Meanwhile #176
Squares and oblongs and suchlike that have entered my eyes this week.
Love these calligraphy-ink portraits of Twin Peaks portraits by Richard Wells, especially this one of Lil the Dancer, aka actor Kimberly Ann Cole. I have no recollection of this character (I watched the the whole thing once, years ago, nothing really stuck), but she looks like the next of our conveyor-belt Prime Ministers. For someone who is pretty ambivalent about the work of David Lynch, I do seem to post about him a lot … may be in need of a reappraisal.
Mike McQuade, one of my personal favourite collage artists, has been posting some wonderfully scratchy personal pieces on his Instagram. There’s a touch of Twombly to them, an aesthetic that will always win me over. Whenever I try something like this, I never know when to stop, and it just ends up looking like trash.
Lovely paintings based on old Kodachomes by Jessica Brilli, available as prints from her online shop. Particularly love the colours of this one, capturing that hazy desert Americana of the fifties and sixties.
You could easily (and happily) get lost among the pages of Matt Lamont’s Design Reviewed, a project dedicated to digitally preserving graphic design history and documenting the vast visual culture from the last century. So many good things to see, not least the collection of Graphis covers, which includes this stunning Victor Vasarely design from 1971.
Oh I do like it when Richard Weston (aka OG design blogger Ace Jet 170) pops out and about with his camera. Some cracking shots on his Instagram right now, relishing film over digital – “this is what I want from 35mm. Blur, bad exposures and lovely, lovely grainy, grainy, grain”. And spiders.