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Will 3D Printing Change the World? | PBS | Offbook

PBS Offbook asks “Will 3D Printing change the world? Much attention has been paid to 3D Printing lately, with new companies developing cheaper and more efficient consumer models that have wowed the tech community. They herald 3D Printing as a revolutionary and disruptive technology, but how will these printers truly affect our society? Beyond an […]

DAF Giveaway: English Graphic by Tom Lubbock (1958-2011)

This month, DAF is pleased to be giving away a copy of the newly released book English Graphic by Tom Lubbock (1958-2011) English Graphic is a collection of essays on the subject of illustration, focusing entirely on English artists using “graphic media”: drawings, prints and watercolors. The pieces are largely drawn from Tom Lubbock’s weekly […]

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 179

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of contemporary art and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature the work of Lisa Occhipinti, Aaron Kinnane, Claudio Fuente, Diane Cooper, Henrik Uldalen, Michal Lukasiewi, Crystal Wagner, and Felipe […]

Pat Perry: Illustration

Pat Perry is an artist and illustrator born in the Detroit area and now calls Grand Rapids, Michigan home. The lands of the north, colorful people, music, and the ordinary streets of the Midwest have always moved him. In between showing his art from coast to coast or working with an assortment of clients, Pat […]

Valentina Brostean: Mixed Media

Born in 1983 in Novi Sad, Serbia,  Valentina Brostean has a BFA (graphic design and illustration)  and an MFA (painting, digital painting, illustration) from the Academy of Arts Novi Sad. “I have always had an eye for the strange beauty in the grotesqueries of life; this appreciation is now very evident in work that I […]

Annie Owens: Illustration

Annie Owens is a native of California’s Bay Area and is currently living in Albany as the co-founder of Hi-Fructose magazine. She’s shown in various gallery group exhibits over the last three years with her first solo show last May. Her work is Primarily rendered in watercolors and ink on paper. Her figurative paintings depict […]

Bethany Marchman: Painting

Born in 1974 in Winter Park, Florida, Bethany Marchman studied at Columbus College of Art and Design and the University of Georgia. Marchman worked in Atlanta as an illustrator and storyboard artist until recently when she  decided to focus solely on painting. “Using traditional oils to create parallels between innocence and influence/ history and popular […]

Heidi Taillefer: Creative Fusion

Born in Montreal, Canada, Heidi Taillefer began drawing at the age of 3, and was brought up in a family rich in creative talent. Always attracted to the bizarre and unusual, she was fascinated by strange animal specimens and haunting turn of the century side show oddities. As a child she continued her pursuit with […]

TED Talks: Sunni Brown – Doodlers Unite!

Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension — and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we’re caught doodling in a meeting?  Sunni Brown, co-author of Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.

Jylian Gustlin: Painting

Jylian Gustlin is a native Californian and grew up in the San Francisco bay area. She has been shaped by the technology explosion of Silicon Valley and her art reflects her in-depth knowledge of that technology. “I knew that if I finished, I would never make art” is how Gustlin explains leaving college one semester […]

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 161

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature Josh Keyes, Magdalena Abakanowicz, John Richter, Etam, Eva Funderburgh, Don Yeomans, Chiharu Shiota, Carlos Delgado and a video from Google Arts & Culture – Kids Explain […]

Dao Hai Phong: Painting

Dao Hai Phong was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1965 and is the son of well known film artist Dao Duc Phong.  He graduated from the film design department of the Hanoi College of Film and Theater in 1987 and from 1992 onward, has devoted himself to painting. Painting mainly in oils on canvas, Phong’s […]

Iain Mcarthur: Drawing

Born in 1986 in Swindon, England, Iain Mcarthur became an art fanatic at the age of eight. Inspired by cartoon shows and comic books, he began creating odd fantasy drawings and and anime characters.  As he grew older, he began drawing realistic figures and faces, influenced by artists such as Mucha, Klimt, Lucian Freud, Jenny […]

David Ball: Harum Scarum @ Minna Gallery

San Francisco based  artist David Ball is exhibiting a collection of 20 collage/mixed media works in the group exhibition “Harum Scarum” at Minna Gallery in San Francisco.  “In this latest series Ball celebrates color and character through vibrant layers of acrylic paint, colored pencil and collage that unite to form otherworldly scenes of mythical creatures […]

DALeast: Powder of Light @ Jonathan Levine Gallery

DALeast (featured) was born in 1984 in China and is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began making art in public spaces in 2004. His murals can be found in cities around the world. His latest exhibition “Powder of Light currently on at Jonathan Levine […]