Elisa Strozyk received her MA in Future Textile Design from Central St. Martins in 2009. Her work is incredible! Via Daily Icon

World-renowned digital artist, Adhemas Batista launches a new site that showcasing his colorful and distinct illustrative style.
He’s still selling colors, love this guy. So incredibly talented.

Artist and designer Eric Testroete, in his own words: I made this as my costume for Halloween 2009. It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe.

So awesome.  Check out his site for more photographs and more information on how he made it.

Well, I’m impressed. Thanks Ben!

Twistedfork is the portfolio of designer/illustrator Dan Matutina from the Philippines. Talented fella! A few of my favorite images after the jump. Check him out.

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Some really great looking work by Michele Angelo, an italian designer, painter, and all around superstar. Via QBN.com

One of my favorite artists (I’ve been following him since 2004), Ogi just had a show in Tokyo– here are some pictures. The new work looks really fantastic. Congrats Ogi!

Geometrical, precise and wonderfully intricate to such a degree that you can spend time completely wrapped up in only one section of them before moving on to a different part, Fernando Chamarelli’s paintings mishmash all manner of references to dizzying effect. Like Bruno 9li, he intertwines history and iconography—religious, philosophic—using Brazilian pop culture to carry the aesthetics of pre-Colombian indigenous art. The artist’s background spans to cartoons and portraits before developing a healthy interest in street art and tattooing, the latter of which likely explains his eye for color and edge. Simply put, this guy rocks. His show Viracocha just launched at Rojo’s space at Livraria Pop in Sao Paulo and will be there until June 20, but experience it vicariously through his inspiring photostream.

Although her ink drawings always carry a somber vibe about them, Thais Beltrame’s (the only girl holding it down in the Sao Paulo artist collective Famiglia Baglione) U.S. solo debut will be anything but low key. Her new black-and-white works will be joined by watercolors for her When All the Stars Are Gone exhibit kicking off at Carmichael Gallery this Thursday. The title of the show refers to the literal skies, where she looks to for inspiration, and the pieces feature children walking down the path of awareness, turning into new people as they become wiser. I’m totally into the pensive state her work always leaves me in. The show runs till May 28, and in the back gallery will also be Get Rich Quick, a collection from the gallery’s collectors that includes work by Barry McGee, David Choe, Banksy and Kaws.

Our friend from Texas, Matthew Williamson (Earph Exbihtions), just dropped some new prints on us. By ‘new’ I mean space, future time, secrets of the universe new. We had our eye on Williamson before, and we’re totally loving these new prints. His new work definitely takes on a new age sci-fi feeling. Maybe it’s the pending Star Trek movie, but we’re digging it. Four new prints are available in various sizes, as well as a few of his older prints are still in stock. Have a look through some of his past Japanese inspired plant-life and patters. Keep up the good work Matthew, we’ll be watching.

My South African-Portuguese pal, Carlos de Spinola, is at it again with his manual focus. After a brief hiatus of website updating during an extended trip through South Africa, the London-dwelling eagle eye photographer has posted quite the update. Everything from his signature Faux Double Exposure shots to Music, Weaponology (scary, but awesome– he used to be in the South African special police force) and my favorite by far, Nature– hence the awesome zebra pictured above. Also, keep your eyes peeled for a film he’s producing about South Africa. Congrats Carlos!

A few artists jumped out at me this weekend at Art Basel down in Miami — one of them I had to mention was Atsushi Kaga. Born in Japan, and schooled at the National College of Art in Dublin (weird, right?), Kaga’s work is devilishly intriguing. He had about 15 or 20 pieces, represented by Mother’s Tankstation (a small Irish gallery) available for sale — and into the third day as I was deliberating buying one, a collector-like looking woman walked in and bought the entire show of oil and acrylics with the snap of her fingers, as well as a few drawings. I’d keep your eyes peeled for more of Kaga’s work in the near future; my guess is he’s going to come onto the scene in a big way, and very soon. One more picture after the jump…

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Back in October, I raved about Whale Hunt, the latest project from Jonathan Harris, friend and JS regular. Finally, the project is online and is a must see for anyone interested in the art of story telling. If you missed it when we posted earlier, the whale hunt is a project in which Harris went up to Alaska, shooting photos at 5-minute intervals and faster when his heart rate sped up as he witnessed a traditional whale hunt (a 1000 year old ritual). The photos are incredible, but what’s even more amazing is the organization of the content. Seriously, go spend some time on The Whale Hunt and read his beautiful statement about the project. Congratulations Jonathan!

This trailer for Heima, the documentary by Sigur Ros is a must see. It’s gorgeously shot (HD is stunning), and shockingly moving. The film was made last summer at the end of an extensive world tour– the group returned home to Iceland and played a series of free concerts around the homeland, all unannounced. The film takes us through venues and scenery throughout their beautiful (read: incredible) homeland, from an abandoned fish factory to a protest camp at the edge of a controversial dam. The DVD will also have a companion album entitled Hvarf-Heim which will feature a few unreleased songs. Go, watch it now! I look forward to the DVD’s release on November 5th.

There is a screening of Heima on Wednesday 24 October at Cecil Sharp House in London– the BBC website has some more information about this showing as well as a couple more sneak peaks at songs performed in the film.

Our heads have been bobbing all morning to the new Jose Gonzalez album, In Our Nature. No, it’s not available yet (slated for a September 25 Release), and yes, we’re naughty boys for listening to leaked music — but I assure you I’ll buy three copies to make up for it. The new album continues his compassionate, sometimes heart-wrenching finger picking melodic-madness that was Veneer (the rookie album sold just over 700,000 copies, not to shabby for an acoustic guitarist).

You can grab one of the best singles on the record, Down The Line already, available on iTunes DRM free and worth every penny, and be sure to catch him this Fall on tour around the US — this man is a genius.

Ooh, this sounds good: “An online talent search engine designed to connect the creative class with enthusiasts around the world.” If “enthusiasts” means clients (also known as jobs) like I think it does, the new Global Talent Database sounds like a great new way to help independent artists and performers connect with the people who need them. By allowing creative types to create a free listing (that can include their portfolio), the site makes it easy for potential customers to find them and hire them. To make sure each artist is given equal chance for exposure, popularity and ranking on the site is determined via community feedback and a variety of networking/socialization features built into the site (instead of the “number of friends” systems used elsewhere). The artists that use the site can also take advantage of the genre-relevant, pre-filtered newsfeeds that will help them stay on top of the news and trends that affect their industries — a thoughtful addition to a networking site. The site was officially launched only yesterday, but it looks like they’ve reached fast popularity within several of their twenty artistic categories. Only time will tell with GTB, but it is free, so if this looks like something *hypothetically* useful, I say…go for it.