Featured Artist: Mark Weaver

There's a modern parable of the creative process in which a ceramics class is divided into two halves. One half is graded on quantity, receiving an A grade if they produce a minimum 50 pounds of pottery, and the other on quality, requiring one near-perfect pot to achieve an A. By the semesters end, the finest work is clearly in the hands of the quantity crowd, as they had, in their incessant repetition, smoothed out their flaws, polished their technique, and refined their aesthetic. The quality group, however, was bogged down in theory, obsessing over conceptuals which never metamorphosed into high caliber work.

Designer and illustrator Mark Weaver is clearly in the quantity camp. His "Make Something Cool Everyday" project has not only produced something everyday, an admirable task unto itself, but, as the name implies, a whole mess of seriously cool images. Weaver's well-defined collage aesthetic, which blends bold typography, the muted tones of vintage photographs, and scientific and retro-futuristic themes, allows for  remarkable consistency work, as he manages to avoid a daily reinvention of the proverbial wheel. Below are some favorites, but be sure to check out his website and flickr page for more.