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Artist Watch: Atelier Pariri

I came across Atelier Pariri from two sources within a few days of one another.  One was through the Daily Heller, which is a blog and daily email from Steven Heller (a very experienced Art Director, and extremely respected in the design field).  The second was from a friend of mine who discovered Atelier Pariri from the New York Times. Jérôme Corgier, who is a part of Atelier Pariri, creates paper type illustrations.  And they are really beautiful.  I love the photography of the final product and the fact that the piece actually exists in reality.  Check out more of his work here!

New York Comic Con 2012

Matthew is honored to be speaking on a panel and signing at New York Comic Con this October 14, 2012.  Along Matthew’s panel information is as follows:

Sunday, October 1410:45–11:45 AM – Room 1A08

Comics for young readers: Want to raise a comic book aficionado? Start here! The incredible Jarrett J. Krosoczka (author of the astoundingly stupendous ‘Lunch Lady’ series) moderates a group of authors who are masters at penning favorites for the youngest age group, with characters ranging from a neurotic rabbit to a crime-fighting lunch lady and formats from graphic novels to pop-ups.  Look forward to a discussion about presenting the comic book genre to the littlest readers in an accessible and often downright hilarious way guaranteed to have them reading AND creating works of their own.

Matthew and the other panel authors will then be available to sign books after the panel from 12:00PM – 1:00PM at Autographing Tables 2, 3 and 4.

Artist Watch: PostCarden

How amazing would it be to receive a post card that pops up AND can grow a mini garden?  The London based Another Studio for Design thought it would be pretty great, so they created PostCarden!

PostCarden are pop up greeting cards that contain seeds you can grow in the pop up environment. Check out more about PostCarden on their website.

Artist Watch: Markus Linnenbrink

After walking into the Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery this weekend (525 West 22nd Street, NY, NY 10011), I was stunned into silence (no easy feat, let me tell you) and completely blown away by the work of renowned German artist, Markus Linnenbrink.

The ultimate master of color, he pours varied hues of epoxy resin into old bottles, strange sculpture forms and over woodblock canvases to create a riotous layered rainbows of all shapes, sizes and moods.  I first encountered his technicolor vases a few years ago… his larger pieces are absolutely unbelievable.

Inspiring and truly amazing work!

Star Wars Reads!

On October 6th, 2012, fans will come together to celebrate reading and Star Wars!  Matthew will be appearing at the NYC event along with several other Star Wars authors  – so come joint the fun!  Click here for more details about other Star Wars Reads events all over the galaxy.

Artist Watch: Theo Jansen

The Jansen

One of the reasons I decided to become an engineer was because I realized that engineering and art are not exactly opposites, as the course load for each would suggest, but rather one can greatly influence the other.

One artist that I found that walks the line between the two is Theo Jansen with his Strandbeests. The Strandbeests are mechanical animals that live on the beach and are self-propelled by the wind. Theo Jansen is able to take the engineering principals that would make a machine like this move, and apply his artistic vision to make it move and look like a real animal. Since discovering Theo Jansen, pop-ups have only reinforced this notion of combining paper-engineering with art to create a movable masterpiece! You can find out more about Theo Jansen and his work here.