I fell in love with Inslee Hayne’s whimsical designs when I first laid eyes on a calendar by her hanging on my friend’s fridge. The DC-based artist has already had her darling designs featured on People Style Watch. You can visit inslee.net to purchase her artwork on stationery, cards or calendars starting from $18. I thought they would make such an original, statement gift…to a friend or yourself . Check some of her illustrations below and let me know if you have any favorites!!

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“These trees are all over L.A. They are even more vibrant and striking in person.” – Melissa

Tobias Wong was a 35-year-old rising artist based in NYC. Before his untimely death last month (which is a bit open-ended — the examiner ruled it was suicide by hanging, though he was reportedly a chronic sleepwalker which leads people like his partner of six years to believe that it was an “accident”), Wong was just coming off his most successful shows. Some of the common themes in his art were based on questioning consumerism and luxury, but his perspective (sometimes using such common things as a matchbook or mirrors) is what really gets me. Some of his work is below:

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CAN.not.wait. till she comes back.

When even the complicated things were so simple…

Photographer: Akbar Sayed
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Spotted: 29th/Broadway in midtown