Notion of Trust

"A word so loaded with complexities and textures but so simple at the same time."

"We live in a society that treats an unattended bag as a very dangerous item as opposed to an innocuous object someone might have left behind."

80 artists around the world got involved to show their idea of 'Trust', and through their work was the aim to learn more about the theme and inspire viewers to make their own decisions about what 'Trust' means to them.

"..demonstrate the power of images as a communicative device to overcome language barriers and avoid established pre-conceptions."

How have we as a society developed from being open to judging everything so skeptically, what has lead us to this position? what influences are on us to think this way? (heavily governed? technology? tv? surveillance? laws?)

Are we infact just trying to achieve the perfect society, in which case, who has the right to give us such an aim and to know what the perfect society is?

www.trustmuseum.com
www.emmi.co.uk/work/illustration/trust

Block Stories

40 x 40 cm blocks that have been painted on each side.

The idea behind this is so that people can move the blocks around and re-order them to build their own story, therefore every story is going to be unique considering everyone will interpret every image in their own way in the first place, and then also interpret a entirely different story with them.

www.behance.net/Gallery/block-stories/418734

Basurama

"Basurama is an organization which aims to study the inherent phenomenon of the massive production of real and virtual rubbish in the today’s consumer society providing new visions which operate as generators of thinking and attitude."

"..researched in the mistakes, horrors, and forgetfulness of the Madrid’s rubbish from the urban, perceptive, graphic, typographical and politic point of view.."

A typeface produced from the signs of shops in the centre of Madrid. The concept is of interest, which is focused on today's consumer society to produce new meanings by reproducing the already established meanings.

www.hereigo.co.uk/index.php?/project/basurama/

Mail Me Art

Mail Me Art is a British-based project, run by Darren Di Lieto, where a large collection of artistic work is sent in the form of mail, in some way incorporating the address. Along the way they would pick up scratches, stamp marks and generally that unintentional damage that would add to the artwork.

The deadline has just passed for the current project, but would love to take part in the next one.

mailmeart.com
mailmeart.com/gallery

via @ rachellewisillustration.blogspot.com

Made By Heath Killen

Wide range of experimental collages, relations made between objects that normally would be seperate. Interesting stuff.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/illuminationink/
Website: http://madebyhk.com/categories/32/search_type/and/

Vintage Esquire Covers 1955-1972

I tend to find vintage design much more interesting than some of the modern design around nowadays. Whether it's the colours used or the actual images that are appealing I'm not sure.

Alot more covers from the past and present at esquire.com/cover-archive.

Source:
http://abduzeedo.com/best-week-84
http://grainedit.com/2009/09/23/vintage-esquire-covers-1953-1961/
http://www.esquire.com/cover-archive

Coffee Cups

Would loved to of come up with something like this, just the endless amount of subjects you could draw about.

Links:
Flickr Coffee Cups Set
iamboey.com

Similar work at Paul Westcombe on the same concept.

Mark Andrew Webber

Some great carvings/linocuts created for various uses, maps, posters, prints etc. Flickr set has loads of various that he has used for these, nice collection of work.

Links:
http://www.markandrewwebber.com/
Flickr linocuts collection

The Daily Scrapbook

"I make books out of scraps. Does that make them scrapbooks? I suppose they are. At the very least, it's my way of keeping things that come across my desk, making compositions that look interesting. Green is a good color, but orange is even better. Numbers: what graphic designer doesn't like numbers? Is it a pattern that holds everything together, or is it the repetition? All I know is that I find it endlessly interesting to stare at a page and make relationships with color, shape and form."

- Quote from http://thedailyscrapbook.com/