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Alexander Medel Calderón is a Santiago based illustrator and designer who seems to have sprung out of nowhere! It feels like we’ve seen his work before, but can’t put our finger on when or where exactly. This might have something to do with the inherent familiarity that his work possesses in its style and subject matter. Reminiscent of bubble writing, primary school and everyone’s old favourite, Microsoft Word Art, we’ve been getting stuck in scroll holes that throw us back to a simpler time.

Don’t be fooled though. Alexander’s work may appear naive...

Michael Craig-Martin is an Irish contemporary conceptual artist and painter. Throughout the 60’s and 70’s he made conceptual art in various forms, maintaining an elegant restraint and conceptual clarity. He’s known for his very conceptual piece, An Oak Tree, and for fostering the Young British Artists. Today, he is revered for his painted works and line drawings of everyday objects in vivid, unexpected colour palettes. They excite us a lot.

Michael’s path to painting came in a round-about way. He studied it at art school in the 60’s, but stopped to make more sculptural installation works....

Jimmy Marble is a Los Angeles-based photographer making some wonderfully pop work. Multidisciplinary in his skill set, Jimmy’s roles include director, photographer, designer and muralist. His work has been featured by Vice, AdWeek, Vogue, Pitchfork, It’s Nice That… The names roll on. His client list is just as star-studded, having worked with the likes of Nike, Apple, The Standard Hotel, SXSW, Native Shoes and Orea to list a few.

Although he is well-known for his photographs now, Jimmy Marble hasn’t always juggled light and lenses. He started out as a commercial film director and...

Sometimes you stumble across work and just have to have a nice recline, exhale slowly and think to yourself, “thank you, lovely stranger, for sharing how you see the world through your crazy-talented-and-original eyeballs”. This happened most recently with Sydney Sie, a Taipei based photographer and graphic designer who’s flipping reality around with her her hyper-saturated, colourful aesthetic.

Sydney’s work is instantly arresting with colour use, then intriguing with subject matter. She explains, “I want my works to be bright but eerie, and include aspects of graphic that particularly interest me, such as colour. I...

Let’s take a moment to appreciate Helen Frankenthaler; the American abstract expressionist painter who helped found the Color Field movement, exhibited for over six decades and is regarded one of the great artists of the twentieth century.

Born in 1928 to a prosperous and progressive Manhattan family, Helen leapt into the art scene very early when she started mixing with the New York School of artists at the age of 22. Her gender and youth set her apart from her peers instantly, but this did not stop her from contributing to the male-dominated territory of the...