Affordable Art - a list by designdude

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Art is a much different place in a post-punk environment. Having a wall and mantle and desktop full of engaging, pretense-free art that is fun and cheap is no problem these days.

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Count Chocula Cereal

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At least in theory, isn't this exactly the cereal you want to wake up and eat in the leadup to Halloween? The General Mills redesigns of a handful of classic cereal boxes seems perfectly appropriate this time of year, and the imagery on the packages has a really fun Pop Art feel that I like a lot.

Updated Oct 21, 2008

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Booberry Cereal

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Here's another compelling redesign of packaging for crappy cereal from General Mills. Much as I hate the manipulative branding that goes into hooking kids on sugar through fun and engaging characters -- rendered here in a more up-close and person manner than we're used to seeing from cereal merchandising -- I think this box imagery is fantastic.

Updated Oct 21, 2008

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Frankenberry Cereal

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Indoctrinated as a child into a morning routine filled with granola and fruit, I sort of missed out on the pleasures of sugary cereals, which made the packaging of these foreign treats a little more glamorous while perusing the cereal isle at the grocery store. The magic is still alive for me with this Frankenberry redesign. If one of the real achievements of Pop Art was to destroy barriers between the people and the art (both financially and intellectually), I think this is pretty awesome portraiture.

Updated Oct 21, 2008

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Enviro-Tote Skullphone American Tote Bag

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This Enviro-Tote bag, featuring an illustration by Skullphone is dying to be unpacked. The graphic is a direct reference to a Jason Lee Bind graphic from the '90s. The subtle changes -- Miller beer swapped for Tecate, Blind-branded cigarettes swapped for American Spirits -- speak to Skullphone's southern California experience, where the cheap beers of choice are increasingly Mexican and even smokers try to engage vice in as healthy a way as possible. There's also a larger swap of the original's television for Skullphone's signature skull-with-cellphone imagery, which places contemporary communication on par with vices like smoking, drinking, violence, and religion. It ultimately all gets a little muddled, but there's an interesting dialogue between Skullphone's vision of iconography that defines America and the more traditionally sardonic reading of what's important to Americans offered by McKee less than two decades earlier. Maybe next time you're drinking and smoking and shooting things, you can text this recommendation to your bible-thumping pals and they can make sense of it.

Updated Oct 17, 2008

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Mini Vida Altar -- Joann Vida

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As far as alters go, I'm way more for doing it yourself, but I like this piece a lot as crafty art. The 6.5"x6.5" mixed-media piece features clay sculpture and candles on a hand-painted wood canvas. At $70, it's worth bringing out once a year in October and November.

Updated Oct 14, 2008

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Unite Us, by Jay Zehngebot

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One of five winning poster designs in the Manifest Hope Competition that took place in Denver during the Democratic National Convention, "Unite Us" was designed by Nick Rock and printed by Jay Zehngebot at AS220 in Providence, RI. The first edition includes 50 hand-signed and numbered silk screens printed on 100% Post Consumer Recycled paper and produced using windpower.

Updated Oct 25, 2008

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Groucho Labbit Mouse Pad

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What's better than a non-smorkin' labbit mouse pad? One that features a Groucho Marx mustache, of course.

Updated Jul 7, 2008

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Warhol Deserts 2009 Calendar

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This mini calendar measures at a mere 7" x 7" and features 12 desert illustrations from Warhol, dating to the 1950s. It's all a bit warmer than what you might expect from the artist, but there's a quirky sensibility that makes the imagery feel unique and compelling.

Updated Sep 22, 2008

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Jeremy Fish Ashtray

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The ironic upshot of an artist-designed ashtray with a graphic image inside the dish is that you feel a little dodgy every time you ash on art. But I'm sure it's a nice incentive for the self-loathing artist. Or in the case of Jeremy Fish, it's probably just funny to ask you to face a skull and crossbones as you're trying to ignore the act of killing yourself softly.

Updated Sep 3, 2008

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PostlerFerguson Paper AK47

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An attempt to consider the AK47 on a purely aesthetic level, this paper death machine (part of a series actually called "Death Machines," by London-based design firm PostlerFerguson) is built to scale. Rendered in white, the piece is perfectly customizable and ships flat in five sheets of paper with instructions.

Updated Aug 22, 2008

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