Crate Man Craze

The artist or artists who created Lego-looking Crate Man are unknown, but they have been appearing around the world since 2006. Most of the time they are seen in various cities in Australia, but some Crate Men have made appearances in South Africa. He has been found climbing walls, sitting on balconies, and even under trees with signs that read "It's been whey too long! It's crate to be back. Crateman."

During the World Cup, Coca Cola installed its own 54 foot Crate Man, made of 2,500 Coke bottle crates, at Cape town at an harbor (photograph on the right).

CrateMen

Cate Parr

Cate Parr is a fashion Illustrator from England who now lives in California. She uses watercolor to "capture the ethereal, fleeting and vulnerable qualities of fashion imagery" (www.thecoolhunter.net). The use of darker hues mixed with softer colors forces the viewers to pause and study the piece in more depth. Her ability to grab attention with a few brushstrokes makes her a valuable artist in the fashion industry. Some of her clients include Material Girl Cosmetics and Dickies and Dickies Girl.

Cate Parr

Liam Brazier

Liam Brazier is a thirty year old UK animator and illustrator who has been taking superheroes and using angular shapes to recreate them. Instead of using the vector tools in Adobe Illustrator, he uses the polygonal tool in Photoshop then fills them in with color. His artwork displayed at Apple, Samsung, the Museum of London, and several other sites.

Liam Brazier 

Makoto Tojiki

Makoto Tojiki is a Japanese artist and designer who experiments with light as his medium. He takes the images he manipulates from light and shadow and from jewelry that reflects light such as diamonds. Once of his clients is Hermes. For his "No Shadow" exhibit, he uses small LED lights hanging from threads.

Makoto Tojiki

Guy Laramee

Guy Laramee is a thirty year old Canadian sculptor, stage writer, director, painter, writer, and composer. He recycles several old, encyclopedias placed together and carves the surfaces with drills to create landscapes. His works represents the declining of human culture. He chooses old books based on the appearance of the book cover color. He also believes that knowledge is "gained by erosion, not accumulation."  

"Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are."

Guy Laramee

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter is an English author and illustrator. Like the paintings and sketches of the Peter Rabbit above, her artwork focused mainly on mice, rabbits, kittens, and other small animals. To make the subjects unique, she placed them in settings British clothing (Peter's blue jacket) and country landscape. Potter's artwork stands out through her curvilinear use of line and soft color scheme. I enjoy the whimsical effect the two elements create.

Beatrix Potter

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