Curiouser & Curiouser exhibit at Gallery Nucleus
(above Alice in the Rain by Lorelay Bove)

imaginative illustrations by Yuko Furusho, above is ink and acrylic on watercolor paper for “The Pool of Tears/Caucus-race and a Long Tale” scenes from Alice in Wonderland.

bobulate:

[Image: Title: HWY 66, New Mexico, 2007, 5 ft x 5 ft, archival digital print, via] “The best advice I ever got: walk directly up to a piece that moves you in a museum. Don’t follow the movement of people. Don’t walk right or left. Just go for the piece you’re attracted to. Chances are, it’s the most interesting.” Paraphrasing advice from Freeman Craw, designer of Craw Clarendon and Craw Modern, as told to me by Paul Shaw, expert looker.

“Los Angeles Swaps 21 Billboards With Art”
(via Fast Company, above artwork by Kenneth Anger, more info about The MAK Center for Art and Architecture exhibition via howmanybillboards.org)

Encyclopedia 2 print by Valerie Roybal
(via 20x200)

the “World’s Smallest Postal Service” a.k.a WSPS

(discovered via cool pics dumper via qbn)

new GOOD Transparency: “The 10 Most Expensive Pieces of Art Ever Sold”
(via GOOD, collaboration with KarlssonWilker)

shadow art by Kumi Yamashita
(discovered via Scene 360)

Josef Schulz: Sign Out

“…As with his previous “sachliches + formen” [material + form] studies, the Polish artist digitally manipulated his images, meticulously stripping the American signs of all purpose or identity. The now-blank signs, rather than empty speech bubbles ready for filling in with thought or action, suggest a more dystopian vision of loss…”

(discovered via Cool Hunting)

Arts: “Charles Clary’s Massive Paper Cuts”
(discovered via Wired)

“Best Recording Package + Best Boxed/Ltd Ed Package Grammy Noms”
(discovered via Frolab, above design by Stefan Sagmeister)

likeable:

Leaf Carving: An Incredible New Art Form : TreeHugger

A Lovely Mona Lisa Leaf

redesignrelated:

“Australia’s DiDonato created this series of vintage themed bottles inspired by the history of the Schweppes brand…” (via TheDieline.com)

Peter Blake’s 1950s Penguins in the UK for the Penguin Decades
series honoring Penguin’s 75th anniversary.
(discovered via Caustic Cover Critic)

Jessica Hische has started a new blog:

“…It’s like my own personal ffffound (goddamn ffffound and their invite-only-ness), but only for things you can actually purchase…” — Mostly Useless Things I Want

(The above Bird Crystal Glass set is just one of the random finds you’ll find on the new site curated with a designer’s eye)

found out about the new site via a tweet by swissmiss