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These Miniature Toy Installations Bring the Streets to Life

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London-based artist Slinkachu has been taking over the streets with his miniature toy installations since 2006. In getting a look at his more recent work, we find Slinkachu often times tackling various environmental and political issues with his artwork.

Slinkachu uses everyday backdrops and street components to set the scene for his particular pieces, ranging from a leaf used as a wall for graffiti, to a painted line on the road meant to represent a sandy beach, or even weeds growing from cement cracks to mimic a forest.

Agnes Martin Monograph

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Agnes Martin seems to be having a well-deserved moment in the sun with a retrospective at the Tate Modern, which runs until October 11th before heading to Dusseldorf, Los Angeles and New York. To coincide with the exhibition, the renowned London-based art museum has released a definitive monograph, featuring early works, Martin's striped and gridded paintings, and a series of her final pieces. The publication also includes a selection of drawings, watercolours and critical essays, creating a wonderful overview of one of 20th century art’s most enduring icons, as well as a testament to a strong female figure who made a name for herself in the veritable boy’s club of minimalism. Agnes Martin Monograph

Krink K-80 Permanent Paint Stick

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Krink has released its K-80 Permanent Paint Stick for your inner artist. Able to write on rough or smooth surfaces and under wet, oily, dry or even underwater conditions, the K-80 is a solid stick of opaque paint housed in a durable barrel for clean transportation and easy handling. Also, the longevity of your artwork is assured as colors do not run, fade, peel, chip, or rub off. The K-80 is available in red, yellow, blue, white and black

Emoji-nation by Nastya Nudnik

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Ukrainian artist Nastya Nudnik presents his latest work, Emoji-nation, expanding on the usage of emojis to express our feelings. Featured in the work are computer elements contrasted against and incorporated into modern life and the historical fine arts.

Rodney Graham Collected Works

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Rodney Graham is one of Vancouver's most acclaimed contemporary artists and until October his work will be exhibited at three galleries around the city. The Rennie Collection at Wing Sang is the centre point for the interrelated shows, housing 'Rodney Graham Collected Works' which explores his ideas about art in modern mass communication through a variety of mediums.

Rennie Collection at Wing Sang
51 East Pender Street
Vancouver, BC V6A 1S9
May 31 – October 4, 2014

Super Hero Ice Cream Illustrations by Chung Kong

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Netherlands-based creative director Chung Kong presents a fun poster series that combines his impressive design skill with his apparent penchant for comic book superheroes. For his ‘My Super Hero Ice Cream Series‘ he turned your favorite comic book character, such as Iron Man, Batman, Hell Boy, The Incredible Hulk or Captain America into tasty frozen treats.

"Football Invisibles" by Mark Yesilevskiy

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Graphic designer Mark Yesilevskiy has always been passionate about the beautiful game of football and to celebrate that passion, he’s produced this “Football Invisibles” project. Celebrating some of the more iconic football kits from around the world, Yesilevskiy has created pieces that not only celebrate these uniforms, but also keep the focus solely on them, rather than the sometimes oversized personalities that wear them. To do so, the graphic designer decided to completely omit the players and instead used a “ghost” technique which gives the uniforms a sense of life and motion. With kits like the ’94 Manchester United home, ’98 World Cup winning France home, and the ’94 United States men’s national team included in the project, it’s worth checking out if you have love for the beautiful game. The prints can also be purchased here.

'ABC' Book by Damien Hirst

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English superstar artist Damien Hirst is getting ready to release a new book. Simply entitled ABC ($17), the illustrated alphabet book allows you to discover Damien Hirst’s paintings, sculptures and much more from A to Z.

“Hirst’s body of work addresses the scientific, philosophical and religious issues which lie at the heart of human existence. Produced with child friendly ‘soya bean ink’, this publication is fun for all the family and acts as an introduction to Hirst’s work.

ABC is a new colourful way to look and learn about the English alphabet. Each of the twenty-six carefully selected images span Hirst’s career, representing his iconic imagery. It is also a window into typography, each letter represents an alphabetically led font, A is for Albertus, B is for Baskerville.”

LEGO Microscope by Carl Meriam

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LEGO artist Carl Meriam has built a fully-working microscope entirely out of LEGO bricks. He was particularly inspired by the now discontinued LEGO X-Pod sets, realizing that the pods resemble a very deep Petri dish.

While trying to find a use for the pod itself, I realized that it was very close to a deep petri dish. I used a planetary gear system to allow both coarse and fine adjustment of the objective “lens.” A little more tinkering and I connected the focus to a magnifying glass and fiber optic light in the eyepiece, so adjusting the focus knobs would actually bring the writing on a LEGO stud in and out of focus.

Laser-Cut Wooden Records by Amanda Ghassaei

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Designer Amanda Ghassaei has unveiled these incredible looking laser-cut wooden records that also happen to be functional. Using a 1200dpi precision laser, Ghassaei has rendered music sound bytes from digital audio albeit with diminished quality. Check out the video below for a quick look at how these records are made as well as what they sound like. If you’d like to know more about her records, check out Ghassaei’s site.