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Showing posts with label collage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collage. Show all posts

Atelier: Alex Malcolmson













Alex Malcolmson creates beautiful box constructions — mostly of wood and some found materials — that he then carves and paints. His influences include the boxworks of Joseph Cornell, the assemblages of Picasso, marine folk art and decoy makers. Just lovely. See more of his work (and purchase it) here at Godfrey & Watt.

Atelier: (Ma + Chr)







Really loving the collage work of (Ma + Chr), a Paris-based art and design studio founded by Mathilde Aubier and Christine Delaquaize. Beautiful and clever.

Atelier: Cartolina








Just love the wonderful Cartolina paper goods shop, the brainchild of British Columbia-based graphic designers/illustrators Fiona Richards and Doug Jones. Their cards feature vintage block prints and antique cartouches, mixed with twentieth century lead type, contemporary colours and their own original illustrations. Beautiful work. Via Drawn!

Collages/Inspiration|Milkshake d'été




Since when I was a little girl, I love make collages.
It’s a kind of passion/vocation that I’ve inherited from my mum who used to fill big sheets of paper with images taken from the magazines, sentences and drawings maden by her.
During my teenage I created a lot of collages, I’ve spent nights with scissors, glue and piles of magazines on my desk while listening New Wave music.
Now I grew up, and in my coloured mansard there’s no space for adolescent collages, but likely I can give vent to my passion with internet+photoshop.
In my blog you’ve seen a lot of them (and you’ll keep doing).
In that collage, a milkshake of dresses, shoes, bags that inspire my summer.
Have a nice summer evening!

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Sin da quando ero piccola come una caramellina, amo fare collage.
E’ una specie di passione/vocazione ereditata dalla mamma, che negli anni ’80 riempiva fogli di formato gigante di immagini ritagliate dalle riviste, frasi e disegni fatti da lei.
Nell’adolescenza ho creato collages su collages, passando le notti con forbici, colla e pile di magazine sulla scrivania ascoltando New Wave.
Ora sono cresciuta, nella mia mansarda colorata non c’è spazio per collage adolescenziali, ma per fortuna posso sfogarmi con internet+photoshop.
Nel mio blog ne avete visti (e ne vedrete) tanti.
In questo collage, un frullato di abiti, scarpe, borsette che ispirano la mia estate.
Buona serata d’estate!

Thanks for reading,
with love.
Sara Ottavia C.

Atelier: Valero Doval








A recent grain edit post about the Spanish collage artist Valero Doval had me racing over to see more of his amazing work. Love Valero's mix of hand drawn and found imagery — and how witty it all is, too. Just a wonderful sense of colour and design. Check out more on his site — and buy a print from a selection on his etsy shop, too.

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This week's links. Enjoy.

Top 10 Eccentrics in Literature
Author David McKie chooses his top ten eccentrics — fictional and real — ranging from the characters of Dickens to the fifth Duke of Portland, who was so fearful of being observed that he dug tunnels to carry him around his estate.

New Lives for Old Paper
Book review of Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage, featuring 75 collage artists from around the world. Some of the art from the book is shown in the article — gorgeous and inspiring work. Just added this to my book list.

Genius Actor, Genius Scientist
Interesting NYT piece about Natalie Portman and other actors who also happen to be brilliant at science. From the article: "Hedy Lamarr, the actress habitually regarded as “that most beautiful woman in Hollywood,” was a rocket scientist on the side, inventing and patenting a torpedo guidance technique she called “frequency hopping,” which thwarted efforts to jam the signals that kept the missiles on track."

The Life of Edward Gorey, Told By An Old Friend
Must get this. The Strange Case of Edward Gorey — written in 2000 by Alexander Theroux, one of Gorey's close friends — is being reissued. Theroux has rewritten, expanded and redesigned the original monograph, which is now out in hardcover. A fascinating look at a fascinating man.

It's All About the Prop Master
Long ago when I was an art school student, a friend of mine was invited to take a tour at a prop house, with the possible end of being hired on as summer help — and happily I was invited along too. For various reasons my friend never took the job, but ever since I've had a real fascination for this aspect of the movie business — this fun little piece from NPR gives an inside look at what a prop master does for a living.

Blackbeard's Treasure?
First discovered in 1996 in the North Carolina shallows, archeologists are still busily excavating the notorious Blackbeard's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge, nearly 300 years after it ran aground in June 1718 after a career terrorizing the Caribbean. So far no treasure, but lots of interesting artifacts — and only an estimated 50% found so far, too.

Philip Glass Launches an Art Festival
This sounds amazing. On August 19 modern composer Philip Glass will launch the first annual Days and Nights Festival at the Hidden Valley Theatre in Carmel Valley. It will offer an eclectic mix of music, dance, theater, poetry and film offerings.

Maple Syrup Tasting Notes
With maple syrup season coming up fast, Saveur chooses their 14 favourites from Canada and the USA. Pancakes, anyone?


(lovely photo by Anna Kern)

John Stezaker






The intriguing work of collage artist John Stezaker incorporates old Hollywood publicity portraits and travel postcards, with results that hark back to the Surrealists. Love. See it in London at the show he has on at Whitechapel Gallery until March 11.


(from today and tomorrow via pinterest)