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Month: February 2006

  • Creative Latitude: Cat’s fancy

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    Designers who blog is a terrific blog that I wrote about back in December. It features blogs by designers, illustrators and others in related disciplines. Each month DWB author Catherine (cat) Morley picks a number of the blogs that have a common topic and interviews the blog creators. She then posts the interviews, along with…

  • The Zoomquilt

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    The Zoomquilt is a collaborative art project between 15 artists and a Flash designer. There is also a non-animated HTML version (offline at the main site, mirror here), but the Flash version is definitely better. Like Nosepilot, The Zoomquilt is essentially a diversion, a visual toy meant to amuse and entertain, and just maybe make…

  • Christian Lorenz Scheurer

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    Christian Lorenz Scheurer is a concept artist who has worked on films like The Fifth Element, Titanic, The Matrix, Animatrix, Final Fantasy, What Dreams May Come and The Day After Tomorrow. Born in Switzerland but now living in California, Scheurer initially studied to create graphic novels but realized he wanted to pursue a career in…

  • Olduvai George (Carl Buell)

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    Olduvai George is a blog title and online identity for natural history illustrator Carl Buell. (The name is a play on Olduvai Gorge, a large ravine in Tanzania where some of the earliest human remains have been found.) Buell has a passionate fascination with animals, living and extinct, although his work has him most often…

  • Kurt Wenner

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    Among his other talents, Kurt Wenner is a “street painter”, an artist who does highly rendered “paintings” in colored chalk on public sidewalks, usually with a fairly high degree of draughtsmanship and most often in European cities. (American cities are usually too up-tight to allow “art” on the sidewalk, even temporarily; advertising maybe, but not…

  • Arnold Böcklin

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    We assume to a certain extent that most artists’ work is influenced by their life. Arnold Böcklin is known for his famous image The Isle of the Dead, a composition of which he actually did five different versions. The one shown here is in Berlin, there is also one in the Metropolitan Museum in New…