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...
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...
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,...
Selected: Clever Animated GIFs of Famous Art With Missing Subjects
London-born Mike Guppy created this series of animated GIFs a few years ago titled “Selected“. With a little bit of Photoshop, he has removed the subjects from a few famous pieces of artwork, and cleverly added an outline of the “marching ants” animation around the missing subject. This is only particularly funny to those familiar...
String Rainbows of Color, Color, Color: Ethereal Thread Art Installations
I can’t believe I haven’t posted Gabriel Dawe‘s work on here before: his large-scale installations made of thread are bursting with color that fades in and out of different opacities and hues. This ethereal effect is created using sets of string that can measure up to 50 miles long in total, and the carefully placed...
100 Life-Size Cardboard Monkeys and More: Enormous Cardboard Sculptures
Brooklyn born artist James Grashow works with the simplest medium of corrugated cardboard to create enormous sculptures and installations that are incredibly playful. The sheer size of his work is staggering to begin with: a hundred life-size monkeys swoop down to play, Neptune rises majestically out of the sea surrounded by his coterie, and a...
Anamorphic Illusions: Enormous Paintings That Deceive The Eye
At first glance, there’s nothing spectacular at all about these images– one might assume that a lazy graphic designer simply overlaid some colors and shapes on top of a standard photos. Look again, because these are NOT computer-edited, but rather PAINTED shapes and colors that span entire walls, floors, ceilings, and even entire buildings, and...
Quelle Fête: Melting Disco Balls
“ROTGANZEN” is an artist collective based in Rotterdam and Schiedam, founded by Robin Stam, Mark van Wijk and Joeri Horstink– I was so fascinated with these two disco ball installations, titled “Quelle Fête,” I and II. Each piece creates the illusion of melting disco balls, or as my friend Young likes to put it, “rhinestone...
Pristine Natural Landscapes, Sculpted From Books
Artist Guy Laramee is a master at creating zen-like landscapes of mountains, caves, and valleys– he does an amazing job sculpting these pristine works out of books. Each sculpture perfectly mimics the curves and drops of nature’s familiar silhouettes, and the miniature scale of these mountains confuses the viewer with its blend of majesty in...
Tiny Elaborate Bonsai Treehouses
Japanese artist Takanori Aiba starts with the Japanese art of pruning bonsai, and then transforms the work into a tiny world within and around the bonsai tree. His elaborate treehouses have carefully constructed latticework and landings with stairs that wrap around the piece in a maze-like fashion. Some of the pieces have moved on to...
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