Hari & Deepti | Black Book Gallery Hari & Deepti are an artist couple currently based out of Denver, Colorado. Hari (whose full name is Harikrishnan Panicker) is a trained graphic designer and illustrator. He was born and raised in Mumbai, India where he was the senior designer for MTV Networks India and has designed for brands like MTV India, VH1 India, Nickelodeon & Comedy Central. Apart from designing for these brands, he is also an established illustrator and has designed album covers for musicians like Dualist Inquiry and has been invited to design a cover for Rolling Stone India for their annual – Art as Cover Edition. He loves to collect and customize vinyl toys, is obsessed with drawing monsters, loves to screen print & secretly aspires to be in space some day. Deepti Nair is a certified geek and is usually seen designing complex systems for a leading Telecom company as an Interaction Designer. Hari & Deepti – The Golden Stag
Malin Rosenqvist Illustration Artist Creates Gigantic Winter Crop Circles Just by Walking in the Snow! While walking amidst white mountaintops and cozy ski lodges, Simon Beck creates enormous works of snow art that look like giant wintry crop circles. Believe it or not, the immense snow patterns are made entirely by foot - Beck creates them while he walks across the terrain in briquette snow shoes. The ephemeral art installations last only until the mountain winds blow them away across the valleys. Located in the beautiful valley of Savoie, France, Beck’s patterned snow circles decorate the expanses of the frozen lakes outside of the ski runs at Les Arcs ski resort. Overlooking Mont Blanc, the idyllic ski resort is a wonder of natural beauty – enhanced only by Beck’s designs. As each snow falls, sometimes daily, Beck designs and redesigns his incredible snow patterns over and over the same site. The designs range from festive snow flakes to trompe- l’oiel three dimensional squares to star bursts and spirograph patterns. But creating art work in snow has its downsides. + Simon Beck
Fresh From The Dairy: Painterly Realism This week’s The Design Milk Dairy picks marry abstraction with realism. Where drips and splashes and abstract shapes morph into real images of faces and nature. This Thing Called Art is Really Dangerous by Agnes-cecile Bright Pink – Part 2 by Jenny Liz Rome Pour Deux by Marc Allante Koi – Life in Watercolor by Budi Satria Kwan BONUS: This week, Society6 is offering FREE Shipping, worldwide through 1/27 (excludes Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases and Throw Pillows with insert). In an ongoing effort to support independent artists from around the world, Design Milk is proud to partner with Society6 to offer The Design Milk Dairy, a special collection of Society6 artists’ work curated by Design Milk and our readers.
Adrian & Gidi DRAWINGS - David Jien MOBB DEEP/ DROP A GEM ON EM', 2014, color pencil, graphite, and holographic film on paper, 11x17in (27.9x43.2cm) THE GOOD ERF, 2014, color pencil and graphite on paper, 14x18.25in (35.56x46.355cm) WRETCH, 2014, color pencil and graphite on paper, 8.5x11in (21.6x27.9cm) THE KITE OWLS, 2014, color pencil and graphite on paper, 8.5x11in (21.6x27.9cm) BAD BOY COMING THRU! MERCILESS MOON, 2014, color pencil, graphite, mother of pearl veneer, and silver leaf on paper, 8.5x11in (21.6x27.9cm) EXODUS (detail) EXODUS, 2013-2014, color pencil, graphite, gouache and mother of pearl veneer on paper, 25.5x91in (64.77x231.14cm) SHAKRAN/ MURDA MUSIK, 2012, color pencil, graphite, gouache and holographic film on paper, 11x17in (27.9x43.2cm) MT. THE KNITE OWLS, 2012, color pencil and graphite on paper, 8.5x11in (21.6x27.9cm) CUBBY CONTROL, 2012, color pencil. graphite, gouache, abalone veneer, wood veneer and gold leaf on paper, 13.75x16(34.925x40.64cm) HURRAH 4 US!
: Dinah Fried Fictitious Dishes Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meals is a book of 50 photographs of meals from literature—ranging from The Secret Garden to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, published by HarperCollins. >>>Order from Amazon, B & N, Books-a-million, Bookish or Indiebound<<< Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Oliver Twist The Bell Jar The Catcher in the Rye On the Road Heidi To Kill a Mockingbird The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Swann’s Way Moby-Dick; or The Whale Publisher: HarperCollins | Publication Date: 4.15.2014 | ISBN 978-0-06-227983-5 For publicity inquiries, contact Ashley Garland (US) or Sarah Woodruff (international)
HELLO : Ellie Cryer Illustration Rogan Brown - Paper Sculptures Leonardo Gauna Design Portfolio - Design Probes - Bio-light {*style:<b>How we could use it </b>*}Bioluminescence produces low-intensity light, more suitable for tracing, warning, ambience and indication than functional illumination. Its speed of generation, being dependent on chemical reaction, is slower than most conventional light sources and the life form itself must be kept alive. But it needs no wires and is independent of the electricity grid. {*style:<b>Some possible uses might include </b>*}• Night-time road markings, e.g. bioluminescent plants that indicate where the edge of the road is • Warning strips on flights of stairs, kerbsides etc. • Informational markings in low-light settings, eg. theatres, cinemas, nightclubs • Diagnostic indicators, e.g. a colored body health map in the home apothecary, pollution levels, local bacterial ecology etc. • Monitoring the status of diseases like diabetes in individual patients, using bioluminescent biosensors {*style:<b>Far-future design concepts