December 13th, 2009 admin
Matteo Pericoli is an Italian architect, illustrator and author. His drawings have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Travel and Leisure and Conde Nast Traveller . He is known for his Manhattan Unfurled project, in which he drew two 37 foot (11 meter) long scrolls with detailed skylines of the East and West sides of Manhattan. The drawings took two years and encompassed over 1,500 buildings and 19 bridges. These were collected into a book, presented as a 24 panel, 22 foot (6.7 meter) long fold-out. You can see a very small scrolling version of them on Pericoli’s web site. Pericoli also did a 397 foot (121 meter) mural called Skyline of the World for The American Airlines terminal at JFK Airport, depicting an amalgamation of many of the…

Related Posts
NuFormer is a design firm based in the Netherlands. They have developed a computer-based projection system for creating the illusion of moving, 3-dimensional alterations to the surfaces of buildings. The results are striking, as you can see in this video on Vimeo. Bear in mind that these are not CGI in the usual sense, the computer imagery is...
Florian Afflerbach is an architect and architectural artist, and one of the founders of the Urban Sketchers group blog, which I wrote about previously (also here and here ). While many artists who sketch architectural scenes rely on a suggestion or informal feeling for perspective, Afflerbach has a masterful command of its nuances, at times tackling...
I don’t normally feature photography on Lines and Colors, not that I don’t think of photography as an art form; I just feel that it’s dealt with better on many other sites, and seems different enough to be in a separate category from the art forms I feature. But the photographs of Michael Paul Smith just charmed my socks off,...
Stephen Bissette is an American comics artist known for his drawings of monsters and dinosaurs and his work on horror comics titles, in particular for several award winning series of DC Comic’s Swamp Thing with writer Alan Moore. The home page of Bissette’s site serves as a blog, though there is also a specific blog section called...
David Levine was one of the great caricaturists of the 20th Century. He is best known for his drawings of notable figures published in The New York Review of Books over course of more than 40 years. The NYRB web site has a gallery of over 2,500 of his drawings that can be browsed by year or category. Unlike caricaturists whose subjects are largely...
Vistors to Kobe Japan will now be greeted by the sight of a 60-foot statue of Gigantor ( Testsujin 28-go , to those in the know). This follows the unveiling of a 59-foot Gundam in Tokyo . Not to be left out, Korea is building a gigantic Taekwon V statue (aka Voltar the Invincible ), that will reportedly be more than twice the height of the Statue...
It’s a common practice among contemporary comics artists to do commissioned sketches or even fully realized drawings for fans and collectors. Often collectors will commission drawings by a number of artists on a single theme, and create over time a collection of themed works by an extensive and diverse list of creators. Such is the case...
Old master drawings are a challenge for conservators. Fragile and damaged over time simply by exposure to light, drawings cannot be placed on permanent display, or even frequent display. Every period of exposure to light must be considered, in effect, a time subtracted from the life of the drawing. Also, drawings, even those by great masters,...
The artists behind Tim Burton’s new Alice In Wonderland film will make a one-time appearance for a panel, Q&A and book signing this Saturday afternoon at Alhambra’s Gallery Nucleus . The event will begin at 2pm and run all afternoon, Saturday March 13th. Nucleus will also be the first and only location for you to purchase a copy...
If, like me, you find yourself frequently frustrated with the relatively low resolution images provided by many museums and fine art sites; and tire of the frustrating little zoom windows that they provide for a “close up”, I have a suggestion for a site that you may not have considered. This site has nice large images of museum quality...
Related Tweets from Twitter
Related News from Digg
-
Amazing: 10-Foot 'Photographs' Drawn With Ballpoint Pens
[Arts & Culture]
They may look like pin-sharp photographs - but these amazing pictures are actually drawings created with the humble ballpoint pen. The stunning pictures, measuring up to 10ft high, were drawn by a rising star of the art world, Juan Francisco Casas.
4571 Diggs, 325 Comments
-
Obama Rally Draws 100,000 in Missouri
[Political News]
Barack Obama attracted 100,000 people at a Saturday rally here, his biggest crowd ever at a U.S. event.
4576 Diggs, 791 Comments
-
Incredible Video: Drawing a 'Mona Lisa' in 80 Nanoseconds!
[Odd Stuff]
The mythbusters compared a CPU vs a GPU and the GPU drew an ACTUAL mona lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 nanoseconds.
6163 Diggs, 275 Comments
-
Refacing Government Tender - Drawings on Dollar Bills (PICS)
[Odd Stuff]
I like the My Spoon is Too Big Washington...
4603 Diggs, 284 Comments
-
Crazy guy can draw using HTML!!!
[Design]
Using HTML tables and background color this guy did a great Drawing, if you know HTML you can see how amazing is this drawing click the link to watch the video...
5336 Diggs, 292 Comments