The HYPERREALIST SCULPTORS of RON MUECK

Just when you think they couldn't get better, meet life-like sculpturist Ron Mueck.

Ronald "Ron" Mueck is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the United Kingdom.

Ron was born in Australia to German parents. He began his career working on the Australian children's television program Shirl's Neighbourhood. He was the creative director and made, voiced and operated the puppets Greenfinger the Garden Gnome, Ol' Possum, Stanley the snake and Claude the Crow amongst many others. The show was made for Channel 7 Melbourne between 1979 and 1984, broadcast nationally and starred the ex-lead singer of Skyhooks, Graeme "Shirley" Strachan.

Mueck's early career was as a model maker and puppeteer for children's television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo, and the Jim Henson series The Storyteller.
Mueck moved on to establish his own company in London, making photo-realistic props and animatronics for the advertising industry. Although highly detailed, these props were usually designed to be photographed from one specific angle hiding the mess of construction seen from the other side. Mueck increasingly wanted to produce realistic sculptures which looked perfect from all angles.

In 1996 Mueck transitioned to fine art, collaborating with his mother-in-law, Paula Rego, to produce small figures as part of a tableau she was showing at the Hayward Gallery. Rego introduced him to Charles Saatchi who was immediately impressed and started to collect and commission work. This led to the piece which made Mueck's name, Dead Dad, being included in the Sensation show at the Royal Academy the following year. Dead Dad is a silicone and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of Mueck's father reduced to about two thirds of its natural scale. It is the only work of Mueck's that uses his own hair for the finished product.

Photo: Raoul Wegat/Getty Images

CARICATURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY Nithin Rao Kumblekar

How many of these awesome caricatures do you recognize? Which ones are your favs?

Nithin Rao Kumblekar, from Bangalore, India, began his career as an Art Director for advertising agencies such as McCann, Ogilvy & Triton but after some time decided to branch out on his own to become a freelancer.

Nithin’s passion for illustration started early, continued through school and since thereafter. During his school days, he would copy from magazines and posters and recreate his versions with his own unique style.

Since then, Nithin has worked for many advertising agents and corporate clients such as Vodafone, Allen Solly, Britannia, Bingo, Kingfisher, IBM, Lenovo, TVS, ING Vysya Bank.. etc have all used his illustrations.

All images are the copyrighted work of ©2012 Nithin Rao Kumblekar .

Nithin graduated from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat in Bangalore and did a BFA in Applied Arts. But as he recalls, his actual training started right in his school days when he met artist Punchitaya,who later guided him to the college in Bangalore where he would do his specialization. 

When a brief is presented to him, he usually sets about attempting to chart the best possible way to illustrate the idea, followed by rough sketches which he admits can only be understood by him alone. He later fine tunes it to fit what the client requires.

As for his personal style, Nithin believes he’s good at drawing people. Landscapes don’t interest him much. He is a great fan of Michael Parkes. “Other than him, there are many online artists whose work I admire. Only a few names among these are famous like, say, Jason Seiler,” he adds. Nithin says he goes online for inspiration. Behance, Deviantart, Abduzeedo are some of the sites he frequents on a daily basis. -  Kyoorius

Celebrities Caricatures
I was very keen on doing some poster to put on my wall. I did these whenever I find free time from my work.

When ART and TRAGEDY COLLIDES – A Masterpiece BY EMMA HACK

Adelaide body painter Emma Hack took 18 hours to create her latest masterpiece, which uses 17 men and women to illustrate the dangers and trauma caused by speeding drivers.

The stunning piece of art was the brainchild of advertising agency Clemenger BBDO Adelaide and part of the Motor Accident Commission’s new campaign, targeting low-level speeders.

BENT OBJECTS By Terry Border

Terry Border, a guy with an amusing sense of humour who worked as a commercial photographer for many years,  started a blog in 2006 posting just a few pictures of some objects he had created using everyday household items and... wire.  The rest as they say, is history.

A SAUNA LIKE NO OTHER - THE CANADIAN GROTTO SAUNA By Partisans

Designing and building a grotto, (any type of natural or artificial cave), is not unusual, but designing and building a grotto that's also a sauna, being close to water and dealing with a prehistoric large-scale rock formation, well, that takes a bit more research, planning... and skill.

Using state of the art 3-D technology to scan, model and build this sculpted grotto, a local design studio, Partisans, was able to create this free-standing structure that not only blends with its elements, but would respect and mature with it as well.

Now, perched on a private island north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a beautifully sculpted space now exists to create a sensual experience for its owners.

All images courtesy of Partisans.

The EDIBLE-Looking ASHTANUR PENCIL HOLDER…

THE EDIBLE-LOOKING ASHTANUR PENCIL/UTENSILS HOLDER BY Mohar & Mogilevsky

Ido mohar, a graduate at the industrial design department of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel created this unique pencil holder, in collaboration with Baruch Mogilevsky, that if you didn’t know better, would try to eat it at first glance.

Ashtanur
A project about a memory from Jerusalem, the city that has its own language.
Ashtanur is an “oven bread” in arabic, and used as the common word for flat bread in Jerusalem.
By imitating the rolling procedure that is used to cover and contain local food, with some humor added, the “Ashtanur” transforms to a pencil\ utensils case.

“Ha-ofe” bakery. Agripas, Jerusalem

“Ha-ofe” bakery. Agripas, Jerusalem

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Baruch Mogilevsky | Mohar Design

MOVABLE TYPOGRAPHIC BIKE RACKS

Bike racks tend to blend into the background of a city, hiding away in plain sight. What if they instead stood proud as representatives of a city’s personality and culture?

In 2008 musician and avid cyclist David Byrne created a series of bike racks installed across New York. From a high heeled shoe placed on a busy shopping street to a silent black pup calmly waiting outside, New Yorkers could lock their cycles to public art.

Four years on the artist has finally made his way to Brooklyn. Commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Byrnes returns with typographic bicycle racks that embrace the city’s identity as home to the creative hip.

The “letters” of each rack are movable, meaning that they can be swapped out and moved around to spell different words. Unveiled on Tuesday 8/21 the first word Bryne chose to spell was “Pink Crown:”

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PEOPLE PIXEL ART

Craig Alan was born in 1971 in San Bernardino, California. Though he was always drawn to the artistic side of life, Craig’s creative luminance did not wholly shine until his family transferred to New Orleans in his youth. It was here that Craig’s capacity for detailed visual interpretation took root.

In this city by the sea, rich in its culture and outlets for creative expression, Craig began exploring his own ingenious impulses.

Craig’s earliest experimentation took the form of street portraiture, an endeavor that helped him perfect his flair for replicating the human figure and afforded the budding artist a sense of economic autonomy.

POST-IT NOTES MONSTER DRAWINGS

Talk about using your imagination! 

John Kenn, is a writer and director for television shows for kids and in his spare time, he draws monster drawings on post-it notes!  Yes, we said post-it notes.  Such details on such small bits of paper is incredible!

The following pics are enlarged to show the details!