Track findings on anything interesting from Art and Design (architecture, fashion, fine-art, interior decoration, product design, and almost any form of aesthetics).

Sunday, June 10, 2012

插图绘画

几米
http://www.jimmyspa.com/

几米, 台湾最炙手可热的绘本作家。1998年8月首度出版个人的绘本<森林里的秘密>、<微笑的鱼>,1999年以<向左走、向右走>、<听几米唱歌>和<月亮忘记了>三部作品,展现出惊人的创作力和多变的叙事风格,在出版市场兴起了一阵持续至今热力不减的绘本创作风潮。

几米让"图像"成为另一种清新舒洁的文学语言,在他的作品里营造出流畅的画面,散发出深情迷人的风采。

他2012的新作品《拥抱》:




Friday, May 25, 2012

Gardening (Terrariums)

Twig

These in-a-glass work are created by Michelle Inciarrano and Katy Maslow from Twig.


Each terrarium contains a mini-ecosystem mimicking a landscape/scenery with interesting scenario. These tiny worlds are formed using miniature mosses and succulents and often little miniature figurines/props are added to bring out the theme/story.









http://twigterrariums.com/

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Fashion Illustration

Michael Sanderson
He is a New York based fashion illustrator who is famous for his series of work with Burkman Bros' collections. He has his own self-produced magazine entitled Birche magazine. With Birche, a fully illustrated online publication, Michael is able to embrace his signature sense of aesthetics while encouraging others to do the same.







Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Fashion Design (Men's Shoes)

Mark McNairy

He (born March 8, 1971 in North Carolina) is an American fashion designer who was the former creative director for the Ivy Leage inspired clothing company J. Press. Currently, he has his own collection line simply known as Mark McNairy New Amsterdam. Under this label, he has an impressive collection of men’s shoes which are suavely designed with quirky touch.









Sunday, April 8, 2012

Chinese Painting

Wu Guanzhong (吴冠中)

Wu Guanzhong (August 29, 1919 – June 25, 2010) is a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as the father of modern Chinese painting. Wu had painted various aspects of China, including much of its architecture, plants, animals, people, as well as many of its landscapes and waterscapes in a style reminiscent of the impressionist painters of the early 1900s. He was also a writer on contemporary Chinese art.







Current Exhibition
Seeing the Kite Again

又见风筝:吴冠中捐赠作品展
Runs through 12 November 2012
Singapore Art Museum

'This exhibition, entitled Seeing the Kite Again, is inspired by the late master Wu Guanzhong’s metaphor of a kite and how it expresses the connection between an artist, his life and the people around him. By bridging Chinese and Western aesthetics, Wu blazed the trail for the modernisation of Chinese art. In 2008, the internationally acclaimed artist donated his largest gift of 113 important works to the National Heritage Board. Selected paintings from the donation has been presented since 2009 by the National Art Gallery, Singapore. The current exhibition showcases some of Wu’s most outstanding works produced from 1960s to 2000s in the oil and ink medium.'


Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Wood Sculptures

The Duramen Series by Bonsoir Paris

The Duramen Series, designed by French duo Remy Clemente and Morgan Maccari of Bonsoir Paris, consists of  wooden sculptures that allow the mind to visualize an objects form that has been twisted from its original skeleton. Each piece, in the shape of a picture frame, was transformed to a point where they couldn’t properly function and almost unrecognizable. The choice of noble materials (Oak, Fir, Wenge, Pear, Linden) and the quest for finesse, enables them – with the DURAMEN series – to position themselves on the razor’s edge between two opposites, that of the deformed and that of the elegant, instinctive and thoughtful.




Thursday, March 8, 2012

Illustration

Katie Scott

She illustrates plants, creatures with scientific and anatomical precision. Some of her projects explored biological hybridisation with fantastical anatomy and Haeckel-esque curiosity.




http://katie-scott.tumblr.com/