Mmm. Beer. Today’s a holiday in the US and nothing goes better with holidays (national or otherwise) than beer. Here are 60 vintage beer labels from various places. Thor Kampfer, of USBeerlabels, is a beer label collector (one of the largest collections in the world) and scanned several of these; which, he sells. They run cheap ($2-$8 usually) and would make some great studio art. Happy Monday!
Dead at the End of the Earth
When Tom Phillips isn’t acting as the creative force behind the agency Exposure USA, he’s taking photos of himself splayed out in all manner of poses as a corpse, dead to the world. Sounds morbid, I know, but the photos from this ongoing series (from 2006 to present) are unassuming and, at times, a bit mundane and even amusing; however, some of them are also powerful and thought provoking. Here are 12 photos from the complete series of over 40. If you like them, you should check out the entire series at TheDeadPhotos.com.
The quote on his site, from Shakespeare’s King Lear (Act I, Scene I), is the only accompanying text with the photos.
I finally had the opportunity to check out the Christian Boltanski installation at The Park Avenue Armory, yesterday. The work, entitled No Man’s Land, is the second installation of this absolutely massive work of art (with the first being at the Grand Palais in the heart of Paris.) If you live in NYC or the surrounding are, it’s totally worth the $10 to see and even get your heartbeat recorded and added to his collection of over 40,000 heart beats stored on a remote island that Boltanski owns on a remote island off the coast of Japan.
Vasarely Tribute from Reza on Vimeo.
In case you missed it, lots of great stuff this week. Here’s what went down:
Friday, May 21
Illustrations by Tom Whalen
Hex Heroes by Jamie Roberts
Saturday, May 22
Photography by Leonhard Kätzel
Music Video : Robyn Dancing On My Own
Paintings by Jeff Soto
40 Drawings on Styrofoam Cups by Cheeming Boey
Sunday, May 23
Origami by Roman Diaz
Laser Etchings by Jason Thielke
Monday, May 24
Graphic Design by Yusaku Kamekura
Drawings by VRNO
Tuesday, May 25
Illustrations by Christian Ward
Graphic Design by Valero Doval
Wednesday, May 26th
Information Architects – Data Visualization – 140 Most Powerful People on Twitter
Illustrations by Noumeda Carbone
Digital Art by Rodier Kidmann
Thursday, May 27th
Photography by Anton Tang
Typography Art by Thomas Broome
Friday, May 28th
Illustrations by Siggi Eggertsson
And also
We’re still looking for a few good folks that would like to contribute to Unstage! If you’re into photography, architecture, illustration, fashion, or even music and film, drop us a note at unstage at gmail dot com and let us know! I’ve also been considering doing a monthly playlist…..so if you’re interested in recommending bands or artists for that, hit me up!
Some truly fascinating work from illustrator Siggi Eggertsson. We first posted on him back in November of last year when I came across a video he did called “A Growing Pile Of Work.” Here is some more of his eye-candy. Eggertsson lives and works in Germany. If you like these, please check out his work on his site where he has an extensive portfolio.
Thomas Broomé isn’t a typographer, per sé; however, in his series, Modern Mantra, he uses type to illustrate the things that he is drawing. These drawings are actually composed of words that are written describing what they are. If you look closely, you’ll see that the chairs are made of the word ‘chair’ repeated in various sizes and shapes to get the right shading without distorting the word too badly. They’re all ink on paper… and totally brilliant.
You can see more (and larger) images of Broomé’s set, Modern Mantra, at his site here.
