The stealthy and marvelous design blog Kitsune Noir has been giving away arty desktoppers for your computer and your iPod all year. A great collection of designers and illustrators have signed on, but they’re to be leaked out slowly to give you a week or so to appreciate each new style. Inside sources have it that some good names are coming up, certainly worth keeping tabs on.
Posted on April 16, 2008 at 10:32 AM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
The Team Gallery is showing some more terrific photos by Ryan McGinley. The fact that some shots resembled an Abercrombie catalogs with skinnier models does nothing to take away from their subversively wholesome nostalgic perviness. The opening was packed full of trendy types all secretly wishing they were naked teenagers laughing on a trampoline in the late summer sun.
(r) Dr.K Devine scrutinizes print quality opening night.
Posted on April 04, 2008 at 12:43 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
The NYT interactive history of the Mad Magazine’s famous back page fold-in. Al Jaffee has been turning out these since the early 1960’s and folding the impressionable minds of many young creative types in the process.
Spoiler : Spiro Agnew gets dissed !
Posted on March 30, 2008 at 07:35 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
... from Chinatown, NYC. I can’t read what the sign says, but I’d imagine it has something to do with a new KAWS toy.
Posted on March 20, 2008 at 10:55 AM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
I worked on a series of patterns for the Gravis company last year and was pleased to see they made good use of my geographical weather-map camo. It appears on both genders of baggage in a couple different colors all viewable here . I’ll give a more passionate endorsement when I receive some samples and make sure they look okay. Thanks Amy & Brett !
Posted on March 13, 2008 at 02:32 PM | Comment (2 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Walnut Wallpaper is a gallery/store in Los Angeles that deals in the inspired, brave, and arty. They recently hosted an event to commemorate the launch of Geoff McFetridge’s righteous new line of wallpaper, Pottok. Most of the pictures here have been shoplifted from the always informative Kitsune Noir blog. Much thanks to Bobby S.
Posted on March 03, 2008 at 10:24 PM | Comment (6 comments) | Permalink | Digg
I did a spot illustration for the ‘Obsessions’ column by Alex Kuczynski for the latest issue. The obsession this month was curly eyelashes.
Posted on February 28, 2008 at 03:18 PM | Comment (3 comments) | Permalink | Digg
WPA Syphilis Awareness poster campaign. Happy Valentines Day. 
Posted on February 14, 2008 at 03:05 PM | Comment (2 comments) | Permalink | Digg
After a bizarre series of arcane rituals I was finally inducted into the illlustrious Tank Theory Artists Society with the creation of three new t-shirts designs. This is one. More here and here.
Posted on February 12, 2008 at 10:41 AM | Comment (2 comments) | Permalink | Digg
I received my copy of Illusive 2 by Die Gestalten not too long ago. It’s a collection of contemporary illustrations and is a pleasing orange color. Especially recommended to open minded art directors with massive budgets. Big thanks to Henni.
Posted on January 24, 2008 at 11:55 AM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Jeff Scher‘s latest animation is an amazing stop-motion micro-ballet in black and white. Part of Sightlines, the New York Times Op-Ed visual series. You might need to be registered, but totally worth it.
Posted on January 11, 2008 at 08:27 AM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
New show opening tomorrow night at the OpenSpace gallery Beacon, NY with a lot of printed matter from many different print makers. Including work by Cody Hudson, Evan Hecox, Gunsho, Travis Millard, Andy Rementer, The Artist Guide and scads more. I included some prints made by Upper Playground a while back. I hear there’s a second opening in January… I plan on attending that one and will bring home some installations views then.
Posted on December 07, 2007 at 04:20 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
I don’t like take taking the subway when I could be riding my bike, but occasionally there’s some pay off. From what I could tell, it looked like about 15 cops were frisking about 25 high school kids in relations to whatever happened to the one dude that wasn’t standing up. Slightly larger photo here.
Posted on December 03, 2007 at 05:29 PM | Comment (8 comments) | Permalink | Digg
¡RESIST! Is a poster art exhibition started a few years ago as a contest. Tomorrow the show kicks off a tour at la Condition Publique in Roubaix, France. I wish I could make it, but apparently my dollars in europe are now only useful as portable comic reminders of the hubris of a once economic superpower. Featuring work by Raza Uno, 123Klan, myself and others. Here’s a preview of what I made…
Posted on November 28, 2007 at 12:52 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
New righteous and amazing book by Peter Sutherland ( Autograf, Pedal, Game ). Peter’s photographs of deer were taken in the snowy wilds of the stunning Rocky Mountains or in the trash strewn viaducts of suburbia over the past five years. They capture the regal, yet bizarre and often alien nature of the beasts we share our roads and garbage with. Available at Amazon or your more discriminating local bookstore.
Design by Duncan Hamilton. Published by PowerHouse.
Posted on November 25, 2007 at 08:21 AM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Some info-graphic distraction for you and yours. Via jamphat.com.
Posted on November 19, 2007 at 10:18 AM | Comment (3 comments) | Permalink | Digg
A Rupture in the Cosmos / Together At Last
Joseph Ari Aloi and Daniel Troccio will be showing new work at Saved Tattoo Gallery and I imagine it will be pretty phenomenal. Joseph ( AKA JK5 ) has been creating compulsively complex surreal pencil drawings and tattoos for several years now. His stuff was stellar for the WarMaking show at the Riviera, and I’m totally psyched to see what he comes up with this time.
Posted on November 14, 2007 at 05:18 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Panchromatic hand-painted heart-felt sentiments from Michael Perry, Garrett Morin, Alex Purdy, and Andy Rementer. All collected at the Open Space gallery in pastoral Beacon, NY for the month of November. I didn’t get any good photos from the opening, but when I’m able to track some down I’ll post them here. so I stole some off of Open Space’s Blog. Definitely worth the trip unless you dislike trees and quaint upstate townships as much as you dislike art. Philistines.
Posted on November 11, 2007 at 09:54 AM | Comment (1 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Neighborhood Watch: San Francisco
I recently embarked on a little R & R in San Francisco and the surrounding wilderness. While ultimately hard to make a clean break from work when traveling with three other designers, it’s always revitalizing to put a few thousand miles between oneself and one’s everyday life. Highlights included, but were not limited to; a) Getting raucous in a hotel room b) Having your perspective on what’s important and what’s trivial reset by contemplating ancient trees c) Many fine foods and beverages d) Camping overlooking the pacific under a full moon. Highly recommend. Photo credits due to B.Mackin, K.Devine, and K.Landwehr in no particular order.
Posted on November 06, 2007 at 05:27 PM | Comment (2 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Jason Urban is an American printmaker that teaches at Southern Univerity of Illinois. He does good things with colored stripes and mixed intaglio/painting-prints. I’m into Camouflaged debris ( below )… latex paint on cardboard, cork, wood. 
Posted on October 26, 2007 at 08:38 AM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Some wallpaper I made was mentioned in style section of the local newspaper recently, and that’s really great. I’d normally never complain about some good publicity like that, but I had to take issue with the title of the article. “Grandma’s Wallpaper Gets Funky”.?! Come on, man. Funky grandmas should be rapping in Burger King commercials, not in these New York Times. Get right. Jeeze.
The design is called ‘City Park’ and was just included in the Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection. It’s printed by and sold through a place called FlavorPaper in New Orleans. They hand screenprint all their papers and do really clean work.
Posted on October 17, 2007 at 04:12 PM | Comment (1 comments) | Permalink | Digg
New York based German Austrian photographer and co-manager/coach/sportswriter of the famed Chinatown Soccer Club, Gerhard Stochl is showing a collection of new photos at I Heart on Mott St. Totally not to be missed. More of his work can be seen at his website.
Posted on October 05, 2007 at 11:30 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Some gorgeous installations and site specific pieces by Houston on his newly updated website; wehaveaproblem.com Photography by Jeff Minton and Houston.
Posted on October 02, 2007 at 10:30 AM | Comment (2 comments) | Permalink | Digg
This is a test burn for one of the pieces I’m showing at the WunderKammer show. I’m indebted to Othelo and Saved Tattoo for the etching, which came out really, really crispy. I couldn’t be happier. If for some reason you’re on the upper west side, come by and have a look. The show is being held at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research at 140 West 97th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues.
Posted on September 21, 2007 at 12:34 PM | Comment (1 comments) | Permalink | Digg
