Category: art multiples
UAMOU Ashtrays! [ウアモウの灰皿 !]
May 2, 2012Japanese artist, UAMOU, now joins the contemporary artist elite ashtray club with KAWS [here] and Damien Hirst [here]. The character-based artisanal ashtrays are a collaboration with 2k540. The fact that they’re made of wood makes them an odd choice as … Continue reading
Psycho Ceramics: A Primer for Collectors
April 25, 2012Psycho Ceramics were a range of zany novelty ceramics made by US-based Kreiss company and manufactured in Japan between the 1960s and 1970s. They are characterized by a crudeness that one might call “lovably fugly”. (Basically, if Precious Moments were … Continue reading
Damien Hirst Ashtrays
April 25, 2012Back in 1997, contemporary artist Damien Hirst became both a quasi-Chemist and a Restaurateur when he opened Pharmacy, his fashionable restaurant/bar in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood. Hirst curated every design element from the metallic pill-printed wallpaper [previously blogged] to the pill-shaped ashtrays. Pharmacy’s … Continue reading
Pharmacy-themed Damien Hirst Wallpaper
April 25, 2012Damien Hirst created his Pharmacy installation after witnessing how pharmacies “provoke an idea of confidence” in people: I can’t understand why most people believe in medicine and don’t believe in art, without questioning either…I went to the Chemist’s and thought, … Continue reading
Sheet Rock Notebooks from the Bruce High Quality Foundation
April 11, 2012A confession that should surprise no one: I also collect notebooks. I’m constantly scribbling notes everywhere, so it behooves me to hoard them. Now here’s a collection of notebooks where the object is not to take notes, but rather, the … Continue reading
Objects by James Jean
April 6, 2012Artist James Jean has added a new category to his website: OBJECTS. Check out jewelry, skatedecks, housewares and apparel, and then pick them up at his OVM online shop.
Colorful Resin Chalkboard Skulls
March 29, 2012Has your spouse ever called you lazybones or a numskull for forgetting to pick up the milk? Never again, say Sarah and Joseph Belknap of Chicago! The married couple rotocasts skulls out of urethane plastic (resin), sandblasts them, and then sprays ‘em with … Continue reading
Van Gogh’s Art on an Actual Ear
March 29, 2012Proof that otolaryngologists are the unsung art comedians of the audiology field: Walnut Creek, CA-based Art 4 Your Practice makes an ear sculpture covered in the art of famous ear-severer, Vincent Van Gogh (above left). The 11.5-inch models are offered … Continue reading
Pipe Cleaner Action Figures by Don Porcella
March 29, 2012New York artist Don Porcella creates action figures with commentary and pipe cleaners. His latest series, Sticks and Stones will Break your Bones, but Words will Never Hurt Me, features a variety of characters based on the negative names we call … Continue reading
Behind the Scenes of XVALA’s Slammed and Dunked
March 22, 2012Remember that resin basketball modeled after a deflated ball taken from Kim Kardashian’s trash? Turns out the ball designed by XVALA was fabricated by my good friends over at Pretty in Plastic. They’ve shared a few process pics, which show the evolution … Continue reading
