Designing for Camels: The Art of Dressing Up Your Desert Beasts
Rajasthan, the largest state in India, is mostly made of up desert, and the largest city in that desert, Bikaner, hosts a yearly Camel Festival every January which features the familiar desert beast. There is camel racing, camel parades, and even camel contests, and the best part of all this is the way the native...
Angles of Light: Making Shapes Out Of A Single Sunbeam
These shapes and lines that appear to be floating actually ARE suspended in mid air, because they are made of nothing but a single beam of light. Artist James Nizam drilled holes into his studio wall, and with some clever mirror manipulation, he bounces the light in precise angles to create these images. What’s even...
The Beauty of Civic Pride: Thousands of Colorful & Unique Manhole Covers in Japan
In the States, we don’t give a second thought to the plain-jane, utilitarian manhole covers that appear on our streets, but apparently nearly 95% of the 1,780 municipalities in Japan have their very own manhole covers that bear designs unique to the location! In a tradition that started in the 1980s, each manhole cover is...
An Ingenious Foldable Ladder: The Corner Ladder
This is one of those designs where I’m astonished that no one came up with it sooner. Designed by the Barcelona-based Company & Company design studio, the Corner Ladder is a beautifully constructed wooden ladder that easily folds into itself for slim storage. I love the rounded corners and smooth surface of the ladder sides...
What’s On Your Desk? Artfully Arranged Color Combinations of Office Supplies
Shooting still life is no easy matter, especially when taking photos of typically overlooked everyday objects like office supplies. Swedish design trio Kontor Kontur are masters at arranging, styling, and shooting their studio office goods in artful compositions– their Color Chart print, which is the combination of all their styled supplies in a single shot,...
Trippy GIFs with Motion Graphics: The Amazing Work of Mr. Div
GIFs are great at capturing moments in film and video, but they often depend on repurposing an outside source (taking a clip from a TV show, for example, or layering movie stills.) Original GIFs are still a rarity, and Matthew Divito (aka Mr. Div in the Tumblrverse) has brought it to the next level by...
Flawless Watercolor: Perfectly Hand-painted Letters, Numbers, and Patterns
Brooklyn-based illustrator Sasha Prood has mastered and mixed the precise lines of typography with the warmth of watercolor illustrations to create flawless work. The colors flow naturally from one gradient to another, and the rich hues jump out crisply from the paper. It’s organic yet perfect, bringing a human touch to the typography. From Sasha...
Jar of Geometric Shapes: Perfect Papercraft from Present & Correct
Present & Correct is one of my favorite online shops– based in the UK, they are famous for their limited runs of vintage, graphic stationery, some of which is sourced from all over the world, and some of which are designed in-house. Mark, who is one half of the Present & Correct team, created these...
Unbelievable Sugar Murals: Making Street Art Out of Frosting and Sugar
I know there’s been an influx of street art on here lately, but this was too amazing to ignore– Montreal artist Shelley Miller puts up these pieces of sugar street art that are incredibly detailed. From afar, it resembles the blue and white finesse of Delft ceramic ware, but in reality all of these outdoor...
Porcelain Pinguins: Adorable Ceramic Tableware Companions
I’m completely taken in by these porcelain penguins: these ceramic table toppers are part of the Pinguin Rei tableware series by Luiz Pellanda & Aleverson Ecker. Each sleek little penguin can be either a vinegar or oil dispenser, and their accompanying icebergs hold salt and pepper. I can’t decide what I love most about these–...
Steady As She Goes: Ornate Type Made By 3D Printing
3D printing is a fascinating process that has grown quite popular in the last decade– machines can now easily create a real, three dimensional object using data from a digital file to “print” the object from the ground up. Sydney based design studio Like Minded Studio used this technology in a stunning display of typography,...
Eerie and Richly Colored Street Art by Aryz
22 year old Barcelona-based street artist Aryz does beautiful illustrations both on canvas and on walls– his outdoor work, however, is notably stunning due to its richly layered hues and enormous size. Sometimes spanning multiple walls, his pieces are lightly outlined with black for a painterly look, and then filled with a host of complementary...
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