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While at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to see the Antonio López García exhibition I also meandered into the Asian Art area and saw an exhibit about the Art of Sumo Wrestling Art. Most the images were woodblock prints. These two images (shown above) were my favorites. Especially the cute smile on the wrestler in the second image. Reminds kinda looks like a pale skinned friendly Incredible Hulk. If you want to see photos of real live sumo, by Frantisek Staud, click here. It’s well worth it.

Recently had the chance to catch up with an old classmate, Dana Woulfe, at RISD, where we both spoke to a class about illustration and design. Dana in involved with Project SF, an international artist collective featuring some great artists and designers. Check it out.

A few things about Jean Espezial: One: they’ve got a great looking new site (well, new to me, I haven’t checked in a while…but I think it’s actually legitimately new). The gallery is especially (or is it espezially…) cool, with some great filter-driven animated effects. Two: the new site has a bio section, which nicely explains that Jean Espezial is, in fact, a collective. You see, all along I’ve been under the impression that Jean Espezial was simply one prolific person, and I suppose it’s a bit a relief that it takes 7 people to produce so much great work. And this brings me to Three: there’s a ton of great stuff in the gallery. I’ve posted a few selections above, but take a little time and pick through everything.

We’ve been working a lot on this new desktop wallpaper illustration and planned to have it finished by today, but alas, it’s not quite there yet. Who new building an entire city would take so long? In the mean time we still have some great wallpaper tiles in our gallery.

Oh man, who doesn’t like antlers? we at Farmidable sure do.  What you see here is a new pattern in production; and, word to the wise, if you don’t like antlers: too bad.

Australian artist Viv Miller uses mixed media to for her natural/geometric paintngs. Check out her site to see some pretty amazing stuff.

Beautiful prints, illustrations, and design over at Steve Harrington’s website.

This is another prelim for Building Boxes. We’re poised to be releasing two new desktop wallpaper patterns in our gallery over the next two weeks. The first hopefully on Monday, 4/21, and the next pattern on Monday 4/28. Maybe we’ll make that a pattern. In the meantime we’ve got some great posts in the works and will do our best to post every day.

Really cool drawings and collages and such over at Sacred Mtn. Some of the work is reminiscent of collages and frottages by Max Ernst.

There’s this thing going on over at Kitsune Noir where cool desktop wallpapers by great artists are being given away for free. While this is far from an original concept (ahem…), it’s an initiative we at Farmidable are fully supportive of. Anyway, this desktop designed by Dan Funderburgh was just posted today. Dan has some great work involving repeating patterns and super-cool ornamentation of every-day or bellicose objects like vacuum cleaners and battle axes. Check out the largest versions and get a full-detail glimpse of the umbrella.

Here’s a sketch for a new desktop tile pattern that’s in the works called Building Boxes. We’ve got some others in the pipeline as well that we’ll be posting about soon. In the meantime check out our amazing pattern gallery.