Carnival and Lent Puzzle

Painter Cecily Brown applies her abstractions to a limited-edition jigsaw puzzle

British artist Cecily Brown—known for oil paintings full of ribald energy depicted through frenzied brush strokes—turns to a less traditional medium with her new puzzle edition. The recently-released 672-piece jigsaw of her 2008 large-scale “Carnival and Lent” painting makes the perfect lazy day activity. With just 230 made—30 of them signed by Brown—the mind-bender makes an ideal addition to any avid puzzle or art collector’s …

Black City Totem

Matthew Dear taps the Boyms for an object-based digital release of his latest album

For the release of Matthew Dear’s latest album, Black City, his label decided to take a slightly more inventive approach to packaging. Teaming up with award-winning design firm Boym, Ghostly International will release an ominous-looking totem, inscribed with a unique four-character code that accesses a download and stream of the full digital album, as well as an exclusive track. The Black City mini-sculptures, described as …

Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler

A limited-edition poster from a product designer who knows what it means to be a hustler

With his new graphic poster, San Francisco, CA-based industrial designer Joey Roth finds a new way to talk about his two-pronged tactic of “giving form to objects and then clearing a path for them to enter the world.” The simple diagram, originally appearing in the hustler-themed first issue of 48 Hour Magazine, breaks down three archetypes—charlatan, martyr, and hustler—according to design and marketing efforts, or …