Anamorphosis is a collection of platters by Luc d’Hanis & Sofie Lachaert for Droog. The distorted drawing on the platters only reveals themselves when you place a reflective object in the middle of the platter.
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Carnovsky – ‘RGB – The Black series’
Carnovskyis a Milan based artist/designer duo comprised of Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla. They create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus. The RGB technique consists of three overlapping primary colour images, the result of which is an intricate multilayered print. Placing a red, green or blue colored filter (a light or a transparent material) reveals one of the three levels.
Bianca Chang – Works in paper
Inspired by the subtlety of tone on tone signage and the shadow-play of 3 dimensional letterforms.
Recreating this effect with paper – a material so beautifully tactile and simple yet often mindlessly discarded. more at Bianca Chang webpage
3D paper-craft poster project: Dry the River Horses
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These posters for new band Dry The River really do feature a three-dimensional paper horse galloping forth. Created by FOAM agency / Xavier Barrade the posters went up around London this week
Tara Donovan at Ace Gallery L.A
This impressive instalation is made completely out of styrofoam cups. Tara Donovan is a New York artist born in 1969 based in New York NY
Chris Jordan – Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
Barbie Dolls, 2008 | 60×80″
Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006. many more on Chris Jordan Official site
Joshua Allen Harris – Plastic bag instalations
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Using only tape and discarded plastic shopping bags, the New York based artist Joshua Allen Harris creates giant inflatable animals that he fastens to sidewalk grates and vents. Exhaust air expelled by passing subway trains then fills the bags, causing the creatures to become animated.
Hyperrealistic sculptures by Ron Mueck
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Ron Mueck is well known for his hyperrealistic sculptures where he portrays humans at key stages in the life cycle, from birth through middle age, to death. Mueck, now working in the United Kingdom, was born in 1958 in Melbourne, Australia. The son of German-born toy-makers, he grew up making creatures, puppets and costumes in his spare time, experimenting with materials and techniques. He started his career as a model maker and puppeteer for children’s films. Later he was making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry. In 1996 Mueck transitioned to fine art and in 1999 he was appointed as Associate Artist at the National Gallery
Photorealistic Pictures Drawn with a BIC Pen
All those pictures are hand drawn with a humble Bic ballpoint pen. Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas, uses up to four 14p ballpoint pens to create his photorealistic drawings, measuring up to 3 meters high
