Hollie Chastain
Hollie Chastain is a collage artist from Chatanooga. She does a ton of work, from album and book covers to collectible artwork, all using a mixed media approach. Chastain uses vintage source materials as both subject matter and surface, which…
Franklin Booth
Franklin Booth (1874-1948) was an American illustrator best known for his pen drawings that are nothing short of mind-boggling. Perhaps amusingly, his intricately detailed drawing style arose as a misunderstanding of printing processes – as a young boy growing up in…
Happy Birthday Steph!
My charming and talented wife is 40 today! Quarante is forty in French, we live in Montreal, you get the idea. Happy birthday, babes!
Virus Fonts presents Olympukes 2012
I’ve always been a fan of Otl Aicher’s designs for the 1972 Munich Olympics, particularly his iconography system. A design system that resonates so strongly is bound to inspire parody, however – enter Virus Fonts, re-examining the set for the 2012…
Eudardo Recife
Eduardo Recife is a Brazilian designer of many talents. He’s an illustrator, graphic designer, and typographer who has worked with an amazing range of clients including the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Showtime, et cetera, et cetera. His quirky, grunged-up…
Lady Aiko
Vandalog has an interesting discussion going on about the role of women artists in the street art scene, and how they are often under-represented. While this is largely true, the question of why fewer women get involved with street art…
Banksy vs. the Olympics
Well, this is weird. Banksy needs no introduction, as probably the most sought-after street artist in the world by collectors and graffiti afficianadoes alike. When one of his pieces appears on a wall, it is generally preserved as a tourist…
René Gruau
René Gruau was one of the most influential fashion illustrators of the 20th century. Gruau was born Renato Zavagli Ricciardelli delle Caminate in Rimini, on Italy’s Adriatic coast. When Gruau was 3, his father (an Italian count) and mother (a French…
Gerhard Richter – October 18, 1977
Gerhard Richter is a German artist, best known as a painter, particularly oil on canvas. He’s been one of my favourites for years, and I’m not alone: at auction his work achieves higher prices than any other living artist, approximately…
Stephan Balleux
Sometimes people talk about an artist being a “a painter’s painter”. This is a painter who really revels in painting itself, and whose work is more about actually painting than about making paintings “of” things. Stephan Balleux is like that….
