This is the most beautiful photo album I’ve ever seen! I’m totally thrilled! I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures as much as I did! All collages were part of this impressive “Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage” exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago a while ago.
If you ask me – simple ideas are the most beautiful ones! You can find these adorable tees at Baron Wells!
I was totally thrilled when I saw these lovely animations Reed + Rader did for Verrier! I really like the simplicity of this idea! Definitely a wonderfull new way for a lookbook! Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader are the two behind Reed + Rader. They enjoy cats, stuffed animals, nintendo, pizza, robots, outer space, augmented reality, pc’s, deli sandwiches and computing on the internets. They live in New York. They also have this cute Mister Wubba Polaroid project you should definitely check out! Thank’s to Miss Moss (I discovered it at her site)! Via Design for Mankind.
I hope you all had a wonderful christmas! Mine was great as I expected it to be! I’m signing off till new year now – relaxation…! I wish you all happy holidays and hope to see you in 2012!
Those who know me a little better knowing that I’m a big fan of Lotte Reininger’s work. It’s amazing what two skilful hands and a scissor are able to accomplish! Here are only a few examples of her incredible work.
“Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, German Empire, on June 2, 1899. As a child, she was fascinated with the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry, even building her own puppet theater so she could put on shows for her family and friends.
As a teenager, Reiniger fell in love with cinema, first with the films of Georges Méliès for their special effects, then the films of actor and director Paul Wegener, known today for The Golem (1920). In 1915, the young woman attended a lecture by Wegener that focused on the fantastic possibilities of animation.
After a bit of persuasion, she convinced her parents to enroll her in the acting group Wegener belonged to, the Theater of Max Reinhardt. In an attempt to attract the attention of her distant and very-busy hero, she started making silhouette portraits of the various actors around her. This had its desired effect, and soon she was making elaborate title cards for Wegener’s films, many of which featured silhouettes…” Go on reading about her life and work here!
You better clickety click on the images for the high res view – it’s amaaaaazing!
“Victoria Garcia is an artist, designer and illustrator from Sydney, Australia.
She currently works as a textiles designer where she creates digital textile print designs for both local and international clients that have included Ginger and Smart, Peter Alexander, Lisa Ho, Marnie Skillings and Karen Walker.
Victoria’s approach to graphic design has been heavily influenced by her illustrative work and she specializes in creating hand drawn imagery and pattern.
ARTIST STATEMENT
‘SURROCODELIA’ is an amalgamation of the art and aesthetic movements – Surrealism, Rococo and Psychedelia. I am deeply inspired by the idea of the ‘Wunderkammer’ also known as ‘Cabinets of Curiosity’, a concept which emerged in seventeenth century Europe, as people began to collect and display objects they considered to be special, unique or exotic. Sometimes referred to as the precursors of Natural History Museums, these rooms were fully immersive environments composed of objects that aimed to reflect and record the endless wonder of the world. A time before modern science had emerged, these objects were seemingly arranged in the room more for aesthetic effect rather than taxonomic reason.
I am fascinated by this period in time where society seemed briefly suspended between the romanticism of the Wunderkammer and the dawn of modern science. I feel the word ‘SURROCODELIA’ embodies my personal Wunderkammer – the world I try to bring to life through drawing, and all the things I love and collect – natural history, art history, the Australian bushland where I grew up, pattern and drawing.”
“Thea Kliros was born in New York City and currently lives there. She studied art at Bennington College in Vermont and at the Yale University School of Art and Design in New Haven, Connecticut. She began her career as a painter and worked on dioramas at the Natural History Museum in Washington, DC.
She then moved to Europe, lived in Spain and Switzerland for a number of years, continued to paint, exhibited, and gained experience as a freelance illustrator.
Her illustrations have been featured in magazines as diverse as The Economist and National Lampoon, but until the late eighties, she concentrated on fashion illustrations. These have appeared in numerous publications including Woman’s Wear Daily, Vogue, Seventeen and Good Housekeeping.”
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This pattern is a little more commercial, but I had some fun making it anyway. I wish you all a happy week!
