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Facet Illustrations

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Art, Culture, Design


I’ve been working on some illustrations which seem to have grown to a series I’m calling Facet. Check them out on my folio page.


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Keller Maurer Design

August 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Art, Culture, Design


Keller Maurer Design is a graphic design consultancy based in Munich and run by Martina Keller and Marcus Maurer.


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Shorts for Burn

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Art, Culture, Design


Agency Publicis Mojo and Exit Films have released a set of short films for Coca Cola’s Burn Energy drink.


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HEYDAYS

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Art, Culture, Design


HEYDAYS – Design & Direction based in Oslo


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At-AT Day Afternoon

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Art, Culture, Design


A great mixture and execution to show a day in the life of an urban AT-AT. Plus below is a short and sweet behind the scenes video that helps you understand the process that went into making a short that appears to natural and whimsical.

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Big Bang Big Boom

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Art, Culture, Design


Big Bang Big Boom. Wow, so much paint, so much time, and so much talent. Another epic (9:30 minutes) stop motion piece from BLU.


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Vellas & Laga

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Art, Culture, Design

Ex lobo, now a duo of Vellas & Laga doing animation work.


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OFFF Titles

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Art, Culture, Design

As well as showcasing some great talent, it looks like OFFF (International Festival for the Post-Digital Creative Culture) also created some.

OFFF Opening Titles

OFFF Sponsor titles


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Anthony Lister at Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Art, Culture

Australian born artist Anthony Lister is showing at the Lyons Wier Gallery in New York City from March 19 through to April 19.

A lot of my favorite artists are painters that never really give up using the pencil (line). Painterly paintings are good but so are paintings that look like drawings. I guess I like painterly drawings or linear paintings. I like painterly paintings and linear drawings too ;-)

anthony lister painting
Anthony Lister - Terms of Engagement, 2010
Mixed media on canvas, 39.5 x 39.5 inches

anthony lister at Lyons Wier nyc
Anthony Lister - BET, 2010
mixed media on paper, 6.5 x 9.5 inches

australian artist anthony lister
Anthony Lister Super Girl 1, 2010
Mixed media on canvas, 14 x 11 inches

From the Lyons Wier Gallery blog here..
“Known in the Low Brow movement for his intriguing, playful hybrid of street art, expressionism, and cubism all manifested in non-traditional media such as spray paint; Lister’s new body of work shows the tongue-in-cheek frivolity of his earlier pieces developing (or decaying) into a more mature and disturbing direction. The deformities and un-done aesthetic resolve of Lister’s work provides viewers with a concretization of contemporary societies’ psyche – or, as the artist himself states, “making the obvious more, well, obvious”.”

OPENING: Fri. March 19th, 2010 6-9pm
DATES: March 19th - April 19th, 2010
See more Anthony Lister works from the exhibition here or see the artist’s website here.

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Art News Blog Plans

August 2nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Art, Culture

I’m really good at making lists. I’m a list person. Without lists I watch too much tv, surf the web, or read too much.

I create lists that are too ambitious as I rarely ever complete the jobs on them. Which in some ways shows the masochist in me as I know I’m setting myself up to fail, but in other ways it gets me off my fanny (I have always wanted to use the word “fanny” in a sentence as it makes me laugh. In Australia the fanny is different to what a fanny is in the US).

Here’s my To Do List for Art News Blog this year. I figured if I published the list it would make me more likely to do it.

  • Create or pay for a new blog design. Art News Blog has a pretty ordinary design and it hasn’t changed much in more than 5 years. I might even get a designer to create a new logo. I might even add a little color to the design.
  • Move the blog to another blogging platform. Blogger is making some hosting changes so I figured now might be a good time to jump ship. Not because I don’t like Blogger but because I just want change.
  • Post at least 5 times each week.
  • Allow more guest posts by other bloggers and artists.
  • Monetize the blog. I currently make about {content},000.00 on the blog so it shouldn’t be too difficult to increase that amount. I’m thinking, offer advertising spaces to artists, which might be a challenge as artists are TIGHT, like duck’s ass tight when it comes to spending money on marketing themselves. So I might look at approaching some art supply companies, galleries, art publications or just go the affiliate route.
  • Post reviews on more products. Encourage companies to send products to me (I love receiving gifts in the post) and mention them. It could be win/win/win if done right. I get a surprise in the mail, the company gets exposure, and you learn about a wonderful new product! Competitions could be an option too, where I just tell the company to send the products to a reader of the blog.
  • Respond to emails and comments!! Argh, sorry if I haven’t replied to you! Don’t take it personally, I suck. I do read everything, I just haven’t been replying to much lately.
  • Keep up to date with what is happening and write about it! Pretty straight forward this one, I just have to look at my domain name to remind me; artnewsblog.com.
  • Do more artist profiles. If I find an interesting artist online, I should do a post on them.

Anyone know of reasonably affordable blog designer that can make me a spiffy new blog and tranfer Art News Blog from Blogger to.. umm.. Wordpress or that other blogging platform that I can’t think of right now? Perhaps I should see a logo designer first.

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