Each day, the Newseum displays newspaper front pages from around the world in their original, unedited form. Today there are 763 front pages from 75 countries.
clockwise from top left: The Daily Al Bayan, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Hoje, Cascavel, Brazil; La Tribune, Paris, France; Aajikaal, Kolkata, India.
These may be the easiest, if not the cutest, way to hail a cab. Imagine if all of the Fifth Avenue doormen ditched their whistles and donned these mittens? Unfortunately, the Kate Spade online store has sold out of them.
This work is really amazing.
Brian Jungen uses mass-produced goods to make sculptures that are simultaneously fake and authentic, playful and political, common and extraordinary.
In Strange Comfort, a major exhibition organized by the National Museum of the American Indian, Jungen reassembles plastic chairs—hacked apart but still undeniably chairs—into a whale skeleton. Suitcases take the form of a possum, a crocodile and a shark. Expensive sneakers become Northwest Coast-style masks. Golf bags become totems. Jungen charges ordinary, useful objects with layers of meaning, exploring and transgressing the boundaries of what they had been and what they’ve become, riffing on Indian imagery, pop culture, consumerism, and obsession in the process.
October 16, 2009–August 8, 2010 at the NMAI on the National Mall, Washington, DC
From illustrator Christoph Niemann’s Abstact City blog on the NY Times‘ website. Very Cute.
Brooklyn artist Sarah Nicole Phillips made this amazing limited edition hand-pulled print in 2007. She still has a few left for sale on etsy. According to Sarah:
Little Brown Barf Bag pokes fun at the notion that certain disposable shopping bags have become status symbols to the point of becoming a fashion accessory.
I live in New York and it amuses me to see people wandering around town with their ubiquitous “brown bags” of various sizes.
To some, the piece serves as a critique of the fashion industry’s obsession with thinness.
I just think its a super smart piece and moreover, I’ve been collecting barf bags for over 20 years so I had to buy one. It may even be better than Finnaviations’ elusive reindeer spewing ice chunks bag.
I never realized hunting was such a big thing in Poland. Perhaps the mounted deer head hanging on the wall of my favorite Greenpoint pierogi joint should have tipped me off somehow.
This beauty (done in 1961 by Wiktor Gorka) was posted today on Grain Edit with a handful of other travel posters from the 1950s-1970s. This one is definitely my fave but check out a few more after the jump, then check out the Grain Edit site. There is never anything bad on there.
via Grain Edit
I saw this book sticking out of a box at a tag sale one day and knew that I had scored big. Written in 1973 in Denmark by Per Holm Knudsen, “The True Story Of How Babies Are Made” is so refreshing compared to the “Our Bodies, Ourselves” that I grew up with. The illustrations are amazing: the mother’s
carpet even matches her drapes. The best line has got to be:
Sometimes when the father feels especially loving, his penis becomes large.
The best illustration? Click the “continue reading” type to find out.
This is so amazing.
Alex Creamer, a student at the University of Central Lancashire designed this conceptual packaging:
“I created this spaghetti packaging for a university project last year. The brief was to package one of 5 difficult items i.e. eggs, a rose, custard powder, spaghetti or marbles. I chose spaghetti. The spaghetti sits on a 3d model of the chrysler building that was modelled on CAD by my friend Ben Thorpe. And then modelled out of high density foam at uni. Creating a spaghetti model of the Chrysler building!”
Brilliant!
via The Dieline
I like KAWS. I like Kiehls. This holiday season, the work of artist KAWS will adorn the labels of a limited edition of Kiehl’s Creme de Corps moisturizer. Prices range from $26-70 and 100% of Kiehl’s profit from the sale will go to RxART, a non-profit organization that seeks to promote healing in patients by bring art into hospitals. A great KAWS.
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