Art

Bacon and eggs, cookies and milk, peanut butter and jelly — these are some of the food combinations that we've grown up with and love together. David Schwen has taken these and has recreated paired Pantone colour swatches — the standard language for colour communication — with commonly paired food items. A Minneapolis-based illustrator and art director, Schwen first had the idea of making Pantone chips out of real household objects, such as sponges, cardboard, and the like.

This is one of the best things we’ve seen in a while, and takes street art to another dimension. Created by artist (and designer) INSA, it’s a reflection of how the Internet has made street art so much more accessible. Yes, there is plenty of impressive street art in cities around the world, but a lot of them we wouldn’t usually get to see in person, and heck, some of it isn’t that unusual. This is where GIF-iti comes in. Not only does it bring worldwide art to your computer screen, seeing it that way actually makes it better.

The New York City Ballet introduces 'an unexpected way to experience a night at the ballet' with the NYCB Art Series, commissioning contemporary artists to create original work of art inspired by the Company's dancers and ballets.

With an interest in creating a dialogue to break the mould and represent all genders equally, Vancouver artist, Sarita Mann has designed non-traditional Valentine's cards. Mann's cards portray her own illustrations, and in this case, for her lesbian and gay Valentine's cards she has shown only the bottom half of the couple where you can only see their legs and feet.

If you're in Toronto this weekend, may we suggest you check out the Gladstone Hotel's 10th annual alternative design event, Come Up To My Room, featuring 25 installations and 40 artists.

Thanks to design blog, Abduzeedo, we're reminded of all the brands we loved when growing up. From old pop bottles to items we had included in our 'breakfast of champions' - remember Quik? It's nice to remember these vintage designs with their retro branding and typography and compare them to the evolved packaging that we see today.

Google’s ‘Street View’ may be useful at times, but the argument that it invades our privacy, especially those accidentally captured walking their dog, is forever valid. We prefer the “street ghosts” version by NYC based, Italian multimedia artist Paolo Cirio. Cirio has taken those blurred individuals, blown up their images into life-size posters and placed them around New York, London and Berlin, in exactly the same place they were captured by Google, turning them into graffiti street art.