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  • WAX Magazine

    03.6.12

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    WAX Magazine is a new print publication about art, culture and surfing in and around New York City. The bi-annual publication, conceived of and edited by graphic designers
    David Yun and Zak Klauck, and writer Aeriel Brown, will feature art work by prominent New York artists who share a connection through the surfing community …
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  • Architecture of the Foot

    08.6.11

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    As I’ve been reminded of in a handful of conversations over the last week, design is nothing without process. For graphic designers, we have no medium without form. And we
    certainly have no profession without process. Our industry is built upon bringing unity to the finicky relationships one form has with another. There is joy in this …
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    • :: Hat tip to @Deezen, who turned me on to ten Bhömer's work.

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  • Focus. Obscure.

    02.19.11

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    A little editorial clipping makes for some enjoyable but unsettling viewing, in the latest photographic work of former editors of Colors magazine.
    The artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, in this set of photographs, artfully obscure context from scenes taken during The Troubles—the long period of violent …
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    • :: Selections from People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground.

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  • Today or Tomorrow

    02.8.11

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    I’ve been captivated by the blog Today or Tomorrow, by illustrator Tim Lahan. In my book, social conscience—coupled with a little wit—goes a long way, and Lahan’s drawings do this
    well, in a quirky but simple style.
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    • :: Thanks to Christopher David Ryan for turning me on to this gem.

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  • Daehyun Kim

    01.8.11

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    A while back, I came across the South Korean artist Daehyun Kim. I dug his work. Much is accomplished with little, and if any characteristic makes me happy, that’s it.
    His drawings — as determined by my Western eye — have obvious roots in traditional Asian art forms. But there was something else, beyond form and purported affinities, that sparked my …
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    • :: Image courtesy of Daehyun Kim.

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