Tiny Titans: Glass Dinos of David White
Our obsession with dinosaurs has, in a way, made us dinosaur art snobs. If there was a ceiling on our high expectations, glass artist David White shattered it with his tiny glass dinosaur sculptures.
New Brand, New Merch
We did a brand refresh to fully embrace our love of all things retro, but still keeping it fresh. Just look at our new merch!
Brave Kids Art Club
The pandemic has brought many new challenges, and one of the biggest ones for us personally, is finding ways to entertain our kids that we feel good about –– read: less video games and mindless TV more educational or creative content.
AFE + The Young Writer's Program
Just recently our other baby, Artists for Education, collaborated with NaNoWriMo and created a poster to be included in their Young Writers Program kits they send out to teachers for free around the world! They provided the wonderful content and we designed the poster. If you are a teacher, download it for free to put up in your classroom! Or if you know a teacher who could use it, please support AFE and purchase one for them!NaNoWrimo is a non-profit who encourage, help and challenge writers to write an entire novel within the month of November.
Luna Display
From the folks that brought us Astropad, say hello to their latest product Luna Display. It is dongle that plugs into your Mini DisplayPort or USB-C on your Mac Desktop and connects it to your iPad wirelessly. Making your iPad a second monitor with incredible image quality. Which is amazing because it basically allows you to have a touch screen desktop laptop!
FAO Schwarz Rebrand
Some of you may remember the magical experience that was walking into an FAO Schwarz toy store as a kid. It was the toy store of dreams with the giant teddy bear and toy soldiers to greet you as you walked in, massive talking trees in the middle of the store, and so many other interactive experiences. After sadly closing down in 2016, the store is under new ownership who wants to turn things around. Starting with the branding.FAO Schwarz hired the amazing studio, Mattson Creative, to tackle the rebranding, and the results, of course, are mind-blowing.
Modern Tapestries by Hannah Waldron
It is always exciting to see how designers branch out of traditional media and experiment in something completely different. Multi-disciplinary artist and designer, Hannah Waldron, has enjoyed applying her design skills to weaving tapestries. Seeing such modern colors and patterns, coming together to tell stories in this medium is extremely refreshing.
Our New Online Texture Course is Live!
Finding the perfect texture for your next illustration or design project doesn't have to be such a struggle. You have everything you need to make your very own, custom textures from things you can find all around you! In this course we are going to find and create physical textures that we can then scan into the computer to make a range of different digital texture tools! So step away from the screen, get your hands dirty, and make some textures!
Brand Knights by Dexter Maurer
I am not sure of the context or motivation behind this project, but it is so much fun. So many clever things going on, and the illustrations are amazing. I thought you all would appreciate it too. Check out more work from illustrator Dexter Maurer!
Beauty in the Ignored: Paintings by Kate Jackson
It is easy to ignore or dismiss the somewhat mundane scenery around us everyday. Yet British singer and painter, Kate Jackson, takes those scenes and remakes them through her graphic, abstract paintings. Layering and stenciling acrylic paint, she breathes life into the ignored.