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Posted by Jason Urban on August 20th, 2010 | 
You don’t need to watch Enemy of the State to know that you’re being watched. The signals are all around us. In his new piece, Smile!, German-born artist Stefan Hoffman draws more attention to our surveilled world but rather than communicating a sense of ominous paranoia in the Orwellian tradition, Hoffman’s orange iconography seem almost happy. Big brother packed in fun bubbles. Using a pre-existing surveillance warning as a starting point, Hoffman multiplies the iconography and takes it to an absurd extreme.
Smile! is currently on view in the exhibition Hot Plate at Phoenix Brighton in Brighton, UK. By its very nature, Stefan Hoffman’s work is in dialogue with its environment- he silkscreens directly onto glass and walls making site-specific pieces. Often, he takes cues from the space and an allows its to inform his decisions. According to Hoffmann…
I just like signs! When I visit a city I can’t help taking photo’s of the restroom signs, warning signs….any signs. They have something what art essentially doesn’t have (anymore). They have an information value. They give clear directions……potentially saving your life…or let you feel safe…or watched. I just like to play with them and suddenly they start looking strange. They are much too big, they are arranged in a formal rythm reduced to basic shapes, with strange shadows, or result in an overdose of conflicting messages. I am looking for that brief moment of emptiness, where the former notion is lost and a new one is yet to be found.
Look for more of Hoffmann’s work this Fall at Printopolis in Toronto.
 This shot shows one of Michael Loderstadt’s house constructions hanging inside the Hot Plate exhibition.
Posted by RL Tillman on July 28th, 2010 | Sorry about that lazy, lazy, lazy headline. Printing with blood is not a new concept, but somehow it seems to be in fashion this summer.
There’s this concert poster printed with blood:
And then there’s this book printed with the artist’s own blood:
The first is for a Swedish band, the second for a Dutch author. It’s a European blood-printing frenzy!
Posted by RL Tillman on July 27th, 2010 | Slow build to a rewarding finish in this installation by Joseph Egan and Hunter Thomson:
Posted by amze on July 22nd, 2010 | 
The Artist team Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker have been busy wrapping the entire future site of the Whitney Downtown location a cascading collage that will soon cover the whole site. The pair represents the first of three commissions by the museum that will inhabit the site. Tauba Auerbach and Barbra Krueger will each have a crack at it next. Here’s the Whitney’s description of the commissions:
Each artist will produce a temporary artwork encompassing the site, by working with printed vinyl and demountable decals that will be attached to the perimeter fence and other structures within it. In selecting the participants, the Museum’s curatorial team specifically chose artists in whose work digital printing and graphic imagery plays a fundamental role. Each installation will remain on view for approximately six to seven weeks from early May through mid-October, a period timed to coincide with the High Line’s busy summer season.
Giant fruit, stripes and fruit, what’s not to like?
For more information, check out the New Yorker and NYTimes articles about the project.
Posted by amze on July 19th, 2010 | 
This visual essay is a collection of the more interesting street graphics I came across on a recent trip to Paris. I would consider this an incomplete survey as my time was short I wasn’t able to see many neighborhoods.
Continue reading Dispatches from Paris/Word on the Street(Graphics)
Posted by RL Tillman on July 12th, 2010 |  M-CITY
Handmadeposters is based in Bergen, Norway, and specializes in prints by street artists.
The motivation for starting handmadeposters was for the love of street art, to support the young artists working in that medium, and to bring their work out to people all over the world. We try to leave as much as possible to the artists concerning spraying and painting techniques. Our job is then to challenge the process of turning the result into a print that reflects the original artwork in the best way possible.
 PØBEL
Posted by amze on July 9th, 2010 |
The prolific Weiki Somers is an artist/designer who, in collaboration with Dylan Van Den Berg, form Studio Weiki Somers. Some of her recent work has caught the media’s attention. These pieces are constructed out of human ashes that have been run through a 3-D printer to create sculpture that combines objects of mundane consumer life with moments of sublime nature. Beyond the creepy/beautiful factor, what is Somers pointing to with this loaded conceptual work? Here is a quote from the designer:
“A dilemma that questions us most, is the way technology (or humanity) has made it possible to extend our lives almost endlessly,” she says. “But what is an eternal life good for if we use it only to continue being excessive consumers who strive for more and more products, regardless of the consequences?”
Curious and compelling work that asks many more questions than it answers.
Anne Lindeboom (b. 1920, d. 1984)
John Steegman (b. 1939, d. 1985)
Pietertje Vos (b. 1942, d. 2007)
via Fast Company
Posted by amze on July 6th, 2010 | 
If I were asked why Printeresting doesn’t produce an actual printed publication, beyond the obvious reasons (no resources), I would say that we don’t need to: a great magazine showcasing good art and modeling clever printing already exists. That magazine is called ESOPUS. And here is a review of their onolicious current issue.
Many more detailed images after the jump.
Continue reading Things We Like: Esopus Magazine
Posted by RL Tillman on July 5th, 2010 | The Art Hustle Series 1 Original Art Cards:
 The Art Hustle is a boutique set of artist and art-based trading cards exhibiting an international group of 75 artists working in street art, toy art, kaiju, sketch, illustration, painting, aerosol art, poster art, tattoo art, digital art, collage, sculpture, photography and more. Inspired by trading cards produced from the 1960’s through the 80’s, the set offers up some vintage-inspired flavor including chipboard card stock and the much-loved wax paper wrapper. Cards also come with interesting facts on the backs that you don’t want to miss.
Posted by RL Tillman on June 25th, 2010 | “I’m too lazy to paint.”
-Wade Guyton
 Still, this seems like a lot of work:
Guyton, 38, made the eight-panel, 25-by-40-foot untitled work by folding a five-foot-wide bolt of primed canvas in half and feeding it through an Epson 9600 Ultrachrome photo printer. He had to fold the fabric because the printer was made for paper half that width. When the canvas ran out, he turned it over and printed the other side.
But it looks like a painting and acts like a painting, so even if the thing was made by a printer, it’s still an unusual enough type of work so as to not be a print. Installed on one wall of an enormous, chapel-like gallery at the Ludwig, for which it was custom-made, it is technically a two-dimensional sculpture printed on canvas to create the illusion of a painting.
But is it a painting? Is it a sculpture? Is it a print? Is it a…. zzzzZZZzzzz
Excuse me, I dozed off for a second there. My own critical preoccupations sometimes bore me to sleep.
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