Ways of Seeing – John Berger's BBC Masterpiece
John Berger in 2009
John Berger’s Ways of seeing was mandatory reading during my freshman year of art school in 1980. The book was based on Berger’s 1...
Hippolyte Bayard – First Ever Hoax Photography
Bayard's Self-Portrait in the Garden
With the proliferation of Photoshop users out and about these days, practically anyone can create –with varying degr...
Beautiful Batik – Wax-Resist Dyeing of Indonesia
Me sporting a patchwork Indonesian batik shirt in Maui, while showing off groovy facial hair.
Batik is an ancient technique of textile dying whereby wax ...
Design firm Hipgnosis – Serving up iconic album covers
Storm Thorgerson, co-founder of Hipgnosis
British design firm Hipgnosis was responsible for some of the most iconic album cover art ever, during wh...
The Etch A Sketch – Iconic Drawing Toy as Fine Art?
Etch A Sketch artist Jeff Gagliardi
The original Etch A Sketch was invented Frenchman André Cassagnes and introduced to the public in 1960 by the Ohio...
The Polaroid SX-70 – The iPhone Camera of its Day
Produced for only 10 years, the Polaroid SX-70 remains a cult-favorite with photographers and artists to this day. According to a promotional documentary by ...
Ed Ward ~ Mental Ward Design
I’m Ed Ward of Mental Ward Design, and I’m a graphic designer, art director, and production artist. I specialize in image manipulation and graphic desig...
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This weeks pixeLobby podcast we talked to Nathan Wilkerson. Nathan’s native art is done by hand and then he brings it into autocad and does his magic there. He i...