Vivid, Energetic, Animated GIFs from Motion Addicts
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...
Clean, Simple, Minimal Stamped Packaging for Japanese Honey
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...
The Human Printer: Painstakingly Recreating CMYK Halftone Printing, by Hand
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,...
Introducing: Ads On The Blog
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...
250,000 Shiny Eurocents Lined Up in Precise Public Art Calligraphy
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...
RRRRRRRRoll: Mesmerizing & Playful Spinning Animated GIFs from Japan
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...
Things Organized Neatly: Carefully Knolled Objects Photographed Perfectly
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...
Charming, Quiet Illustrated GIFs With Perfectly Subtle Animation
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...
Bizarre Yet Delightfully Whimsical Photos of Old People Wearing Vegetation
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...
Leftover Wooden Logs Sculpted Into Enormous, Organic & Richly Textured Globes
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...
Spun Paint Photography: Spirals of Color Caught in Centripetal Motion
Swiss artist Fabian Oefner is a self-described “curious investigator” who captured these wonderful photos of paint caught in centripetal motion– each shot is a perfect capture of a tiny moment in time (sometimes only 1/40000 of a second!) To achieve this effect, Oefner drips a variety of bright acrylic paints onto a metal rod and...
Baked Bonsai: Delicious, Delicately Iced Japanese Cookies
I’m a little frustrated by the lack of photos online, because Risa Hirai’s delicately iced cookies deserve a second and even third look at all the detail. Using simple flour, sugar, oil, and eggs, Hirai crafts entire sets of household objects as cookies, carefully layering icing for bright colors and unexpected textures (the thin slabs...
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