JOY IS THE ONLY TREAT by Florian Schommer

https://www.behance.net/schommer

Quotes by Spencer Harrison

http://www.spenceroni.com/
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Instant Crush

I don't understand, don't get upset
I'm not with you
We’re swimming around
It's all I do, when I'm with you

Unconditional Love

Unconditional Love introduces lush digitally printed paintings. Stone hand-paints on glass and photographs the resulting compositions. These high-resolution details are then digitally intensified and retouched to remove subjective imperfections, such as dust and hairs. The paint is then printed onto veneered wooden panels, sheet acrylic and mirror. The resulting works employ photography and digital printing as part of an extended artistic process that furthers the visual and practical potential of paint, rather than as an objective or documentarian means to an end.

Almost offensively lush and often steeped in visceral colour the works upturn the holy status of art history’s worship of “paint handling” and “brushwork” as untouchable cosmic flesh, whilst simultaneously and sincerely reasserting its living legacy of visceral and emotionally manipulative power. Stone's paint gestures mimic the movements and colors of Renaissance painting and sculpture and suggest the punchy thrusts and flair of dancers in motion or joyful movement in general. Their genuine love of color and movement draw the viewer in and celebrate the eye and its joys in the realm of paint. While ostensibly resembling a scaling of the “masterful” brushwork of Motherwell or de Kooning, the final works, perhaps like Lichtenstein's spoofy quoted strokes, live as flattened snapshots of captured and ephemeral moments. They are digitally composed gestures, both flat and practically inert but imaginatively ecstatic. The turns of the wrist that twist the paint into three dimensionality suggest the contrapposto twirl of a dancer or the circular helix of a Michelangelo marble, while the gush of color is un-gendered orgasm.

Matthew Stone

Behind Bars- The secret vocabulary of New York's finest drinking establishments.

NYTimes

#365 quotes

Design Crush

Good Will Hunting

Drink up, baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do, you won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make

Drink up with me now and forget all about
The pressure of days, do what I say
And I'll make you okay and drive them away
The images stuck in your head
People you've been before that you Don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

Skeuomorphism

Definition

"What’s skeuomorphism? If you’ve ever used an Apple product, you’ve experienced digital skeuomorphic design: calendars with faux leather-stitching, bookshelves with wood veneers, fake glass and paper and brushed chrome. Skeuomorphism is a catch-all term for when objects retain ornamental elements of past, derivative iterations–elements that are no longer necessary to the current objects’ functions."

-Tim Worstall

Value

"Skeuomorphic design definitely has its place. And that place is generally when there’s a change in the way that we do some well known task. As an example, if we’re moving from making notes on a notebook to making them on a screen, it aids us in preparing mentally for doing so if the application on the screen we’re using to make notes looks like an old fashioned notebook. So too with a news stand: why not make it look like a traditional news stand to aid in orienting people?"

-Tim Worstall

Victo Ngai

Victo Ngai is a NY based illustrator from Hong Kong, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design.

Window or Small Box, Tor

Bowlcut

SILVER MEDAL, GCIA Unpublished Catergory

Communication Arts 52 Selected

CMYK Top 100 New Creatives #49 Selected 

Applied Arts 2010 selected

Lost in Translation

GOLD MEDAL, CMYK Top 100 New Creatives #49

SPECTRUM 18 selected

Applied Arts 2010 selected

http://victo-ngai.com/