Urban Spectacles consists of hand carved glasses frames made of wood. The glasses are beautiful and unique, I just wish the photos and website would do them justice.
Via myturtleneck (a very promising newish blog)
Kevin Cherry is an art teacher that creates fantastic mixed media collages with typographic subjects in his free time. For the most part, the collages consist of paper, photo transfer, and screen printing onto painted wood. Sounds like a lot of work, but the texture it creates is very nice.
Designer Kent Henderson had insomnia one night and decided to scan in this wonderful book entitled Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain from 1864! This is a really fun gallery to click through for anyone interested in vintage woodblock typography or even book design. The amount of detail in the letters is [...]
The Columbus Society of Communicating Arts recently held a fun looking Pinewood Derby contest. I especially love the “Typemobile” pictured above. As a former 3 time champion in my Cub Scout years, it combines the fun I had making Pinewood Derby cars as a youth, with my current design obsession as an adult. [...]
Netherland Art has created some pretty groovy art pieces using collage materials, acrylics, and resin on a wood surface. I love when art is done on a nice slab of grainy wood, and he really knows how to work that 70’s rainbow.
I thought these paintings on shaved pencils by Ghostpatrol were pretty clever. It’s a great idea and the paintings themselves are like little ambiguous windows into a mystical world.
Via Kitsune Noir
I have a thing for benches, and I really love these spaghetti benches made by Pablo Reinoso. They are like something out of a surreal painting. Beautiful.
I saw this amazing wood business card holder on Etsy and I fell in love with it. I am a sucker for nicely presented woodgrain. I had just expected it to be painted on with wood stain, but the design turned out to be made from inlaid pieces of wood.
I looked at their [...]