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Junkprints

Loving the creative work of artist, fashion and graphic designer and illustrator Chanel Kennebrew.

 

Mustafa Maluka

I'm a big fan of Mustafa Maluka's portraits. The way he uses color and graphic elements to construct the image feels like there's some strong inspiration coming from collage and street art, which I love. Beautiful. See more of his latest work here.

Confetti System Sparkles

I'm finishing off the week with work by the fashion, design and artist duo Confetti System. They create these amazing installations using simple materials like paper and cardboard. Very inspiring and what a great name!

Stop Animation: PES

Back in my TV Land days when animation and on-air graphics were very new to me, I discovered the work of stop animation artist PES. Using fun and unconventional materials to convey a message PES creates intricate and amazing worlds for short films, movies, and commercials. You might remember seeing his commercial for Coinstar where the coins come together to create valuable items encouraging viewers to save their change.

I'm a huge fan of stop-motion (definition here), I know it was all of those claymation shows like, Gumbi, and annual Christmas specials I watched as a little girl. They left me in awe because they looked so real when in fact they were imaginary worlds. As I prepare for the next stop-animation mini-webisode featuring another hairtsyle, I am admiring the masters like Lotte Reiniger and PES for their extreme patience and extraordinary imaginations. (Check out info on the stop-motion renegade Lotte Reiniger, she created a film called The Adventures of Prince Achemed, which took nearly three years to create because of the intricate details and length of the film).

Here's one of my favorite films from PES. BRILL!

Catalina Estrada

Loving the intricate details, decorative elements and bursts of color in Catalina Estrada's work. Her style is so versatile; you can see her illustrations used in patterns for clothing, books, and other functional products. See more of her work here and here.

Latest Dawn Okoro

New Dawn Okoro found via Mz. Report. Check out a previous post from Okoro here and visit her blog here.

Corriette Schoenaerts

As mentioned before I am guest blogging on DesignWorkLife today and one of the features is of artist Corriette Schoenaerts. Love her installations, including these maps made of clothes and type made of found elements. See more Fly posts on DesignWorkLife here.

Marian Bantjes' Cover Design

I saw this cool design for the South African publication Design Indaba magazine on the Black Nerds blog and was really impressed when I learned it was designed by Marian Bantjes. She's one of my design idols and I just happened to be lurking around her site like a design groupie when I saw that it was her design.

MWM in Sao Paulo

Speaking of Brazil the very talented artist MWM went to Sao Paulo to create a solo exhibition of mural art from scratch. He arrived in the Brazilian city with no materials and no plan, yet was able to create this amazing body of work. Check out more photos on his site. Also visit this link to see another artist I adore with a similar aesthetic. And another related link I think you'll dig.

Eloise Corr Danch

I adore these amazing floral paper sculptures from artist/illustrator Eloise Corr Danch.

Beatriz Milhazes Installations

I love the paintings of Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes and now adoring these installations based off of her style.

Shinique Smith

Mixed-media installation artist, Shinique Smith, is the latest artist to design the NY Times Magazine "T." I wasn't familiar with her wonderful work until I saw the feature. Read more about Shinique here. Top two photos from FlashArtonline.com.

Tauba Auerbach Lettering

Beautiful letter-forms from artist Tauba Auerbach.

150 Valentines

In honor of the holiday coming, I wanted to share these beautiful hearts illustrated by a designer I truly admire, Marian Bantjes. She created these to send to friends as a fun way to keep in touch. See all 150 of them here.

Herb Lubalin

Since I'm obsessed with lettering I keep this image on my desktop for inspiration. Herb Lubalin's work is so amazing and I never get tired of his beautiful lettering. I want to do something like this for my own identity and address.

  

Horace Pippin

In North Philly there is this huge mural featuring the work of renowned folk artist Horace Pippin (1888-1946). I see it every morning on my way to school and thought it would be great to share. I was always interested in his work not only because it's intriguing but also because our surnames are so similar. Pippins (mine) is such an uncommon last name so when I first learned of him I always imagined we were related in some way — even though I'm plural and he's not. You know that "s" got lost somewhere down the line.

Yaze

Rich mix media paintings from artist Yassine "Yaze" Mekhnache.

Lorna Willaims

Funky mixed media paintings from artist Lorna WIlliams.

House Industries + Agent Provocateur

I always love to see how designers develop their ideas and designs. Agent Provocateur hired lettering studio/type foundry House Industries to re-design their identity. Here are a few images from the HI site showing how they kept the integrity of the original mark while evolving the lettering into a look with a little more character.

Luminous Sculptures

Sunday I went to an art opening for the work of luminary artist Warren Muller who works in an amazing gallery/studio called Bahdeebahdu. I got there really early before the crowd and only stayed long enough to snap a few photos of all his pieces. Muller's sculptural light installations are so beautiful and the Bahdeebahdu space was fantastic! There were fabulous people to mingle with and so much finger food and wine to go around — too bad I had to get back home to do some work. See more here.