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_last time we checked Richard Hogg he was not into making movies. Now he is. And yes, we still prefer his illustration work.
