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Jason Freeny Vinyl Toys My Little Pony
Jan 17th
Conceptual artist and cartoon decomposer Jason Freeny recently did an interview where he shows how he dissects his creations. The hand-crafted sculptures and illustrations of characters of My little Pony’s, Yoshi from Super Mario Brothers, Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty, Gummi Bears and Balloon Hot Dogs. He simply wants to give life to the inside of a vinyl toy. His sculptures and drawing seem a bit morbid to the naked eyes but the craftsmanship is right on point. Read more about his work in the interview below. Freeny is definitely an artist to keep eye on.
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Graffiti Artist Ano like Pokémon Pikachu
Jan 16th
Chinese street-artist Ano just posted his latest electrifying graffiti piece from the Kaohsiung Design Festival, featuring everyone’s favorite yellow Pokémon creature Pikachu in a pixelated style. Ano pictured is wearing a Pikachu costume to support the work of art along with special Pokémon ball style spray paint can.
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Mike Frederiqo – SpongeBob SquarePants Fashion Series
Jan 13th
Young Dutch artist Mike Frederiqo known for his vivid tattooing and graffiti. Fregeriqo has worked with street-wear companies like A Bathing Ape for their Bape’s Soup Collection. His latest paintings include Nickelodeons SpongeBob SquarePants where he uses this cartoon icon in an artist rendition of other notable pop artist. Here you see SpongeBob as to fashion designer Karl Largerfield, rapper/designer Pharrell Williams, photographer Terry Richardson, designer icon Coco Chanel, and Marc Jacobs along with a remake of Takashi Murakami flower characters. Not sure where you can pick these amazing pieces up or if they are even for sale either way very clean lines and great coloring along with a very cool concept dressing up SpongeBob. More >
Pixar PixArt Knick Knacks
Dec 3rd
Check out the latest Disney’s Pixar PixArt Knick Knack toy concepts design contest inspired by Disney’s Vinylmation and Kidrobot’s Dunny/Munny lines. Artist gets a chance to creating mock toys outlines for possible future toy production. The contest started October 31, 2011 and had a great response with an abundance of ideas featuring character conceptual art by Pixar fans. This month they have featured their 3rd wave in the series 1 of toy designs. The way the contest works is you contact Knick Knack design group with your idea they then send you details on submission along with an Illustrator/Photoshop template to start your design on and then you get to let you’re juices flow.
Illy Coffee BollyDoll Art
Dec 1st
illy coffee and Galleria illy presented yesterday at the The Betsy hotel in Miami Beach, Florida “Timbaland Presents BollyDoll” by Amrita Sen a 26 piece exhibit of colorful and articulate BollyDoll illustrations, light boxes, scarves along with a musical collaboration with BollyWood Timbaland. The show combined classical Indian traditions with modern multimedia pop art.
Disney Fine Art Mark Swanson Limited Prints
Dec 1st
Disney Fine Arts Collectors Editions has been a leader in the art publishing industry for over 20 years offering hand-signed and numbered fine artwork by some of the world’s most popular artists. The most recent artist added to their roster is Mark Swanson. Swanson’s paintings and drawings are known for their brilliant color, graceful shapes, and lush tropical splendor. Swanson was also the one who helped in creating the layouts and backgrounds for Steven Spielberg’s “An American Tale” and George Lucas’s “Land Before Time”.
Mickey Mouse Light Bulb Concept By Hong Kue Lee
Nov 18th
This amazing conceptual design by artist Hong-kue Lee gives light to one of the most iconic character in the world Mickey Mouse. The Mickey Mouse Light Bulb is just a concept design not for sale yet but a great idea and thought we would share since it’s Mickey’s birthday!
The Art of Pixar The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art Book
Nov 6th
The Art of Pixar: The Complete Colorscripts and Select Art From 25 Years of Animation is a 300+ page “Art of Pixar” available in bookstores nationwide and though Amazon. The book is a collaboration between animation historian Amid Amidi also known as Cartoon Brew and John Lasseter director and the chief creative officer at Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios.The book focuses strongly on the art work so there is not much text other than comments from John Lasseter comparing the styles of art work from the different artist featured, each artist has a their own way of story telling through art.
Leon Keer Dutch Artist Lego Free Ego Leonard
Nov 4th
The LEGO’s comes together…The 8-foot-tall, 100-pound fiberglass statue Lego Man discovered on the Siesta Key Beach in Florida, October 26, 2011 wearing a shirt saying “NO REAL THAN YOU ARE” with the name “Ego Leonard” written on the back. This was all part of an anonymous Dutch artist’s Ego Leonard experiment. Also known as Dutch guerrilla artist Leon Keer who happens to be one of the artist in Sarasota this week participating in the city’s annual chalk festival.
Crayola Griffin Trace and Draw for iPad 2
Oct 26th
Crayola teams up with accessory maker Griffin to release the latest free creative tool app for preschoolers the Trace and Draw. Turning an iPad 2 into an interactive drawing studio for young aspiring artists just in time for holiday season! More >
