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Amazing Designer Plays with Perspective for Decades

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 4th, 2009 • Category: Interiors Exteriors
felice-varini

It’s often said that there are no unique ideas out there – only unique means of executing those ideas. Swiss artist Felice Varini, however, has been executing his incredibly unique ides in a unique way since 1978. His singular style of geometric painting calls into question our ideas about complex art pieces and the interaction [...]



25 Hardware Hacks: Old Tech Turned into New Gadgets

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 4th, 2009 • Category: Gadget Garage
geekymontage

We’ve all been there, when that beloved gadget where you could once find the sweet spot has now gotta go; it’s too slow. Geeks want the next best and shiny new toy, the fastest hot new gadget on the market. But that toxic and outdated electronic equipment winds up in landfills to leach poisonous heavy [...]



Bathroom Glass Tile Ideas – glass tile backsplash by Evit

By Ty Wenzel • Aug 10th, 2009 • Category: Interiors Exteriors, Product & Merch
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Italian design is never short on ideas, and modern bathroom company Evit has created these amazing bathroom glass tile backsplash collections that are each a work of art. Ranging in shape, size and color to offer a full spectrum, these bathroom glass tile ideas will make your next bathroom redesign nothing short of spectacular, and [...]



Funky Faucets – colorful bathroom ideas by GSG

By Ty Wenzel • Jul 30th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Interiors Exteriors, Product & Merch
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Visit Trendir!

Are they art? Are the fixtures? They’re both, but one thing is certain – they’re so cool! These funky faucets by GSG bring a splash of vibrant color into the bath while delivering function and fashion by the boatful. Inspiring your own colorful bathroom ideas, modern Italian company GSG created the Touch ceramic faucets [...]



Agus Suwage’s Solo Exhibition

By Ty Wenzel • Jul 14th, 2009 • Category: Design & Graphics

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An invitation to Agus Suwage’s “Still Crazy After All These Years” (Selected Works: 1985 – 2009), curated by Enin Supriyanto, will be officiated by Biantoro Santoso on opening night Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 7.30pm, and held at Jogja National Museum. The exhibition is organized by iCAN, and will run until July 31, 2009. [...]



Stunning Papercuts

By Ty Wenzel • May 23rd, 2009 • Category: DIY Junkies, Design & Graphics

Visit Black White Bliss!
Simply stunning. . .by paper cut artiste Aoyama Hina, more incredible images here. (link via perfectbound)

Typography 15: The Annual of the Type Director’s Club b

US $45.00
3h [...]



Beautiful work by Pedro Mari

By Ty Wenzel • Feb 18th, 2009 • Category: Design & Graphics

Visit Design Dust!
Beautiful work by Pedro Mari.

Modern Abstract Huge Oil Painting Canvas Large Art 0948

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US $128.00
19m

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Beth Campbell Mobiles

By Ty Wenzel • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: Interiors Exteriors

Visit Design Mind!

Beth Campbell is currently showing her latest series of mobiles at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in Chelsea. Campbell is an inter-disciplinary artist committed to enhancing our awareness and perception of space through her intriguing objects and installations. Her hanging mobiles have a delicacy and gravity that become increasingly compelling as you notice their [...]



Oliver Wrobel – Pantone Snowboards

By Ty Wenzel • Jan 15th, 2009 • Category: Design & Graphics, Featured

HOME : OLIVERWROBEL
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2010 Burton Method Snowboard 155 Ridden 1 Weekend!

8 Bids
US $405.03
22m

Lamar [...]



UGallery.com: Affordable, Original Artwork

By Ty Wenzel • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Interiors Exteriors
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Landslide by Harris Johnson of The Cleveland Institute of Art

UGallery.com’s goal is to help recent Art School graduates launch their artist careers by bringing their work to potential buyers on the web. Because artwork is such a personal choice, UGallery offers a number of tools to assist the consumer — one can search by [...]



Guarded Thoughts by Ron Arad

By Ty Wenzel • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics
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Visit Dezeen!

An exhibition of new work by designer Ron Arad opens at the Friedmann Benda Gallery in New York this week. (more…)

Contemporary Japanese Sculpture (Abbeville Modern Art M

US $40.50
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Storyboard by Jan Van Hoof

By Ty Wenzel • Nov 6th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics
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Dutch designer Jan Van Hoof exhibited a wall made of cut-up books at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show as part of Dutch Design Week earlier this month. (more…)

Classic Storyboard Digital Collage Collection Seniors

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Becky Fukumoto Post-It Art

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 28th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics

More Post-it amazing-ness videos, this time from Becky Fukumoto for HP. Click here, here, here, and here to watch the videos.
(via VLU).
Visit Happy Mundane!

LoT 100 NEW 3M (POST IT Sticky Notes)& Flag Highlighter

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Art & Sculpture in Your Mid-Century-Inspired Pad

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Interiors Exteriors, Retro Modern
Prikryl sculpture (marble and bronze).

60s EAMES ERA Mid Century Modern ABSTRACT Painting

US $69.00
3h 18m

Minimalist Eames Era Painting Elizabeth Eddy
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Beautiful Construction Paper Kaleidoscope Art

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics

Visit FunBee!
Triangle
Mold Study
Coriolis Effect
Point of Exposure
Paper Anomaly
Piece of an Infinite Whole
Assorted Explosion
Burst
Circle

Circle Half Cut
Cylinder

KOSTA BODA KALEIDOSCOPE ABSTRACT GLASS ART SCULPTURE

0 Bid
US $169.00
11h 52m

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Paintings On Leaves

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics

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This is leaf art, a delicate work of art from India. This beautiful art originated in the southern India (Kerala). Its done on dry Peepal (Ficus religiosa) leaves.
Its one of the oldest form of art, which shows the creativity & perfection of the artists. Though now only a few artists throughout the world are [...]



20 x 200 Affordable Art

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics

Visit DesignMuse

20 x 200 is a great website for affordable art. Every week they introduce two new pieces of art- one photo and one work on paper. Each image is available in three different sizes. The smallest is an edition of 200 and is sold at the lowest price $20. The medium-sized editions are [...]



Typography as Art

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics

Visit DesignMuse

I have been noticing a lot more artists using Typography as an art form beyond the dimensions of paper. I love the way these type sculptures by Jack Pierson have different surfaces, colors and sizes. Equally as amazing is this curtain like piece by Jaume Plensa.
To go to the Original Link, please click below.

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Flickr Files: Mid-Century and Displaying Art

By Ty Wenzel • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Flickr Files, Interiors Exteriors
Painted ladies: geisha by number

There are so many ways to display “art” of Mid-Century bent.  Whether it is a painting, sculpture, plates or mobiles, there are lots of ways to add a flash of art into your crib!

60s EAMES ERA Mid Century Modern ABSTRACT Painting

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Toy For Kids And Adults

By Ty Wenzel • Jul 5th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Interiors Exteriors

This beautiful art object would look good in any museum. It comes complete with it’s little acrylic stand. Play with this fantastic puzzle which doubles as an amazing art object. This is a new work designed for the Aura Collection by the graphic designer Aoi Huber. It is made of 20 pieces of layered acrylic.
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Olofsdotter

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 28th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics

I love the illustrations of Linn Olofsdotter (Sweden). I am completely drawn in by the delicate line and pretty shading and odd subject matter. Lovely.
When I see sites like this I’m always aching to pull out my own watercolours, ink, brushes and pencils. A career in illustration has always appealed to me ~ I long [...]



Pete Doherty… My new print on my walls!!!

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Featured, General, Mama Ty's Personal Baggage

During the pillaging of the East Hampton beachhouse, I was able to get a MASSIVE wood frame that was going to end up in the dumpster.  I took the graphics that I made of my favorite rocker, Pete Doherty (Babyshambles, the Libertines, Kate Moss’ ex-boyfriend), and made a ginormous museum-quality poster out of it.  It’s [...]



Tracey’s Vintage Art Clusters

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Collections & Display, Interiors Exteriors

Today I received a lovely surprise in my inbox from Tracey who lives in Sydney and is a collector of vintage paintings among other things. I couldn’t wait to share the pictures of her clusters with you and here’s what she had to say about herself;

“I am actually a part-time collector (my husband says accumulator!) [...]



Gorgeous Modern Art found on Flickr

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 22nd, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics
Leave Room For God, VerseVisions Art; Galatians 1:15

Modern Abstract Huge Oil Painting Canvas Large Art 0948

0 Bid
US $128.00
18m

Modern Abstract Oil Painting On [...]



Special Edition T-Shirts from the Gap

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Fashion & Beauty

The Gap has recently released these special edition t-shirts designed exclusively by artists from the Whitney Biennial. There are really cute ones at the store as well that aren’t on-line.
Link to the Source

2 BOYS JUNK FOOD GAP THE JOKER/THE AVENGERS T-SHIRTS 8M
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Annechovie Design Bog – Art By Anne Harwell

By Ty Wenzel • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Cool Websites, Style Trend Forcasting
Art by Anne Harwell

Today, I am featuring the design blog Annechovie ! The author of Annechovie, artist Anne Harwell, describes her blog as a personal journal that she uses as an outlet to share her own incredible work and the works of other creative people. If you haven’t already visited her Etsy store, I reccommend stopping in! Etsy [...]



Me as a Modigliani | Me as a Boticelli

By Ty Wenzel • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, General, Mama Ty's Personal Baggage

I had made the following portraits of myself using an online generator. Now I can’t find it anywhere! If anyone knows where they are, please let me know.

This is me as a Modigliani painting…

Here is the same portrait only as a Boticelli portrait.
Nifty, eh?

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BlueArtStudio prints are finally on the wall!

By Ty Wenzel • May 6th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Featured, Interiors Exteriors, Mama Ty's Personal Baggage, Retro Modern

A few weeks ago, I received my Blue Art Studio prints , which are mid-century inspired, museum quality, signed prints by the illustrious Joel Pirela. The frames finally arrived and they are now happily on my wall. I also have the new Chair Exam , which will be in my newly renovated office, [...]



twoni

By Ty Wenzel • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Fashion & Beauty
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A web start-up without a T-Shirt is just, well… naked. So when it came time to get one for Praized, the local-social app, we turned to Jean-Philippe Rajotte, art director for game developer Ubisoft by day and artist by night. We saw him here first and in keeping with our “source worldclass locally” mantra we [...]



Heather Smith Jones on Etsy!

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Interiors Exteriors
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One of my favourite artists, Heather Smith Jones, just opened up her Etsy shop! It’s stocked full of her original paintings and drawings, meaning there is only one of each, so hurry over to snitch one before they are all gone! If you want to see more of her work, just click on over to [...]



This piece, Yellow flower, is from apainter, designer and mixed…

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 25th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Interiors Exteriors

This piece, Yellow flower, is from apainter, designer and mixed media artist Lisa Dejohn.

Link to the Source

WILD FLOWERS WHITE RED YELLOW FLORAL PAINTING 7295BL

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US $24.58
1h 45m
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dandelion dream print.

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 25th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Style Trend Forcasting

happy first day of spring, all!
i apologize for the infrequent posting this week. work was busy busy earlier in the week and, when i haven’t been at work, i’ve been … well, not blogging.
lots of lounging, actually. windows open. breezy.
the weather! all week!
one day was fabulously stormy and gray but the rest [...]



‘allusion’ print by yellena james.

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 25th, 2008 • Category: Design & Graphics, Style Trend Forcasting

loving the work of yellena james. reminds me of my budget meeting doodles. except for, you know, the fact they never look like that.
poppytalk handmade, $20

Link to the Source
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JEFF KOONS – ARTIST

By Ty Wenzel • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Interiors Exteriors

NIAGARA PAINTING
BUBBLES & MICHAEL JACKSONJORDAN CAPPELLA CUBE LUCITE CHAIR FOR CANVAS – JUST A THOUGHT!
LA CICCIOLINA & JEFF KOONSPUPPY SCULPTUREPUPPY – 43 FOOT TALL TOPIARY SCULPTURERABBIT
Jeff Koons is an American artist(1955) noted for his use of kitsch imagery using paintings sculpture and other forms often in large scale. To find out more about him read [...]



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