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Marion Fayolle’s Whimsically Erotic Comic Illustrations
French illustrator Marion Fayolle‘s illustrations are light-heartedly simple and provocative. Maria Popova appropriately compares Fayolle’s aesthetic to Codex Seraphinianus, Gregory Blackstock’s...
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Alaina Varrone Skillfully Embroiders Bawdy And Playful Tableaus
Alaina Varrone‘s embroidery is bawdy, playful, and especially considering thread is the medium, astonishingly technical. Each piece of Varrone’s tells an absurd, humorous, and/or eroticized story. She...
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Miguel Chevalier’s Interactive Magic Carpets
You may remember when we first featured French artist Miguel Chevalier’s work back in September for his Paris construction tunnel light installation and musical collaboration with Michel Redolfi....
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Andreas Franke’s Haunting And Surreal Series Imagines Underwater Shipwrecks...
Austrian photographer and diver Andreas Franke has created a hauntingly beautiful series of images called “The Sinking World” in which he layers studio photographs over underwater ship wrecks. In...
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Artist’s Digitally Enhanced Photographs Look Like Expressionist Paintings
Japanese art photographer FUKE P-San transforms his photographs into emotional experiences by applying expressive color palettes. In FUKE’s photographs, color and light becomes the subject of the...
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Women From Iconic Paintings Replaced With Webcam Girls
Camgirlsproject was created by former fashion student Vanessa Omoregie who began the ongoing series about a year ago. The project seeks to investigate the female image within the context of the...
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Aliza Razell’s Mythological and Emotional Watercolored Photography
Massachusetts-based visual artist Aliza Razell combines photography and watercolor painting in her series of self-portraits that feature splashes and spills of color. Razell uses watercolors to...
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Mika Aoki’s Blown Glass Sculptures Look Like Biological Specimens
Japanese artist Mika Aoki creates intricate glass sculptures inspired by natural forms, creating new, clear, alien-like worlds. Aoki’s glasswork resembles biological specimens and systems. Her...
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Inka Mathew Matches Tiny Found Objects to Pantone Color Chips
Designer Inka Mathew has created an ongoing project of matching tiny objects to Pantone colors, then photographing her matches with the color chips used as backgrounds to the found object. Dubbed...
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Walter Potter’s Curious Victorian Taxidermy
In 1850, Walter Potter was 15 years old when he first began experimenting with taxidermy. By the age of 19, Potter had already created his best-known taxidermy tableaux, “The Death and Burial of Cock...
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Richard Balzer’s 19th Century Optical Toy Gifs
Forty years ago, Richard “Dick” Balzer saw his very first magic lantern – an early image projector invented in the 1600s. This encounter would prove to be the start of an intense preoccupation with...
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Ralph Steadman’s Rare Illustrations Of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”
A long-time fan of Ralph Steadman, I still encounter works of his that have somehow missed my radar. Published in 1995, a special edition of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” (currently out of print)...
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James Franco’s Name Brand Celebrity Status Continues To Result In Gallery Shows
A couple of weeks ago, we posted James Franco’s self-portraiture imitating Cindy Sherman’s 1970s student project photographs in which she impersonates the roles of iconic women in film; these...
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Federico Uribe Sculpts Colorful Worlds Using Colored Pencils, Shoes And More
Colombian-born, Miami-based artist Federico Uribe creates illustrations and sculptures using conceptual pop art language and everyday objects. Uribe integrates these objects into his canvases,...
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Have Fun With Sougwen Chung’s Interactive Animated Font
Born in Canada, raised in the Chinese tradition, and based in New York, interdisciplinary artist Sougwen Chung has created an interactive, animated font called Kinecdysis that you can experience...
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Travis Bedel’s Collages Seamlessly Blend Human Anatomy With Botanical Imagery
Mixed media artist Travis Bedel, also known as bedelgeuse, seamlessly blends vintage anatomical illustrations with botanical or other biological images to create stunning collages that range...
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Rachel Sussman Photographs The Oldest Living Organisms In The World
Nearly 10 years ago, photographer Rachel Sussman began researching with biologists and traveling world to document forms of natural life that are at least 2,000 years old for her project titled “The...
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Allen Crawford’s Gorgeously Illustrated Version Of Walt Whitman’s “Song Of...
Designer and illustrator Allen Crawford has just released a beautifully illustrated and hand-lettered book version of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” an iconic poem included in the collection, Leaves...
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Crafty Crows Build Nests Out of Stolen Coat Hangers
Here at Beautiful/Decay, we don’t limit our features to art and design created by the human species. In large cities like Tokyo where there are few trees, birds may find it hard to come by nesting...
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Rose-Lynn Fisher’s Microscopic Landscapes Made Out Of Tears
Onion tears Basal tears Tears of change Rose-Lynn Fisher - whose anatomical bee photographs we have previously featured - has recently completed a series of images she calls “The Topography of Tears”...
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