You may remember that I posted about Chris Piascik a little while ago. Well, I hit him up and he was more than down to contribute a wallpaper for the site. I’m stoked with the results. Find your resolution size below: 1024 X 768 1200 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 x 1050 1920 x [...]
Damn, just came across Chris Piascik’s stuff. His SITE is full of all kinds of sweet illustrations that I just spent a 1/2 hour looking through. Extra bonus for the background in BMX. Cool stuff.
Here’s a wallpaper that Adam Roye whipped up for us. Click below to find the resolution size for your monitor. Enjoy! Look forward to more wallpapers from us in the future.
I’ve been a fan of Jean Paul Goude for years, but just spent some time over the weekend, digging through his site again… and I thought I’d post a bunch of the images that I saved. Keep reading to check them out and make sure to brush up on your Jean Paul Goude via his [...]
NOWNESS has a great feature on calligrapher Nicolas Ouchenier, who is basically in charge of creating all the had written invitations for Fashion Week, working with all the big brands and creates original alphabets and letterforms for each client. Check out the interview and more on NOWNESS and keep reading to see a few more [...]
If you live in Boston, Chicago, London, New York City, San Francisco or Washington DC and admire their transit system and like poster art, than TRNSPRTNATION is for you!!!
Honestly, I don’t know what took so long for this Q&A with Jon Contino to happen. Harrison and I both love his stuff, we’ve featured him on here before, so there really is no excuse. Anyway, Jon Contino is an amazing illustrator based out of New York who specializes in hand lettering. His work looks [...]
Illustrations by Gianmarco Magnani. Pretty, pretty, pretty good! Check out his site HERE and order prints HERE.
Check out a great series of typographic treatments based on cities around the world from designer Albin Holmqvist.
The artist Cy Twombly passed away on Tuesday. Gaining notoriety in New York in the late 50′s along side his friends Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Twombly’s simplistic scribbles and drips have been a huge influence on artists over the past 20+ years including Jean Michel Basquiat. He passed away in Rome at the age of [...]
Check out a great video on artists Tom Sachs directed by The Selby, shot by Ed David.
Check out some great collage work from Los Angeles based artist Victor Antonio.
If you’re a fan of US History and design, than Momentus is for you. Even if you’re not a fan, this is still rad. Momentus is a new project that launched today, which involves a slew of designers/illustrators taking on certain events in US history. The first one just so happens be from one of [...]
I was browsing Tumblr earlier and came across the above graphic, which caught my eye. Being a fan of simple graphics with feeling, I had to know who was responsible. Since credit is hardly ever given to random stuff on Tumblr, you never know who the hell has done what, which led me to unleash [...]
50 AND 50 IS A CURATED PROJECT WHICH ATTEMPTS TO CONSTRUCT A HANDSOME NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT OUR COUNTRY. FIFTY DESIGNERS, ONE PER STATE, HAVE ILLUSTRATED THEIR STATE MOTTO, CREATING SOMETHING STEEPED IN HISTORY BUT COMPLETELY MODERN AND UNIQUE: A KIND OF DESIGNER’S ATLAS. All these came out awesome. Go HERE.
Federal put together a great short documentary about their latest series of print ads. Each ad is an original painting by the artist Robert Sample featuring a rider from the Federal team. Keep reading to check out the video and click here to check out the first two ads from the series.
Archan Nair is an illustrator based out of India with some great collage work. Thanks to Laura Keener for the link!
Ever wanted to see how a pro BMXer lives? Now you can, thanks to ESPN… They have a dope gallery online with a bunch of photos of Aaron Ross’s new house. After buying his first place and getting all settled in, Sandy Carson went through and documented Aaron’s spot. I’m really feeling the cement floors [...]
Check out this video of OK Go, where they march through the streets of LA playing music with a bunch of people. They teamed up with Range Rover for this project and I guess they were linked up to some sort of GPS that tracked their paths on a map, forming a big OK GO… [...]
KC Badger sent through info on an art show going down in AZ. Go HERE for the press release.
Incase and José Parlá have teamed up for the latest “Curated by Arkitip” project where they produced three pieces for the Incase collection — a MacBook Pro Sleeve, an iPad Book Jacket and an iPhone Slider Case. To go along with the project, they have also produced a great short film documenting Parlá’s painting process. [...]
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