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I closed my first incursion into the world of comics with an introduction to the work of the Hern?ɬ�ndez Bros, for which I chose a collection named Chelo’s Burden, which contains stories by Jaime and Gilbert (Beto) Hern?ɬ�ndez.

The styles of both brothers are quite different, and so is the contents of their stories. As Art Spiegelman, they both write, paint and letter their stories, which is apparently quite uncommon in the comic world.

Here is a sample of Beto’s work:

During my last visit to Stockholm I discovered Carl Larsson, an interesting early 20th century Swedish painter. I like his colors and his themes. The picture below is called “Midwinter sacrifice”.

You can see some more of his paintings at The artist Carl Larsson’s official homepage.

Fabio Novembre is a stunning interior designer I discovered in today’s GP. He has some awesome work with organic forms and profuse decoration. The picture below is the interior of the Berlin showroom of Bisazza, a company that produces materials for mosaics.

Through Boing Boing, I have found Ray Caesar, who produces some beautiful disturbing images. Interestingly, his work is done entirely digitally, and then printed in a limited edition. Check out Caesar’s galleries.

Through Alternativa I find Color in motion, a site about the symbolism of colors. It is built in Flash and includes some (mildly) addictive toys to play around with the colors. It’s been done by Mar?ɬ?a Claudia Cort?ɬ©s as her thesis for the Master of Fine Arts Computer Graphics Design at Rochester Institute of Technology. Cool thesis, this one.

It is interesting to see what can communicate the color purple, the main color of this site. Some of the things that I like my purple to represent: ambition, art, beauty, balance, coolness, creativity, dream, dignity, enigma, feminity, independence, inspiration, intelligence, introspection, intuition, knowledge, luxury, magic, meditation, mystery, pride, reflection, responsability, truth, wisdom.