MetaFilter posts tagged with faces and art

"If I didn't create art I would go crazy and this is a good enough reason to carry on."

taz — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:07:49 -0800

"I draw with a Biro pen, i paint with anything. I often run into the sea." Mark Powell draws old people on old envelopes with a plain old ballpoint pen. From a short interview at The Hidden People web site: Why envelopes? "I choose envelopes because they hold an enigma. They have all carried and hidden something that will remain a mystery much like the images of the elderly that I draw. My portraits also show a journey that hasn’t been told." He's also on Flickr and Twitter.

Bruno Munari

puny human — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:36:07 -0800

"Bruno Munari was an Italian artist and designer, who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphics) and non visual arts (literature, poetry) with his research on games, infancy and creativity." Here are a collection of Bruno Munari's Faces. You can see more of the maestro's work in this short documentary: 1, 2, 3, and on this Italian children's show from the 1970s. And here are scans from some of Munari's famous illustrations for children's books.

Face, meet Type.

Hardcore Poser — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:53:50 -0800

T y p e , F a c e . (Typographic art from various sites)

Manimals

madamjujujive — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:33:21 -0800

Manimals - discover the strange and unsettling world of photographer-digital artist Daniel Lee and his darwinian art.