Oliver Darné. Miel Béton

OLIVER DARNÉ is a french guy who developed a crazy project: to produce Miel béton or concrete honey.

A graphic designer and visual artist by trade, OLIVIER DARNÉ began his investigation of bees in 2000, when he first placed a single beehive on his house in Saint Denis (France). Following that experiment with the installation of a dozen hives on the roof of city hall, Olivier was fascinated by the idea of sending bees out into the city as "prospectors" of the urban environment.

Since urban bees can’t find much nectar in sidewalks and roadways, they gather in what Olivier Darné calls the interstices of the city: parks, balcony planters, empty lots, rooftop terraces, roundabouts, and tree-lined streets.

So OLIVIER’s Miel béton, or concrete honey is being produced right in the northern Parisian suburb of Saint Denis.

A beautiful project!

Sorry for my english readers, the video is only in french but if you are really interested, you can visit these 2 websites about the project: www.banquedumiel.org or www.parti-poetique.org

or you can buy Miel Béton, here!

Helgi Páll Einarsson

Dear world,

I have a new website with some new illustration work, and you are hereby invited to come have a look.

Thanks,

Pelgi. Reykjavik, Mar 25 2009

by HELGI PÁLL EINARSSON

Noumeda Carbone

for Kult. cover

published on La Perla Magazine N°5

personal work. tears

personal work. love-me

personal work. enfant

NOUMEDA CARBONE is a freelance illustrator and painter born in Paris, France and based in Florence, Italy. She works with ink, pigment liner, and usually she mixes hand drawing with digital instruments.

I like her name ;-) and I love her very subtle and precise work!

Herr Mueller

illustration for Feld Hommes magazine

illustration for KOMMA Esslingen

published in ROJO-tremble much further

HERR MUELLER (graphic designer and illustrator) share a visual communication studio 183 OFF based in Berlin with MARTIN SULZER (motion graphic designer and director) and SUSE SCHANDELMAIER (graphic designer and illustrator).

Have a look!

Pinar Demirdag

Max Bill. Typeface design. 2008

Archi Metric. Typeface design. 2008

Pixie Runic. Typeface design. 2009

Typography glossary. Poster for the Graphic Designer Conference held in Valence. 2007

Want to know who made these works? Ok but only because it's you ;-) His name is PINAR DEMIRDAG, a graphic designer from Amsterdam, NL.

Miriam Lehle & Sabine Egler

Crumpled Paper collection

German born designers MIRIAM LEHLE and SABINE EGLER often experiment with a variety of textiles and materials using new methods to create stunning and avant garde designs.

MIRIAM graduated as a fashion designer from the University of Design, Pforzheim, while SABINE graduated with a degree in Textile Design at the Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart after which their label PROSE STUDIO was born.

MIRIAM's collection, Golden decay was one of the finalist at the International de mode d'Hyères festival in 2008.

The collection Crumpled Paper story is absolutely unique and gorgeous, with pieces which include the combination of wrinkles, prints, creases and knits which are manipulated to create these designs.

found via http://pudri.blogspot.com/ & http://chiclooks.blogspot.com/

Ronald Dick

RONALD DICK is a photographer based in London, UK. Nice shots isn't it?

found via http://johncolverstyling.blogspot.com/

Julia Randall

Lick Line series. 2003. colored pencil on paper

After Green Pink Caviar by MARILYN MINTER, I choose to present JULIA RANDALL's colored pencil drawings incorporated depictions of mouths.

Voyeuristic, suggestive, slightly grotesque, and humorous drawings: WFW loves that!

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JULIA RANDALL lives and works in Connecticut

Marilyn Minter. Green Pink Caviar

MARILYN MINTER is an american photographer/painter specializes in photo-realistic images with an interest in juxtaposing beauty with the grotesque. MINTER's work examines the relationships between the body, photography, and painting, tapping into cultural anxieties about sexuality and desire.

Her high definition video entitled Green Pink Caviar captures the most minute movements of model mouths licking candy and cake decoration (you can buy the DVD on her website).

I would like to watch to the whole video.

Marilyn Minter

found via todayandtomorrow.net

Astrid Kruse Jensen

Parallel Landscapes. Reverie

The Construction of Memories. She was looking for herself

Imaginary Realities. Hotel Room

Hypernatural#04

The Construction of Memories. A summer night

In her eerie, dreamlike nightscapes Danish photographer ASTRID KRUSE JENSEN explores the passage between reality and imagination, and the constant clash between nature and the artificial. An abiding sense of menace pervades the jaw-dropping beauty of each nocturne. Through her instinctive use of the dark of night combined with her appropriation of artificial light sources, ASTRID KRUSE JENSEN makes nature her very own theatre.

She only uses the light sources available on location. The wealth of detail in the images is due to the long exposure time.

Jennifer Busking

My god, JENNIFER BUSKING! You are too talented!

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She is based in The Netherlands

Ratna Ho

Tribal Studio. Photos by Kees de Klein

Hailing from the Netherlands, RATNA HO recently graduated from the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and is quickly making a name for herself

I love the innovative shapes and understated colour scheme mixing a variety of textures and patterns.

Remember her name, RATNA HO

Pierre Siedel

Still/Moving series. 2008

PIERRE SIEDEL has been working as a director of photography for cinema and television (including fiction series, video clip and advertising) in France and Belgium which is his native country.

In parallel, he has developed his own photographic projects, from documentary photography to a more conceptual approach on artificial urban landscapes.

PIERRE SIEDEL about Still/ Moving series:

Being isolated from the rushing crowd, one feels alienated, lonely, detached even abandoned. In this artificial universe, the underground transit bubble stirs the mind to a kind of self-reflection. I thought it would be interesting to explore through photography such absurd places like the subway where everyone is running in the same direction and never stops.

The condition of shooting in the subway leads me to work on the spot and to meditate in that final moment when an unexpected group of individuals is captured through the lens.