Amazing Eames Plywood Sculpture
Posted: July 1, 2009 // Art + Design + Furniture

I know I’m a lotta’ behind on this, but I just came across this beautiful molded plywood sculpture by Ray and Charles Eames. The sculpture was created in 1943 and it just blows my mind. I never really thought you could even do something like this, especially in 1943! Measuring in at 37 inches high, 27 inches wide, and 13 inches deep, this little guy would be so amazing to own!

This little guy sold at Christie’s for a staggering $365,500 back in 2008, which is pretty shocking, but I guess it’s pretty amazing piece… right?

Lockwood Chair by Miswell
Posted: July 1, 2009 // Design + Furniture

Continuing my recent flirtation with chairs, I present you the Lockwood chair by Miswell. This little puppy has a steel frame with a wooden seat and a really unique silhouette. I love the bends in the back of the chair which would cradle you into the chair. I think that blue color is pretty amazing as well, I’d love to have a little patio with a set of these to lounge around in.

Bobby

The Desktop Wallpaper Project + Just Us. with Ben Cain & Tom Edwards
Posted: July 1, 2009 // The Desktop Wallpaper Project

I received an email from a fellow named Will Hibberd a couple months ago asking me if I’d be interested in featuring some of the work from a design collective he helped start in The Desktop Wallpaper Project. The collective is called Just Us., and is made up of a number of young designers and recent graduates from the U.K. They’ve banded together to pool their talent, I think the idea being that if you one of them gets noticed, there’s a chance another of them might as well.

Looking through their work, I realized this was one extremely talented group of people. But the DWP is only once a week, and I wanted to be able to feature these young creatives faster then that. So Will and I plotted and planned and came up with a novel idea. We decided to release a wallpaper every weekday for the entire month of July. Monday through Friday, nonstop wallpapers, a constant stream of beautiful art.

The wallpapers I’ve received are pretty amazing, and I’m sure many of you will be finding new favorite artists over the next month. I’ve also decided on a different format for these artists. I’ve asked them some basic information about themselves and to describe their wallpapers, just to give a bit of insight. I can’t wait to show you all the rad stuff we have in store. Their styles are all over the place and there’s definitely something here for everyone. I hope you enjoy the next month of wallpapers and we’ll see you back tomorrow.



Name: Ben Cain
Degree/College: BA (Hons) Illustration, University for the Creative Arts (Maidstone)
Website: www.bencain.co.uk

About Your Wallpaper:
Halfway through working on an idea that was really just an excuse for me to draw lots of wolves, I started to think about where the icons would go. I looked at my desktop, which is usually swamped with hundreds of different versions of whatever I’m working on at the moment – left dumped wherever I’d dragged them to – and I started again, trying to design a wallpaper that would work for messy desktop keepers, and letting the icons play a part in the image. I had a couple of scenarios in mind, but I got into drawing divers, so that was that.



Name: Tom Edwards
Degree/College: I’m studying Illustration at the University of Brighton
Website: www.edwardstom.com

About Your Wallpaper:
My wallpaper has no real meaning to it other than the fact that all the little faces are more interested in the fancy gold jewels rather than the flowers and the brilliant colourful shrine.

Paintings by Alex Lucas
Posted: June 30, 2009 // Art + Design + Illustration

The last time I posted about Alex Lukas was over a year ago was about his two-color comic book/typography poster that I was lusting over. Cut to his current work which is now even more incredible, especially his flood series, which is what I’m calling them. He’s created these incredibly detailed paintings of cities almost completely covered in water. I’m not really sure how he does it, but the effect is amazing and totally epic.

Click here to see all of his amazing work.

Found through OK Great

Bobby

Jamie Chung
Posted: June 30, 2009 // Photography

Some days I want to be a photographer so badly. It seems like it would be such a great job to have, trying to create capture just the right moment or tell a story with a single image.

People like Jamie Chung are exactly like that, who have an immense creative vision that they convey through photography. Jamie graduated from Parsons in 2007 and since then he’s obviously been keeping busy. He’s represented by one of the best photo agencies in the States and has two portfolios of really amazing work online, as well seven other projects.

Bobby

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