Korean artist Paper Blue (that’s all I could find out) has an amazing fantasy landscape style. Check out the work below.

Via Magazine13

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Hokusai’s extraordinary Great Wave art piece has become iconic and subsequently popularised to death! However, Levi’s did do a slightly different take with their 3D jeans poster advert.

If your memory needs a nudge, see the original below, along with another rendition with an eagle.

See more Hokusai Great Wave designs on Designer-Daily.com

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For the arty amongst our readers, have a go at painting this awesome red assassin following the steps outlined in the Pixel2Life blog.

Red Assassin Digital Painting Tutorial

See other painting tutorials at Pelfusion.com

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Zhu Li from China has some amazing, conceptual fantasy artwork. His pieces explore standard fantasy character fare such as warriors, sorcerors and others, though its not surprising to find an eastern touch to his work.

The Design Inspiration feature more of his work together with a short interview with Zhu Li.

Read more

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These art pieces by Korean artist Jin Young Yu seem part designer toy, part figure sculpture (what’s the difference?). But they’re all-amazing, giving a new perspective on potential designer toy releases. Reminds me of the Korean film Hansel and Gretel.

See more on the Union website

Via Josh Spear

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Legendary Japanese tattoo artist Horiyoshi has created a range of knitwear inspired by his full body tattoo designs.

Cross-industry creativity is a favourite area of ours and this is not only a different approach to tattoo art, but its less likely to hurt both on your body and your wallet!

Apparently, a full body tattoo from Horiyoshi costs about $20,000 and requires an hour of pain, once a week for two years!

The knitwear range includes classic Japanese woodblock images such as dragons, tigers, samurai and bamboo.

For more information, visit Horiyoshi-thethird.com

Via Style.com

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Some Bruce Lee related artwork at the Mai Hiro team’s Game of Death art show currently on at Dragatomi in Sacramento. The exhibition is on until 29th September, 2009 so get down there if you’re over in California nearby!

Dragatomi Grand Opening

Via Vinyl Pulse

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The Thailand-based Art from Steel tout a superb range of hand-crafted metal statues depicting characters from a range of well-known films and TV series.

Billing themselves as the world’s largest producer of hand-made recycled statues, their workshop boasts over 450 unique models with the larger ones requiring the talents of up to 12 skilled workmen!

Their list of source material includes Alien, Dr. Who, Gremlins, Gundam, Lord of the Rings, Predator, Robocop, Star Wars and Transformers.

Check out the Art from Steel website to see more…

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London’s Chinatown Art Space presents Piccadilly Revisited, a free outdoor film and live music performance which is part of the Thames Festival.

(Image via BFI Stills, Posters and Designs)

Piccadilly Revisited will take place on Saturday 12th September (2009) between 8.15pm – 10pm on the east-facing facade of the Royal Festival Hall.
About the performance

Piccadilly Revisited is a film and music performance inspired by the life and loves of Hollywood’s first Chinese film star, Anna May Wong, and the classic British silent movie Piccadilly (1929) in which she played a starring role.

Composers Suki Mok and Ruth Chan will perform their new contemporary score to the backdrop of an outdoor screening of the silent film, Piccadilly.

The score is based on a storyboard developed by co-writers Alice Lee and David Tse Ka-Shing.

Wong is the only Asian-American actress with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. She worked with Dietrich and Olivier, graced the pages of Vogue, Tatler and Vanity Fair, and the song These Foolish Things was written for her. She has experienced a renaissance in recent years, and Chinatown Arts Space is delighted to celebrate her achievements in Piccadilly, her seminal film directed by E.A. Dupont.

“Bold, beautifully crafted…one of the truly great films of the silent era”
Martin Scorsese

The performance on 12th September is the first work-in-progress showing of a cross-artform production to be completed next year, which will incorporate dance, drama and video against a backdrop of the original silent movie.

The completed work will explore the contradictions of Anna May Wong’s life, the impact of the stereotyped ‘orientalist’ roles on offer, and liberate Anna May Wong’s spirit through the intervention of a team of British East Asian artists. Contemporary sensibilities will bring a fresh, vibrant interpretation to the film and her life. Like a Chinese ‘hungry ghost’ coming back to right a wrong, these modern mediums will exorcise her demons and satisfy all appetites.

For more information and to join the CAS mailing list, please visit: www.chinatownartsspace.com

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We spent a day at the Design Festa in Tokyo last May. It’s an amazing arts event full of lots of independent artists!

We covered alot of the Design Festa over 5 posts on our other blog MangoVine.net, which you can check out via the links below. The event happens every May and November and its worth timing a trip to Tokyo especially for it, if you’re interested in creativity!

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Personal Creativity at its Finest!

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Linh’s Big Hair

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Amazing Variety of Artist Work

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Performers and Entertainment

Design Festa at Tokyo Big Sight – Amazing Cardboard City Model

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