“My work is my relief, my freedom of creative thought, basically, the unseen part of myself.  On paper, it comes down to dark, lustrous women who are confident and dangerous.”  – Connie Lim, Dazed Digital Interview

I’ve been wanting to share these for quite a while. ♥

Connie Lim (whose biggest inspirations are Alexander McQueen and Gareth [...]

Audrey Kawasaki is a 28-year-old Japanese-American painter based in Los Angeles.  Though her professional training amounts to little more than a two-year stint at the Pratt Institute in New York City, her art creates a lasting impression.

With her primary materials of oil and wood, Kawasaki renders alluring, nymph-like girls at the peak of their sexual [...]

Paper shoes & cuff.  Holy crap I’m in heaven.  I’d hang these from my ceiling.

By Ndeur & Make a Paper World for stylist Heidi Ackerman (via Atelier 29)

And bam – the bag is the object.  Proceeds go to WWF to save the endangered animal.  Genius.

This is Origami [...]

Yellena James is an abstract painter and illustrator who was born in Sarajevo in 1977, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.  James’s work features colorful shapes and lines which–via interplay of spatial arrangement and dimension–create dynamic, surreal scenes riddled with intense hue and detail (very much worth viewing larger).

“I try to create an intimate [...]

I forget where I first ran across Kelly Thompson, and I can’t find much about her online.  All I know is that she’s a 26-year-old illustrator and photographer from Wellington, New Zealand who (according to her MySpace profile) enjoys camping, “going to the flicks,” and spending time with her overweight cat, Furgus.  Oh, and she [...]