I’m digging these sweet Branch & Forest necklaces by EVRT Studio.

The concept for the Branch & Forest necklaces was created during a walk through the park in the fall of 2011. The beauty of the Midwest is at its peak in both the fall and spring. The landscape begins to transform from the green hues of summer and brown hues of winter to the bold, vibrant pops of color that emerge in both spring and fall. This is the idea that we wanted to capture with the Forest and the Branch necklaces.

Amazing appearance of color overprinting on the Olympic-inspired “What The Max” pack from Nike of some iconic Air Max silhouettes. I personally think the 2012′s look better than the 95 and 90′s.

via Sole Collector

New print release! The Working Proof is thrilled to be working with Toronto artist Melinda Josie this week on offering her digital print, Three Cats in a Heap. This cozy print is the result of a commission,

I’d been asked to illustrate the three cats belonging to the client’s friend.  Most of the image reference I’d been given showed the cats piled atop one another, so I tried to find an interesting composition to pile them on top of each other while still leaving each one recognizable.

This print is available in multiple sizes. It was digitally signed by the artist. The 8×10 and 11×14 prints are numbered by The Working Proof. Learn more here. Melinda has chosen to pair this print with 826 National because of their commitment  to supporting teachers, offering services and resources for English language learners, and publishing student work.

Read our interview with Melinda here, and buy the print here.

Interesting mashup by Adidas and TaylorMade to make the Samba Golf. I like the bright heel panels for yelow/green the upper. I wonder if Busenitz plays golf, that’d be a nice golf shoe.

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Keep it bright on the trail with the Arcteryx Cierzo 25. Fun fact – if you invert the colors on the image, the orange becomes the blue and vice versa.

I think scarves are for old ladies, but it's a stylish thing if you've got something that's outside of the normal floral or paisley. Check out James Jean's Reclamare Silk Scarf.

Jessica and Jesse of Nervous System just released these new Generative Puzzles featuring one-of-a-kind complex puzzle shapes and artwork from contemporary digital artists (Jonathan McCabe seen here). My favorite part of the puzzle are the random recognizable puzzle pieces that they inserted into the designs.

A little more about the project:

Each generative puzzle is a one of a kind creation with unique art and pieces. Our goal was to marry the artistry of traditional, hand-crafted jigsaw puzzles with the possibilities of new technologies. Custom software simulates crystal growth to create an organic interlocking pattern. Our laser cutter translates this into a unique set of plywood pieces. We collaborated with contemporary digital artists who created engaging artwork for the puzzles.

To create the organic shape of the pieces, we designed a system based the simulation of dendritic solidification, a crystal growth process similar to the formation of snowflakes that occurs in supercooled solutions of certain metallic alloys. By varying the parameter space, it can produce a variety of cut styles. You can read about how our simulation works here.

The puzzles are made entirely in our studio in Somerville, MA. We print the artwork on archival paper and laser cut the puzzles from birch plywood. They come in two sizes, a round 7.5″ puzzle with 85 pieces and a rectangular 18×12″ puzzle with 410 pieces. Every puzzle is unique.

Tomer Hanuka is one of my favorite illustrators and I love the re-imagining of the spread of Leonidas vs. the wolf from 300 for his Mondo poster. The original was more chiaroscuro but Tomer’s is subdued and I like how the color and edges of the wolf’s coat, combined with the snowflakes, begins to disappear into the paper.

New print release! This is our third edition with the amazingly talented Stacey Rozich, and perhaps my favorite to date. As always, Stacey’s work is playful, colorful and beautifully detailed, featuring a tiger walker and four bogeys – recent additions to Stacey’s latest works.

The small, green, bat-like creatures in this print – I like to call them bogeys – are the little bit of humor I like to inject into my pieces, some more subtle than others. They sometimes drink cans of Rainier beer, smoke cigarettes or joints as big as they are – generally causing mischief and mayhem. In Tiger Walk with Me, the unbridled carnage of the tigers is a way of amending the bad behavior of the bogeys through primal instinct – crushing them, chomping in half – showing them who’s boss. The way the figure is straining to reel them in also reminds of me of so many dog owners who take their dogs out and have to be wary of other creatures engaging them in potentially messy situations. I got to play with scale for this piece, since the original is a lot larger than I’m used to – 15″ x 22″. This gave me a chance to play with the detail of the two tigers, as well as the figure reigning them in.

This print is available in multiple sizes, and in an archival ready-to-hang version. It was digitally signed by the artist. The 8×10 and 11×14 prints are numbered by The Working Proof, and the 16×20 prints come with a numbered Certificate of Authenticity. Learn more here. Stacey chose to pair this print with Farm Sanctuary because she believes in animal rights and the safe harboring of mistreated and abused animals.

Read our interview with Stacey here, and buy the print here.

Always cool to see new work from Evan Hecox. He has a new show opening in NYC in a few weeks at Joshua Liner Gallery. It features work inspired by NYC, so I’m excited to see it. You can see more of his process work at his Blog.