Check out this new video by friend of Neu Black Anna Wolf for Untitled Magazine. Anna is a New York based fashion photographer with clients like Target, MTV, and Virgin Mobile. We’re happy to see she’s making the jump to live action and doing it with the same subtle beauty as her still work.

Job Waouters, aka The Letman has an uncanny ability to create beautiful expressive typography. As illustrated in the video, he puts type on paper with a deceiving ease. With more and more design and correspondence done digitally, it’s increasingly special to see such beautiful hand lettering.

Kazuki Takamatsu creates softly stenciled works of art that seem stunningly dimensional even though we consciously realize they’re flat. These stenciled faux sculptures of Manga like characters feel vaguely like Takashi Murakami in their (ahem) themes, but take on a more timeless quality in black and white that Murakami’s over the top pop art color palette.
Though the images after the jump are more of these lovely stencils, the push the line of NSFW. We’re not sure if it’s more or less edgy that these figures lack any defining characteristics, but we’ll let you be the judge. If your co-workers laugh as they catch a glimpse over your shoulder, don’t say we didn’t warn you.
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Pop up books usually make us think of teaching kids to read rather than modernist art pieces. David Carter’s 600 Black Spots however has more to do with Alexander Calder that Dr. Seuss. This is tribute to the creative ingenuity of book making and a lovely coffee table piece to boot.
You can pick up a copy at the Tate Modern’s Online Store.

These incredible works from Rafael Grampa take us back to the days we’d spend thumbing through our comic collection. We’re happy to see this style take new life over the years in graphic novels and gallery shows for this type of art. You can check out Grampa’s Graphic novel Mesmo Delivery, and check out some previews of Furry Water coming out in 2010 on his flickr feed.

Originally from Japan, Yuta Onoda is fantastic artist living and working in Ontario Canada. Onoda is a prolific galelry artist, as well as illustrating for the likes of Pylon, HOW, EYE.
More of this lovely work after the jump.
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Thank god someone finally made some decent hand and arrow icons and gave them out for the world to use. Thanks to Michael Mulvey for hooking these up. You can download them here.

In these videos Japanese artist/programmer Daito Manabe experiments with sound triggered electric stimulus. While we’re not sure how safe this is, it’s awesome to watch. Maybe there’s hope for the most uncoordinated of us to finally pop lock. Sign us up.

Some amazing work from Colombian photographer Basilio Silva. He is currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has created ESTUDIOMOD, together with the Fashion Stylist and Producer Josefina Pérez Larsen and Art Director Gaston Cardozo.
Silva began his career as a documentary photographer and later entered the world of fashion photography and advertising. We’d say he made the right call. More beautiful images after the jump.
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Very entertaining little piece on the creative process of Hunter Gatherer. This looks like a super fun place to work.