art & artists
Fontstruct brings DIY fontography to the unwashed masses
Jason Fagone’s oddly intimate revelation of font-nerdery in Slate’s YouType: The strange allure of making your own fonts highlights Fontstruct, “YouTube of typography” which allows you to… well, make your own fonts. It lead Fagone to wax nostaligic for his bootleg Fontographer days:
I was a minuscule part of the great grunge-font craze of the late […]
Self Portrait as a Drowned Man
The Nonist has the crazy backstory of Hippolyte Bayard’s Self Portrait as a Drowned Man:
This photograph, shot in 1840 and titled Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, is not of a drowned man, and if it had been it would be far less interesting or important. This humble image, so far as anyone knows, can […]
DNA Art
Josh Spear lays the Genepak x DNA-11 on us, artwork based on your own DNA from DNA-11.
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Giraffes United Against Ceiling Fans
This just cracked me up. T-shirt available on Threadless
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The Last iPod Supper
Clearly this says something about our society but I just don’t want to know anymore. (The Last iPod Supper, via jstn.cc).
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LOLVANT GARDE
modern art + lolcats = the lolvant garde
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Unintentionally Hilarious Infographics
These infographics verge, nay careen, into the realm of the artistically sublime.
Boing Boing Gadgets: Amadana’s Wonderful Cautionary Infographics
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Michael Nye’s Fine Line, Photographing Mental Health, Mental Illness
Photographer Michael Nye’s latest project tackled a subject you might reasonably suppose to be impossible - addressing inner mental conflict and illness through photography. Nye spent four years photographing and recording stories for audio which accompanies the photos, delving into schizophrenia, depression, obsessive-compulsive, anxiety and bi-polar disorder.
Michael Nye: Fine Line
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Linzie Hunter, Spam One Liners
London-based freelance illustrator Linzie Hunter had the brilliant idea to take the subject lines of the ubiquitous spam messages we all get and loathe and art-ify it. (via Laughing Squid) The most useful re-purposing of unsolicited email messages since Spam-ku!
Linzie Hunter: Spam One-Liners
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Banksy
banksy.co.uk, New Yorker: Banksy Was Here: The invisible man of graffiti art,
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