Sushi Friends
Poor Aquaman. Always the odd one out.. Click on the image to view large. “Sushi Friends,” by Ape Lad. Vote here, if you want to see this printed on a…
Tea Time With The Hulk
Awww, Hulk…you’re just are a big, classy softie on the inside! “Tea Time Hulk,” a digital illustration by DA user FUNKYMONKEY1945.
Claudio Parentela’s Pop Art Collages and Paintings
A man of many talents, Italian artist Claudio Parentela has been an active member of the international underground art scene for many years now. His mixed-media collages and paintings will firmly grab your attention, disorienting you with their raw, frenetic edginess and energy.
Claudio’s huge body of work has been featured in numerous magazines and art galleries. He lives and works from Catanzaro, Italy.
Link to Claudio Parentala’s site (NSFW, and filled with animated gifs).
Hit the jump to see some select art from his portfolio.
Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Companion – Scrabble Ad
Click the image to embiggen. Created by Ogilvy & Mather, Costa Rica. [via I Believe in Advertising]
Phaser, Set To…Bacon?
The very idea of transmogrifying troublesome tribbles into bacon sounds so wrong, yet so delicious! An t-shirt designed by robotrobotROBOT aka Paul Harckham. On sale at Nowhere Bad.
Future Faces – Cyborg Heads Under Assembly
A brilliant series of futuristic illustrations of attractive robot women by Billy Nuzez, an illustrator, graphic designer, and animator based in Boston. Nunez says that he is currently working on a Communications Design BFA at Pratt Institute.
You can check out more of his work by visiting his portfolio site.
Hit the jump to see more illustrations from the series.
Tiny Story – Animated Short Film
Tiny, but filled with soul! Watch “Tiny Story” from Sebas & Clim on Vimeo.
“Unreal Estate”- Art Show Explores Famous Pop Culture Locations
Spoke Art Gallery is presenting “Unreal Estate,” the debut art show of talented illustrator Tim Doyle, which recreates fictional locations made famous throughout pop culture. Doyle says that the show “is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but we can never actually visit.”
From Moe’s Tavern to the Bluth Banana Stand, Doyle’s realistic and illustrative reinterpretations of television’s most iconic places is a captivating voyage. For this new body of work, Doyle has moved away from his usually big bold colors and comic-book line quality to create a more illustrative style, with muted tones and colors that reflect a mood or time of day. He attempts to preserve and honor the non-physical spaces found in this show with the same care and intention given to iconic real world locations. This series is one artist’s intensely personal journey through a world which is universal to us all.
The show will have it’s opening night on February 2nd, 2012, from 6pm – 10pm. It will be on view till February 23, 2012.
Visit Spoke Art for more details.
Hit the jump to see more artworks from the show.
Stunning Gaetano Sciolari Chandelier
A 1960’s vintage chandelier designed by Italian designer Gaetano Sciolari. The milk colored plastic body is surrounded by aluminum rings, and lit up by two lamps on the inside. The…
Mud Monkey’s Awesome Sculptures
Simon Boses’ (aka Mud Monkey) wondrously-imaginative clay sculptures are the result of a childhood fired by exposure to art from many different cultures, and a staple diet of watching cartoons.
Sometimes the most simply drawn cartoon characters can evoke deep feelings of empathy in us, and Boses has been able to harness the same phenomena in his works with great effect. His works have a whimsical and delightful quality to them, and yet, they are rich with hidden and subtle symbolism, that reveals itself upon repeat viewings.
I found the stylized lines and forms of cartoons echoed in the art of many cultures. African masks, Egyptian tablet figures, Coptic portraiture and Australian aboriginal bark paintings were among those that captured my imagination and inspired me to weave a thread of symbolism into my work. This is where my own mythology comes in.
A piece is successful when it reveals a familiar moment in what it is to be human. It can be something as small as the affection one feels toward their favorite toy or as complicated as an unrecognized injustice our society unintentionally supports. When the audience recognizes that moment as something from their own lives, possibly something they never took time to think about I consider it to be a success.
Boses is an alumnus of the Maryland Institute College of Art for ceramic, and lives and works in Seminole, Florida. He undertakes commissions, and you can buy his (very affordable) sculptures at his Etsy store.
Link to Mud Monkey.
(Thanks, Kevin Titzer!)
Hit the jump to see more artwork.