Good, fun art & design!
Some Bolsheviks from from Maira Kalman’s The Principles of Uncertainty (book found via Pikaland). Maira also worked on the illustrated version of Strunk & White’s classic The Elements of Style.
Click on the images above or the links below to see some of my favorite blog-finds this week! Remember to right click to open in a new window! Have a wonderful weekend!
The Seven Rules of Astronomy from Iamstillalive.net
(handset wood type letterpress poster, 13×20, $30)
“Two Semesters of intensive astronomy distilled into seven handy rules” (IAmStillAlive.net).
I took an astronomy class and absolutly loved it. Had I been an astronomy major, I hope that someone would have bought me this print, written “happy graduation” on the back, and then put it in a nice frame with white matting. Actually, I kind of want it even though I didn’t major in astronomy.
I love this week’s Tiny Showcase print by Andrea Offerman ($20) which depicts a scene from The Life of Pi.
The former English major in me is feeling really guilty about this post, but the art and irony lover in me is feeling quite good.
Last week in Print Magazine’s blog The Daily Heller Steve Heller posted about Leanne Shapton’s “book blocks.” These blocks might take up the same space as an actual book, but they certainly won’t take up all of that reading time. They are literally wooden blocks painted to look like popular or classic books. Something deep inside of me wants to use them to decorate my mantel.
Since it’s Book Week here at S&D, the Donut of the Week is aptly book-related. There are actually multiple books about donuts, but I choose to highlight this 1970s children’s book, Who needs Donuts? by Mark Alan Stamaty, a cult classic among children and artsy adults. (More pictures etc after the jump.) (more…)
I love these mixed-media map collages by Chris Kenny (via Etsy’s weekly blog round-up).
“Chris Kenny produces an unexpected kind of poetry with his three-dimensional ‘drawings’ and constructions made from twigs, fragments of maps and strips of found text. Objects or phrases of the same type are mounted on pins and organised in a way that suggests an intention to rationalise the differences between them” (englandgallery.com).
If you are in the US, I hope you are outside somewhere looking up at the sky this fourth of July!
This print, called Grande Finale, is basically sold out over at 20×200, a web-site that brings art to little people like you & me (the smallest size is printed in a set of 200 and costs only $20, hence the web-site’s name). Also, they usually have new prints every week.
Happy fireworks!
I found the above and below images as I was reading an article about the declining birth rate in Europe and America in the New York Times (yes, I have a wide range of interests…).
They’re by Edward Del Rosario, a Brooklyn-based artist whose trademark seems to be scenes of distance and loneliness. Some of his paintings are a little scary and make me want to run for cover in something cuter, but I really do like these two from the NY Times.
Photo: Mark Renders/Getty Images, from NY Daily News
The NY Daily News has a great collection of photos from this weekend’s annual sea sculpture contest in Belgium.
This week on the Storque’s News from the Craft + Style Blogosphere, A Print-a-Day’s terrariums were mentioned (Stickers & Donuts was mentioned last week concerning our Renegade Craft Fair Prints post!).
Anyway, back to terrariums. Aren’t these cute? I also love A Print-a-Day’s downloads section. I’m definitely going to be coming back for more!
Subtle Circle offers the kind of cool randomness I tend to enjoy, with updated collections of various kinds of arts from prints to t-shirts to — well, you can see for yourself with the list above.
Right now they’re offering four wilderness prints for $20 from the Wilderness Collection (see below).
And previously they’ve offered buttons, badges, and T-shirts (in The Cold Collection and The Beer and Skittles Collection) but they’re young, so more (I imagine) is to come.
Mostly, though, I enjoy their watercolor-inspired web-site, which is a refreshing change from all of the cold, hard type you see everywhere else (er, like here).
Just discovered the very artful blog of a freelance illustrator in Sweden. I love her moleskin notebook illustrations best. A few of my favorites below. (more…)
Tinyshowcase.com helps real people with real budgets (yay) own real art (even if it is sometimes kind of tiny). (more…)
There is no actual hose in this picture!!! It’s 3D sidewalk art by Julian Beever. TONS more after the jump. (more…)
I was just devouring the “fashion” tag over at Indexed (which presents a humorous, daily graph on an index card every weekday) and found this one (above). Apparently, I range from colorblind to busy. (This post was contemplated in preparation for the coming post…)
(olive & oscar, 4″x8″ acrylic on wood)
Yes, I literally said “OMG, CUTE!” when I saw this painting over at Creative Thursday. And if you think this is adorable, just wait until you see her other paintings. She has a lot of them. She paints a painting every day. EVERY. DAY. She thought she was going to post her paintings every Thursday, but we at Stickers & Donuts know how blogging and posting can runaway with you… or you can runaway with it… or something…. Anyway, she’s got her own Esty store stocked full of cutie paintings for $35.
Okay, I apologize for the obsessive alliteration in my title, but the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art actually was fabulous and it’s only there until May 18th so you better run quick!
The paintings were, of course, spectacular (it was especially great to see Kahlo’s The Frame in real life because it has two layers — the painting and a frame of glass — that give the painting an effect and look impossible to see in these 2D renditions). But most exciting for me were the personal photographs of Frida Kahlo and her husband Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The expression Frida makes in these photos — straight and stoic — is similar to the face she makes in most of her self-portraits.
“These photographs—several of which Kahlo inscribed with dedications, effaced with self-deprecating marks, or kissed, leaving a lipstick trace—pose fascinating questions about an artist who was both the consummate manufacturer of her own image and a captivating and willing photographic subject.”
The exhibit and museum aren’t cheap (you’ve got to buy tickets both to the museum & special timed tickets for the Frida exhibit itself), but if you do it right you can save a few bucks. Check out the Frida Kahlo ticketing page for information on (more…)
I love Urban Outfitter’s US map that features artist-designed postcards from 50 states (plus some Canadian provinces). Here’s the New Mexico postcard: (more…)
Imagine a big online magazine of black and white drawings and graphics created by all different artists. Now imagine printing the whole thing out. On sticker paper. If that doesn’t get your heart pumping, I don’t know what will. (more…)
Even though I wanted Urban Outfitters’ City Stickers, I didn’t come away from Urban Outfitters empty handed. Instead, I picked up a free nine pack of VOTE stickers. I just scanned in some of my vote stickers (above), and then checked out the Urban Outfitters “Pick a Winner” blog, which includes some lovely examples of what some artists do when it’s time to get political. (I imagine I’ll feature some of the posters on Stickers & Donuts soon.) (more…)
Urban Outfitters is currently giving away free stickers at stores (and coupons for 10% off online purchases, in case you wanted to know), including stickers from the My City Sticker Project.
“Urban Outfitters asked 18 artists and designers to describe their city in sticker form. Each contributor took a unique slant on the “My City” theme, creating a collection just as diverse as the cities they are from.”
Thomas Allen creates art out of old novels by cutting out select pieces of covers and insides and photographing them with a meaningful depth of field. (more…)
Peter Callesen creates these amazing fairytale cutouts (along with many other amazing things). (more…)
