Philip Bell

I’m trying to sit here and eat an apple, and Philip Bell is ruining it for me. Each time I take a bite, I spit a little bit of it out because I’m so impressed with his work. It goes: bite, “holy shit!”, little pieces of apple go flying. The work that is specifically causing me to projectile chew is his Illustrated Bill of Rights project. He designed a set of pictograms for each of the ten articles that compose the Bill of Rights and then created radial patterns out of them. It’s like a kaleidoscope made of our basic freedoms! Fun! Side note: when I was a kid I broke open a kaleidoscope, took out all the colored, plastic crap, and replaced it with various living insects that I thought looked cool. This and the food spitting would explain why I don’t have many friends.







