Riding the Dodo and the Folk-Singing Wolf

Check out the illustrations of Melburn Australia's Genna Campton. She plays with scale, includes animals, fashion illustration, a hint of surreality and references Bob Dylan - what's not to love?


dodo races (2009)


chincilla (2009)


rooster greenstripes (2009)


peacock (2009)


wolf dylan (2009)

Find her site, blog and etsy shop at these links.

(via frankie magazine)

Astronomical Fashion

If you can't get your astronomy fix from the NASA image archives, wear it on your sleeve, or corps, or legs... Is it just me, or has fashion gone cosmic?

Consider moon-prints at Risto:




2011 Spring New York Fashion Week: Risto (via fashionologie via I'M REVOLTING)

A simple Baggu Constellation bag (more my budget):

(via Creature Comforts)

A giant dwarf Starlet Crown:

via whorange

Nebulae and stars on Christopher Kane resort ware:

(via Tavi at Style Rookie, who also has a whole post about nebula Risto shorts)

heads in trees

Check out the painting, illustration, screenprinting, graffiti, sculpture and street art of Polish artist Wojciech Kołacz, also known as Otecki. I love the sense I get that he has his own personal, elaborate folklore.

Tea Party Run Amok

Justin Richel
Fountain
2009
Gouache on paper
17 in. x 19.5 in.



Julie Morstad
Gluttony

Justin Richel's illustration of a pile of chairs, with tea pouring reminded me of Julie Morstad, who also has done illustrations of piles of household items and tea paraphenalia. It seems to me that both are trends in contemporary illustration. For more images which make me think of a tea party run amok (and a treat), check out Richel's Whirling Dervish installation.




minouette
T is for turtle in a teatree
Artist Trading Card, 2 ½ X 3 ½ inches (63 mm X 89 mm), acryllic ink on water colour paper

Plotting Stories

I feel these whimsical yet truthful plots by Kurt Vonnegut speak for themselves, but you should go read the article too. {via swissmiss}

Fonts in the Wild

Old Tom Foolery Typestasche poster via whorange.



Periods in different fonts by Fiona Banner at The Multiple Store via I'M REVOLTING.

imaging food

Check out Inside insides and the awe-inspiring gallery of magnetic resonance imaging of food!

The geometry alone is amazing. Look at the bisected equilateral triangle at the heart of the cucumber:


Or the spirals in a watermelon, beyond the neatly trisected centre:


Or the fractal structure of the broccoli: