This is what it would look like if we made hot music videos for designers and artists rather than musicians:

SUPAKITCH & KORALIE – VÄRLDSKULTUR MUSEET GÖTEBORG from elr°y on Vimeo.

Sometimes, I feel pretty stupid being online all day long. And it’s at those times that I am thankful for having stacks of Cabinet magazine (issues 13-43!) piled up in the living room. Intent on encouraging “a new culture of curiosity, one that forms the basis both for an ethical engagement with the world as it is and for imagining how it might be otherwise”, Cabinet makes you more eager to check your mailbox than your inbox. So put down that silly iPad or whatever gadget you pretend replaces printed magazines these days, and dive in.

One hour of video is uploaded to Youtube every second.  That’s kinda hard to comprehend, so some smartypants over there put together a slick website to illustrate just how big that number really is.  And the whole site is done with CSS and HTML animations and svg elements – no Flash!  If anyone can track down who the illustrators are, I’d love to know.  Really well done.

http://www.onehourpersecond.com/

About four years back, Kristy and I tried making a paper sandwich. It was fun and, you know, it worked but this paper sandwich made by Zim and Zou for ICON magazine makes what we did look like fingerpainting. Check out the rest of the their portfolio for some equally intense neon papercuts.

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Bjorn Arnason is a photographer based in Reykjavik, Iceland who has mastered the law of thirds. His work plays with space and balance in an interesting way. I appreciate how he takes large landmarks/objects and makes them feel small by focusing more on the atmosphere rather than centering the subject in the shot.

Check out more of his work here.

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Such beautifully demented paintings from Amy Guidry. I’ve been watching a lot of Breaking Bad lately, and maybe it’s just the desert landscapes prevalent in her work, but I can’t help but associate Amy’s series “Wild West” with the show. Twisted, but oddly familiar.

Check out this awesome architectural sculpture made from/built on an old found chair by Mr. Ted Lott.

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James Karales, Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965, 1965. Photographic print. Located in the James Karales Collection, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. Photograph © Estate of James Karales

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I really love the breadth of style from Atelier Olschinski, a duo out of Austria. Just compare these two pieces above and below. Metropolis vs Space Odyssey.

They have such a great eye that extends not only to graphic design, but to photography, editorial art direction and plain old high-end concepts. I like. A lot.

Really enjoying the inventive typographic work coming from Utrecht-based design studio Hoax.

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