Singed wood is rarely a desired look for home goods, but Tel Aviv designer Hilla Sharmia intentionally uses the rugged, unexpected look as a feature in her furniture. By pouring molten aluminum around raw wooden logs, Sharmia creates these beautiful tables and stools, and each piece is a work of incredible texture. The entire set,...
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...
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...
Brooklyn artist Jason Freeny describes his work as “candy colored madness”: his modified designer toys are often anatomical sculptures of popular icons in the toy world, which have been carefully sculpted to reveal their skeletal structure and other gooey innards. Seeing these macabre interpretations of familiar faces like Hello Kitty or Finding Nemo is jarring...
Japanese ad agency I&SBBDO was approached by a client who wanted to boost their flagging business after the 2011 tsunami in Japan– the product, however, was nori (sheets of Japanese seaweed used in sushi). In an effort to reinvent this simple square of seaweed without losing sight of the age-old traditions embedded in their culture,...
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...
Maskull Lasserre is a Canadian artist with a peculiar wardrobe– his newest work, titled “Outliers,” uses molds of animal hooves and paws as soles for his shoes. The result is an ingenious set of footwear that leaves behind perfect imprints of natural animal tracks. I would imagine that this would be a great prank to...
George Chamoun, a Swedish jewelry design student at the Konstfack University of the Arts, spent a very, very long time looking for the perfect photographs to make this project: “Iconatomy” is a photo series that seamlessly merges two celebrities from two different eras of movie-making. The result is an amazing display of eerie similarities between...
I am very, very impressed that this is Trek Matthew‘s first public mural– this spectacular fox titled “cicerone//fox” is nearly 3 stories high, and its covered in bold, tribal-inspired patterns from head to tail. The stark and vivid colors stand out crisply, especially as the illustration crosses from the cloudy painted grey-blue on the bottom...
I love the lighthearted nature of this little graphic design project by Dan Matutina– the Phillipines-based designer created the Versus/Hearts series to illustrate some famous rivalries, whether real, abstract, or in cartoons. (tl;dr There are rivals in hearts.) From the Versus/Hearts tumblr: What is this silly project? Versus/Hearts is about rivals. Rivals hate each other,...
My coworkers and I were recently talking about the concept of one’s “internal age”– the age that you perceive yourself to be at, rather than the age you actually are. In this award-winning ad campaign for an Alzheimer’s drug for Novartis, photographer Tom Hussey captures the complex emotion of jarring self-perception in a series of...
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...
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May 10, 2012
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May 9, 2012
Trippy GIFs with Motion Graphics: The Amazing Work of Mr. Div
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Flawless Watercolor: Perfectly Hand-painted Letters, Numbers, and Patterns
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