Category: Amusements
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Edible art supplies
Ever think your paints looked yummy enough to eat? Bad idea, of course — but not with these chocolate confections in the form of paint tubes and pencils— created by Nendo Design, in cooperation with patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu. [Via Neatorama]
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Sendak Tribute Google Doodle
In celebration of what would have been Maurice Sendak’s 85th birthday today (June 10, 2013), Google has a nicely done, affectionate, respectful and fairly extensive tribute to the artist in the form of an animated Google Doodle on the Google home page. After today, look to the Google Doodles archive, or view this video capture…
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Shintaro Ohata
Shintaro Ohata is an artist from Hiroshima, Japan who is both a painter and a sculptor. Artists who are both sculptors and painters are not unusual. Ohata, however, frequently combines the two mediums in single works in which a painting and sculpture are displayed together as a mixed two dimensional – three dimensional work. The…
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Recipe Comix
Back in 2010 I reported on They Draw and Cook, a project in which illustrators and other artists contribute recipes in the form of illustrations. In something of a variation on that idea, food site Saveur has been running Recipe Comix, a series in which they have asked a number of comics artists to contribute…
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Word as Image, Ji Lee
Ji Lee is a designer and illustrator, born in Korea, raised in Brazil and currently living and working in New York. Inspired by an art school typography class assignment almost twenty years ago, Lee has been since then working with the concept of creating images out of the letterforms of words that depict something of…
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Abandoned Paintings
An art student at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts who lists himself as bENCE hAJDU on Behance has posted a short series of images in which he has used digital image editing to remove the people from some classic paintings and fill in the backgrounds where they once existed. Makes you think twice. [Via…