Street Anatomy

Anatomic Fashion Friday: Ransom City

Here is a stellar shirt design from Nossa, the shirt explanations is as follows: ”Kidnapping for ransom is big business in Brazil. In Sao Paulo, someone is kidnapped every three days on average.” That is a very scary thought, to say the least.

The black shirt is printed with phosphorus based ink that glows under a black-light, so you don’t get lost in the club.

Get em for $30 over at Nossa.

Brian Morris

You’ve seen some of his work here before, but here is some more excellency from Brian Morris.

[via vinylpulse]

The Ringing Bell

Illustrator and designer Christopher Koelle was the artist behind The Ringing Bell, a  96-page book for Derek Webb’s album of the same name. This piece from that series stood out to me in particular, most definitely because of the heart. Simple. Beautiful. Awesome. You can see more of that series and other work at Christopher’s site.

Breathing Nature

Breathing Nature

Breathing Nature detail

Dead Tree Nurturing New Life

Fresh work from Ryan Gerdes, a talented graphic designer and street artist studying at Linfield College in Oregon.  These large pieces were recently on display in the student gallery at Linfield.

Here are two other examples of Ryan’s anatomical work.  Hope to see more in the future!

Marc Quinn

I may be late to discover this, but it’s pretty amazing and I thought I would share for first time viewers like myself.

Marc Quinn is a British sculpture artist, most famous for his own sculpted portrait titled Self (1991). Self is ”a frozen sculpture of the artist’s head made from 4.5 litres (9.5 US pints) of his own blood, taken from his body over a period of 5 months.” It is kept and displayed in a refrigerated case and was sold to a US collector in 2005 for £1.5m.

“Quinn has also made a series of marble sculptures of people either born with limbs missing or who have had them amputated. This culminated in the 15 ton marble statue of Alison Lapper, a woman who was born with no arms and severely shortened legs”

The statue was on display in Trafalgar Square in London, but has since been moved.

Here is his personal site, for the ever curious: www.marcquinn.com