this year’s holiday cards were far more time intensive than last year’s, but the final product was worth it. see them all on flickr.
Category Archives: art
m. mararian’s inky dreadfuls
14 December, 2008 – 9h50
i am drawn to michael mararian’s work, naturally, as it resembles both technically and conceptually some of my earlier work as an art student. self-described as “an artist whose career has been built on the disillusionment of perfect american values and time honored tradition of the joy of childhood and the assumptions of the happiness […]
(red).
25 November, 2008 – 0h06
i am generally unimpressed with the whole (product)red thing. it’s a brand whose meaning was lost in its execution; a supposedly charitable project that receives more criticism than praise. take mark rosenman, for example, who describes product(red) as an “example of the corporate world aligning its operations with its central purpose of increasing shareholder […]
sam flores.
24 November, 2008 – 13h43
in a recent interview with juxtapoz, artist sam flores does a beautiful and unpretentious job of talking about his art, his inspiration and his process.
“seeing wasted talent makes me sad; people having so much talent and opportunity and just letting it go, spending half their life doing nothing and talking about what they’re going to […]
art acquisitions.
17 November, 2008 – 1h32
we’ve added several new lovelies from various artsy crafters [or is it crafty artists?] to our collection.
there’s theresa the owl pillow from coure
and the death bee [of invader zim] from the thorn and rose.
we visited the plush you show at schmancy and picked up both ivan by jenny harada
and ‘branch for two’ by arianna marinelli.
art acquisitions.
29 September, 2008 – 23h37
hans and i have spent the spring and summer of this year steadily building our cute art collection. a few notable findings by particularly interesting creators of cute are listed below.
a springtime gift for hans, a cookie by kickass-peanut. if it can be made plushie, this girl has done it.
a small gift from hans to […]
