MURAL MONDAY | ELLEN RUTT
Murals in the Market is an annual international mural festival happening in Detroit. We’re excited to see the wonderful and playful mural by artist Ellen Rutt, whose colorful shapes, minimal style and free flowing abstractions bring a sense of child-like wonderment to urban landscapes.
Find out more about Ellen in our Kick-Ass Chicks: Vans US Open Artist, Ellen Rutt interview.
Photographs courtesy of the artist
Additional photographs by Kimmy McAtee Bell
Loving these wonderful paintings from Australian artistic duo Creature Creature.
Opening on Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 at First Amendment Gallery in San Francisco, California is the absolutely sensational solo exhibition of artist Mando Marie entitled, “One Trick.”
Amanda Marie uses graphic stencils and images redolent of “Golden Age” storybook imagery. She frequently features the signature characters of a young boy and girl. In 2012, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art held a solo exhibition of her work and noted that these stylized figures: “seem to have been lifted from the pages of a mid-twentieth century children’s book and have traded the protective home of childhood nostalgia for a slightly more adventurous and unsettling world, somewhere between dream and reality.” Alongside recurring graphic themes of children and animals, she favors twin, repeated or mirrored imagery, developed with multiple uses of the same stencil on the artwork.
Her street art and outdoor paintings and murals incorporate the same primary technique of stencil painting on a large scale. In gallery, museum or other indoor exhibitions, she typically creates artworks using aerosol paint, acrylic and sewing pattern paper, on watercolor paper, canvas, or wood. She also uses screen printing technique and gel transfers. For outdoor work, the dominant materials are aerosol and acrylic.
Take a behind the scenes look at her creating the work for “One Trick” below:
Packaging Design for Halo Brewery by Underline Studio
“Halo is an adventurous brewery that takes the traditional recipes of rare styles of beer and then experiments with the ingredients. With a taproom and bottle shop that welcome inquisitive visitors, the brewery needed an approachable brand that matched its unconventional sensibilities. Underline created a logo, labels, packaging and promotional items that use geometric patterns in unexpected colours, resulting in a look that is energetic, modern and a bit rebellious.”
Underline Studio is a multi-disciplinary graphic design agency based in Toronto, Canada. They have gained international recognition for creating clear and thought-provoking design solutions for clients from a wide range of sectors. Their services include the art direction and design of visual identities, publications, advertising and marketing materials, books, packaging, and interactive and motion graphics.
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