Pencil Lead

Dalton Ghetti carves really small things out of the graphite in pencils. Takes him ears, but the work is pretty amazing.

ADCD PRESENTS :: The Paper Fashion Show :: Thursday, March 18 - 6pm :: Mile High Station

Pre-sale tickets for Paper Fashion Show are SOLD OUT.
A limited number of $30 tickets will be available at the door. Arrive early, doors open at 6pm!
Thank you, ADCD.

Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

No witty retort, just sit back and enjoy this more than pleasing work of art.

Ponder

Lucky from EB Hu on Vimeo.

Josie's Lalaland from EB Hu on Vimeo.

Beautiful animation with a lot of though put into it. Director and animator EB Hu. Simple, noble, compassionate, beautiful.

7th ANNUAL ART BUS GALLERY TOUR

7th Annual ADCD Design Meets Fine Art Holiday Art Bus Gallery Tour Get your retinas ready. The art bus is back, ready to take you on a whirlwind tour through Denver's most talked about galleries and studios. Bring your camera and your wallet! This is one social event that is as fun as it is inspirational!

Hot Wax

Want to get the coloring urge out of your system? Pokemon not going to satisfy you, then you need to get your hands on this more adult themed coloring book by Tyson Mcadoo. Not exactly sure who needs this but the art is stellar, worth picking up.

Dynamic

Love this art. Highly technical, timely, and has a sense of humor, not to mention scale. The new work of artist Chen Wenling.

16th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition

Opening reception and poster sale,
Friday, October 2 , 7-9 p.m.

Show runs October 3 – December 22

University Art Museum • University Center for the Arts (UCA)
The 16th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE) highlights excellence in poster design from leading and emerging graphic designers from around the globe. Now in its 30th year the exhibition is featured, for the first time, in one venue at the University Art Museum. Featuring work by 82 artists from 28 countries, the 16th CIIPE exhibits and interprets poster design, brings outstanding examples of visual communication to an American audience, and promotes international understanding and dialogue through the graphic arts.

For more info.

Get the Work You Want

On my drive home tonight, I saw a handwritten message taped to a stop sign. It read: Garage Sale. Buy our stuff so we can eat.

Damn.

The world seems out of whack these days, and many creatives feel stuck in neutral.

ADCD takes this to heart as we believe all creatives deserve a creative life. With that, a good number of our board members and close friends to our club congregated to pump out this whimsical little read.

Get the Work You Want is a friendly reminder of the little touches we need to progress. Network. Stay organized. Propsect. Fine advice from some of Denver’s finest talent: copywriter Jordan Sher, illustrators Shaw Nielsen, Jarrod Wheaton, Ali Colby, Steve Schader, Sarah Bergman, Liz Richard, and Paul Vismara.

Download it here, please.

Robots

This is wild, I only wish I spoke Japanese. Via Gizmodo.

Tough Table

DoubleButter Say What? from DoubleButter on Vimeo.

Doublebutter's write up is best:

Prisencolinensinainciusol, the name of the track playing over this stop-motion video, is, in an incredible coincidence, the cockney term for Armadillo Product Testing. Or at least that's what Darnell told us and if you've met him you'd admit that does seem like the sort of thing he'd know. Fittingly, the Horsehead Crating crew (DoubleButter's in-house strangeness group) orchestrated some product tests on our Armadillo coffee table to accompany the song. The table shown is a prototype square version (the casters are just there to help it roll for the towing segments), and it's the same table in every scene. We performed the tests (with the help of a few friends) while the Tillmans worked the cameras (Clovis, Darnell, and, in her DB debut with the HH crew, Hollah Jean). The results: if the table can handle a Molotov cocktail we're sure it can handle your wussy mojito.

It's Denver, cool and they have a web site. What more do you want?

Shaw Nielsen is in CA

Shaw Nielsen, a Denver illustrator, has made it into the pages of the newest Communication Arts and we say congrats. His style is mirthful and fun, quirky and thoughtful. If you don't know Shaw, check him out here. Love seeing local talent getting national exposure.

Everything You Want

Check out the art from Steve Lambert, makes you want to rethink you career doesn't it?

b-flat

Experimentation on YouTube. Darren Solomon from Science for Girls is looking for you to play anything as long as it is in bflat, you can go to his site, inbflat.com and play any of the uploaded videos in any order and creat your own artistic piece. Really wild stuff. Here are the guidlines:
-Sing or play an instrument, in Bb major. Simple, floating textures work best, with no tempo or groove. Leave lots of silence between phrases.
-Record in a quiet environment, with as little background noise as possible.
-Wait about 5-10 seconds to start playing.
-Total length should be between 1-2 minutes.
-Thick chords or low instruments don't work very well.
-Record at a low volume to match the other videos.
-You can listen to this mix on headphones while you record.
-After you upload to YouTube, play your video along with the other videos on this page to make sure the volume matches.

Look for this Near You

It is only a matter of time before somebody thinks of something adver-useful for this, could it be you?

Artist Stuart Semple released these smiley-shaped, pink-tinted clouds to celebrate London industry. Comprised of helium, soap and vegetable dye, a total of 2057 clouds were launched at a rate of one every seven seconds.

VIA Gizmodo

Art + Architecture

The world just became a little cooler. French company called Easy Web. Call them. Make something cool. Go now.

Love Type

Found this over at CreativePro.org and had to share:

The 1927 edition of Studio Handbook by Samuel Welo is 233 pages of beautiful type and timeless design advice. Only this book comes with a twist – every page was hand-lettered by Welo.

Little is know of Welo, but he does have a flair for the hand drawn type. Rarely do I regret the added tool of the computer, but hand drawn type is rare if not impossible to find anymore. That is a skill the computer has killed, and we will forever be poorer for it. There is nothing like hand drawn type, done well of coarse. Head on over to the link for more. Lots more. Maybe we can just wait for the power to fail and head back to the good old days, then again, there would be a lot less to sell and I'll need to find a new skill.

Dollar goes where no man has gone before

Nice work with money, since this may be the only way it can go far.

Sagmeister Makes Penny Art, Cops Make It Disappear

...Or something like that. I don't quite understand the whole story told here on droog. But it is one of the coolest public / temporary art pieces I've ever seen. See the whole flickr set ( where I got the pics) here.

Oh yeah, the piece says, "Obsessions make my life worse and my work better.” I was just contemplating this the other day... Hmmm, is that sign to make some changes?

This is How the Nords do it

We're so used to seeing graffiti in the cities that this puts a much more art lens on it. More so due to the placement of the graffiti, but the images are also very powerful.