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January 14, 2016
Woodcuts of geometric landscapes by Lorenz Stöer
Woodcuts of geometric landscapes by Lorenz Stöer

Lorenz Stöer is a German artist who lived most of his life in the 16th century. His major work as an engraving artist is the series published about perspective and geometric shapes, you can see some of these woodblock prints in the current blog post. The artist was heavily influenced in his craft by another German […]

January 8, 2016
Seth Clark creates collages of deteriorating architecture
Seth Clark creates collages of deteriorating architecture

Seth Clark is a graphic designer currently based in Pittsburgh. He still works as a print designer, but it’s his collage work that really caught our attention. Clark discovered this craft while earning his BFA in graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Art has now become the center of Clark’s activity, he […]

January 6, 2016
Victor Enrich creates surprising manipulated cityscapes
Victor Enrich creates surprising manipulated cityscapes

Victor Enrich is a fine artist from Barcelona, in Spain. He is self-taught and works mostly with photography and digital art. Looking at his work, one would think that he could have made a good career in architecture. For over ten years now, his work has revolved around the city with various projects that took new […]

December 31, 2015
Micro Matter: wonderful tiny houses built in glass tubes
Micro Matter: wonderful tiny houses built in glass tubes

Armed with cutters, knives, cissors, paper, wood, and a lot of patience, Rosa de Jong creates impressive tiny houses that she keeps in small glass test tubes. It’s not obvious on the studio pictures, but you can see on the photos of her working that the houses and other structures are really tiny. This ongoing […]

December 14, 2015
Darryl Cox thinks outside the box with branches coming out of his frames
Darryl Cox thinks outside the box with branches coming out of his frames

Framing can be an art by itself. The necessary craft needed to build frames that go along with paintings is a delicate and demanding one. In a way, it must be somewhat frustrating to do framing as you have to stay with the same shapes that just go around the art. Darry Cox just decided that […]

December 11, 2015
Embroidered Landscapes by Ana Teresa Barboza
Embroidered Landscapes by Ana Teresa Barboza

Ana Teresa Barboza is a new kind of visual artist. She takes a craft traditionally used to create clothes, knitting, and turns it into a medium for wall art. Her pieces are framed and hung on the walls, but often feel the need to rush out of the frame. The Peruvian artist mimicks patterns of nature […]

The amazing paper cuttings of Georgia Russel
The amazing paper cuttings of Georgia Russel

Georgia Russel works with books that she rips apart, cuts with a knife, and creates paper cuttings that almost look like sculptures. The artworks of the Scottish artist give new meanings to the pictures taken from the books, with a new organic rythm that comes from the cutting. Via L’art du papier découpé (in french).

December 6, 2015
Architectural structures made of Swedish houses
Architectural structures made of Swedish houses

Using small Swedish houses photography, Anastasia Savinova creates new architectural structures using elements of the architecture. The new structures digitally built through experimentation are probably a good take at what a folks’ cathedral could look like nowadays. You can view more of these on the artist’s website, on the page dedicated to the project. The digital […]

December 1, 2015
The incredible modern calligraphic work by Pokras Lampas
The incredible modern calligraphic work by Pokras Lampas

Based in St-Petersburg, Russia, Pokras Lampas is only 24 years old, but he already has the portfolio of an experienced artist. Probably due to his young age, Lampas likes to take his calligraphic talents further and experiment with it. He created some impressive series where he practiced his art on women’s bodies, or he regularly […]

November 29, 2015
Mernet Larsen likes to put things in (weird) perspective in her paintings
Mernet Larsen likes to put things in (weird) perspective in her paintings

In Mernet Larsen’s world, being two feet away from another person can result in one person being gigantic, and the other tiny. Hell, even sitting at the same table can make you look like miles away. The artist, who lives and work in both New York and Tempa, Florida, has been painting for over thirty […]

November 26, 2015
8-bit art and animations by Toyoya
8-bit art and animations by Toyoya

When Toyoya Li creates art, you get a strange mix between pop art and 8-bit illustrations. The Chinese designer, based in Beijing, works as a freelance illustrator and an interactive designer, but he truly is an artist before all. The artist goes deep into research with animated gifs and other 8-bit illustrations that make bright […]

November 17, 2015
Prints of 19th-century Japanese miniature landscapes
Prints of 19th-century Japanese miniature landscapes

After Hokusai and his great wave, Hiroshige is probably the most famous ukiyo-e (japanses prints) artist. One of his famous series is the 53 stations of the Tokaido. The Tokaido is one of the most important roads in Japan, at least historically. A lesser known artist, Utagawa Yoshishige, also did a series on the 53 stations […]

November 14, 2015
This artist turns stones into soft sculptures
This artist turns stones into soft sculptures

Since Jesus, noone ever turned water into wine again, unfortunatly. However, José Manuel Castro López does something almost as cool, although not as tasty; he turns rocks and stones into soft things. The Spanish artist’s sculptures make it look as rocks are just a soft things that you can play with. This may be far from […]

November 13, 2015
Star Wars characters reimagined as ancient greek statues
Star Wars characters reimagined as ancient greek statues

Travis Durden is a French artist whose creations often go viral due to his cool approach and talent for execution of the designs. He did it again with these awesome sculptures that immortalize Darth Vader and other Star Wars characters as Renaissance sculptures. You will obviously not be able to purchase the sculptures, but the […]

November 10, 2015
Money for nothing: one hundred dollars “destroyed” for art by Marcus Kraft
Money for nothing: one hundred dollars “destroyed” for art by Marcus Kraft

Swiss designer and artist Marcus Kraft released this interesting project recently. Kraft took a hundred one dollar bills and turned them into art. The US law strictly forbids this and has quite impressive sentences for people who destroy money, but Kraft doesn’t really care (not being a US citizen helps). The results of the artist’s […]