If you’re familiar with the Instagram Bodega Cats of Instagram, then you should familiarize yourself with the illustrated version of it. Sunny Eckerle illustrates the bodega cats living in our beloved corner shops across Brooklyn. Check out her work here.
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Lotus Woman mural by Shepard Fairey, seen in DUMBO, 2014.
Another design book about Brooklyn you say? This one is cool because it show cases different interiors, from modern to luxury to vintage and grungy. The burrough has been swiftly changing over the last couple of years, and will continue to do so, so this book will bring you up to speed.
Sound Wave, Jean Shin, 2007.
NYC Spaghetti. Awesome packaging by Alex Creamer.
Unfortunately it’s only a concept product, created for a university project, but still pretty genius.
Vintage furniture seen at Brooklyn’s Patina, a furniture rental company.
Submerged Motherlands by street artist Swoon, on view at the Brooklyn Museum.
Agate fordite. Geology is cool!
Package design for my favorite whiskey, Brooklyn 77. This whiskey is created at Breuckelen Distilling, located in Brooklyn using New York grain.
How great is that wax top-a unique touch.
Beautiful underwater photography by Zena Holloway.
Brooklyn-based arist Hiromi Niizeki travels throughout the five boroughs, photographing heart shaped gum remnants.
Check out the HiromiGumHearts Project here.
More Drawings from Fabien Mérelle
The french artist uses the tools of humour, storytelling and whimsy to direct the spirit of his work.
Great advertising by Frontline, seen at a mall in Jakarta.
Please, God, Let 2014 Be The Year We Retire The Word Hipster.
“Hipsters have tattoos. Have you been to the beach lately? Apparently there are tons of overweight 45-year-old Puerto Rican hipsters named Angel who like to blast Pitbull from their boomboxes and have terrible photorealistic tattoos of their infants.
Hipsters love Instagramming everything. Yeah and so do my 14-year-old cousins and 150 million other users who think they’re amateur photographers because they can use a Valencia filter.
Hipsters like brunch. OK, who the fuck doesn’t like brunch? Brunch is delicious. Brunch includes eggs and pancakes and bacon and I’ll be damned if I’m going to stand here and have bacon’s good name dragged down to this level.”