GopherIllustrated / more than a magazine – a collectible in motion.

_if you’re in Barcelona and the beautiful city doesn’t make you happy enough, fill your bottle with some Happy Pills

_new month and Victoria Haven.

_our in-house-trickster Marc Caellas mentions the Disseny Hub Barcelona in the first edition of the Gopher, Kobi Benezeri designed its logo.

_as a follow-up of the previous post about the times of yore: electrofist circa 1957, vía Mister Asta.

_a couple of years ago we went to this event called the Intuit Show @ Chicago, there we heard J. J. Cromer’s name for the first time; now we pass that name to you.

_does Arc Magazine have something to do with Griskevicius Jurgis? [ via Magculture ].

_the amazing folks at 2×4 created the image for the Harvard Museums that we like so much, but also the one for the Brooklyn Museum which we don’t fancy that much.

_and this is Lars Breuer, he and Konsortium share links.

_this is Konsortium- Dusseldorf.

_born in Malawi, lives and works in New York, NY: Tim Davis.

_ Noemie Goudal builds and navigates immaginary cascades and rivers

_when someone says the word “Redman” we really don’t want to think about Wu Tang Clan: Craig Redman.

_there’s a different kind of vie en rose according to Richard Mosse’s infrared photographs

_on foreign names and art we love: Becc Orszag reminds us our good friend Aquiles Hadjis.

_Andrew Miksys got us all nostalgic with his Buses’ windows. Damn.

_why hello there, come here often? Ignacio Mendez, stop flirting with us.

_Pablo Boffelli will probably make you laugh here and here.

_haven’t you heard that eskimos have many words for snow? Proof that language shapes your experience of things (via the Wall Street Journal)

_from Brooklyn Youngna Park shows us an intimate view of La Paz, Cochabamba and Salar de Uyuni

_this series by Eric Fisher plays right into our obsessive nerve: “Locals and Tourists” maps tourist photos in red and locals’ photos in blue for hangout maps around the world.

_come visit Outerland, a place secretly discovered by Allison Davies

_another incredible UK based designer: Christopher Gray and his “We Shall See” website

_enjoy Gaku Nakagawa

_Sarah Sudhoff is not afraid of making you uncomfortable

_UK design firm We Made This created an ingenious promotional piece in passport format.

_good thing Emmanuel Gutiérrez finds time between his work and his music to bring us some Costa Rican color

_Let’s hear it for Holly Wales!

_photographer Amanda James sure makes us want to meet her grandma

_if we were made of fabric, this is what we’d eat – crochet food by Kate Jenkins

_Julie Morstad’s marvelous drawings and illustrations deserve your inmediate attention. Go. Now.

_Peter Slight is an artist and illustrator working on his first children’s book.

_we knew Glyn Brewerton as a great illustrator, but we admit we are new to his charcoal drawings

_our dear friend Valentina Alvarado does all kinds of things with paint and photos.

_our second Russian photographer this week. Frank Herfort brings us refreshing images on these sunny summer days

_hello Ivan!

_meat media were used on Rutger de Vries’s  Part of me series  (vegetarians abstain)

_Jess Atkinson’s series NO! is “is a plasticine illustration about a little creature who discovered he can only communicate his thoughts with others by telepathically having his limbs severed to spell it out”

_ok, ok, we got a little distracted from usual monday’s rush by looking at Olya Ivanova’s photographs. Now, back to work!

_we’re digging Chris Vitas’ unexhibited exhibition “Cartographik“

_render the imagination geometric with Matt Lyon’s work

_ armed with ink and paper, Hannah Stouffer faces “”the inevitable oppositions between love, lust and gore, decadence, wrath and fate”

_Tollhouses never looked this good.

_Katharina Grosse knows of course no roofs, no walls, no surfaces limiting her mountains of powder and spreaded colors

_wonderful collage work: The Skizzomat Diary by Marie Louise Emmerman

_we can’t help but smiling while looking at Santiago Uceda’s fabulous drawings

_repair it? Folks at Dispatchwork do it with Legos.

_Justin Gray Morgan brings us buddhist skateboards (we’d volunteer to try one!) and wondering digital gorillas

_if the concept of ‘fingering a wall’ sounds weird to you, let your mind be further blown by Judith Ann Braun’s graphite-charged work.

_Caracha! Luke Gilford’s projects aim to answer really trascendental questions

_Betsy Walton’s imaginative creations entertain our sleep-deprived eyes this morning and make us long for drea…m…y… dre…am…s…