Dan Stafford, now thats what we’re talking about

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

English artist DanStafford creates super-slick and intelligent visual solutions to explain illusive ideas of complex cultural identity with a mix of startling colour and precise semiotics. We love it aller! (more…)

Made in Dubai 2010

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

MinD opened in DUTAC Mall of the Emirates on Sunday and we’ve been in a catatonic state of denial since. Anyway we’ve come to terms with it, mulled it over and decided that a post must be made so here we are. So where shall we start oh yeh MinD in their own words MinD is “an ‘alternative’ art festival – Focusing on emerging talent living, working and producing art in Dubai, MinD provides visitors to Dubai an insight into the developing local art scene. (more…)

Diego Beyro:Orgasmatron

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

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The orgasm series by Diego Beyro. Hanging sheet installation depicting portraits of people in the midst of bliss. Diego Beyró was born in 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied Fine Arts at IUNA and Art Direction in La Escuela Superior de Creativos Publicitarios before finding work as an Art Director at El Cielo of Agulla & Baccetti in Buenos Aires. (more…)

Paper Sculpture from Helen Musselwhite

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

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English artist Helen Musselwhite creates beautiful images and sculpture from paper. Each piece combines the hand cutting, folding and scoring of a wide range of papers and card that are further worked on to create patterned and textured surfaces. (more…)

V&A Decode generative identity

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Digital agency Saint and Karsten Schmidt have created a generative marketing campaign for the V&A’s new show of digital art and design, Decode.

V&A Decode generative identity from postspectacular on Vimeo.

Layering Chaos…Sarah Spitler

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

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Contrasting the synthetic world with ephemeral elements, Sarah Spitler’s work is an intricate chaos of abstract forms expressed through vitriolic mark making and incidental fusions. Enjoy! (more…)

Fantastical works by Klaus Haapaniemi

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Picture 3Our love of contemporary Scandanavian art and design is currently boundless, particularly when it comes in a slightly surreal package. Klaus Haapaniemi’s work is very playful yet has a strong sense of narrative, possible a manifestation of his references to the Kalevala.  (more…)

The unstoppable Jasper Goodall

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

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Sleek, suggestive and often dripping in sauce. One can never tire of Jasper’s work. Aller!

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James Roper: Peakshift

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

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The work of James Roper fuses disparate images from a variety of sources such as fashion
magazines, animation stills, comics, the Internet as well as his own photo’s and drawings. He predominantly
chooses images to create forms which register a visual ‘peak shift’, a term given to the
phenomena of ‘neurological attraction’ that appears in both humans and animals to an extreme
characterisation of an object. (more…)

Yulia Brodskaya

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

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A snapshot of some of the beautiful paper typographic work from Russian illustrator Yulia Brodskay. Yulia has rapidly earned an international reputation for her intricate and innovative paper illustrations. Submitted by Yvonne Bommes. (more…)