House R

by Bevk Perovic Architects

SPR / PPL

Whatever that means. The site doesn't tell you.

Ace in the Hole

The Ace Hotel can do no wrong. Check out their new Palm Springs spread:

Bowl-O-Rama

by Michael Bowman for Wall Blank:

Mark Weaver

I know I've been kinda heavy on the graphic design front recently, but I guess that's just the way it goes sometimes. Designs courtesy of Mark Weaver:

Sliding Along

London architects dRMM have designed a house with mobile walls and roof that can be moved to cover and uncover parts of the dwelling. As it moves, the sliding element creates shifting outdoor living areas between the static elements as well as altering views, lighting conditions and the sense of enclosure inside the house. Nutso.

Distorted

From Mark Todd's website: Painter, illustrator and author Mark Todd took his first creative cues from comic books and Star Wars: worlds of inventive fantasy that still inform his art. His latest work involves intense scrutiny and alteration of classic comic covers from “Fantastic Four,” “X-Men,” “Iron Man,” “Spiderman” and other series, including the work of legendary illustrators like Jack Kirby. “I love the type, the heavy shadows, the colors and the way they seemed to use very inch of the page,” says Todd. “I sit and study them, and my brush reconstructs them.” Todd is referencing the past, waxing nostalgic about it and simultaneously lending his own post-modern sensibility to it, employing a limited palette, repetition, distortion and mixed media materials including spray paint, cel-vinyl, glossy varnishes and dusty stains.

Ronald Kurniawan

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Posterized

So I'm just back in town from antique hunting and shooting some pics of Bruce and Julie Webb's house and art gallery in Waxahachie. Their current show is called "Higher Power" and consists of more than 200 posters from some of the best designers in the land. I picked up a new one (the Buckner one below) from F2 Design in Lubbock and figured I'd post some others that I have in my collection. I'm a sucker for this stuff.

In the Works

I'm on the road in cold as hell Waxahachie, TX working on a Bruce Lee Webb story. Things are not normal in East Texas. You East Texans know this. A preview of a story to be published in REFUELED Magazine in a few months:

Roland Bello

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North by Northeast

I knew nothing about Christian Northeast until posting about Andy MacGregor the other day. MacGregor had a link to Debut Art - a site that collects work from some damn fine illustrators - and it was there that I discovered Mr. Northeast. I'll probably end up posting on some others, but for now here's a sampling of the oddly-named illustrator's award-winning work:

Tham and Videgard Hansson Architects

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