If you love pop art, then you really have no choice but to love this work by The Design Conspiracy {a graphic design shop from London}, because these stunning screen prints literally are ‘pop’ art. Every single one of these bottle caps reminds me of being a kid… I can almost taste the ‘Imitation Black Cherry Soda’ right now. Yum. I’m sure Andy would be very impressed, and probably in the mood for an ice cold soda pop.

{Unfortunately, I can’t help you buy a cream soda at this very moment, but I can send you to Keep Calm Gallery to buy one of these prints at this very moment. Ahhh, so refreshing!}

{via Poppytalk}

I don’t know where to look first… Ooh, the giant panda clown! Oh, wait maybe that lady with a poppy for a head? {…is that a poppy?} Or maybe I’ll start with the kids interlocked in some kind of retro stretch below a giant owl and handful of huge strawberries. Ok, I could start just about anywhere, and then allow myself to spend a ridiculous amount of time exploring these collages by British designer/illustrator/artist Ciara Phelan… um, hang on a minute, is that guy holding a giant tuna fish over his head?

Today’s post is brought to you by the talent-filled Southern Hemisphere. Thanks to Australia’s lovely and inspiring frankie magazine, I found New Zealand’s lovely and inspiring Bayley Collins and her collages of birds in bunny suits. Strangely enough, her art + design company is called bird in a bunny suit. Coincidence? I think not.

I have a new crush. His name is Scot, and I like, totally ♥ him. Denver based artist Scot Lefavor has everything I’m looking for in a ‘feel like I’ve been punched in the creative gut’ art crush… vintage subject matter, typography, a pop-esque style, found imagery, and just a little bit of cursing. Ah, I couldn’t ask for anything more.

{via crisaris, an art blog with gem after gem after gem after gem… well, you get the idea}

Well, clearly it’s time to redecorate because I’ve just found some furniture that I can’t live without. Perhaps I can give the room a ‘tea’ theme, what with the chair being upholstered in tea towels and the lamp being  made up of a zillion dangling souvenir tea spoons. Oh, I could host the best tea parties in town! Maybe Melbourne artist Suzie Stanford would even show up for a sip of Earl Grey? But hold on to your tea cups folks… she may very well sneak off with them to make a bunch of her lovely pendant lamps {I’m not kidding, she might. She’s got to get her supplies from somewhere right?}

{via Junk Culture}

I’m not entirely sure what it is we’re looking at here… but I’m 100% sure that I love it! What I do know is that it’s the work of San Francisco based artist/designer Tom Bonauro, and from what I can tell these are a few select pages from one of his artist edition books called The Third Stage of Matter. I think. Oh well, why get hung up on details like ‘the facts’? The images, colour choices, and composition are amazing so maybe I’ll just leave it at that… ok, who am I kidding, I love facts. Tom, if I’ve completely messed this up, please let me know!

If I saw anyone, and I mean anyone, at the airport with this luggage, I cannot even begin to tell you how jealous I’d be! These hand-crafted suitcases truly bring new meaning to the phrase ‘traveling in style’. They are from a series called Crafted Fashion by Sarah Williams. They are her contribution to the MA Show at the London College of Fashion. Here’s the thinking behind the project:

‘Historically exceptional craftsmanship was the norm now it is the exception. The collection is designed to challenge this statement by utilizing regional historical craftsmanship and metamorphosising the traditional in order to produce a collection of original fashion artefacts.’

Well, I think it does exactly that… not to mention making you the coolest, most stylish person at the departure gate!

{I found Sarah’s work on the always eclectic blog, Junkculture.}

A little snip with scissors here, a little click of computer keys there and finito… the perfect combination of digital and analog! I have a background in fine arts and digital design so this work by Italian artist/designer/illustrator Nazario Graziano kinda pushes me over the edge in the jealousy department. Ah, if only we could all snip and click like Nazario.

{Here’s another jealousy inducing tidbit for you. He’s also the founder of a very cool online art+design magazine called ANTI Magazine, whose aim is ‘to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world.’ And, good news… they’re accepting submissions.}

First I was jealous of Camilla Engman’s studio… now I’m jealous of her book. It’s the first in a project called The Suitcase Series put together by Uppercase Gallery. In each one they will feature an artist or designer, both at work and in life. The book about Camilla is so beautifully done, and what an amazing little gem for her to show her grandchildren one day… or grandpuppies, if Morran ever decides to start a family.

{There are 192 pages in this book, and all of them are gorgeous. Really, you have to go and see it.}

Stunningly beautiful and an overwhelmingly important message? Usually I don’t expect so much from my lamps, but I do now! British artist/designer Stuart Haygarth has shown me the light… too cheesy? Sorry, but it’s true! These spectacular chandeliers are breathtaking, and they are made from found/discarded man-made debris that is polluting our planet.

The first one is titled Tide. This huge sphere is made up clear and translucent objects (mainly plastics), that the tide washed up on a specific stretch of Kent coastline. The sphere of the chandelier ‘is an analogy for the moon which effects the tides, which in turn wash up the debris.’

The second piece is shaped like a drop of water. What could it be made from? 1800 plastic water bottles that were collected at Stansted Airport in England. Haygarth cut off the bottom of each bottle and tossed them in a cement mixer filled with sand and water giving them the look of frosted glass. Gorgeous.

The third one is my favourite. Nope, not your traditional, run of the mill disco ball. This one is made up of 4500 prescription eyeglass lenses, and instead of reflecting the light, ‘the light is refracted through the many layers of glass lenses. A magical explosion of light is created.’ I want this so badly it hurts a tiny bit.