Rest your eyes today on these wonderfully simple abstract paper roll sculptures by Mexican artist Ana Bidart– there’s absolutely no additional adornment to these plain rolls, except for the carefully carved lines and chiseled edges, whittling away the bottom of each roll. There’s a sense of slowly progressing decay as each roll loses more and...
I’m very amused by these quirky, individually hand-stamped matches by Japanese artist Hiromi Hirasaka– everything from the illustrated matchbox to the delicately detailed faces is delightfully weird and precise and adorable. Named Kokeshi Matches after the familiar Japanese wooden dolls, the match faces started off being drawn by hand, and then were updated to stamps...
The hiatus has gone on for too long– back to the blogging grind, now with some fresh new GIFs from the motion graphics duo at Motion Addicts. Their vivid, energetic GIFs are lovely to look at, especially due to the precise timing on each image: there small, subtle pauses and rushes in the animation that...
I haven’t written about packaging in a long time, as it can easily get lost in the massiveness of art galleries and openings and installations. This packaging of Onuma Honey by Akaoni Design kept drawing me in, and I have to admit its a huge breath of fresh air from the overly slick packaging I’m used...
Prepare to be astounded by the sheer level of detail: The Human Printer is an amazing design collaboration amongst University of Derby students who can reproduce the CMYK halftone printing effect… by hand. By layering of dotted color in a pattern to create full-color imagery, the students mimicked the work of an actual digital printer,...
I’m really pleased to finally announce this on the blog– if you haven’t noticed, I’ve recently started running ads! I’ve had a fantastic time partnering with Nectar Ads, who have been providing beautifully designed and design-related ads on the right sidebar. Paid advertising is one more step towards bringing better and better content to you...
This installation is pretty old in interweb years– Stefan Sagmeister and his team completed it in 2008– but it still deserves a revisit for the lovely presentation of a statement that many a designer can resound with. On September 13, 2008, Sagmeister and his team began laying out 250,000 Eurocents on Waagdragerhof Square in Amsterdam...
I know, I know– the internet already adores RRRRRRRRoll, but I still feel that this fun single-serving Tumblr deserves its own post here. RRRRRRRRoll is run anonymously, and it features only one type of movement in its clever & playful animated GIFs. Something or someone (well, its always the same solemn Japanese girl in every...
I was pretty thrilled to find the Things Organized Neatly tumblr a few months ago, but only recently came to the realization that the best of the best out of those knolling photos were all taken by Portland-based photographer Jim Golden. He has a solid collection of perfectly knolled objects (read up on the skill...
A few months ago, the internet was all aflutter about a wonderful illustrated GIF that appeared on a New York Times opinion piece about Amtrak’s Quiet Car– the GIF was a sweet and subtle animation of the train interior with muted scenery flying by in the windows. This GIF magic was drawn by Brooklyn artist...
I don’t know why I find this so hilarious, but this photo series called “Eyes as Big as Plates” by Finnish/Norwegian artists Riittai Konen and Karoline Hjorth just catches me as being utterly bizarre yet whimsical– its photographs of old people wearing vegetation! The natural arrangements of hay, reeds, branches, and other vegetation flow effortlessly with...
Korean artist Jaehyo Lee carefully hews leftover logs of wood into these enormous, richly textured globes for a stunning effect– the rich grain of the wood and rough edges of bark are on display even as each ball maintains a perfect, almost industrial spherical shape that clearly has been manipulated by the artist. Each sphere...
Rolls of Paper Sculpted Into Crisp, Lovely, Abstract Forms
May 22, 2013
Quirky and Cute Individually Hand-Stamped Kokeshi Matches
May 20, 2013
Vivid, Energetic, Animated GIFs from Motion Addicts
May 14, 2013
Clean, Simple, Minimal Stamped Packaging for Japanese Honey
Apr 19, 2013
The Human Printer: Painstakingly Recreating CMYK Halftone Printing, by Hand
Apr 16, 2013
Introducing: Ads On The Blog
Apr 10, 2013
250,000 Shiny Eurocents Lined Up in Precise Public Art Calligraphy
Apr 5, 2013
RRRRRRRRoll: Mesmerizing & Playful Spinning Animated GIFs from Japan
Apr 4, 2013
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