“My mixed media installations and drawings recontextualize simplified shapes, signs and symbols from disparate historical and contemporary imagery to create abstract fictions. Existing forms from a multitude of sources are co-opted, altered, and spliced to adopt hybrid identities. Through the process of appropriation and subsequent recombination, shapes lose their real-world connotations and take on fictitious roles. Forged relationships between benign and malignant forms confuse the original implications of each while revealing the precariousness of perception and how easily it can be tampered with. Recent projects pit Baroque and Gothic pattern and ornament against forms derived from armor and weaponry. Seemingly oppositional pairings create duplicitous environments where conflicting messages are conveyed. The use of felt, foam, and other tactile materials further complicates questions of source, masking the identity of forms while allowing them to inhabit both sculptural and two-dimensional space.” -Liz Miller

Fresh, brightly-coloured drawings from cartoonist and illustrator Sam Taylor. The archive of posted illustrations on his website is completely worth the visit.

Justin Roth‘s ‘Formed’ portraits are collages of multiple photos of hands.

David Imlay‘s approach to painting draws influence from twentieth century American Contemporary Realism as well as Photorealism which both emerged in the late 1960′s and early 1970′s. Artists such as Robert Bechtle, Richard Estes and John Register utilized a straightforward approach to representation which continues to be widely practiced in these post-abstract eras. Born and raised in San Juan Capistrano, David first realized his passion art at an early age. He was fortunate enough to have the encouragement and support of his family and was heavily inspired by his grandfather Theron Imlay a Southwest Oil and Pastel Artist. David studied Illustration at San Jose State University as well as Lorenzo De Medici in Florence, Italy. He graduated with a BFA in Illustration in 2001 and currently resides in San Francisco, where he now works as a freelance Illustrator and Fine Artist.

These pieces make reference to Memento Mori, a theme often depicted in art and Classical antiquity. They are luxuriously over stuffed offering a Bourgeois comfort, borrowing from the look of Victorian parlor furniture. They convey an air of humour and of the bizarre. The chairs are old pieces fully reconditioned and upholstered. As a process this allows Sam to embroider a new history into them and makes each one slightly different. The shape of the chair allows the print to flow into the chair structure, giving a figurative character and seeming to personify the piece. The images are sourced from old medical journals. They are adapted and then digitally printed on Velvet. Link here.

Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, 1923) has lived and worked in Paris since 1960. His artistic roots reach back to the Movimiento Cinético [Kinetic Movement] of the 1950s and 1960s. As his thinking on the visual arts has evolved, his ideas have changed attitudes on how color is perceived in art. According to his artist’s statement, color is an autonomous reality, devoid of anecdotes, that evolves in real time and space with no need of form or support.

These striking moss art are the works of Anna Garforth, a multi-discilpinary designer working and living in East London. Aren’t they wonderful?

Self taught, Brit artist Arth Daniels isn’t quite what you’d expect from a portrait artist. Having exhibited in some of the UK’s leading portrait galleries including the National Portrait Gallery throughout his early career his personal work is anything but traditional. In 2007 Arth made it his personal goal to shift away from the generalised associations of portraiture, and to produce work that is honest, colourful and contemporary. Painted from a mix of both live subjects and multimedia assemblage his work is an ode to portraitures ability to capture the expression, character and form of the subject without explicit use of the human face alone. Inspired by Cinema, Make-up artistry and Visual F/X Arth’s body of work knowingly utilises his studies in photorealism to portray the grandeur of facial expression, identity and form whilst incorporating elements of humour along the way. (via Stolen Space)

BYE BYE WIND solves one of the main problem during a dining: the action of wind. This set of table and chairs permits to use also paper or plastic plates/glasses without that they fly in presence of wind through simple grooves in the table that block paper or plastic plates/glasses when they are empty.In the centre of table there is a hidden crushing bottles. While the chairs in the back have a container that works to accommodate objects of various typology (from cellular to tools). Designers: Marco Marotto & Paola Oliva

Hailing from Bucharest, Romania, Alina Filipoiu is a talented illustrator who has worked with various clients such as Dash” magazine, Mind Treat Studios, Dilema Veche, and many others. Her work comprises all sorts of drawings, digital art, paintings, and other really fun pieces of art.