That’s right! Keg art! Pacifico had a great idea to go to some major cities across the USA to promote and party and make some art in what they call “Adventures on Tap”. Starting in Pheonix, AZ, they stop in each city for a couple days to tour around with an artist to get a feel of the locale and then commemorate that trip on the side of a Keg. I can’t wait to see what the final results are, as the current kegs are looking great. This is a wonderful example of a company promoting art while still marketing themselves in a unique and creative manner. Hopefully, more companies will take notice and we will see a rise in art done NOT for a company, but because of it. Take a look at some of the great results and artists:

As always, I find that the greatest images to look at are those that give an idea of the process. A look at the studio during one of Keyes’ recent shows, gives you an idea of the process that he uses. A simple, yet well-worked sketch on the wall shows that the idea is well worked out and that it really could stand on it’s own, but the artist has different ideas on size and structure. It’s something I could always learn!

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, so please enjoy some of these free typefaces I have collected over the last few months! Some great stuff, perfect for all sorts of design.

Kenn creates worlds of monsters and children on yellow post-it notes that Kenn describes as “a little window into a different world, made on office supplies.” The whimsy, and personality of these monsters is reminiscent of “Where the Wild Things Are” or the images of a Shel Silverstein poem. It is great how these images invoke feelings, especially in their small, compact style. The detail is amazing, as is the variations between each of these Post Its. What is really telling, is the talent of Kenn, who can use something so confining to create something so expansive. There is a world that invades around the outside of the Post It that you can’t see, yet you know it is there, just waiting for it to be discovered!

The idea was that the naive painting of children’s art can be used to understand the nature of creativity. To be creative meant to return to a primordial nature — the implicit goal was to be as creative as nature. It meant the recovery of primordial human nature from its social structure, which is what children’s art was thought to accomplish, as children do not have ideas of what society determines to be right and wrong. Here is where Korean artist Yeondoo Jung would agree, and he takes it a step further.

In 2005, Jung looked at over 1000 pieces of art done by Korean students and children, and then tried to recreate those that he found to be interesting (and doable) in photography. The result is stunning. I think it really gives inspiration to anyone who looks at it, and shows that the spark of genius doesn’t have to be thought of as static and set. These kids all have a great sense of creativity, even if their work is overlooked. Maybe it will take someone like Jung to call attention to it, and (perhaps) to get us all to try to take a mental step backward and create those artistic pieces we seem to have lost when we “grew up”. Here’s to staying young!

What some of you may know is that I have always loved photo-realistic paintings, especially those of Chuck Close (although those done by him in his later life are even more stunning to me), so it comes as no surprise that this artwork came across my eye. I have great trouble creating anything remotely resembling something “realistic”, so it may just be that I have an admiration for what I can’t do. Whatever it is, take a look at some of this work!