Kate Pugsley, Gemelia Kate Pugsley added four new works to her TTP collection recently, and it’s a good opportunity to look through some of her work that’s been on the store since last year. This piece, Gemelia, always gets us. The texture and brushwork is as heavy as the glare of the woman. It adds [...]
There are four new Kate Pugsley pieces available at the store now. You get that signature Pugsley perspective, couched within a distinctively earthy, almost understated, palette. The four of them are the newest pieces in the store, which we’re constantly growing. All the newest pieces are on view here. From left to right: Color Blind, [...]
1. Do you also have $58 million just sitting around the house? Sucks, right? Well now you could buy a medieval castle. 2. Or you could buy the house that Pablo Escobar was killed in. 3. Jenny Morgan’s portraits at Lifelounge. (Some NSFW.) 4. Ridiculous pasta tips and schadenfreude. 5. Video: new Matthew Dear EP is [...]
Images: Untitled (Zone Fighter W/Bear And Bird) by Steve Seeley, Delicious by Martha Rich, and Foxgirl by Oksana Badrak People ask us about our name all the time. Thumbtack Press*. What’s a Thumbtack Press? You press a thumbtack, sure, but a Thumbtack Press is more of a noun, like a printing press almost. Thumbnail sketches are something else entirely, so we’ll [...]
The Jealous Curator wrote some nice words about us this afternoon and put up some good shots of work by Kimiaki Yaegashi (as you can see above), Lilly Piri, Martha Rich, Kate Pugsley, and Gianluca Foli. Go page through their stuff and check em out on Twitter and Facebook.
Yeah so they’re from a while ago, but they’re still amazing. Next level gifs = “experimental animation.” Heiko’s TTP collection is here.
Image: Pete Ryan, Handshake. You can see Pete’s TTP collection here. (As told to Megan Freeman.) “Just staying busy drawing.” “I like the ability to show my work alongside peers who I admire. I like that if somebody likes my work enough to hang it in their home, they can.” “Hahahaha, I cite Rasta? Awesome. Well, in that [...]
1. As TTP owner Barry emailed, with the link to the video above, “DAVE COOPER ANIMATION!” 2. “Make a contemporary version of a modern day classic.” The Fox is Black’s re-covered books contest. Go enter it. 3. Shots from Less and More: the Design Ethos of Dieter Rams at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [...]
When the TTP robots aren’t reconstructing Lego replicas of famous Roman wars or trying to draw perfect circles, they travel the world to find new artists. TTP is, after all, international through and through, and the robots do not like being told they are “parochial” or “limited in scope.” It makes them angry. But just [...]
The Selby photographed Olaf Hajek’s Berlin Mitte home. Jealous? (You can see Olaf’s TTP collection here. )
(Image: Bride Diving by Penelope Dullaghan) Thumbtack Press artist Penelope Dullaghan runs a robust illustration blog/community over at Illustration Friday. The weekly contest, interviews, forum, and pick of the week combine to make IF a good resource for illustrators, no matter if you’re emerging or established. IF also has a whole page of useful resources for [...]
(Image: Mermaid Gold by Kate Pugsley) First of all, thanks to everyone who responded to last week’s open edition prints blast. We thought it was important to be forward and open about our collection and why we sell open edition prints, and the responses I think showed that people appreciated it. I want to follow [...]
Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 artist edition by Fernando Chamarelli.
1. Haruki Murakami covers from around the world. 2. Issue 8 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is out. Something about “Grassroots Modernism.” 3. Thanks to Illustration Friday’s Penelope Dullaghan for her kind words this week. Go look at Penelope’s TTP collection. 4. Bookshelf porn. 5. (Above) The trailer for LCD Soundsystem’s swan song is out. Whoa.
(Image: Nick Dewar, Simplicity) Like the dismembered head of an unpopular king, the phrase “limited edition” is tossed around a lot these days. But what does it mean exactly? Limited edition of what? And are there unlimited editions? Can anything be unlimited? And as long as we’re into editions, what does “open edition” mean? Why [...]
(As told to Megan Freeman.) “Most of the time the bright dots stand for positive emotions, the doodles for negative ones.” “Deer Hunter (above) is based on Velázquez’s painting Prince Balthasar Charles as a Hunter. When looking for photos on which I can base my paintings I often find disturbing pictures of children posing proudly in [...]
Sometimes as we’re paging through the site we come across the Randomizer on the products page and find something surprising. Not surprising as in like we’ve never seen it, but surprising in any number of other ways, like hey look at all the monkeys! Or, my god that’s just beautiful. Literally eight eleven minutes ago [...]
Alex Varanese‘s The Imprint is a six part series that’s a little different from the two series we featured last week. It still has that sort of nostalgic appeal to the aesthetics of a previous generation like the Alt/1977 series, and it still has that focus on specific purveyors of culture and personality that you get [...]
Yesterday we featured Alex Varanese in our weekly blast because his stuff is killing these days. It’s like he’s on creative speed or something. He keeps churning out good and well thought out series as well as the ridiculously well animated Danton Diphthong. (His personal tweets are hilarious too.) Today we’re featuring his Pavement Loop series [...]
1. Time‘s monster list of 2011 lists. Good lord that’s the last one, promise. 2. New works by TTP’s Olaf Hajek (above) in Illustrated Mundo this week. 3. In case you get snowed into your home and can’t get to the store, here’s how to make homemade marshmellow fluff. 4. Apparently the longest palindrome sentence [...]
