As an owner of a newly purchased iPad, I’m continually amazed at all the things you can download and do with it. My newest pastime is reading newspapers, magazines, and anything else I can get my hands on. The tablet brings an exciting new level to the digital publishing platform that wasn’t there even a short time ago.
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For artists like Bristol, England-based Paul Tysall, it completely changes the game by making the possibility of creating a graphic novel solely for the tablet. He began to develop the story of Das Geheimnis in the fall of 2011 and with the help of Mag+, an app publishing platform for tablets, his story will soon be told using this new technology.
Tysall answered some questions for us about the process of making his upcoming graphic novel Das Geheimnis and his artistic process.
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I’m loving the work of Denver-based contemporary artist and designer Rafa Jenn. His diverse portfolio features some innovative and interesting design work including this Mandala Suite.
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Jerome Daksiewicz of NOMO Design has created a series of screenprinted posters featuring airport runways. He’s already created LAX, ORD, MSP, JFK, ATL and SFO, with more coming soon.
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Our most popular Art posts this year tend toward the graphic in style, with clever shout outs to the social media realm as well as references to the historical. We’ve also included the crafty, like the insanely intricate cutting of leaves, the kitschy (hello My Little Pony), and some good, old-fashioned mixed media work. More than anything else, we find it’s a sense of humor that binds them.
The Positive Posters
Bisgràfic studio and The Positive Posters collaborated on a series of prints handsomely broadcasting optimistic phrases that can be downloaded from your own computer. There are iPhone and iPad wallpapers too.
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David Saunders, more commonly known as David David, began with a fine arts background and eventually moved into fashion in 2005. Well known for his geometric patterns and graphic prints, the London artist began his foray into fashion by hand-painting t-shirts for himself. People began to take notice and he eventually digitized his designs for production. In addition to his clothing, he features his designs on umbrellas, prints, notebooks, and scarves, just to name a few, and often collaborates with other designers and companies.
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Emily Dumas is a graphic designer that runs Flowers in May, a design company north of Boston. She has a series of fun and colorful prints that feature collective graphic illustrations of a particular theme. Each 11 x 14″ design is printed on high quality archival paper and is signed by Dumas.
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I’m drawn to these abstract maps by Cartoloji, a new company from Indian artist Bhaval Shah Bell. I really like how when you place multiples on one wall, it looks like different parts of a topographic map.
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Christopher Gray‘s simple graphic illustrations are just the pop of color my walls need. And they’re affordable starting at about $80. If you think you kinda recognize that top one, it’s Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss.”
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Jason Dean of The Best Part has done it again, releasing a creative new print that reminds me of a creepy movie I recently saw called The Orphan in which the little girl’s drawings dramatically changed when a blacklight was shown on them. Jason’s Day and Night poster looks like a pleasant town scene until you turn off the light. At night, the poster glows in the dark, revealing a completely different scene that includes zombies, robbers, and other seedy ongoings… what a fun idea!
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Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting has been remixed into 140 perfectly spaced dots. You know, for the Twitter generation.
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