Trend Alert! Now that owl and mushroom motifs are slowly making their way into obscurity (thank God!), I predict feathers to become the next "hot" motif to take over.
Image source: Bluefly.com - Joie - Penelope top
Monday, May 12, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Domino Magazine Arrangements
All I can say is, "Nice COLOR!"
Image source: Lesley Unruh, Domino Magazine
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
My New Exhibition
Swim Puff (relish) • 2008 • Mixed media on birch panel • 14 x 22 inches
CYNTHIA MOSSER
COOL PERENNIALS
APRIL 30 – MAY 27, 2008
Please join me for a preview reception at the Augen gallery:
Wednesday • April 30, 2008
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
First Thursday reception:
Thursday • May 1st, 2008
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
AUGEN GALLERY
503.224.8182
http://www.augengallery.com/calendar.html
HOURS: TUESDAY – SATURDAY 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Monday, April 14, 2008
Unearthed Color
I found an older copy of Lucky Magazine and mined this palette from the cover. Delicious.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Tropical Begonias
These tropical begonia leaves and their variegated colors are fantastic, and ripe for inspiration.
Image source: www.robsviolet.com/begonias.htm
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Eggs
I am crazy about the carefully styled pages of Martha Stewart, and this arrangement is no exception.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Mushrooms and Owls
What is it with the overuse of
mushrooms and owls in design-y shops like Anthropologie? Why and how do these motifs suddenly permeate the design atmosphere? Birds used to be popular, now we have these two contenders. I can't wait for their overuse and subsequent absence!
Image sources (left): http://blog.kimvallee.com
(right): www.superherodesigns.com
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Havaianas Shoe Ad
The intricate and luscious color use in the Havaianas Shoe ads are a breath of pure color.
Adhemas Batista is a Brasilian designer/illustrator.
Nice work!
Monday, March 3, 2008
GREAT AD - HEMA Dept. Store - Dutch
HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam . Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands HEMA also has stores in Belgium , Luxemburg, and Germany In June of this year, HEMA was sold to British investment company Lion Capital.
Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything and it's in Dutch but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens.
Don't click on any of the products pictured, just wait and see what happens. And be sure you have your sound turned up.
This company has a sense of humor and a great computer programmer!
CLICK BELOW:
http://producten.hema.nl/
Baby Jingles
Every Sunday newspaper Ashton-Drake ad seems to be a miniature newborn baby sculpture. What is it about this Baby Jingles monkey doll I find disturbing? Could it be the price of $30.00? The tongue? The hand-applied mohair?
Check it out at Ashton-Drake Galleries
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Another image from W Magazine (my favorite fashion/art magazine) - this time by Mario Sorrenti with a Burberry dress.
The use of colored lighting show the shadow to be the complement to the light source. Additionally the composition is excellent.
Photo credit: Mario Sorrenti
Orange & Pink
I love this whimsical and intensely hued Hermès ad in the March 2008 of W Magazine.
Photo credit: Terry Tsiolis
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Catalina Estrada - Masterful Color
Nylon magazine displayed this ad illustrated by Spanish artist Catalina Estrada in their February 2008 issue.
I applaud the artist choice as an ad for Zune Originals (a Microsoft ipod where you can pick your own design for it's back). I adore her masterful use of color and her intricate use of folk art-inspired decorative elements.
If my brain could scream any more excitement about this piece, it would explode!
Image: www.magnetreps.com/wp/530
Monday, February 18, 2008
Rigorous Geometry
Martha Stewart's garden is truly a work of rectilinear design. Aside from the intensely organized rows of varied vegetation, the bird's eye view yields some excellent greens.
Photo credit unknown
www.marthastewart.com
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Lauren Clay at Tilt Gallery
These two images are pieces by Brooklyn-based sculptor Laura Clay. I spoke with her briefly and viewed her exhibit at Tilt Gallery in Portland, Oregon (www.tiltpdx.com).
Left: "There is a Place for You, In my Heart of Hearts"
85" x 96" x 45", acrylic on cut paper, wall painting, flocking, light
Right: "Seized by the Power of a Great Affection"
acrylic on cut paper, plexi-glass, fabric, mixed media
40" x 85" x 80"
It is not often I meet an artist whose work I like and admire SO much! Her pastel color palette, assemblages, and shapes - both geometric and biomorphic - are simply sublime and uniquely interesting. At times the rounded strips of painted paper applied to the wall appear to be feather/wing/birdlike.
I would like to purchase a piece.
Sarah Johnson at Chambers Gallery - Portland, OR
This month, Sarah Johnson is showing a wall installation made from gumdrops at the Chambers Gallery. It spells out "I am not sexually satisfied". The texture, blobulous grouping and colors are what intrigue me. She is using gumdrops as text...and what a better, juicy medium for her frustrated message.
After entering the gallery, I noticed the sweet smell of gumdrops (Dots) - one unexpected additional element from so many exposed candies.
BTW: What are the archival qualities of gumdrops? Perhaps short-term exhibitions are her goal. If not, keeping a design on a long-term basis, resin would be a better material.
No photo credit available.
www.chambersgallery.org
Monday, February 4, 2008
John Currin and the Making of Art
John Currin made a good point about making art when your attitude toward it (and life) changes. After meeting his (now) wife and artist Rachel Feinstein, his outlook became much more positive:
"I came to the conclusion that there is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making."
Much agreed.
Photograph: ELINOR CARUCCI
"The New Yorker", Jan. 28, 2008, pp. 64.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Trend Alert
This palette is pictured in at least three different Sunday newspaper ads. The Color Association of the United States orders us to immediately use this combination! Still, I love the brown and green. I'll link the palette to nature (i.e. moss and wood). Others I know well have named the palette "turds-n-algae".
Friday, February 1, 2008
Chandelier - San Francisco
I stumbled upon this chandelier in the lobby of SF's Union Square Hotel (Sept. 2007). Each bulb is 15 watts, and the design is definitely a "truth to materials" project. It's a nice light bouquet.
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