Five Indie Video Games that Are Also Works of Art
That a video game may have real artistic value is, by now, mostly accepted. However, there are as many styles as there are titles, including games that don’t look like the stereotypical…
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The graphic novel is a powerful way to tell a tale—but graphic works also lend themselves well to artist biographies, with each graphic artist using his or her own style to interpret…
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The retro trend is fueling a renewed appreciation for earlier photographic technologies, from Brownie cameras and SLRs to Polaroid SX70s and even the first smartphones. Want to give your iPhone
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How I Made This: Jubilee’s Pixel Art
Forget the low-res Mario of the 16-bit era, or the first renderings of Pokémon from the early chapters of that 25-year-old franchise. Today, pixel art (dotto kei in Japanese), the staple of indie…
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Objet: Wwake’s Art-Inspired Jewelry
Wing Yau, founder of Wwake, might describe herself as a purveyor of understated gemstone jewelry, but her work is as much wearable art as adornment. Yau graduated from the Rhode Island School of
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How I Made This: Cj Hendry’s Colored Pencil Drawings of Wigs
From a distance, Andrew, a drawing by Australian-born, Brooklyn-based artist Cj Hendry of a bobbed platinum-blond wig, looks like a study in pale golds. Yet the artist used almost no yellow…
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How I Made This: Feral Cat Den’s “Genesis Noir”
In a quintessential midcentury American metropolis, the tension is rising. A brooding watch salesman is embroiled in an affair with a jazz singer who is already in a relationship. Predictably
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How I Made This: Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s Cryptozoo
At a time when animated features consist predominantly of CGI animation, with its immersive 3D scenarios and hyperrealistic textures of hair, fabric, and light refraction, it is refreshing to see
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Ian Cheng’s Life After BOB
From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Matrix, from Ghost in the Shell to Paprika (and its American counterpart, Inception), all the way to the German miniseries World on a Wire, the interaction…
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How I Made This: Sergio Roger’s Soft Statuary
References to classical Greek and Roman art and architecture seem to be everywhere these days: Sculptor Fabio Viale covers his marble reproductions with tattoo-like designs; Mimmo Jodice’s
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