Shhh, don’t tell Michael that I totally have a crush on [the work of] Nigel Peake… Originally from Northern Ireland, Peake trained in architecture and now lives and teaches in Edinburgh, where he creates these obsessively detailed drawings for clients including Believer Magazine, Dwell Magazine, Blueprint Magazine, and Tiny Showcase. Swoon-worthy!
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Born in Reykjavik and now living in NYC, Katrín Sigurðardóttir is a sculptor and installation artist who has teamed up with Artware Editions for the release of these limited-edition lamps. The shades depict scenes of Ísafjörður, a remote village in Northwestern Iceland.
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I may be the only woman who is not in love with the store Anthropologie. In fact, I find its clusterfuck of faux flea market finds to be very un-Karl Farbman-like. But this? This 2010 calendar takes the shape of a little village, and it’s pretty much adorable.
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Today the exhibition House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage opens at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. It is the first-ever exhibit to focus on parking garages. Actually, what’s really momentous about it is that the above photo, taken by yours truly about a year and half ago, is part of the exhibit!
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In 1959, the architect Rudy Hermes collaborated with the artist Charley Harper on a series of illustrations that situated Ford cars against fantastic backdrops, combining gorgeous natural scenery with outlandish architecture.
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Save the date! Our talented friend Cedric Michael Cox will be having an exhibit of new paintings entitled Soul within Structure at the Contemporary Arts Center, with an opening reception on Sat 24 Oct, 1-4pm. I had fun designing the poster promoting the exhibit and, this time, our intern helped with the printing.
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Archeologies of the Future is an ongoing project by LA artist Charles LaBelle. Since 1997, LaBelle has documented every single building he has entered, gathering the information in a database of over 9000 entries. Here are some of the drawings he has made of those buildings.
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Galaxie by David Imlay
David Imlay is a West Coast artist who paints primarily portraits and cityscapes, mostly of San Francisco, with a bit of Chicago thrown in for good measure. These paintings are from his Suburban Series.
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Country Club Projects has organized an exhibition of Charley Harper’s paintings and original illustrations that opens today in Los Angeles in the Buck House, a landmark Modernist structure designed by Rudolf Schindler and built in 1934.
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Licking Valley by Marcia Alscher
Marcia Alscher grew up in St. Louis and trained in architecture. She now lives in Covington, where she uses acrylics to paint these intimately scaled, highly geometric portraits of the built environment.
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