Born in Miami, Florida, Jen has always been interested in visual art and in the immense effect color can have on anyone. She’s loved the idea of capturing growth, evolution and sacred geometry in color. After graduation from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2005, she’s been working to capture those concepts in her art. 

Jen draws on all kinds of canvases. Sometimes she uses a traditional canvas, and sometimes she draws over a bathing suit, a wall or even a human body. The work surface doesn’t matter – whatever it is, she’ll cover it with mesmerizing shapes and colors. 

The end result really is mesmerizing. It’s hard to get your eyes off of her art. It sucks you in with all of the tiny details and beautiful color combinations. Many of her paintings look like broken, warped rainbows, and getting lost in them is so easy. 

So if you ever get tired of rose-gold and shades of beige, head over to Jen’s IG account. You’ll find there all the color you can possibly want.

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Using pop art aesthetic, her art tackles themes surrounding her experiences of racism, body shaming, classism, and chauvinism. “The focus is on my community,” she explained in an interview with Vice. “I’m not talking to a white audience. I’m talking to people like me, so we can talk about these issues in our community. When you do that and when enough people around you start doing that, you find that everyone else around you starts listening in. It puts the pressure on other folks to learn more about us, which is an added bonus, but the point of the work isn’t to appeal to anybody outside of who I’m speaking to.”

“Pop art is very fun in nature, but [my work] does talk about a lot of heavy things, so it’s also people who have topics they want to discuss but don’t really know-how,” she added. “It’s across generations.”

Indeed, humor is Qamar’s weapon of choice when tackling heavy loaded issues. Her book, Trust No Aunty (which has won the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for humor), is an illustrated “survival guide” that aims at dealing with overbearing “Aunties,” whether they’re family members, annoying neighbors, or just some random women throwing black magic your way.

With almost 200k followers on Instagram, you’d want to join in the hype.

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Even if you haven’t, British artist and designer Alex Szabo-Haslam has developed a method to show you how, and it’s pretty awesome. 

Dubbing the project Waveform, Szabo-Haslam was inspired to turn the sounds of music into data after a teacher noticed him sketching designs based on music. 

“I’d sit drawing different ways to interpret sound whenever I could, sketching various shapes and line styles. One afternoon, a science teacher saw my sketches, and encouraged me to develop them further,” Szabo-Haslam told Billboard.

The artist began plotting out his favorite tracks, turning the electronic crunch of rave musicians like Aphex Twin and Kraftwerk into minimalist yet staggering designs. Using the sound waves, Szabo-Haslam reimagines the graphic as a series of thin bars and carefully draws each of them by hand. 

He now offers the unique process for all music lovers through the website Kickstarter. As no two sound waves are the same, each piece of artwork is unique to the song it is based on, creating a one of a kind musical souvenir. He accepts requests for every song ever recorded and prints them on the background color of your choice. 

Check out his cool music creations on his Instagram below or visit his Kickstarter to purchase your print. 

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Revamping the disorienting feeling of the circus’ funhouse mirror, the Vienna based Kogler deploys thick lines and a minimalist color palette to create exhilarating illusions. The eye-popping illusions challenge both the viewer’s sense of reality and spatial awareness. 

Kogler mainly uses the colors of black and white to create repetitive grids that snake throughout the spaces he chooses to transform, including stairwells, halls, galleries, and transit centers. In addition, he uses projectors to help turn the spaces into dreamlike landscapes. 

“The black-and-white grid provides a maximum contrast which has a very strong visual presence,” noted Kogler in a conversation with Kathrin Rhomberg. “The structure of the image is comprehensive and completely surrounds the beholder. In a sense, you are standing in the picture, and the work can be experienced physically.”

Early in his career, Kogler was a pioneer in the field of computer-generated artwork, an expertise that he continues to apply to his artwork. 

Check out his incredible illusions on his website http://www.kogler.net/ or on his Instagram below. 

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Her graphic designs and minimal illustrations explore the contrasts between positive and negative space and color, with striking results.

Originally from France, Favre admitted in an interview with Plastik Magazine that “fine art just never seemed a viable option to me. I never wanted to become an artist. I never even thought I had a voice. But I knew I loved drawing and coming up with ideas.”

According to her, “graphic design and advertising seemed like a good choice. Also, I had been drawing for so long that illustration didn’t really feel like a field in which I could learn a lot. I always liked the idea of a good challenge and I knew nothing about graphic design as such, so it just felt right. Looking back now, I realize I was wrong and probably too cautious. But does the journey really matter? As long as you get there in the end.”

Check out her Instagram page for more.

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Born in Miami, Florida, Jen has always been interested in visual art and in the immense effect color can have on anyone. She’s loved the idea of capturing growth, evolution and sacred geometry in color. After graduation from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2005, she’s been working to capture those concepts in her art. 

Jen draws on all kinds of canvases. Sometimes she uses a traditional canvas, and sometimes she draws over a bathing suit, a wall or even a human body. The work surface doesn’t matter – whatever it is, she’ll cover it with mesmerizing shapes and colors. 

The end result really is mesmerizing. It’s hard to get your eyes off of her art. It sucks you in with all of the tiny details and beautiful color combinations. Many of her paintings look like broken, warped rainbows, and getting lost in them is so easy. 

So if you ever get tired of rose-gold and shades of beige, head over to Jen’s IG account. You’ll find there all the color you can possibly want.

The post This Artist Turns the World Around Her Into a Rainbow appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Using pop art aesthetic, her art tackles themes surrounding her experiences of racism, body shaming, classism, and chauvinism. “The focus is on my community,” she explained in an interview with Vice. “I’m not talking to a white audience. I’m talking to people like me, so we can talk about these issues in our community. When you do that and when enough people around you start doing that, you find that everyone else around you starts listening in. It puts the pressure on other folks to learn more about us, which is an added bonus, but the point of the work isn’t to appeal to anybody outside of who I’m speaking to.”

“Pop art is very fun in nature, but [my work] does talk about a lot of heavy things, so it’s also people who have topics they want to discuss but don’t really know-how,” she added. “It’s across generations.”

Indeed, humor is Qamar’s weapon of choice when tackling heavy loaded issues. Her book, Trust No Aunty (which has won the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for humor), is an illustrated “survival guide” that aims at dealing with overbearing “Aunties,” whether they’re family members, annoying neighbors, or just some random women throwing black magic your way.

With almost 200k followers on Instagram, you’d want to join in the hype.

The post Maria Qamar Uses Pop Art to Tackle Heavy Subjects appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Even if you haven’t, British artist and designer Alex Szabo-Haslam has developed a method to show you how, and it’s pretty awesome. 

Dubbing the project Waveform, Szabo-Haslam was inspired to turn the sounds of music into data after a teacher noticed him sketching designs based on music. 

“I’d sit drawing different ways to interpret sound whenever I could, sketching various shapes and line styles. One afternoon, a science teacher saw my sketches, and encouraged me to develop them further,” Szabo-Haslam told Billboard.

The artist began plotting out his favorite tracks, turning the electronic crunch of rave musicians like Aphex Twin and Kraftwerk into minimalist yet staggering designs. Using the sound waves, Szabo-Haslam reimagines the graphic as a series of thin bars and carefully draws each of them by hand. 

He now offers the unique process for all music lovers through the website Kickstarter. As no two sound waves are the same, each piece of artwork is unique to the song it is based on, creating a one of a kind musical souvenir. He accepts requests for every song ever recorded and prints them on the background color of your choice. 

Check out his cool music creations on his Instagram below or visit his Kickstarter to purchase your print. 

The post Artist Transforms Song Waves Into Awesome Prints appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Revamping the disorienting feeling of the circus’ funhouse mirror, the Vienna based Kogler deploys thick lines and a minimalist color palette to create exhilarating illusions. The eye-popping illusions challenge both the viewer’s sense of reality and spatial awareness. 

Kogler mainly uses the colors of black and white to create repetitive grids that snake throughout the spaces he chooses to transform, including stairwells, halls, galleries, and transit centers. In addition, he uses projectors to help turn the spaces into dreamlike landscapes. 

“The black-and-white grid provides a maximum contrast which has a very strong visual presence,” noted Kogler in a conversation with Kathrin Rhomberg. “The structure of the image is comprehensive and completely surrounds the beholder. In a sense, you are standing in the picture, and the work can be experienced physically.”

Early in his career, Kogler was a pioneer in the field of computer-generated artwork, an expertise that he continues to apply to his artwork. 

Check out his incredible illusions on his website http://www.kogler.net/ or on his Instagram below. 

The post Austrian Artist Turns Rooms Into Mind-Boggling Optical Illusions appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Her graphic designs and minimal illustrations explore the contrasts between positive and negative space and color, with striking results.

Originally from France, Favre admitted in an interview with Plastik Magazine that “fine art just never seemed a viable option to me. I never wanted to become an artist. I never even thought I had a voice. But I knew I loved drawing and coming up with ideas.”

According to her, “graphic design and advertising seemed like a good choice. Also, I had been drawing for so long that illustration didn’t really feel like a field in which I could learn a lot. I always liked the idea of a good challenge and I knew nothing about graphic design as such, so it just felt right. Looking back now, I realize I was wrong and probably too cautious. But does the journey really matter? As long as you get there in the end.”

Check out her Instagram page for more.

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