Hand-drawn fonts on Flickr

www.flickr.com/photos/brettisagirl

www.flickr.com/photos/36106576@N05

www.flickr.com/photos/nadjalossgott

www.flickr.com/photos/osmangranda

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Arturo Mosquera, or ▲*, is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Vigo, Spain. His illustrative works are mostly of young women, dark and mysterious. See his flickr or website for more.

Five Etsy Artists on Anthropomorphism

MATTY8080 www.MATTY8080.etsy.com

Frankenkitty www.Frankenkitty.etsy.com

Sarah Ogren www.sarahogren.etsy.com

Berkley Illustration www.berkleyillustration.etsy.com

Skelatal Dropkick www.skeletaldropkick.etsy.com

Nick Morley

Nick Morley is an artist and illustrator working in London whose wryly humorous take on the human condition manifests itself through drawings, prints, books and interactive works.

The major themes running through Nick’s personal work are masculinity, heroism, human achievement and man’s efforts to leave his mark on the world. The subjects usually found in these themes include hunters, wrestlers and bearded men. Shown below are some of his artists books. Including his new book Man and Beast, featuring drawings of men and animals. As well as Man Book, a book of drawings of hunters, wrestlers and men with enormous cabbages!

You can find out more about Nick’s artwork on his website or purchase his books, prints and inspirational buttons through his Etsy shop.

Lindsay Keating-Moore of KM Stitchery

Lindsay is an artist from Minneapolis who makes hand-stenciled shirts of women revolutionaries. About her work she says: “I think it’s important to recognize, acknowledge and admire women who have fought for women’s rights and who have broken through gender barriers. And clothing is a great way to spread the message of feminism. I am sick of seeing male revolutionaries revered and plastered on t-shirts, but not hearing much about female revolutionaries!”

Currently she has made shirts of the following women: Kathleen Hanna, Gloria E. Anzaldua, Alice Paul, Emma Goldman, Angela Davis, Frida Kahlo, Audre Lorde, Victoria Woodhull, Bella Abzug, Gertrude Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gloria Steinem/Dorothy Pitman Hughes, bell hooks, Lucy Stone, and Susan B Anthony.

To see more of her work or to buy a shirt go to her Etsy Store: www.kmstitchery.etsy.com

The Embroidery Work of Takashi Iwasaki

Takashi Iwasaki is a Winnipeg based artist that works in many mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, collage and embroidery. He also creates abstract works of art that he refers to as “abbies.” I am personally very drawn to his embroidery works and his use of color and pattern.

He also runs the Semai Gallery in Winniepeg.

I hope you enjoy his work as much as I do. To see the rest of Takashi Iwasaki’s work and for more information about Semai Gallery you can go to www.takashiiwasaki.info.

Danny Mansmith

I first discovered Danny Mansmith on my way to eat breakfast at a little restaurant in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. On Damen Avenue there are all these great little shops that are half underground, the front windows peeking above the street. One of these windows is elaborately decorated in all kinds of sewn items: clothing, neck pieces, decorative sewn shapes. They all have a very distinctive style: lots of random fabrics, quilting, sewn details, buttons, asymmetrical details, large statement pieces. There is an elegance to the randomness and you can tell that Danny really knows how to use fabric and shape, and also that he has a wild imagination.

You can see all of his work on his website, including his marker drawings, sculpture, and papercuts.

*UPDATE* Danny just informed me that he is soon moving from his space on Damen and will continue to create from home, so stop by to see his place while you can!

Tara Donovan

Okay, so Tara Donovan is not exactly an emerging artist… In fact she is quite established, but her work is amazing. And having recently revisited some of her sculptures I decided to share her anyway for those of you who may not know about her. I first found out about Donovan in Sculpture Magazine {the Dec. 05 issue}. Sculpture is a great publication put out by the International Sculpture Center, and if you become a member you get discounts on their periodicals, tools, supplies and services {which can include foundries, sculpting tool suppliers and more!}

So as an excited undergrad I first found her work in this magazine and was totally entranced by how stunning it was. {I’m sure you’ll agree…} Donovan uses everyday manufactured materials in her work like drinking straws, styrofoam cups and scotch tape, to create her large scale biomorphic sculptures.

She is represented by Pace Wildenstein, New York and by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Donovan is the recipient of the first Calder prize in 2005 and was a MacArthur Fellow in 2008.

Enjoy!

Kelly McGovern

Artist Kelly McGovern is a talented sculptor currently working towards her BFA at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA. She is majoring in 3-D Fine Arts and I am happy to have stumbled upon her work! While she holds a variety of skills under her belt, from jewelry smithing to installation, I was most intrigued by her paper sculptures, shown below. You can find more information about Kelly on her Artslant page. She just exhibited at DC’s Artomatic and is definitely someone I’d recommend keeping an eye on!

Christopher Taylor Timberlake

Christopher is a jewelry crasftsman who makes fine art jewelry using a variety of techniques including the lost wax method, cuttlefish casting, and mokumé gane. Because both of his parents are scientists—and his father an amateur fossil hunter—he had interests in fossils, gemstones, and metals early on. His jewelry “is inspired by the natural world and a scientist’s understanding of it. I look to both geology and biology for charts, graphs, and maps of this world around us. I look to the skyline of the city, to animal vertebrae, and to the bone of a cephalapod.”

To see more of his work you can go to his website to order a custom piece or buy something off of his Etsy site.