Kinda hard to tell, but the fabric on this dress by Plenty (Tracy Reese) has golden spines printed on a red backdrop and it is fantabulous. It’s stealthily geeky, as the print looks more like foliage or an abstract print. Wear these steppers to go with ‘em and you’ll be all anatomy all the time.
Archive for June, 2009
Dress With a Backbone
Posted: Friday, June 19th, 2009It’s a Brain in a Box
Posted: Friday, June 19th, 2009
Illustrator Mauro Gatti often puts his brain and pen towards the human body, and we’ve picked out some of our faves here from The Brain Box, his illustration website. [Thanks to Chuva/How Bomb for showing us the love]
Merit Badges for Guts
Posted: Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
These fabulous innard merit badges are the work of Mary Yeager, and were on view at Gallery Hanahou in New York. Supah cute. Check out the detail on that intestine! [Thanks, Tristy!]
Stick These To Your Ribs
Posted: Friday, June 12th, 2009
Cover your body with some of these cool anatomy-related shirts, by Young Lovers at left, organ donor awareness tees (they say “I have the guts…” cute…maybe they should make “future organ donor” shirts too, to be extra creepy.) by Mats Ottdal, and one-of-a-kind patchwork anatomy tunic by takeaholiday on etsy.
Cute + Dangerous
Posted: Thursday, June 11th, 2009
We were lucky enough to be invited to the Cute + Dangerous show at seven degrees gallery, a show of fabulous cuteness that opens this Friday. The first 50 people to attend are eligible to win AMAZING STUFF, they are giving away an incredible collection of adorable stuff from the likes of StrangeCo, Meomi, Jon Burgerman, Love Triangle, Fred Flare and more! But enough of that crass commercialism — you’re there to see the art, right? Details, schmetails: seven degrees gallery, 891 Laguna Canyon Road in Laguna Beach, CA. Opening is June 12, 2009, 8 pm – 1 am.
Big Ol’ Body Book
Posted: Thursday, June 11th, 2009
This giant book Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery is 714 pages of body parts as envisioned by Taschen, one of the finest publishers of books on art, graphic design, architecture, pop culture and other quirkery. If you are an anatomy nut, you will find the gorgeous detail of the book’s intricate full color plates very satisfying indeed. The atlas, published in 8 volumes in the mid-1800s, was two decades in the making, a collaboration between surgeon Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery and illustrator Nicolas Henri Jacob. Just look at the veins on that brain! And so that’s what a cross-section of the spine would look like! Also interesting in Taschen’s catalog: Aesthetic Surgery, all about, well, trying to improve on what nature gave ya. It’s out of stock, but you can still look at the fascinating and sometimes grotesque pictures. You can even send this mouth image as an e-card.
Skate on Down To My Transverse Colon
Posted: Thursday, June 11th, 2009
I am in love with these gutsy skateboard designs by Emil Kozak, who makes those innards look so very good. Thanks to the eagle eyes over at Street Anatomy for pointing this stuff out.
