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These Alice in Wonderland themed invitations by graphic designer Jag Nagra were strung together with pink ribbon and mailed in gold envelopes!

Julien Berthier graduated from l’école des Beaux-Arts de Paris and works with galleries in France, Germany and Italy.

“Chappelle,” Julien Berthier

“No Print,” Julien Berthier

“Self,” Julien Berthier

LP: Julien, what song do you wish would have been playing during your first kiss?

JB:”After laughter comes tears” by Wendy Rene. I sure did wish someone would have warned me.

LP: Got any good jokes?

JB: A guy meets a friend. He says, “Wow man, yesterday at a family dinner I made a terrible slip of the toungue. Instead of saying to my mother ‘would you please hand me the salt’ I said ‘you ruined my life you bitch.’”

JB: Humour is a tool. Like an entry door. But what has to be defined is the laugh we are looking for. In my work I like when people start smiling and when suddenly the smile is wrong. Because the work deals with social and political issues. The proposals are sort of ghostly solutions that in the end just enlarge the matters through another angle. In fact, more than humour, I guess we could talk about irony in one of its definition: to raise questions pretending to be ignorant.

LP: What do you feel is your most successful piece and why?

JB: The next one for sure.

Don’t forget to check out more of Julien’s work on his site!

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Lindsay Preston is an artist and graphic designer from San Diego. In “Lindsay’s Quick Queries”, Lindsay brings you work by contemporary artists, and answers to the questions everyone has been wondering about them, like “pancakes or waffles?”

of a little project I just finished

Excuse the terrible photos, but I’m so excited to share that one of my invitations is included in this month’s issue of HOW Magazine! It’s very flattering to see my work next to some favorites like Jefferson Perky (photo above, and blogged here), Anna Bond (RIFLE), and others. Since HOW received so many great invitations for this feature, they have a few more favorites pictured on their site.

There it is!

(and thanks to Mint reader Jeanelle for letting me know the issue was out!)

Suzy Tuxen (of the Australian design studio A Friend of Mine) has some beautiful new work in her portfolio.

From the Mother site:
“Hand-painted advertising is a dying craft, equal parts art and labor. Shot predominantly in Lower Manhattan in the Fall of 2009, ‘Up There’ is the emotional story of a few generations of men — some working on Stella Artois’ ‘The Ritual Project’ wall, others reflecting on the lives they’ve lived – who continue to keep this form alive despite changing economic conditions.”

You can see the film here. Via freerange1201.

Love this photo! Found on lolapaipro’s flickr.