Papercraft: Passports, please.

"Passports, please." by Yanko Tihov

A map created from a collage of used passports.

Posters: Batman Collage

Batman Collage by Mr. Garcin

Prints available for purchase from Frenchpaper Art Club.

Paintings: Super Hero Canvas

Super Hero Canvas Series by Sandra Chevrier

On exhibit at the Les Cages: A Fractured Gaze show at the Mirus Gallery
[Previously: Comic Book Portraits and Sandra Chevrier ]

"Mirus Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Les Cages: A Fractured Gaze, an exhibition of new works on paper and canvas by Sandra Chevrier on view April 5th through May 10th. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at Mirus Gallery.

At first glance, the work of Sandra Chevrier tantalizes and threatens to tame with its utter surface seduction; almost luring one into a saccharine sweet comic-infused sleep before demanding your attention with the undulating force of it’s deeper message. Consumed in a moment by the undeniable beauty of Chevrier’s work, a closer inspection yields the menace of superficial illusion, revealing, in a sense, the darker truth at the heart of the work.

Link Round-Up: January 3, 2014

“The Universe Is in Us" by t.abroudj

Digital artist Tahar Abroudjameur created this haunting image of a skull-like nebula by re-imagining a Hubble photo of two colliding spiral galaxies. Called "The Universe Is In Us," it's one of many contributions to the NASA remix project.

16 New York City Instagrammers You Should Follow

Alien or YouTubian? Intricate crop circle appears in California.

CLICKittyCAT is a hand-drawn webcomic that satirizes the photography profession.

Guillermo del Toro Shares 14 Creative Insights From His Spectacular Cabinet Of Curiosities Sketch Book

Natural Palettes is an awesome new Tumblr devoted to matching colors from the Pantone spectrum with gorgeous natural landscapes. Color aficionado will love and both simple and striking scenes from nature.  It’s easy to get lost scrolling through the collection.
Watch Music Turn Into A 3D-Printed Augmented Reality Sculpture

Wired has an interesting design piece on how Home Depot has improved the bucket.

Paintings: Sandra Chevrier

"Studies on Paper" and "Super Hero Canvas" series by Sandra Chevrier

Papercraft: Starry Night

Starry Night Collage by Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz

Pictures of Magazine 2 series, currently on display at Galerie Xippas in Paris.

Link Round-Up: September 2, 2013

"Old Glory #2" by Scott Modrzynski
Comic collage available for purchase from Etsy. US$250

This 1,600-Year-Old Goblet Shows that the Romans Were Nanotechnology Pioneers. The Lycurgus Cup appears opaque green under normal light, but the ancient dichroic glass vessel transforms to a translucent red color when lit from behind. Roman artisans achieved this by impregnating the glass with particles of silver and gold as small as 50 nanometers in diameter. Inspired by the cup, modern researchers have created the world's most sensitive plasmon resonance sensor.

An Abandoned House That Folds into a 100-Seat Movie Theater

LEGO Cuusoo user Senteosan pitches a pretty spot-on Jurassic Park set.

Old School FRP is a tumblr blog with a ton of illustrations and art from the golden age of Dungeons and Dragons and games that were totally not Dungeons and Dragons.

Tim Chamberlain set off a sh*t-storm of rage when he took a poke at Fake Geek Girls last week.  Considering that he was only quoting a girl he had overheard, the flood of hate mail he received might have been an over-reaction.

Vintage behind the scenes photo from Star Wars

Link Round-Up: August 8, 2013

"Spirograph World Map" by British artist Rachel Evans

Prints available for purchase from Redbubble. US$63.25

Awesome Plush Toys from Shows Kids Probably Shouldn't be Watching

Guy Whitby, an Aussie artist also known as WorkByKnight (WBK), creates mixed media pixelated art, such as portraits using keyboard keys, and portraits and famous works of art using crochet granny squares.

How to create Concrete Death Star Vases using concrete and this Death Star silicone mold from ThinkGeek.

I'm so glad to learn that I'm not the only one to do this.  Damn stickers, anyway.

Tholman.com is the playground and folio of interactive developer Tim Holman.  He has posted 15 different projects, including interactive projects like Fizzy cam, Image Nodes, Texter, and ZenPen, and some passive stuff like his 30 text generators:   to batman;, corporate, dripping paint, Meet the Ipsums, and the useless web.

Papercraft: Comic Collage Art

Comic Book Collages by Mike Alcantara

[Previously: Oct 29, 2012]

Every since Photoshop turned collaging into a popular pastime, it has become rare to stumble across an actual paper and glue collage, but Mike Alcantara's comic book tributes are made from nothing but comics--no paint, no markers, just the ink already printed on paper. You can check out his latest pieces on Facebook or buy one for yourself on Etsy.

Posters: Space-themed Collages

Space-themed Collages by Polish artist Kacper Liec

Papercraft: PowerUp Collage

PowerUp Collage by Upcycled Comics
Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$45

Paintings: Comic Book Portraits

"La Cage où les gens pleurent"

Comic Book Portraits by Sandra Chevrier

Chevrier paints beautifully female portraits, which she then smothers with pages torn out of comic books, forever silencing her subjects with the very iconic heroes meant to empower them.  The pieces are a powerful commentary on the effects of the popular portrayals of women in pop culture.

  

Papercraft: Currency Collages

Currency Collages by Mark Wagner

By carefully slicing up dollar bills and rearranging them into beautiful scenes of George Washington as an everyday man, Mark Wagner makes powerful statements about a culture dominated by money and greed. Wagner, founder of the Booklyn Artists Alliance, uses every detail of the dollar bill- from the pyramids, fire, flowers, seals and Masonic eye to the portrait of our founding father George Washington and the encrypted swirls.

Photography: Unidentifiable Traffic

"Unidentifiable Traffic" by Korean artist Jiyen Lee

Prints available for purchase at Saatchionline. US$3,000

Digital collage depicting people going up and down stairs at different times. The people seem to exist in a space where there is no beginning or end.

Papercraft: Collages Comics

Comic Book Collages by Mike Alcantara

Every since Photoshop turned collaging into a popular pastime, it has become rare to stumble across an actual paper and glue collage, but Mike Alcantara's comic book tributes are made from nothing but comics--no paint, no markers, just the ink already printed on paper. You can check out his latest pieces on Facebook or buy one for yourself on Etsy.

Papercraft: Currency Collages

Currency Collages by Matt Wagner

You can't get much with a one dollar bill, but you sure can sure make a lot of it. Wagner weaves fantastical scenes, portraits, and other mind-bending compositions from an intricate patchwork of dollar bills. You can purchase posters and books of more masterfully reorganized currency over at x-ingbooks.

Link Round-Up: September 10, 2012

“City of Gods” By Marwan Shahin

"I’ve been very inspired by collage art recently, thats me using my cover collage skills to create my own version of “sistine chapel”. City of gods is a part of a series of collage artworks. this one inspired by the glory of Rapture, the timeless darkness of Gotham City & the power of Olympus, it represents of power. I’ve used images of artists I personally look up to, in the process of making this collage"

Creative cards is a deck of 54 playing cards, each card by a different artists. The cards are framed in the same way with the same typography for the suits, but the art has no over-riding theme.

Measuring eight inches in each dimension, the RGB Colorspace Atlas by Tauba Auerbach illustrates the entire three-dimensional RGB color space in 3632 pages, with each page showing a subtly different slice of color. In fact, three different versions were created, each with the spine cut along a different axis. Watch an animation of the project.

The Reprint Society re-imagines the old Doctor Who Target Novelizations featuring the New Whos. I'd read them!

Fresh Take: Starry Night

"Starry Night" by New York based artist Vik Muniz

Muniz has re-created a wide range of classical artwork as collages using pages torn from magazines in his new series, Pictures of Magazine 2. The collection is currently on display at Galerie Xippas in Paris, France. 

Link Round-Up: May 1, 2012

Derek Gores is an American artist specializing in collage. From pieces of torn magazines and newspapers, he creates highly detailed figurative portraits.

Check out the Mondo Avengers posters. I think the style for Iron Man is “Art Nueromanceau,” but I could be wrong.

Check out these amazing pencil portraits done on old matchbooks, including characters from Creepshow and Young Frankenstein.

Cthulhu's distant cousin, the Cthonian Elephant

Sheep Invaders is a sweater and from designer Monsieur Lacenarie. But you can play an online version of Sheep Invaders on their Facebook here.