Satirical Illustrations Of Today’s Problems Drawn In The Style Of The 50s. John Holcroft is a well-known British illustrator who has worked for BBC, Reader’s Digest, The Guardian and the Financial Times, among others.
However, what makes him famous are not his employers, but the brilliant satire reflected in his illustrations and the retro style he uses to create them. Everytime Holcroft publishes a new drawing, they inevitably go viral and spread all over the Internet. His style is based on advertisements from the 50’s, and he reproduces everything from their visual design style down to their aged vintage feel. The content of these illustrations, however, is anything but old-fashioned – social issues and modern behavior drawn in a satirical way. The issues he focuses on include our dependence on technology, society’s greed and the devaluation of workers, just to name a few.
Tiny People’s Big Adventures In A World Of Food by William Kass. Playing with food is not just for kids any more, as Brazilian artist William Kass proves with his imaginative “Minimize – Food” photo series.
He creates amusing miniature dramas using fruit, vegetables, seeds, ice-cream, and just about anything else that’s edible. The artist introduces lovely tiny people to a wondrous world, where an orange becomes a juicy, sparkling pool, chilli peppers turn into bonfires, and a zucchini becomes a cannon in a circus show. For more awesome miniature food art, check out Minimiam, a similar project featuring tiny food adventurers! More info: Website | Facebook | Shop (h/t: illusion) Darkened Cities by Thierry Cohen. Thierry Cohen is seen as one of the pioneers of digital photography.
Since 2010 he has devoted himself to a single project – “Villes Eteintes” (Darkened Cities) – which depicts the major cities of the world as they would appear at night without light pollution, or in more poetic terms: how they would look if we could see the stars. (via BD) To make the work he combines two photographs, one with the retouched night city and second with the sky in a same angle of the cityscape and latitude just where it is possible to see the stars like the Mojave, the Sahara, and the Atacama Desert. Brooklyn Bridge Hong Kong Los Angeles New York. Terry Border. Kyle Bean - Forbidden Fruit. Daniel Merriam’s Watercolors of Extravagant, Whimsical Worlds. Surrealist art is often highly cryptic and the odd juxtapositions and ambiguous narratives can sometimes feel unnerving.
This is understandable given the contradictory space between the subconscious and reality that surrealist artists navigate in their creative process. In the hands of self-proclaimed surrealist Daniel Merriam, however, the results of this process are entirely different. In Extremis by Sandro Giordano. Italian photographer Sandro Giordano works on the series ‘IN EXTREMIS – bodies with no regret’, visually manipulating everyday occurrences to create twisted and often hilarious situations depicting people in the moment after a fall.
The bodies, posed in awkward positions and photographed from unflattering angles, portray a falling-down world. Giordano states: “My photos tell the stories of people who live life at an exhausting pace, experiencing sudden blackouts. When the demands of the modern world become too much to cope with, our body rebels against our brain wreaking havoc in our day-to-day life.”
All images © Sandro Giordano | Via: Junkculture. Flying Formation by Shaun Kardinal. We’ve already introduced you to Shaun Kardinal and his embroidery works in 2012.
Now he’s back with his series called ‘Flying Formation’. He created digital collages from images he found on google and friends’ Facebook and Instagram Feeds that he would then exhibit on his own Instagram. He states: “As a sort of durational performance, I posted the images over the course of two hours during Seattle’s First Thursday Art Walk. I got myself setup at a favorite bar where, lit blue by iPhone and Macbook, I posted an image. Every ten minutes, I composed another—using Instagram’s filters and editor to finish each piece.” All images © Shaun Kardinal. Daniel W Coburn — Fraction Magazine. Waiting for Rapture by Daniel W.
Coburn Issue 63 Quiet suffering occurs within a family unit living under the auspices of the ideal American Dream. A psychologically violent relationship with loved ones, and an immersive cult-like experience with an evangelical Christian church contributed to my loss of spiritual and domestic faith. These issues take center-stage in a story that emerges from the walls of a single-family sanctuary and unfolds onto a Midwest landscape. I photograph my family in parables of love, reverie, respect and quiet tragedy. Daniel W. Breathtaking Surreal Self Portraits by 20-Year-Old Rachel Baran. 20 years old U.S.
-based photographer Rachel Baran creates powerful surreal and conceptual self portraits … Nancy Fouts. Mit ihren erfrischend humorvollen Skulpturen beweist die amerikanische Künstlerin Nancy Fouts, dass gute Bildende Kunst nicht immer zwingend tiefsinnig sein muss um zu unterhalten.
Bekannt ist die junge Wahl-Londonerin für ihre kreativen Skulpturen, bei denen sie alltägliche Objekte, Lebewesen oder Symbole neu arrangiert und ihnen spielerisch einen neuen oder gar gegensätzlichen Charakter verleiht. Sie selbst sagt über ihre Werke: ‘It’s not deep, but it is entertaining and it makes people smile!’