Airfix Build Your Own Valentine!

I was remiss in not posting this fun card inspired by Airfix scale model kits, a collaboration between Rich Storey Designs and JollySmith Design earlier this month so you could purchase it in time for V-Day. However, you can still enjoy the fun graphics and cool design. Buy it for next year!

All cards are printed in the UK from a sustainable source and supplied individually packaged in a cello bag with a white envelope.

buy it here

Have A Little Heart This Valentine's Day. Here's 64 To Choose From.

This large selection of handmade Italian ceramic hearts designed and decorated by various artists are designed to cover every gamut of love from desire to heartbreak. Each individual heart measures approximately 5x12 cm and makes a great paperweight in addition to being a declaration of feelings. Some are interactive and others are simply decorative, but all of them are sweet.









In addition to unique ceramic hearts, Creativando makes other ceramic wares such as vases, paperweights and artist decorated butterflies. They also create furniture.

Creativando is inspired by a passion. From the passion of Laura Ellero and Mauro Bassani, the founders, for contemporary art and design. Hence the idea, at the beginning just a hobby, to "produce" gifts and everyday objects revisited with an artistic and graphic point of view. Nowadays Creativando distributes its products worldwide. The philosophy is very simple. A small artisan entreprise who made of creativity and service its strength. And that puts a lot of passion in all its work.

Environment and Made in Italy
Selected materials and maximum attention to product quality and manufacturing, a craftmanship for details, from concept to packaging. This allows us to offer a product that has all the value and reliability of the product Made in Italy.

Creativando

10 Ways To Wish Brody & Carrie A Happy Homeland Valentine's Day.

What do the television show Homeland and Valentine's Day have in common? While the award-winning Showtime drama may have more in common with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre than the day of hearts and cupids, copywriter Deanna Director and designer Caroline Director have had some fun combining their love of both to create some funny (and punny) cards to celebrate.

Playing up the character's roles and personality traits combined with cheesy Valentine heart, floral and doily art, they have made ten humorous Valentine's Day Cards that will make Homeland fans giggle.











Check out Deanna's tumblr site, Director's Commentary, here

Check out Carloline's tumblr site here

Neon Valentines By Tracey Emin Take Over New York's Times Square.

Not only does this public art installation in New York's Times Square add some colorful romance to the city, but by snapping a pic of yourself amongst it and sharing it, you get a chance to win a digital limited edition by Tracey Emin, and that's something to set one's heart a-flutter.

The installation, "I Promise To Love You"

s[edition], the online platform for the world’s most renowned contemporary artists to sell their digital limited editions, brings celebrated British artist Tracey Emin to Times Square throughout February.


above: Tracey Emin: I Promise to Love You © Tracey Emin, Photograph by Ka-Man Tse, 2013.

“Every year I send valentines. This year I won’t have to. Times Square will do it for me,” said Tracey Emin. The title is her promise to love NYC, as well as individual promises to love one another.


above: artist Tracey Emin

The artwork, a dazzling visual valentine, will be shared with New Yorkers and visitors as part of a synchronized program on over fifteen of the largest digital displays in Times Square.

“I Promise to Love You”, premiered on February 1st and plays throughout the month as part of the “Midnight Moment”, a presentation of the Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. s[edition] helped bring these works to Times Square and they will all be available for sale simultaneously and exclusively at [s]edition.

February “Midnight Moment” features these neon works by Tracey Emin throughout February 2013, every night from 11.57pm – midnight:

above: I promise to love you, 2007

above: Love is what you want, 2011

above: I listen to the ocean and all I hear is you, 2011

above: When I held you I held your heart, 2012

above: can't believe how much (how much) I loved you, 2012

above: You touch my soul, 2012

Get in on the romance and show them your love!
Join Tracey Emin’s Digital Valentines in Times Square, Just Snap + tag + share your photo and they'll give you a digital limited edition by artist Tracey Emin.


above image composited by If It's Hip, It's Here using images from the midnight moment gallery and sedition's site.

• Snap a passionate photo in Times Square between 11:57pm and midnight with Tracey Emin’s art in the background
• Tweet or Instagram your photo with #MidnightMoment
• Follow @seditionart
• Win a Tracey Emin digital limited edition

Images of the installation in Time Square:




all images courtesy of www.seditionart.com

Galleries that represent Tracey Emin:
White Cube
48 Hoxton Square
London N1 6PB
UK
w: www.whitecube.com

Lehmann Maupin
540 West 26th Street
New York
NY10001
USA
w: www.lehmannmaupin.com

Galleria Lorcan O’Neill
1E VIA ORTI D’ALIBERT
ROMA 00165
ITALY
www.lorcanoneill.com

Can You Love Someone So Much It's Creepy? Yep, Says Hubba Welcome.

Unfortunately the sweetly illustrated and hilariously disturbing cards are not available for purchase, but more creative cards by Chris Mundy and Greg Lockhart of Hubbawelcome. Other creative cards by them include the following:




About Hubbawelcome:


Hubbawelcome is a new collective of contemporary artists based in East London, formed by Chris Mundy and Greg Lockhart in 2009. Greg is an award-winning commercial illustrator, most recently recognised for his illustrative work in the awarded MAYOR OF LONDON “Save the Bees” advertising campaign, while Chris is an art director at M&C SAATCHI group, London. Their work is inspired by online culture and the psychology of growing up in the information age.

With a particular interest in social media, their pieces exhibit themes of loneliness, isolation, compulsion and death. Chris Mundy explains, “In our work we visualise the obsessive and disposable nature of how individual people interact online. We feel that being completely connected with ones peers at all times has actually become a catalyst for loneliness, gradually dehumanising relationships and individual identity.”

Hubbawelcome create prints, animations and installations by collecting fragments of online culture and reconstructing them using repetition and grids. Their pieces are bold, single-minded and colourful – appearing almost like ads for obscure products. They site artists David Shrigley, Andy Warhol, Banksy and Steve Powers as influences.

Thanks to TAXI for bringing these fun cards to my attention

Eat Your Heart Out. Anatomically Correct Edibles and Art For Valentine's Day.

This week, for Valentine's Day, London will be playing host to romantic pop up with a twist – every single one of the gifts, cards, cakes, cookies and pastries on sale in the Eat Your Heart Out event will be based on anatomically correct hearts.



A joint venture from Miss Cakehead and Medical Illustrator Emily Evans, the sales event features some of the grossest goodies and beautiful finds. The shop will feature a wide range of gifts for those who like their romance with an anatomical twist; the finest arts, crafts and cake makers having been commissioned for the project. Beautiful anatomical heart inspired pieces from jewellery, art prints, cards, embroidery, ceramics to cake, chocolate and anatomical flowers.

Here are a few of the artists and their items featured in the Valentine's Day Pop-Up Event taking place from February 8-10:

Edible Heart by All Mine Patisserie:


Heart Art by Rachel Harmeyer:


Edible Valentine Card from Tasha Marks with artwork by Emily Evans:


Fanny Shorter's Anatomical Heart Print fabric on various items:


Lucy Lyons Heart Box:


Edible Heart from Conjurer's Kitchen:


Heart Art by Geoffrey Harrison (left) and Laurie Hastings (right):


Kate Jenkins' fabulous Knit Heart Art:





Macarons by Miss Insomnia Tulip:

Oreo Fudge Heart with Sugar Blood from Miss Tulip Insomnia:


Various items from Street Anatomy:


Bespoke Barware (left) and Heart Necklace from C B Dahlia (right):


Anatomical Heart Cake Pops by Cake For Breakfast:


Heart Cakes and Cookies by Nevie-Pie:


Tees by La Mort:


The invitation to the event:


It’s being run under the guise of Anatomical Snuff Box, a venture from Miss Cakehead and Emily Evans promoting the education of anatomy using cultural channels.