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Japanese graphic artist Shusaku Takaoka gives classic artworks a modern makeover. He creates photo collages featuring iconic figures in contemporary settings, scenarios, and clothing. You must admit that the transformations come out perfect.
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Sergio Barrale was born 1982 in NYC. He attended Maryland Institute College of Art and graduated in 2004. His large-scale works seek to incite a conversation about past approaches to religion as well as capture an outlook on it today as an ethical code, reformed without emphasis on hierarchy, but alternatively on individual truth and morality. Follow him on Instagram.
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59 Parks Prints Series: A Collection of Amazing Artists Celebrating the 59 National Parks
Two things that make me really happy-National Parks and silk-screened art prints-are finding themselves coming together in a beautiful print series put out by The National Poster Retrospecticus as part of the 59 Park Print Series, which celebrates the beauty and amazingness of the 59 National Parks that the US is home to.
The series will feature 18″x24″ art prints for each of the 59 National Parks, while some parks will also feature variants prints and/or 24"x32" posters in addition. The series already has put out prints for 11 parks, all of which are truly beautiful prints. Additionally, there’s some really talented artists that are contributing to the 59 Park Series. Artists and designers such as John Vogl, Matt Taylor, Thomas Danthony, DKNG, Daniel Danger, Eric Nyffeler, Justin Santora, Dan McCarthy, Telegramme Paper Co., Two Arms Inc., and Brave the Woods have already contributed to the series, and I’m sure many more excellent artists and designers will also contribute to the series moving forward.
As an added bonus, 5% of revenue generated from the print series will be donated to The National Park Service, and the prints will also be archived by the Library of Congress. Awesome.
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Designer Derek Pearce has expanded the possibilities of everyday furniture with his enchanting Water Tables. Each one integrates an animal as both its base and a crucial aesthetic element: the body of the creature seems to comes up through the glass tabletop to create the illusion that it’s floating freely in a river or lake.
In one of Pearce’s works, an otter bobs gleefully on its back between two rocks. In another, a hippo rests on its belly, with its grin just beneath the surface and its eyes popping up above. The pieces are both functional and delightful for lovers of animals and art alike, merging homeware with sculpture while drawing irrepressible smiles.
Pearce’s playful but adept aesthetic stems from a wide breadth of experience as a performer, stage carpenter, musical director, and teacher. He’s been building his Water Tables since 1997, and they’ve since been exhibited and sold throughout America, Europe, and Japan. You can enjoy some of his most clever designs below, or purchase one for yourself on the Water Tables website.
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Yamamoto Motoi ( born in Onomichi, Hiroshima in 1966 ) is an internationally renowned artist who calls his native Japan home. Motoi is known for working with salt, often in the form of temporary, intricate, large-scale installations. Salt, a traditional symbol for purification and mourning in Japanese culture, is used in funeral rituals and by sumo wrestlers before matches.
Motoi forged a connection to the substance while mourning the death of his sister, at the age of twenty-four, from brain cancer, and began to create art out of salt in an effort to preserve his memories of her. His art radiates an intense beauty and tranquility, but also conveys something ineffable, painful, and endless.
“Drawing a labyrinth with salt is like following a trace of my memory. Memories seem to change and vanish as time goes by; however, what I seek is to capture a frozen moment that cannot be attained through pictures or writings,” Motoi has said.
Amazing.
