Amelie Hegardt

Amelie Hegardt does really cool fashion illustration that has a really unique and erotic spin on it. She has a beautifully distressed messy style too ala Ralph Steadman.

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triborodesign

Triborodesign is a design group out of nyc. They've just published their triboro leftovers, a project that created new art out of castoff images from past projects. There are some really great visuals in here that would have been a sad loss had they been just tossed.


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Jeff Canham

Jeff Canham is an artist from SanFran who is single handedly bringing back old school saloon style hand painted signs. He also happens to create art for galleries as well so you should look at it and get transported back in time. He does some really beautiful typographic work.

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Martin Machado

Martin Machado is an all around artist who's main focus has been on the sea. He's spent some time sailing around the world as a deckhand on container ships. He paints and photographs a lot of his experiences on board and on shore. These photos are a great glimpse into a world rarely seen by most and they have a really beautiful quality to them as well.

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Rebecca Ward

A lot of artists these days are working with house hold objects more. Rebecca Ward is someone who's really taken that to a new and more beautiful level. She creates installations using grids and patterns made from duct tape and electrical tape. Her newest project is at the Kate Spade store in NYC. It's her second collaboration with the designer. Keep an eye out for a lot more from her.


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Tristram Lansdowne

Tristram Lansdowne has similar qualities to Jessie Douglas in the way he isolates urban architecture and makes it extremely interesting to look at. He's also taken one of my favorite things, the exposed sides of townhouses and really heroisized them a beautiful way.


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jessie douglas

jessie douglas is an illustrator from Oregon. She focuses on the urban landscape with an interest in sign typeography. She's got a really nice sketchy style that makes even the most mundane street corner interesting to look at.

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Alex Varanese

Alex Varanese is an artist living in San Fran who loves red. "More than you" he proclaims. His work is super graphic and he is obviously influenced heavily by music.

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Marco Zamora

Marco's paint style is really rough and rugged, yet manages to have a real elegance to it. He focuses on cycle and messenger culture, but has an overall urban theme that includes graffiti'd trucks and the homeless.


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Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese artist who has been gaining worldwide acclaim for some years now. He works in a unique medium, gunpowder. His "illustrations" or fire paintings are created by setting different mixes of gun power on fire on a large canvas or piece of paper. He recently did a performance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where he created new works while the public watched. The contrast between the aesthetic of the works vs. the violent way they are created is gorgeous. He also works in many other mediums. Some of his work on display now involves hanging cars from the ceiling with rope lights protruding from them giving the illusion of them being fireworks. He also has a piece featuring a stuffed tiger with arrows protruding from all directions. Also evocative of fireworks. I sense a theme here.





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