Typewriter drawings

Every day in November of 2012, Pittsburgh artists Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton tasked themselves with drawing a picture using only an old fashioned typewriter.

 http://www.lifelounge.com.au/art-and-design/news/typewriter-drawings-.aspx

How the visual language of comics could have its roots in the ice age

Psychologist and comics obsessive Neil Cohn believes cartoons have a sophisticated language all their own and a heritage that goes back to cave art. Here he breaks it down.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/24/comics-language-neil-cohn-cartoons-grammar

Scratch 'N' Sniff Your Way To Wine Expertise ... Or At Least More Fun

Wine is a grocery, not a luxury. That's the premise behind a fun, new wine guide filled with charming illustrations and scratch 'n' sniffs.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/17/236160686/scratch-n-sniff-your-way-to-wine-expertise-or-at-least-more-fun

Graphic design & branding - 2013 trends report

One of the most obvious challenges this year – in terms of graphic design and branding – is 2013’s contrast to a rather abundant 2012. Whereas last year boasted high-profile events such as the London Olympics, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and its associated graphic design projects, this year is conspicuous in the absence of such design juggernauts. http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/creative-business/how-stand-out-in-graphic-design-branding/

Unbelievable paper sculpture birds

DIANA BELTRAN HERRERA (b. 1987, Colombia) studied Design at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogota, Colombia where she graduated in 2010. She then studied experimental painting and moved to Helsinki, Finland in 2011 to study Ceramic Sculpture at Suomenkielinen School. Herrera’s work seeks to explore the chillingly disengaged relationship between humans and nature in modern society. Using paper as her primary medium she is able to present notions of temporality and change, emphasising the process of transformation that continuously occur in nature as well as mankind.http://www.graphicart-news.com/unbelievable-paper-sculpture-birds/#.UlTuFVNknng

Nothing happens for a reason

A self-assertion poster illustration designed, by Stelios Spanoudakis aka Junkart, for “As we enter meeting Vol.3 – Meet us” exhibition, by Enter Events & Corn Studio, in Athens, Greece. http://www.graphicart-news.com/nothing-happens-for-a-reason/#.UlTtalNknng

The best of British pop art - in pictures

Earliest works by David Hockney – complete with original £12 price tag – Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield and many other leading UK artists will chart the birth of British pop art in the inaugural show at Christie's new Mayfair space. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/oct/08/when-britain-went-pop-art-hockney-blake-exhibition#/?picture=419361263&index=2