My dad just introduced me to the many great works of Peder Duke. A Swedish artist who lived between 1938 and 2003. You can browse through his full artistic time line at his website.

I just remembered these exentric classic designs by Piero Fornasetti (with Ponti on this desk here). He died 20 years ago but his son Barnaba is continuing with the design studios tradition since then.

I bought this beautiful book last week, “Im Garten” by Heidi Specker who lives and work in Berlin.

Matthias van Arkel Open Studio at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in NYC.

An opportunity to discover original works by emerging Swedish artist, Matthias van Arkel, on view only for a few days in the United States.

Opening reception: May 22, 2008, 5pm — 9pm.
323 West 39th Street, New York, Studio # 508.
Exhibition Hours: May 23 — 24, 11am — 7pm.

Christopher West is a graphic design student in Amsterdam who’s just published his online portfolio (click the images).

Jody Barton was begat of woman in the County of Kent in the year of our Queen 1972. After being a baby for ages and then inevitably a child after that he finally inhabited his adult form. Not a virgin having had sex with a lady, or without a car having a 1985 1000cc Peugeot shopping vehicle with three massive dents, he is an eligible bachelor who would like to be married to a beautiful intellectual lady who is not too short probably. He is a terrible skateboarder. Fortunately the forces of youth apparel have not discovered this fact so have in recent years asked Jody to weave his works into the hooded topped tapestry. The world screams - and Jody feels its pain and cries out mournfully in a terrible chord of Teen Angst. After a period living in Shitsville (London) he now lives in quiet seclusion with his elaborate bicycles in the deep countryside of the County of Suffolk. His dwelling is so remote that there are no roads out at all. No shops, no lights - only the howl of the owl, the inquisitive friendship of the weasel and the mud. It is possible to travel out to civilisation, but Jody must drag himself bodily across lakes of slippery mud, through thorny hedges and penetrate leagues of impenetratable woodland to reach a road. At which point he would be quite torn to threads and having the appearance of primitive man in the natural history museum. This takes so long that leaving the house clean shaven to travel to London he will arrive with a quite long beard and no memory of the journeys beginning.

Anton Stankowski was born on 18 June 1906 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His most important teacher was Max Burchartz at the Folkwangschule in Essen, where — after completing an apprenticeship and his journeyman years as a decorative painter — he studied for three semesters, starting in 1926. After a short stint free-lancing for the Canis Advertising Agency in Bochum, the 23-year-old Stankowski was invited toward the end of 1929 to work at Max Dalang’s famous advertising studio in Zurich. This marked the beginning of an important time: Stankowski’s photographic and typographical work developed into a prototype for a contemporary advertising style, later called “constructive graphics.” Stankowski quickly made friends with people who later became known as the “Zuricher Konkreten,” Richard P. Lohse, Verena Loewensberg, Max Bill, and others. In 1934 Stankowski lost his work permit and he moved to Lörrach, Switzerland, before finally returning to Germany in 1938. In 1939 Stankowski founded his Grafische Atelier in Stuttgart. Shortly thereafter, he was drafted into the army and had to go to war. After the war, he connected with leading characters of the visual movement, such as Baumeister, Hugo Häring, Kurt Leonhard, Mia Seeger, Egon Eiermann, Max Bense, and Walter Cantz. Thanks in part to Stankowski’s work, Stuttgart became a Mecca for graphic design in the 1950s.

Thank you Charlotte!

I love all her pictures. The link on the picture is to Solar Photography, here is also a link to her website.

San Francisco girl Tauba Auerbach has some impressive work in her portfolio. She graduated from Stanford Uni. in 2003, where she studied Visual Art. Go check her site out.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1980.
Education: Boston University, BFA, 2002.
Lives and works in New York.

Oscar Bauer & Ewan Robertson have just graduated from Central Saint Martins BA (Hons) Graphic Design. They work together, alone, and collaborate with many friends. Oscar is 27, from Stockholm, and Ewan is 22, from Aberdeen.

This is definitely the most inspiring work I’ve seen in a long time. Thanks guys!

Korean artist, also via I heart photography.

Paperheart is Jessica Williams. A 21 year old student at The Cooper Union in NYC. She’s an excellent photographer and illustrator.

Update note: Ryan just told me he posted this recently. Sorry for the repeat.

Erics multitalent for drawing, writing, designing, photography, building housing blocks for birds etc is impressive. A stubburn artist.