As I'm sure many of you will have heard, Jean Giraud, the French artist known as Moebius, passed away recently. A number of authors and designers have commented (for example Neil Gaiman's post here and Aaron Diaz's here) on his impact. I grew up going to comic book shops and seeing his art displayed prominently. He did a lot of covers for French ( Read more... )

Anyone who doubts the power of crowdsourcing should check out the Order of the Stick's page on Kickstarter. Scroll down to the bottom to get the story from the beginning. For those not in the know, The Order of the Stick is a long-running and popular webcomic and Kickstarter is a site that allows people to pledge money to fund creative projects. If ( Read more... )

I'm mesmerized by the photo-blog Convoy. It paints a delicious picture of a world I wouldn't mind being able to afford.

I love art that sets formal barriers for itself. Creativity is always more classy when it challenges the author. Free form poetry is cool but  villanelles are cooler. An extreme form of this sort of thing is the poetry of Christian Bök, who wrote a series of poems that only used one vowel. Another facinating example is Dinosaur comics, which uses ( Read more... )