Meet writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn. He talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are measured in people, not cash.

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Ben’s got some great work. More at Ben Smith.

Conceptual book illustrations for the new “Satanic Bible” by Marco Schmidt. Screenprint and e-reader versions. Love ‘em.

I love letterpress. But to be honest who doesn’t. This is a short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier.

A film by Danny Cooke
Soundtrack by Tony Higgins

Like cycling and limited edition hand crafted screen-prints? Then you should be all over Dynamo Works, the Edinburgh-based print studio. More of their work can be seen in their gallery and selected prints are available to buy from their studio shop.

Primitive Heritage is the new print shop from the guys at Two Times Elliot. Some really lovely limited edition prints (a few of which are shown above) printed in-house on their Riso printer. Go check them out.

So, these are the speakers credits for an OFFF gig that happened in October and they’re seriously something special. Well done to the guys at Vasava for pulling this out the bag.

Yanni Floros is an Adelaide based artist that trained at the National Art School in Sydney graduating as a sculpture major. He has been a finalist in art prizes such as the Dobell Drawing Prize 2010 and the Lethbridge 10000. His work extends across the disciplines of painting, sculpture and drawing and focuses on the pursuits of man and how those pursuits impact our development. check the step by step showcase here

Just a small selection from an ever growing archive of amazing posters for Switzerland’s Südpol “Musik Tanz Theater”.

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A limited edition of 35 12″x12″ prints designed to commemorate our 2nd birthday party. Hand silk-screened in silver on Fedrigoni Sirio Nero 210gsm by Loren at Loligo. Individually numbered and signed.

Available to pre-order now. £25 + shipping. Sent recorded in study poster tube. Available for general purchase from 04th April 2011.

Pre-order from the shop.

It really struck me when I saw this work I have no idea what Facebook do. There must be a whole host of things happening behind that blue and white wall we don’t know about, and if they’re all like this project then I really want to see more.

This 2009 holiday gift by Ben Barry was sent to Facebook’s friends and clients as a thank you. And some thank you it was. Each recipient is sent a Facebook theme art print, plus unique redeemable wooden token for the cause of their choice. The idea for this print is about human connections around the world, the middle being made of a continuous, unbroken line.

The spec is just silly on this one; 4000 pieces, all postal tubes hand stamped, 2.5″ silk screened and cnc machined plywood tokens with digitally printed unique codes, custom print wrapping paper and tape, 1 colour 19×19″ print, embossed and foil stamped, postcard and token holder 1 colour with clear theromography print. Serious.

Set of 10 note cards (2 of each) chosen from Tom Davie’s most popular typographic posters. Comes with protective box and envelopes. Available to buy from Tom’s shop.

Karina Pioner was born in 1982, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the age of 6 she moved to London, England, with her family, where she stayed for the next three years. At 12, her family went to live in Hamburg, Germany, and later Frankfurt, where they remained for six years.

I had the pleasure of knowing Karina during her six years in Frankfurt, the place where I also lived from the age of 10 to 17. Apart from teaching me about important bands such as The Doors and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Karina was an all round wicked person. Little did I know that her art career would take off the way it has, exhibiting her work across Europe in France, Spain, Belgium, Scotland, Sweden, Turkey and Germany. Below are a few of my favorite pieces.

I love the character design from this new animated promo by Buck for Nike. Watch the short promo, its really nicely put together.

I think well thought out 2D animations like this are few and far between at the moment with everyone seeming to only be producing shiny 3D pieces, with the all too popular physics engines in the latest batch of 3D software to arrive. Rant over…for now.

A few pints after work around Liverpool Street and a stroll from Bishopsgate to Whitechapel, you could quite unwittingly stumble through ‘Alphabet’ street and be overcome by childhood nostalgia.

Occasional lights appear in windows of the terraced housing above the mishmash of signs of the local shops whose shutters are down for the evening. But rather than fading into sleeply night-time, the street is alive with colour, the once grey shutters sprayed over with lower-case alphabet letters in all sizes and colours. The street adopts a rather vivid cartoon-like quality; the typography may be out of context and more at home in a young child’s reading book but there is a feeling of finesse and style that makes the work of the artist, Ben Eine, specifically distinctive.

His star has risen speedily since his early multiple arrests for vandalising property. President Obama was given an Eine painting as a gift from Samantha Cameron in the last month; the prime minitster’s wife a bizzare benefactor of this ‘hoodie art’ (as so called by the Daily Mail) particularly given her husband’s predisposition towards ‘hoodies’.

The work is not the run-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-and-spray-over-a-stencil-graffiti to which many Londoners are accustomed. The process of obtaining permission from the council and working with the local shops took around a year, the letters themselves about an hour each. The result of this random project? A set of happy shopkeepers and excited passers by; a refreshing breath of creative air next to the imposing city skyscrapers.

Eine’s website shows a personal affinity with the warm, cuddly fairytale programmes of the past and is even a little disconcerting – what with the assorted Care Bears and My Little Ponies jumping out on each page. He is an artist perpetually trying to recreate the delight associated with early childhood and it seems to hold some bearing judging by squeals of delight or smiles seen on the faces of passers by. He’s not just about letters though – some of his more stylised work, canvasses and screen prints can be seen in his website’s gallery. A few of these have light socio-political irony in the vein of one of his old friends, Banksy.

I’d also recommend having a look at artofthestate.co.uk, which is where I first discovered Eine’s alphabet. It provides an excellent collection of urban photography spanning both graffiti and architecture and covers a range of London artists.