Trip to Volga by Janine Rewell for Mondo Magazine

Helsinki-based graphic designer/illustrator Janine Rewell studied at the University of Art and Design Helsinki and at RISD and now creates lovely [and silly!] illustrations for magazines, events, and packaging. Her work reminds me a bit of another Finnish illustrator — Sanna Annukka.

Trip to Volga by Janine Rewell for Mondo Magazine

Trip to Volga by Janine Rewell for Mondo Magazine

Trip to Volga by Janine Rewell for Mondo Magazine

Helsinki by Janine Rewell for Happi Magazine

Christmas Coming by Janine Rewell for A-lehdet Magazine

Helsinki in Berlin by Janine Rewell for Musex

Dollhouse by Janine Rewell

Via Grain Edit.

Mile High City by Val Britton

These collaged drawings by Val Britton are the artist’s attempt to connect with her deceased father who was a truck driver. Using the visual language of cartography, the collages fuse the facts of his journeys with the aspects that cannot be known. Britton was born in Livingston, NJ, studied in Providence and Oakland, and is currently based in Berkeley.

Constellation #1 by Val Britton

Constellation #2 by Val Britton

Northern Lights by Val Britton

Extended Macro Universe by Val Britton

Beginning Anywhere by Val Britton

Etsy seller kpetuck is a Brooklyn-based architect who also creates these sort of sweet, sort of bizarre collages out of vintage photographs, bits of map, and red stitching. What, no Cincinnati?

From the top: Providence 2, Detroit, Wichita, and Indianapolis.

Giftcycle, a summer-long, cross-country bicycle tour from Providence to Seattle, is stopping in Cincinnati tomorrow, Mon 30 Jun. Based on the principles of the gift economy and the Kula exchange, the participants travel with gifts of art that are given away or traded for other art. Predicated on the idea that art is a gift, not just a commodity, wealth in this system is increased through circulation.

Participating artists are asked to create gifts of art for other artists they have never met, which are delivered by two messengers traveling on a side-by-side recumbent bicycle, who transport and display the work from one destination to the next. The long journey and hand delivery of these gifts of art adds to their value.

The Giftcycle messengers, en route from Columbus to St. Louis, will be at Brutopia in Clifton Gaslight around noon tomorrow for an informal art display and exchange. If you can’t make it in person, check out their progress on their blog or buy a t-shirt to support their efforts.