Nicole Dextras is an environmental artist working in a multitude of media including sculpture, interactive public installation and photography. She graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art in Vancouver, Canada, where she also has been working as a sessional teacher for the past 8 years. A part from teaching she has created art installations in as diverse places as Mongolia, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Dawson City YT and Bellevue WA. She has been awarded both Canada Council and BC Arts Council grants and her work has been published in numerous publications such as ELLE Canada and My Green City, published by Gestalten, Berlin. Yes, sir!

Dutch Scarlett Hooft Graafland graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in Hague in 1999. She then completed postgraduate studies in Belzalel, Jerusalem and a Master’s in sculpture at Parsons, New York. But, what really has caught the world’s eyes are not her sculptures but her photographs. Graafland is fascinated by remote, unusual and sometimes even inhospitable locations which she documents with her analogue camera. She then prints them straight from the negative and never uses Photoshop. Some places she has gone are Salar de Uyunu in the Bolivian Andes, the largest salt desert in the world and the Arctic plains of northern Canada where she travelled with the Inuit across the sea ice of Igloolik. She has also taken photographs of Southern China and the lava fields of Iceland.

When do you know you have really made it as an artist? It might be when you have solo exhibitions running in San Francisco, London, Singapore, Auckland and Melbourne at the same time. This is the case of Niels Shoe Meulman, a Dutch calligrapher, graffiti writer and graphic designer who has successfully made the transition from street to High Street. Read more…

Lola Dupré is a artist and illustrator currently working near Avignon in the south of France. Using paper, scissors and glue she disassembles and assembles photographs into meticulously, contoured mosaic-like collages. Wow wow wow!

Based in Lawrence, Kansas, 25-year-old photographer and video director Niel Krug has already made a great reputation for himself. His work often touches on a rough, vintage, psychedelic feel as he talently captures the simple beauty of
landscapes as well as the female form. Over the years he has collaborated with bands such as My Chemical Romance, Ratatat, Devendra Banhart, Ladytron, The Horrors and First Aid Kit among others. What you see up here though are three photographs from his series ‘Children of the Light’. Yummy!

Danish bicycle brand Sögreni build all their bikes by hand and adjust them to perfection. Therefore, a Sögreni bicycle is not only an effective means of transportation, but considered an object of contemporary art. The careful assembling is done by three people in the Sögreni workshop in the centre Copenhagen and every customer is offered tailormade adjustments to satisfy personal needs and riding style. The bikes also come with a 25-year frame warrenty to make sure your can ride your baby for a long time!

Isabel Martinez photography is a reflexion of different aspects of human experience. Perception is a recurring theme within her practice. She approaches the medium as a means of visual transcription for ideas reflecting come to the forefront of much of her work.

Jaume Osman Granda is a graphic designer, illustrator and web designer from Vilanova i la Geltrú, a small town near Barcelona, Spain. After he had completed his studies in multimedia programming he started working as a web designer and was later hired by Gominola as a flash programmer. After a couple of years he moved onto motion and started working for the Multipase studio, specialized in designing visuals for dance clubs. Further down the road, he started to work for the Barcelona-based studio Pornographics, where he spent two more years doing a little bit of everything, until he got tired of Barcelona and went back to his home town where he keeps on delivering amazing designs.

‘Papier’ is a collection of bags made of paper. Yes, let me repeat; paper! The designers behind it is a married couple from Germany, Stefan Diez, furniture designer, and Saskia Diez who makes beautiful jewellery. When making their collection they began with pointing out the basic requirements of a travel bag – durability, protection and light weight – and sought for an appropriate material other than the traditional choices of leather and reinforced textiles. They found Tyvek®, a synthetic paper that is super light but at the same time extremely robust. In addition it’s also waterproof, tearproof and 100% recyclable. Boy, do I want one!

The first time I saw one of Kelly Allen’s creations I was sure I was looking at a collage. It contained, in no particular order, brown pears, a roaring tiger, vibrant colourful objects, plants, tiny bees and red shiny Christmas balls. No wonder I was blown away when I realized I was looking at a painting made with acrylic on laser cut steel. Read more…

David Cook is a self-taught artist from Luisville, Kentucky who is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His most recent artistic development is the integration of colour, something quite amazing considering that he is colourblind. What you see up here are three happy drawings from his latest series that he made for a show at the White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. They are based around the ideas of sex, violence, love and giant snakes that turn into rainbow boners.

Ahn Sun Mi is a young Korean photographer who lives and works in Paris. Through her self portraits she invites the viewer to her private universe where the bounderies between dream and reality are difficult to find. Slightly surrealistic, very much imaginative and completely delicious.