The weekend artists, 2013

fournier.jpg

“Chloromgonfus detectis, a dragonfly that can detect volatile pollutants.” A speculative insect by artist Vincent Fournier.

The annual review of artists/designers/photographers featured in the weekend posts should have run at the end of December but MR James got in the way. Big thanks, and happy new year to Form is Void and Beautiful Century for pointing the way to many of these people.

strongowski.jpg

Two cover designs from Eliash Strongowski’s 30 Days—30 Covers project.

gebbie.jpg

Pink Boy by Melinda Gebbie.

lipton.jpg

Seam Stress (1987) by Laurie Lipton. The Drawings of Laurie Lipton is out now from Last Gasp.

blackwell.jpg

The Baron in the Trees (2011), a book-cut sculpture by Su Blackwell.

delia.jpg

Delia Derbyshire (2007) by Iker Spozio.

mutu.jpg

One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack (2004) by Wangechi Mutu.

rondelli.jpg

L’uomo che piantava gli alberi (2013) by Sofia Rondelli.

lefler.jpg

Gevatter Tod (Godfather Death, 1905) by Heinrich Lefler.

doisneau.jpg

La table qui tourne (1943) by Robert Doisneau.

iwami.jpg

Mirror of Water (1981) by Reika Iwami.

andrew.jpg

One of Jonathan Andrew‘s photos of coastal bunkers and concrete defences from the Second World War.

tomaselli.jpg

Summer Swell (2007) by Fred Tomaselli. The artist is interviewed at AnOther.

bantjes.jpg

Pretty Pictures, a new book by designer Marian Bantjes.

wickerman.jpg

A new Wicker Man poster by Dan Mumford appears on the cover of the DVD/BR reissues. Prints are available.

hashim.jpg

Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) by Hashim. From the Program Your 808 poster series by Rob Rickets.

dlouhy.jpg

This week PingMag was looking at Czech film posters. This one by Bedrich Dlouhy is for the belated 1970 release of Kurosawa’s Rashomon.

maeda.jpg

Heartbeat of the Death – Queen Elizabeth the First (2013) by Haruko Maeda.

ikuma.jpg

Dress (2012) by Nao Ikuma.

orszag.jpg

Icarus (1974–75) by Lili Ország.

thielker.jpg

Complete Stop (2008), an oil painting by Gregory Thielker from his Under the Unminding Sky series.

bossi.jpg

Jeune moine à la Grecque (1771) by Benigno Bossi.

macarthur.jpg

Owl portrait by Iain Macarthur.

krenkel.jpg

Roy Krenkel illustrates Tales of Three Planets by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1964.

anderson.jpg

Cover illustration by Gray Morrow, 1967. One of the less exploitative examples from a collection of hippy book covers.

bell.jpg

Window to the Universe (1967) by Roberta Bell. From Summer of Love: Psychedelic Posters from SCMA at the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA.

satty.jpg

Stone Garden (1967) by Wilfried Sätty.

field.jpg

Poster by Luke Insect & Kenn Goodall.

foxxbelbury.jpg

The Julian House cover art for a collaboration between John Foxx and Belbury Poly and The Advisory Circle.

walpurgisnacht.jpg

Walpurgisnacht (1917) by Amadeus. A drawing that could easily be from the late 1960s. If anyone knows the full name of the artist, please leave a comment.

smart.jpg

Cahill Expressway (1962) by Jeffrey Smart.

panikanova.jpg

Ekaterina Panikanova paints on books.

michishita.jpg

Le Cadavre Exquis by Yukio Michishita. As featured in The Purple Book: Sensuality & Symbolism in Contemporary Art & Illustration by Angus Hyland & Angharad Lewis.

timlin.jpg

The Arrival on Mars, an illustration from The Ship That Sailed to Mars (1923) by William Timlin.

penrose.jpg

Untitled drawing by Sophie Penrose.

floyd.jpg

Collage by Jeneleen Floyd.

francov2.jpg

El Banquete Magnético (2011) by Cristina Francov.

soderberg.jpg

Pan II (2012) by Fredrik Söderberg.

focusgroup.jpg

Elektrik Karousel, a release on the Ghost Box label by The Focus Group. “For a clue to its moods, think Czech animation, Italian Giallo, early Radiophonics, HP Lovecraft stories, 1960s underground cinema, Lewis Carroll and baroque psych.” Julian House’s package design is “heavily inspired by 1960s underground press and conceived as a kind of mind altering DIY board game”.

leonard.jpg

Le Vampire (c. 1903) by Agathon Léonard.

austin.jpg

Poster design by Mishka Westell for the Austin Psych Fest.

fraser.jpg

Drugs and the Mind (ii), a cover design from 1957 by Eric Fraser (1902–1983) whose illustrations and designs are in exhibition at the Chris Beetles gallery, London.

poizat.jpg

Collage by Chloé Poizat.

martini.jpg

An illustration by Alberto Martini for Raw Edges (1908) by Perceval Landon.

scarfolk.jpg

Scarfolk is a home from home, especially if you grew up in the 1970s. The mayor of the rabies-afflicted town, Richard Littler, talked to Creative Review about his unheimlich design project.

hooray.jpg

Hooray for Gay, an exhibition of pre-Stonewall images at Boo-Hooray, NYC.

mackenzie.jpg

Light Moves on the Water (2010), a collage by Alexis Anne Mackenzie.

yongliang.jpg

Untitled art by Yang Yongliang. There’s more at But Does It Float.

feanne.jpg

One of A Pair of Peacocks (2012) by Feanne.

bowie.jpg

It’s not cheap but it’s rather tasty: The Changing Faces of Bowie, a limited print at the V&A shop produced for the David Bowie exhibition.

lanna.jpg

Quantum Entanglement by Duda Lanna.

kalynovych.jpg

Bestia Apocalypsi (2000) by Konstantin Kalynovych.

brundage.jpg

Weird Tales, October 1933. Cover art by Margaret Brundage.

thomas.jpg

Ruins 3 by Rachel Thomas and Dan Tobin Smith.

empire.jpg

Ai No Corrida poster design by Egil Haraldsen (2001).

nguyen.jpg

From the Beautiful Faces series (2012) by Tran Nguyen.

Discover more from { feuilleton }

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading