Scott Teplin’s Alphabet City

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Artist Scott Teplin has created this superb series of 26 letterpress dream-houses, each designed from the letters of the alphabet: Alphabet City. The prints are $80 each, and the entire set is available in a bound volume for $2000.

Picasso Pictures Christmas Card

I enjoyed this little animated Christmas card from Picasso Pictures.

Tickle Tap Apps

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My pal Aaron Leighton (previously) worked with zinc Roe Design to create these fun little iPhone games for little kiddehs. Check out how much fun they’re having:

Dee Pee Studios does Lucky by All India Radio

Ever wonder what you can do with a glow stick? Draw billions of picture with them in the air of course!
I swear animators are the most obsessive people around…. they really make every one else look like they have no attention span whatsoever.
The creator is Dee Pee Studios, which seems to be mostly one Darcy Prendergast.

One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick

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Brilliant. Matt Kish is creating one drawing for every page of Moby Dick.

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Flickr Xmas: Steve Mack’s Holiday Cards


Warm Holiday Wishes, courtesy of mrmack’s Flickr stream

Illustrator Steve Mack is uploading some gorgeous cards to his Flickr stream. A new one each day!

“A collection of my personal greeting card illustrations for the year 2009. I will be uploading one card per day until Christmas Morning.”

The Art of Hand Lettering

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The Art of Hand Lettering blog showcases some of the custom lettering work of Alan Ariail.

Michael Johansson

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Love: the found-art sculptures of Michael Johansson.

(via Booooooom)

Jamie Ferraioli

She had me at “cat bus.”

So tiny, yet jam-packed so full of cute your teeth will rot and you’ll just beg for more, Jamie Ferraioli’s hand-painted polymer clay sculptures are TO DIE FOR. She’s got a Flickr page and a Twitter account and of course an Etsy shop.

Folded paper animation out of books

I cannot even begin to fathom how long this took. Created for the New Zealand Book Council by Andersen M Studio, this animated spot really does seem, literally and figuratively, to capture the act of using the imagination to turn the printed page into imagery.

It makes a fine companion piece to Scottish animator Eleanor Stewart’s Howdown from Rodeo, which also turns a book’s pages (here, a musical score) into cut-out stop motion.

It also reminds me of the delicate paper-folding art of Peter Callesen.