A recent submission from artist Scott Albrecht yielded a portfolio full of amazing work ranging from wood sculptures + boxes to painted signage to inspirational typographic pieces. Scott has an upcoming show @ The Curiousity Shoppe in SF, if you’re in the area I’d highly recommend checking it out. Scott is also part of PROCESS, an excellent collaborative blog.

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It’s raining today. And while it might be kind of gray out there, it’s beautiful in here.

1. Collaboration between LLoyd Winter and Jen Cogliantry, “THERE WILL BE NO RAINBOWS”
2. Aennchen’s cloud mobile with raindrops
3. DJ Bass’s “RAIN”
4. Blancucha’s “MONSIEUR UNDER THE RAIN”

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That is a Gucci bag made out of paper. For realz.

Au Yeung Ping Chi is a paper artist that has taken over his father’s effigy business, creating paper masterpieces fashioned after materials coveted by Hong Kong’s hip youth…that died young.

From Tiffany Lam and Zoe Li’s CNN article,

“The Chinese custom of burning paper offerings to the dead spawned the paper effigy business, in which scaled-down versions of items that are considered luxurious and desirable to the living, such as gold watches, cars, or even maids, are rendered with paper. The items are burned at gravesites in order to “deliver” them to the underworld where the dearly departed can receive them.”

No. Shit. Ok, I’m into it.

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Will Stern is a super talented photographer based in NYC. His work ranges from high fashion to photo journalism, but his thoughtful compositions are consistent throughout his portfolio. Even when he’s on a fashion photoshoot, his images still appear to be filtered through an anthropological lens. He recently published a photo-essay on Dossier of his experience in Haiti when he visited two days after the earthquake. Pretty moving stuff.

The image above & those after the jump are random shots from NY that I dug.

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I love this Yes sign pattern by Telegramme Studio. Telegramme is a London-based duo of graphic designers/illustrators, Christopher & Robert. Check them out!

Italian Calligrapher Luca Barcellona gives your favorite computer generated type tool the finger and shows us how he creates amazing freehand type in this amazing video.

Legacy of Letters from Luca Barcellona on Vimeo.

My wife showed me this project a few weeks ago and it’s gotten a ton of press since then, but it’s such a great example of how a little bit of creativity can change the world we live in. If you don’t know anything about David Rockwell’s Imagination Playground, please do yourself a favor and check it out.

Amanda De Vito, aka Dust.Bunny, shares a world of beautiful decay with us. A world that understands the inevitable connection between darker hours and the captivating beauty that surrounds them. If you have a little time today, explore her flickr and be sure to read the titles and notes attached to some of her work. Here’s an excerpt:

the sky & the hills & the grass & the asphalt were all saturated with the colors of the setting sun. golden streaks of light like honey dripping over everytihng, & shadows so deep you could dive into them & drown trying to reach the bottom. the warm wind through the unrolled windows was as loud as armageddon, the trees on the roadside rained leaves like confetti. magpies were spinning & diving in the air in razor thin lines, flying frantically away from my oncomming car. i was traveling fast enough to move through time, backwards to a spent summer i’ve been tryng to forget. those days you reflect on for the rest of your life, the memories that allow you to say “i’ve been worse off before.” Read the rest of this entry »

Everynone is a video production group out of NYC and LA.  They do some really cool stuff, including the recent “Words” (above), for my favorite source of nerdalicious useless brain filler – Radiolab.

They also have a really great series called Everyone Forever Now, which includes the video “Stoop Sitting,” which is definitely my favorite.  These videos (and many of their others) are shot in a style that is somewhere between stop motion and fluid film, but really neither… The pacing is perfect, the editing is tight, yet it allows you to feel a passage of time without moving too slow.

They have several other films on their site, including a couple others done for Radiolab, and a series called Routines, which explores our everyday activities, but presents them in an almost uncomfortable kind of way – even though they are things we do on a regular basis.

This past weekend I saw a Charles LeDray exhibition called workworkworkworkwork at the ICA Museum in Boston. It consisted of an immense collection of handmade miniature-sized versions of everyday things. I was blown away by the details in each piece, the care put into crafting each miniature hanger, book, tie, etc. If you’re visiting Boston any time soon, I recommend checking it out!