chrissie loves you

UK illustrator Chrissie Abbott

Baptiste Debombourg made this mural (Air Force One) of Icarus with 35000 staples. Debombourg’s works derive from the relationship he draws together between everyday things and his experiences with art. For the most part his works are sculptural, but he also creates performances, drawings, photographs, and videos. The diversity of means and materials relates to the way he creates artistic tropes out of ephemeral matter — slave objects we use and throw away, like packing material Styrofoam and cardboard, shopping catalogs, cigarette butts, staples — and support materials — the things we take for granted, like walls, security glass, and furniture, which he treats as if they were precious.

lehel kovacs

Just stumbled across Lehel Kovacs work. Lehel is a freelance illustrator based in Budapest, and his hand-drawn line works are usually combined with digitally created colors (he also makes screen prints). In one online interview, when asked how he got started in design, Lehel answers "When I was a kid I just loved the taste of pencils, so that was a first impression which made me fall in love with it and it's still my favorite medium to work with."

the road is hers

Amylin Loglisci is an artist and photographer with wanderlust.

When she's not on the road, she can be found in her home town of Istanbul.

hedi slimane

Just stumbled across this photograph by Hedi Slimane and it stopped me in my tracks. And if you don't already, know about him.

look closer

Keri Smith's How To Be An Explorer Of The World

alice stevenson

Love this print Sensory Perception by Alice Stevenson. Alice graduated from the University of Brighton Illustration program in 2005. Since then she's been working as a freelance illustrator for folks such as Faber & Faber, Puffin, the G2 section of The Guardian and the Time Out Guides.

everything's okay

Everything's Okay from Natalie Perkins's drawing set.

sewn in...

I Love You So Much It Breaks My Heart by Joetta Maue on Etsy...

mia delcasino

San Diego based artist Mia DelCasino is one of my favorite photographers. Her work is breathtakingly ethereal and really needs to be viewed up close and personal in order to appreciate the full force of its beauty (the pieces are rather large in actuality). Congratulations to Mia, who just won an honor of distinction accolade in the annual Photography Masters Cup for her piece Kerry Blue (top). May your photographic talents continue to reflect the inner and outer beauty that you yourself possess (whoop-whoop!).

rob ryan

I randomly stumbled across Rob Ryan's book This Is For You one afternoon while browsing in the Muswell Hill Book Store, and I've been a fan ever since. This Is For You is a fairytale told through paper cut-out art, which explores the themes of love and loneliness. Rob is a British artist who specializes in papercutting and screen-printing, and who has a Masters in printmaking from the Royal College of Art.

'YOU HAVE ALREADY GONE TO BED. I STAY UP TO KEEP DRINKING AND LISTEN TO MUSIC AND MY GOD IT SOUNDS GOOD. PEOPLE KEEP ON MAKING GREAT MUSIC. BUT THERE ARE ONLY DO MANY NOTES AND ORDERS TO PUT THEM IN. HOW DO THEY DO IT?? HUMAN BEINGS SO RELENTLESS IT BREAKS YOUR HEART. JUST WHEN YOU’RE ABOUT TO GIVE UP ON THEM ALTOGETHER – THE SHIT WAY THEY TREAT EACH OTHER – AND THEN YOU HEAR A SONG SO TRUE AND BEAUTIFUL YOU INSTANTLY FORGIVE THEM EVERYTHING AND HEAR THEIR REAL VOICE “I KNOW I DO WRONG BUT I REALLY WANT TO TRY TO BE GOOD.” AND THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT MY DEATH AND ALL THE GREAT MUSIC THAT WOULD BE MADE FROM THAT DAY ON AND I WOULDN’T GET TO HEAR A SINGLE NOTE. AND I CRIED TEARS OF 100% SELFISH JEALOUSY. JEALOUS OF SOMETHING YET EVEN TO HAPPEN THAT WOULD NEVER AFFECT MY ROTTING DECOMPOSING CORPSE. THE HOT LITTL TEARS OF THE CHILD WHO WANTED EVERYTHING.'

''THIS BELL WILL RING WHEN I AM CRUEL TO YOU AND MAKE YOU CRY' and 'THIS BELL WILL RING WHEN WE GO BOWLING NEXT'

objects are our history

Went to a show of Katherine Gray's work at the Acuna-Hansen Gallery in Chinatown on Saturday evening. Katherine is a glass blower, and here she has created an installation 'built' out of drinking glasses (above, right), the effect of which is beautiful and lingering, as is her artist's statement that accompanies the piece: "Because skill is a trap, because the promise has faded, because no one told me about that trap, because our society is increasingly about the simulated experience, because creating is destroying, because we haven't learned from our mistakes, because it is all coming to an end, because I am out of sync, because objects are our history. And because glass is devastatingly beautiful."

remixing the ordinary

New York's Museum of Arts and Design has a new exhibition called Second Lives: Remixing The Ordinary (running until Arpril 19). The exhibition features work by 50 international established and emerging artists from all five continents who create objects and installations comprised of ordinary and everyday manufactured articles, most originally made for another functional purpose. Paul Villinski, an American, creates beautiful butterflies out of his old record collection...

nothing to lose

mixed tape love

Scottish artist Sandy Smith created this sculptural typography from 100 sheets of mounting board he super-glue together. Standing 2 metres tall but only 12 centimetres deep, the precarious fragility of the whole piece was intentional (indeed someone ended up accidentally knocking the whole thing over). Another installation of his read: “Every day in every way I am getting better and better."

zoe newsome

UK jewelry designer Zoe Newsome created this scrappy flower out of copper, cast bronze and steel. She says "Flowers inspire me. I find them exquisite and a positive symbol of life, yet they mean different things to everyone." There's something about something so delicate being fashioned out of hard metal.

just another ghost night

Designer and calligrapher Jon Cantino has posted a polaroid series on his site, called Just Another Ghost Night. It's a bit of a lonely and creepy adventure, but the sun does rise eventually.

tomas gabzdil

This bee-made vessel by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny made its debut at last year's Milan Design Week. The vase was made by 40,000 bees over the course of one week. Studio Libertiny constructed a vase-shaped hive that the bees then colonized, building a hexagonal comb to encompass the existing form. And it was their very last companion. The piece reminds me of something written by Antonio Machado: "I dreamt - my marvellous error! - that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures."

marian bantjes

Marian Bantjes is ridiculous. She's just way too talented, and makes me want to do nothing but create things - and at the same time also makes me want to lay down all of my tools and never make anything ever again. This glitter calligraphy appeared in the 15th Anniversary issue of VIBE, for an article on JayZ.

su blackwell

Su Blackwell is a British artist who alters books and creates magical pieces of paper art. Her own artist's statement speaks for itself: "Paper has been used for communication since its invention; either between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I employ this delicate, accessible medium and use irreversible, destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions. It is the delicacy, the slight feeling of claustrophobia, as if these characters, the landscape have been trapped inside the book all this time and are now suddenly released. A number of the compositions have an urgency about them, the choices made for the cut-out people from the illustrations seem to lean towards people on their way somewhere, about to discover something, or perhaps escaping from something. And the landscapes speak of a bleak mystery, a rising, an awareness of the air."