Website, Print, and Media Design
1. Australian artist Jeremy Geddes creates astounding photo-realistic oil paintings of figures free-falling or bursting through mid-air. It takes Geddes about one to six months to complete a single painting. Some people are just born with talent. It kills you, right? 2. Draw animals with the help of an iPhone or iPad and the newest…read more…
1. Russian artist Yulia Brodskaya creates incredible works art using coiled paper known as paper filigree. No paint, film or Photoshopping skills required. But you may need patience and talent. 2. Japanese photographer Yuki Karo travels to various places around Maniwa and Okayama regions in Japan to capture the wondrous swirl of mating gold fireflies…read more…
1. Irving Harper : Works in Paper showcases the industrial designer’s massive collection of paper sculptures, a stress-relieving hobby he started in 1964, around the same time he was designing for Herman Miller. How incredible is this owl?! 2. See what international airports look like from up above. Aerial shots of airplanes on the tarmac?…read more…
1. Artist Jay Shells takes his Rap Quotes project to the streets, literally. Shells creates official-looking signs and posts them at specific locations as rapped by famed lyricists including Mos Def (aka Yasiin Bey), Jay-Z and Nas. 2. An Aurora Borealis occurred on March 17th. How did I know about it? I saw this video…read more…
Swiss artist Felice Varini has been creating large scale anamorphic paintings since 1979. His work ranges from small canvases to buildings to small towns. Varini first researches his prospective space, creates an image and then uses a projector to impose that image onto his surface, which he then traces and later paints. It is a…read more…
1. Brazilian design studio 18bis visualizes Pablo Neruda’s poem The Me Bird using the strata stencil technique. What results is a hypnotic, mystical journey of a ballerina reaching her ultimate freedom. 2. Designed by Sunhan Kwon, Take Weather combines traditional weather apps with photosharing to produce personal updates on Mother Nature. You can download it…read more…
Minneapolis-based creative David Schwen has created Pantone Pairings, a photograph series of famous food couples. Are you a designer? Then you know a Pantone color swatch when you see one. Check out all the tried-and-true pairings on Instagram. People are going nutty for it. Schwen currently has over 30,000 followers. Photographs of food on Instagram?…read more…
1. Australian photographer Bill Gekas recreates famous master paintings with the help of his 5-year old daughter. First, what a way to take advantage of child labor. And second, she’s so cute. Enough said. 2. I am mesmerized by the handiwork of Seb Lester. Every stroke of the calligraphy pen is smooth, fluid and flawless.…read more…
Remember Bill Watterson’s syndicated cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbes? I never fully appreciated the sardonic outlook of its precocious six-year old and his anthropomorphic tiger until I became an adult, which tells you something; anything worth remembering has to appeal to a wide spectrum of ages. Calvin and Hobbes was sweet and funny as a…read more…
Creation is only limited by imagination. You can quote me on it. I may not be a photographer because I lack the eye for composition (all my ‘good’ pictures involve diagonal lines for some reason), but I know good work when I see because I feel it beyond sight, if that makes any sense. Photographer…read more…