If you never gave yourself time to read Bone then you’re being to hard on yourself. This comic is truly one of the greatest of all time. The story, the writing ánd the drawings are all done by one man: Jeff Smith. There’s a docu coming about this cartoon genius surveying his career during the run of Bone. It includes interviews with Harvey Pekar, Terry Moore, and Scott McCloud.

Today the graduation expo’s from different art academies in Holland start. To make it a little easier Fontanel created an overview (in Dutch). Go and check it out!

The Sid Lee Collective presents an expo by music magazine DJBroadcast at their gallery in Amsterdam. Sixteen graphic designers - amongst others Machine, Shoe and Super Silo - are selected to create a new cover of their all time favourite album. The official opening is on Friday July the 3rd, so RSVP DJB.

Bristols most famous -and most unknown- son has returned home to transform the City Museum into a museum of his own, all in the deepest secret. This is his biggest exhibition ever, with mainly new work.

Papertoys have been around for a while now. You print, fold and glue them together. Lately I’ve seen a lot of nice ones popping up and Filippo is one of the best I’ve seen (am I wrong?). If you’re interested in this, check out the Urban Paper book, wich features dutch artist (and my coworker) MCK.

Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a former postal clerk and a librarian, managed to build a massive contemporary art collection with their very modest means. Two rules: the work should be affordable and the work had to be small enough to fit in their tiny one bedroom Manhattan appartment. This extraordinary movie opens today in NY.

At nytimes.com they have an article about ‘Up‘ that comes with a nice little interview in the form of recorded talks with director Pete Docter and production designer Ricky Nierva. They talk about the motivation behind several characters out of this upcoming film. Amusing approach behind the character called Dug.

As you can read here, I’m a heavy user of the MobyPicture services. Today I got a preview of the crazy video promoting this Dutch web ’start-up’ made by the creative people at Van Abbe tot Vessem. So… I shared…

Collection of the finest 3D art. 

Not new, but really cool initiative, I haven’t seen before. Two artist make paintings of things they want, and sell the paintings for the price the items cost. See what they’ve sold so far

The classic Subway Art book, by Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper, was important in spreading the graffiti virus world wide and giving writers a chance to shine for a larger audience. It now celebrates its 25th anniversary by publishing this special edition. A larger format, new introductions and 70 additional images. Get yours at finer bookstores or here.

Cool virtual graffiti application that turns the city (real 3D pics) into one big canvas that any user can draw on with a palette of interactive geo-tagging tools.

The illustrational work by Yuta Onoda keeps evolving. He’s originally from Japan, cleary visible by the choice for Noh masks as a returning subject in his work. He recently graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Arts Illustration at Sheridan College, Canada. His latest work is “The Mask She Wears” (mixed media and digital).

Inventor/author/cartoonist/former urban planner Steven M. Johnson gets rediscovered by the NY Times. Check out the book for more of that good stuff.

Remember that teacher that would get creative on the black board? That was nothing compared to this music video for Firekites’ Autumn Story. Made by Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg, entirely out of chalk drawings. It kinda made me think of Blu’s amazing stop motion animation from last year.

Enki Bilal is a great french artist, comic book creator and film director, born in Yugoslavia, with a truly energetic drawing style. He creates stories which often take place in a disturbed future (and aren’t always that easy to read). The atmosphere he creates with his pencil is simply unique. Watch the french trailer for his new book.

I really like the retro futuristic look on these urban landscapes by Spanish illustrator & designer Borja Bonaque. They look a bit Metropolis-ish. Would love to hang these on my wall!

This Parisian takes stencil art to a new level with his multi layered work on streets worldwide. I haven’t seen his work in the Netherlands yet, but i guess it’s a matter of time. And it’s cool to see he’s giving workshops to kids in Sao Paolo and Casablanca.

Yesterday at the Springdance I became an instant fan of Hiroaki. Check the calender, if you ever have the chance to see this Japanse pluridisciplinary artist live then go. He’s a choreographer, dancer, sound & lighting designer. His solo performances appear so brilliantly abstract at times it’s like watching extraterrestrial movement.

Artist Kacie Kinzer created this simple but surprisingly compelling interactive idea. “Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter.”

Illustrated compositions of people, animals, products and well -uhm- stars. Yes, the work of Ratinan Thaijaroen is kitsch, but in a good way. She lives in Bangkok and writes a blog which can only be read if you’re fluent in Thai and results in lovely singlish-like titles for her work.

“Designed for the Red Bull Music Academy 08, Guten Touch is an interactive installation that involves people into a natural relationship with technology.” Great stuff by Multitouch Barcelona.

There’s a cool exhibition in Maastricht in the Bonnefanten museum. It’s about American art who has had, ever since the sixties, connotations of sensationalism and commercialism. Pop Art, in particular, appears to fit this image and has lent a great deal of weight to the term ‘mainstream’.

Interesting exhibition by Jennifer Skupin. Over several installations, she explores war and why we choose to indulge in it. All items are inspired by kids. You can find the expo in former Boudisque. Entrance is free.

I found this piece of art on one of the best websites. Beautiful use of colors and design!! The concept is so strong and simple!

Tadaomi Shibuya has a nice style of illustration, based on straight lines. He used it for portraits of some of his favourite musicians, including Pete Rock & CL Smooth. These things will get you a New Work post instantly.

This art-project lets you just create your own line-flow-art based on the music and mouse movement. Very nice and smooth looking.

This blog, by Costas Voyatzis, deserves a bookmark. A design blog with lenghty articles and fine images. It’s a bit like the more famous Dezeen, by Marcus Fairs, another one that’s being run properly. I’m aware that sites like these two sometimes tend to taste a bit like hustling press releases around, but both also do fine interviews.

Art meets candid camera meets Ikea shoppers. “Our costumes are inspired by the «ghillie suits», the military camouflage suit.“

Last tuesday at FITC, Buck’s design director GMUNK spoke on these two kick ass adds they made for STEPP. The brief: “… scare the living crap out of anyone who might be considering smoking around their children.”