A Monday lesson in balancing competing design idioms: Graphic designer Cristiana Couceiro's work neatly pulls off looking slick and grunge at the same time.

See more of Cristiana's work at her Flickr photostream. (via ISO50)

DISTRUCTURE I

FREE STATE II

Using only a scalpel Galpin intricately scores and peels away the emulsion from the surface of the photograph to produce a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collaging, or additions of any kind - each delicate work is a unique piece made entirely by the erasure of photographic information.

Via Data is Nature.

I find that Chris Kenny's work explains something to me about my personal psychology. In fact, I sort of find his work a kind of therapy for the procedural mindset that's underwritten so much art in this decade. For me, it indicates contemporary resonances from that great period in American intellectual history where being an intellectual involved being a naturalist: drawing, creating taxonomies, etc. From his gallery:

Chris Kenny's three-dimensional "drawings" and collage-constructions are made from fragments of maps, strips of found text, or even twigs: objects or phrases of the same type are mounted on pins and organized in a way that suggests an intention to rationalize the differences between them.

Chris Kenny: 100 Drawings (2001)

Chris Kenny: Map Drawing (2004)

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