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The Collage Work of Kareem Rizk

Kevin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:19:51 +0000

I was doing some late night research for illustrations of birds for an infographic piece that we have coming through the studio in the next week. As far as I’m concerned, any research project that allows you to sift through endless illustrations by Charley Harper cannot be a bad thing. However, my intended post about Harper was sidelined when I stumbled upon the collage work of Kareem Rizk.

Rizk’s work is not limited to birds. His subject matter spans an entire garage’s worth of vintage magazines from the looks of it, torn and juxtaposed atop rich tactile textures of canvas and exposed layers of paint. I could have spent the rest of my evening going through all of the work. But for the sake of my research, tonight I will stick to his birds.

Drawings by Emma McNally

Kevin Broome — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:16:00 +0000

The influence of data system mapping is immediately apparent when first confronted with the drawings of Emma McNally. The complexity of lines could represent online chatter, the flight path of starlings, or a new global epidemic. But they are all pencil on paper and any system that is being plotted here exists purely within McNally’s mind.

Chris Ware’s Halloween Cover for New Yorker

Kevin Broome — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:30:00 +0000

This link is blazing across the internets like wild fire but thought it worth posting here: yet another timely and beautiful New Yorker cover by Chris Ware.

The Collected Links of Raymond Pettibon – #3

Kevin Broome — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:45:00 +0000

From over at Art:21

Field Research: Rockin’ Jelly Bean

Kevin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:13:00 +0000

I would suggest that the following links were NSFW if it weren’t for the fact that I’ve been spending my day at work researching this stuff. Check out the hyper-retro work of Japanese artist Rockin Jelly Bean.

Here, here & here.

The Communist’s Future

Kevin Broome — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:30:00 +0000

Illustrations from various works by Russian science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev

(via Coudal)

The Tokyo Graffiti Scene

Kevin Broome — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:07:00 +0000

For some time now, I have been on the lookout for examples of Japanese street art. The uncanny means by which Japan adapts Western culture, reprocesses it and then spins it out as something altogether hyperreal, combined with the ever-prevalent superflat movement suggested that there must exist something extraordinary in the darker corners of the Tokyo streets.

So it was great to read PingMag’s recent piece on The Ghetto, a former love hotel in Shin-Okubo that has been converted into a skater shop/graffiti space. The article also provided links to flickr groups on Tokyo Street Art and throughout Japan. But I found what I was truly looking for in the calligraphy of designer/artist USUGROW which is an incredible hybrid of not just Western and Japanese scripts but also Arabic influences. Kakkoii desu yo!

It’s a Beautiful Day

Kevin Broome — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:05:00 +0000

Sweet illustration from South Africa’s Am I Collective.

DMZ

Kevin Broome — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:53:00 +0000

There’s nothing quite like starting off the new year with a little post-apocalyptic anarchy care of Brian Wood‘s beautifully rendered graphic series DMZ, in which the U.S. has plunged back into civil war, and Manhattan serves as the figurative “line in the sand”. The first issue can be downloaded for free from Vertigo.

More of his work, including links to other comics can be found on his website, brianwood.com.