The perfect follow-up to yesterday's awesome photo of Kristin from Mette as a Mad Men character is this 'blast from the past' artwork from Jim Ward Morris. The Bellingham, Washington artist has created two series of works called Midcentury and Postmodern in which he's taken midcentury iconography and flanked it with bold blocks of colour. The result resembles 1950s/60s advertising that has collided with Barnett Newman paintings. Very cool.
Archival digital prints of both series are available to buy at the artist's website (I see more than a few that would look great with our 'Coca-Cola red' lacquered top 1950s diner-style kitchen table). For all things midcentury, postmodern and retro, visit Morris' blog.
Love these gorgeous illustrations... We keep mining these for interior inspirations, don't we? If you look around the design within reach store, most people aspire to this type of design.
I missed you too! :)
Posted by: dreamsequins | August 06, 2009 at 09:11 PM
mmmm, love the quality of the images, like they've been printed on a yummy grainy matte stock!!
yum!
thea.
xx
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Posted by: theaxx | August 07, 2009 at 01:53 AM
i want to take that car for a joy ride! and have a martini with Bond...
Posted by: alexandra keller | August 07, 2009 at 03:20 AM
It reminds me a bit of David Salle
Posted by: pruh | August 30, 2009 at 10:36 PM