2011 November The Archives
Wednesday 30 November, 2011
Philosophy on the wall
Socrates, Aristotle, Nietzsche… YAWN! Sounds familiar? Philosophy might be boring to some, but certainly not to Genis Carreras, an award winning graphic designer from London. Taking profound ideas and concepts that have shaped the collective thought of the modern world, Genis explains them in a minimalistic fashion through a series of posters. He touches upon [...]
Saturday 19 November, 2011
Dream Big
Solving the Rubik’s Cube has never been an easy task for most of us. Now imagine creating a portrait out of it. Pete Fecteau, a designer from the USA, has used 4242 officially licensed Rubik’s Cubes to create a mosaic of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Pete ‘reversed solved’ or twisted each cube so that one [...]
Wednesday 09 November, 2011
Drawing with Pencil Shavings
There are people who draw with pencils, paints, pens and sometimes, just plain simple water and nothing else. And then there are people like Kyle Bean, who sharpen their pencils, keep the pencils aside and then use the pencil shavings to form some delightful portraits. Painstakingly arranging the pencil shavings to form faces, Kyle’s work [...]
Wednesday 09 November, 2011
Branded in Cinema
Anyone who has (dared to) watch Ra.One will have experienced the lengthy tribute to all the partnering brands which occurs before the movie commences and runs for a good 10 minutes. And as the movie begins to roll, you will find those brands come up in some scene or the other. Strategic product placement in [...]
Tuesday 08 November, 2011
Pixelated Invasion
Seen one too many alien invasion movies? Conditioned by the likes of Michael Bay way too often to be alarmed by hovering space crafts in the skies? Then this is something you will have never expected. Something that’s returned from the past to claim the future. ‘Pixels’, a short film by Patrick Jean, lives up [...]
Tuesday 08 November, 2011
Stack ‘em up
The most stacking that we may have done or will do in our entire lifetimes are with our clothes, which on extremely rare days, remain neatly stacked in a pile in our wardrobes. However, there are a few in the world, who take the act of stacking one step further. The Amazing Dice Man Dennis [...]
Friday 04 November, 2011
The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen feat. Tom Morello
From the very beginning, music and social awareness have had a very close relationship, one often being the catalyst for the other. From Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Jim Morrison and John Lennon to Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against The Machine and System Of A Down, whenever authority has been misused or a [...]
Friday 04 November, 2011
A Twist of Genius
This post might make you question your eyesight. Or at least have you blink twice and rub your eyes to check if what you see is real. And the reality is as surreal as it gets. The 39GeorgeV, a building in Paris, France can only be called an epitome of urban surrealism manifesto. On the [...]
Wednesday 02 November, 2011
The Poptastic Art of Stanley Chow
It’s been a while since I’ve quietly been following the work of Stanley Chow. It was his piece on ‘Lost In Translation’ that first caught my eye. Since then I’ve seen his body of work expand to include a vast number of illustrations of celebrities. Chow’s collection of pop culture personalities include faces from the [...]
Wednesday 02 November, 2011
Lego Homes of Gloom
Could damaged, burnt buildings look beautiful? Mike Doyle could tell you just how beautiful. A design director from NYC, Mike has created a series of intriguing Victorian-style mansions with intricate details that would impress the living daylights out of any self-respecting art enthusiast. These 5½ feet mansions have been created from Lego bricks only—nearly 130, [...]
