Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado
Step by step by snow-shoe’d step, this massive snow drawing was trampled into freshly fallen snow by artist Sonja Hinrichsen (with the help of 5 volunteers) last month… ephemeral art-making at its finest. Photos are by Cedar Beauregard and you can watch a beautiful aerial video sequence here.
(source) Along a similar bent, check out the large-scale work of Simon Beck on the frozen lakes of Savoie, France.
(from ‘brain pickings’)
I enjoyed these “hyper-minimalist” posters that distill complex stories into clean graphic elements. See more here.
(Thanks to my Belgian philosopher friend Filip Spagnoli for the link).
(Quote by George Orwell | illustration by the inimitable Mr. Fish)
New York City
My friend Luba Lukova’s exhibition Graphic Guts opens at La MaMa La Galleria (6 East 1st Street, between Bowery and 2nd Ave.) this Thursday, 16 February, from 6-8 pm.
Internationally renowned, Lukova is regarded as one of the most distinctive image makers working today. Poignant and unrelenting, her arresting images grab the viewer and don’t let go. In her third solo exhibition at La MaMa, she will present a new collection of social commentary and theater inspired art. Lukova’s work is included in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York; The Library of Congress, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris; and the World Bank.
Image above: Delta Blues, 2012, silk-screen, ©Luba Lukova
(quote by André Malraux | original image sources unknown)
Brno, Czech Republic
“May” is a gorgeous illustrated alphabet by Czech artist Jakub Konvica using words from a poem of the same title by Karel Hynek Mácha. See more here.
“I created an illustrated alphabet in which every character illustrates words which appear in the poem. Afterwards, I cut the alphabet to pieces and rearranged them into new characters…”
from Singapore…
This lovely poster caught my eye… “The lives of animals revolve around their living space, the rainforest. And since animals are not able to speak for themselves, the destruction of their habitat leaves them suffering in silence.”
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Düsseldorf, Germany
“Beginning in 1928, Gerd Arntz, commissioned by Otto Neurath, developed the Isotype visual dictionary, consisting of over 4000 symbols. The idea was that images can bridge differences of language, are easy to grasp and, when done well, are also nice to look at. The legibility of Isotype is determined by the simplicity of its symbols. These should be instantly recognizable, without any distracting detail…”
Read more about this amazing undertaking and see hundreds more of Gerd’s wonderful illustrated symbols here.
