About Nathan Durfee:

Nathan Durfee was born in the small town of Bethel, Vermont on June 26, 1983. Nathan’s artistic aspirations first showed themselves in the classroom: a self-described “doodler,” moments of boredom became sketches and designs in notebook margins. After spending his high school years in Nevada, he migrated South to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design to become a traditional portrait artist. As his current work boldly exhibits, Nathan instead decided to take his art in a unique, wholly personalized, direction. […]

His fanciful, often abstract, subjects share an organic connection with his informal school-day sketching. While working, he says, “I try to keep that wandering state of mind—as I start laying down brush strokes, a narrative begins to develop. I keep molding and polishing the story until I’m happy with it, and in most cases it’s something completely different than what I started out with.” (read more)

Visit Nathan Durfee official website.

Generator of color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages and any other color design. This is the brand new, rewritten version of the previous color generator. The application is moved to its own domain since this version. (Webdesigners)

Color Scheme Designer 3 is part of the Webdesigners tools series.

See also Adobe’s Küler and the Multicolor Search Lab

Lee Price graduated from the Moore College of Art in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting. It’s interesting to note that he (she?) took private studies with Alyssa Monk.

…meanwhile, my work will continue to appear weekly in the observer for david mitchell’s column - here is this week’s illustration, out on sunday.

Here’s the related Observer’s article.

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This is Frank Grießhammer’s personal collection of adapters. See more at his Adapter Museum online.

Frank Grießhammer was born in 1983, and has studied in Saarbrücken, Florence and The Hague. He graduated in 2008 in communications design from HBKsaar, with the thesis project Kiosk Fonts, a platform for student writing projects. (Linotype.com)

First spotted via Stüff Stuff.

David Foldvari was born in Budapest, Hungary, but has lived in the UK for the last 20 years. His work often tackles issues of alienation, identity and belonging, formed by a preoccupation with his eastern European roots, combined with his experience of growing up in the UK.

David’s work is bold, darkly humorous and often political in tone, his considered and energetic draftsmanship having led to a prolific output both personally and commercially. Some of his previous clients include the New York Times, Greenpeace, Random House, Penguin Books, Dazed & Confused and Island Records. (Bigactive.com)

Visit David Foldvari’s blog. Some of his artwork can be purchase over at the Product of God online gallery.

Fernand Pelez (Paris, January 18, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a French painter of Spanish origin who worked in Paris. Pelez portrayed social issues in a realistic style. (Wikipedia)

Read a short analysis of his work over at The Art Tribune. In addition, for French reader, don’t miss Myriam Tsikounas’ exposé on the socio-historical context of this image over at the L’Histoire par l’image website.

I’f you follow the link, you won’t find this picture. According to my RSS feed reader, it was published last night. But it has been taken down since then. The picture comes with this comment:

I’m not able to fix our errors, but I can help with our error pages. — Peter Vidani, “Not able to help with real world problems.”

Peter Vidani is a designer for Tumblr. You’ll find a reblog of this “We’ll be back shortly” post over at his blog.

Boston.com: Arthur Penn on the set of 1975’s Night Move

Arthur Penn, the stage, television and motion picture director whose revolutionary treatment of sex and violence in the 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde” transformed the American film industry, died Tuesday night at his home in Manhattan, the day after he turned 88. (The New York Times: “Arthur Penn, Director of ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ Dies” by Dave Kehr, September 29, 2010)

The japanese gallery of psychiatric art: Pyromijin® (pyridoxal), 1968, Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica

Ben Tour is a 28 years old Vancouver based artist. More of his illustrations along with a 2006 interview with him over at FecalFace.com

Hark! A Vagrant! is an comic series by Kate Beaton:

Kate Beaton was born in Nova Scotia, took a history degree in New Brunswick, paid it off in Alberta, worked in a museum in British Columbia, then came to Ontario to draw pictures. (About)

Kate owns a degree in History and Anthropology from Mount Allison University.

If you mouse over the comic over at XKCD website, you get this comment:

‘Fucking ineffable’ sounds like someone remembering how to do self-censorship halfway through a phrase

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Great opening title sequence.