Jason Evans is from Wales. His work always feels
insightful and spontaneous.

These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration,
are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the
Depression on American rural and small town populations. The FSA
was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.
Photographers and writers were hired to report and document the plight
of poor farmers. Their aim was to introduce America to Americans.
Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered
by the FSA project. Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks
were three of the most famous.

(Thanks to MG)

Using simple materials like foam, paper and glue, Ben Bunch
makes sculptures of real and imaginary technological devices.

‘…That modern art rubbish, my 8 year old kid could
do better than that.’ It’s worth noting these are large
scale drawings, often more than 8ft tall.

Alain de Botton on An Ethical Advertising Campaign

Advertising has a bad name in society, because it’s associated 
with selling us things we don’t really need: chocolate, 4 x 4 cars,
diamond rings. We may appreciate the artistry, intelligence and 
wit that’s often found in adverts – we’ve just got problems with 
what goods are being sold.

So imagine a different way of using advertising: one that would 
use the aesthetic talents of advertising but direct these to a really
grand and noble project: that of nudging us to be the best of 
ourselves. Imagine an ethical advertising campaign that wanted 
to promote virtues of character applicable and relevant to our 
own lives, virtues like kindness, patience, humility, generosity, 
courage and humour. Read more here

This is always a lot of fun and you never know who
you might find on there.

Vivian Maier died in 2009 and her work of Chicago would
have remained unseen unless an amateur historian stumbled
across thousands of her negatives in a Chicago auction.

A contemporary version of the classic Eames Powers
of Ten. One that you can play with on your own. It might
help to put the next client meeting into perspective?

Aram Bartholl’s art transfers elements that we take for
granted in the digital world into the everyday. It creates
a weird tension in the work and highlights the differences
between the two worlds in which we exist.

These are compelling. To see something so everyday in
a brand new way is always a treat.

It occurred to us that a blog is not a blog without a cat.