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Beautiful LEGO: Wild!, a New Book Exploring Natural Brick Wonders

LEGO-based artist, author, and curator Mike Doyle (previously here and here) has collected another impressive set of LEGO masterpieces in his lastest book Beautiful LEGO: Wild! by No Starch Press, a book that explores natural wonders from undersea landscapes to a family of sea otters produced fr

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TechTrends 2016 | frog

Screenshot at Dec 23 15-55-48With the start of a new year, the exciting question is: What technology trends will radically transform businesses in 2016 and beyond? At frog we help our clients digitally transform their businesses by identifying emerging technologies and realizing their potential. Here are 15 technology trends driving companies to reinvent themselves.

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Fornasetti

Screenshot at Dec 23 14-16-17Fornasetti is an Italian decorative arts company. A whimsical place where craftsmanship meets design, producing timeless handmade creations that inspire imagination and bring beauty to the world.

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Pouring a Thermos of Hot Tea at -40°C Near the Arctic Circle

Ontario-based photographer Michael Davies timed this impressive shot of his friend Markus hurling a thermos of hot tea through the air yesterday in -40°C weather. At such frigid temperatures water freezes instantly to form a dramatic plume of ice. For the last decade Davies has worked as a photogr

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How Clients Get You To Charge Less (And Why You Shouldn’t)

Have you ever walked down the street and heard a stranger whisper to you from a dark alley, “Hey, come here! I have some really low-paying design work to offer you! It’ll make you famous! You can trust me!” So many of us step into those dark alleys again and again because those sketchy strangers in …

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Micro Matter: Vertical Dwellings Inside Glass Test Tubes by Rosa de Jong 

For her series Micro Matter, Amsterdam-based designer and art director Rosa de Jong created towering houses and tall buildings inside the narrow confines of large glass test tubes. Perhaps comparable to a ship in bottle, the little houses and buildings are all handmade using natural objects and so

Source: Micro Matter: Vertical Dwellings Inside Glass Test Tubes by Rosa de Jong | Colossal

New Book by Chris Maynard Explores the Symbolism and Art of Sculpting with Feathers 

Delicately wielding a scalpel, Chris Maynard (previously here and here) slices into feathers to create images of the very creatures that shed them, reproducing birds of flight within his tiny found canvases. Not only is Maynard concerned about the material aesthetically, but is also interested i

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Grab me a beer, too!

The Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery leads the Craft Beer Revolution in Ontario. Brewing radical Beers and creative Ales right on the waterfront in downtown Barrie since 2004, the Flying Monkeys was the first Ontario Craft Brewery to truly recognize the need to overthrow the conservative regime of macro-brews and timid small batch taste-a-likes and create a new Culture of Craft Brewing in our province.

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The Freelancer’s Health Insurance Guide

Screenshot at Dec 10 17-42-13Freelance life is pretty great, but there’s one employee-life perk we haven’t managed to get over: employer-sponsored health insurance. Bummer. This means you must purchase an individual health plan to protect against unexpected (and very expensive) medical bills, and to avoid paying a government fine ($695 in 2016 for individuals). Your health plan has to fit …

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OnHub Makers

Screenshot at Dec 30 10-20-16Your router works better when out in the open, so we asked artists and designers to think about how they could make home internet feel even more like their homes. Starting with the original OnHub from TP-LINK, they poured resin, blew glass, and cut paper to create one of a kind shells.

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A Singapore Airlines A380 Model Plane Crafted Entirely from Manila Folders by Designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart 

A traditional paper airplane takes one sheet of paper and approximately 90 seconds. A Luca Iaconi-Stewart-designed paper airplane? 1,000 hours, 100 manila folders, 50 X-Acto blades, and an entire bottle of glue. The San-Francisco based designer has previously built a 1:60 scale Boeing 777 mo

Source: A Singapore Airlines A380 Model Plane Crafted Entirely from Manila Folders by Designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart | Colossal

Yule Log 2.015 – Happy Holidays

Your favorite digital holiday tradition is back! For the 3rd season in a row we’ve invited artists from around the world to re-imagine the traditional Yule log and bring one of the season’s greatest customs into the modern age. With Yule Log 2.015, enjoy burning brand new wildly-surprising, festive-inducing, merriment-making, cheer-bringing Yule Logs.

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Microcars

Microcars are both cheap and fuel-efficient. They were developed in the impoverished Europe of the postwar period and attracted the interest of people who couldn’t afford “real” automobiles.

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Byte

Byte lets your imagination go wild. Make awesomely rich collages out of photos, videos, GIFs, and more, then show off your creations. The world of Byte is weird, fun, and full of surprises.

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RESOLUTIONS

Starting from the first of december, every day until Xmas, we’re going to give you a new New Year’s resolution, visually and individually interpreted by Sehsucht Berlin’s artists as eye-popping animation loops.

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Clients Don’t Care How You Do Your Work – The nuSchool

You’re really good at what you do, you’re really talented, and you’ve got a great portfolio, so why aren’t new clients beating down your door? Many times, when we’re on an initial call with a client, we jump right in to telling the client about the features of our services instead of the benefits we …

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Mark Zuckerberg and Wife Pledge 99% of Their Facebook Shares to Charity 

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, announced on Tuesday that he and his wife would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares “during our lives” — holdings currently worth $45 billion — to charitable purposes.

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Type Media 2015

Type Media 2014-2015 – Philipp Neumeyer, Benedikt Brambock, Tilmann Hielscher, Minjoo Ham, Katerina Kochkina, Tezzo Suzuki, Elliott Amblard, Bahman Eslami, Marko Hrastovec, Jasper Terra, Cristian Vargas, Heidi Rand Sorensen, Loris Olivier

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I Find Pictures Of Lost Memories In Flea Markets And Make Fictional Landscapes

I first started making Fiction Landscapes in 2010 after purchasing a large stack of photographs from the flea market and discovering I could draw a line through time using these discarded traces of the past. In 2012 I addressed memory and its relationship with objects in my Heirlooms body of work that takes a look at objects and their place in our lives emotionally due to their history and our associations with them.

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Colourful masses with a Memphis aesthetic in Mariano Pascual’s illustrated alphabet

As humans we have an innate urge to reinvent, this seems especially true for illustrators who continually reinterpret the world in their own way. Mariano Pascual’s response to the open brief 36 Days of Type perfectly encapsulates this notion as he visualises his own typeface. Set up by Nina Sans and “Rafa Goicoechea”:http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rafa-goicoechea the ongoing project asks creatives to design or illustrate one letter a day and post it on their Instagram feed.

Source: It’s Nice That | Colourful masses with a Memphis aesthetic in Mariano Pascual’s illustrated alphabet

UNMADE

At Unmade, we collaborate with up-and-coming to seasoned creatives who lend their expertise in prints and patterns — but that’s just the beginning. Using state-of-the-art technology, the finest materials, and you, our customer, we begin the one-on-one dialogue of how to create something together that redefines personal.

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Faig Ahmed Creates Glitched-Out Contemporary Rugs from Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles

Faig Ahmed distorts the patterns of traditional Azerbaijani rugs, dimantling their structure in order to build compositions that trick the eye by appearing to melt off the wall. By rearticulating the original design, he creates contemporary sculptural forms that look like digital glitches, patte

Source: Faig Ahmed Creates Glitched-Out Contemporary Rugs from Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles | Colossal

‘Os Gemeos’ Converts Industrial Silos in Vancouver into Towering Giants

Photo by roaming-the-planetPhoto by roaming-the-planetPhotos by roaming-the-planetFirst a Boeing 747, and now an industrial complex on a Vancover island; it seems no canvas is too large for Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gemeos who were invited to the Vancouver Biennale to turn six mult

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TABLETOP

We are a family of creators – close knit and a little crazy – handcrafting goods at our workshop in Portland, Oregon. We make beautiful products from quality materials because we believe each one is a representation of who we are.

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There Are Only 12 Master Penmen in the World, This Guy Is the Youngest

My grandmother has some of the most beautiful penmanship I have ever seen. Her handwritten letters are something that I’ve always cherished, especially now that our world is becoming increasingly overrun by technology. For centuries, the wealthy and educated were recognized by their ability to create gorgeous handwriting on paper. But these days, handwriting and calligraphy are a dying art form. The act of putting pen to paper is happening less frequently. People would rather reach for a MacBook or iPad to communicate or design. However, the study of handwriting, called graphology, takes a while to master. It also takes passion. Just […]

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Things I’ve learned as a freelance designer – The nuSchool

nuYou wouldn’t see the “freelancer” title in my LinkedIn profile. But the truth is, I work as one since I was 17. I had my first paid project while I’m still in high school. It was a 3D design project of the Hebrew Temple of the Egyptian era. Then came an opportunity to do a freelance …

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One Hundred Patterns | Particular Intent

This book documents a collection of one hundred patterns designed by Ben Barry over the course of one hundred days—from August 27–December 5, 2014. It’s a large—9.5″ x 13″—and beautifully printed book. The entire book is printed using only three Pantone spot colors—blue, orange, and pink—and their resulting overprints. 216 pages. Limited edition of 500 copies.

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New Surrealist Sculptures by Ellen Jewett Effortlessly Combine Animals With Their Fantastical Surroundings 

Ellen Jewett (previously) effortlessly blends animals with elements from their environments, creating ceramic pieces that often balance unexpected species together in a singular piece. Each work is highly detailed—flowers, leaves, and vines wrapping themselves around animals from coyotes to cham

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Julien Renvoyé

I am a senior interaction designer based in Austin currenlty working at Mixpanel. I also work as a freelancer for many startups on my spare time and help them create amazing online experiences. I am available for everyone who needs help with branding, creating websites, web apps and mobile apps.

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Starship Technologies – leading the revolution in local delivery

Starship Technologies is leading the revolution in local delivery. Starship robots are revolutionary devices that can carry parcels or grocery bags within a 3 miles radius. Starship’s technology and approach allows us to lower the cost of local delivery by a factor of 5-10x.

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Massive Junk Portraits By Bernard Pras Need To Be Looked Twice To Be Understood Fully

Bernard Pras is a french artist well-known for his massive visually deceptive art works made purely from the junk. He collects objects by size and colors and arrange them in such a manner that collectively, when viewed from a particular point of view, forms a massive portrait. His portraits are the recreated images of well-known incident or person.

Source: Massive Junk Portraits By Bernard Pras Need To Be Looked Twice To Be Understood Fully | Bored Panda

The Exquisite Detail of Traditional Chinese Dongyang Wood Carving 

Leifeng Pagoda / Photo courtesy Michael LaiWith origins that date back as far as the Tang Dynasty (around the year ~700), the Chinese craft of Dongyang wood carving is regarded by many to be one of the most elegant forms of relief carving in the world. The craft is still practiced in a few worksho

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Gaga Symphony Orchestra

Dalle hit ever green alle ultime canzoni ballate in discoteca, la Gaga Symphony Orchestra si propone come un “intrattenimento culturale”: che suoni in teatro, in piazza o addirittura in discoteca, la GSO regala un’esperienza vivace e ricca di stimoli, costruita sullo studio e l’impegno dei giovani. E’ così che finalmente intrattenimento e cultura possono avvicinarsi e diventare sinonimi.

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Illustrator Uses Childhood Sweets And Snacks To Complete Her Drawings 

This 20-year-old Malaysian artist completes her illustrations using sweets and snacks, and the result is every child’s dream! From M&M balloons carrying away a colorful house, to Oreo-eyed critters, these drawings bring to mind arts and crafts projects on a rainy school day.

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13 Giant Sculptures Made Entirely Of Beach Waste To Make You Reconsider Plastic Use 

Let these amazing yet disturbing sculptures serve us as a reminder of society’s overuse of plastics. All of them were created using plastic materials found in sea or on shore, discarded plastics which we call beach waste. Big bravo to Washed Ashore, an Oregon-based organization, which created most of the listed sculptures and to Xandi Kreuzeder for making Tiger Shark and Roxy Mermaid.

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M Foundation, a grant-making foundation for Women and Children

We are Charitable Foundation, created by the modeling agency Mademoiselle to celebrate its 20 years of successful activities. Our Mission is to contribute to the economic and social emancipation of marginalized women and children, and to help them realize a better future by promoting Women Empowerment, Child Protection, and Education.

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In 2001, Artist Ha Schult Wrapped a Former Berlin Post Office in Thousands of Oversized Love Letters Collected From the Public 

German conceptual artist HA Schult (b. 1939) has often worked in the realm of other people’s trash, creating large scale-works that force art into everyday life and call attention to the massive consumption of Western society. In Schult’s installation “Trash People,” he built

Source: In 2001, Artist Ha Schult Wrapped a Former Berlin Post Office in Thousands of Oversized Love Letters Collected From the Public | Colossal

The Ultimate List of Online Colour Palette Generators for Web Design 

To help you in your search for the perfect colour combination, we’ve compiled the ultimate list of the best and free-to-use online colour palette generators. We hope that you’ll find a tool you like, and that will inspire you to move outside of your colour comfort zone.

Source: The Ultimate List of Online Colour Palette Generators for Web Design — Web Design and Development Blog | Web Design Trends, Tips, and More by Shopify Partners.

I Create Illustrative Artworks From Laser Cut Plywood 

My main interests have always been drawing, nature and stories and these are the three primary ingredients which I use to create my work. By building up layers of laser cut, stained plywood, I create intricate relief pieces that bridge the gap between craft, illustration and sculpture. These works are essentially drawings that have been brought off the page and into the real world as permanent form of storytelling.

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19-Year-Old Artist Uses Real-Life Objects To Complete Her Illustrations 

Kristina Webb adds real-life objects into her illustrations. The 19-year-old from New Zealand found Instagram fame early on in life, and now has almost two million followers. Recently, Webb’s first book “Color Me Creative,” was released to positive reviews. It challenges creative youths with 50 different creative projects.

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New Murals and Art Installations at ‘Life is Beautiful’ 2015 

Pixel PancoAna MariaLAS VEGAS — Last month, walls across an area of Old Las Vegas were covered in murals and installations by over 15 artists ahead of the third annual Life is Beautiful music and art fest. Curated by Charlotte Dutoit of JUST KIDS, the works included pieces by several artists see

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Facebook, what’s up with that weird graphic that shows up after you log off?

What the hell is it? Where are these two going? Why does it look like one of those free clip arts from a 1999 version of PowerPoint? Are we supposed to be that thrilled to finally quit Facebook?The clip art couple also appear to happily dash out of Facebook in various outfit colors. Note the hand size and hair changes.

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World’s Most Epic Beards From 2015 World Beard And Moustache Championships 

The 2015 World Beard And Moustache Championships, held in the town of Leogang in the Austrian mountains, is back with more epic beards and moustaches to marvel at. Over 300 bearded and moustachioed men from 20 different countries descended on this small alpine town to strut their stuff.

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I Turn 1000s Of Bullet Shells Into Animal Trophies Without Killing A Single Soul

I’m Federico, a Colombian artist currently living in Miami. This is my new series called “ We’re at peace”. This series consists in freestanding sculptures and bas-relief paintings entirely composed of bullet shells that play with the juxtaposition between whimsical subject matter, animals or landscapes that are full of life, and a historically emblematic and lethal medium.

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Jony Ive says Steve Jobs films are hijacking his legacy 

Share on Facebook (627) Tweet (370) Share (3) Pin For Apple design chief Jony Ive, remembering the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is not possible without understanding the context of how he worked. It’s been four years since Jobs’ death, the anniversary for which was earlier this week. Ive said today at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco that recent films about Jobs don’t grasp the whole picture. Instead, these efforts are hijacking Jobs legacy “with agendas that are different than those of your close family and your friends,” he said.Ive said that the “ridiculous things” that have been written about Jobs were not written with Apple’s creative process in mind. “Try to remember what he was doing and that he was having arguments with chip designers on this side and thermal engineers on that side,” he said. Ive added that Jobs’ propensity for shutting people down was a product of his ability to focus. “It doesn’t mean that you’re an asshole,” he said. “It doesn’t mean that your hobby is arguing.”

Source: Jony Ive says Steve Jobs films are hijacking his legacy | The Verge

It’s Nice That | Lukas Ackermann’s playfully abstract identity for new Zurich culture hub

Swiss graphic designer Lukas Ackermann has created this colourful visual identity for the Toni-Areal, a new area of development in Zurich that used to be an old milking factory. Emulating simple building blocks and abstract shapes, _Creative City_ feels like a playful blueprint of the various structures set to be built in the area. As well as posters, billboards, print ads and paper bags, Lukas has even designed accompanying sugar packets which look like cute little bricks. Muted primary colours prevent it from looking garish, but give it enough punch that it stands out in magazine spreads and on billboards next to grey buildings.

Source: It’s Nice That | Lukas Ackermann’s playfully abstract identity for new Zurich culture hub

Typatone

Screenshot at Oct 06 14-28-01The act of writing has always been an art. Now, it can also be an act of music. Each letter you type corresponds to a specific musical note putting a new spin to your composition. Make music while you write.

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Disney Princesses Reveal Their Dark Sides In Creepy Illustrations By Jeffrey Thomas

The princesses that star in Disney’s classic movies inhabit beautiful fantasy worlds, but it apparently doesn’t take much to turn these into dark, nightmarish realms. Jeffrey Thomas, a cartoon artist and character designer in California, reimagines what our favorite Disney heroines would look like if their worlds were a whole lot darker and creepier.

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Guy Proposes Using Custom-Made Monopoly Board With Secret Compartment

Justin Lebon proposed to his girlfriend Michal Ott on Christmas morning 2014 in an unusual way. Unbeknownst to Ott, Lebon had hired wood-worker Mark Becker to help him design a custom Monopoly board with personalized locations, a special Chance card, loaded dice, and a secret compartment with a ring.

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Enchanting New Light Box Dioramas by Hari & Deepti Tell Stories of Exploration, Travel and Adventure 

It’s been over a year since we last checked in with artist duo Deepti Nair and Harikrishnan Panickerof Hari & Deepti, who construct elegant cut paper dioramas inside backlit light boxes. The medium is perfect for depicting the depth of thick forests, pools of water, or subterranean caves

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25 Free Stock Video Sources For Your Homepage Background

Looping video background on the front page is quickly becoming popular. With top sites like Airbnb, PayPal following the trend; demand for looped and time-lapse video are high in demand. One question we get asked quite often by our users is, Where can I find free, good quality videos to use on my website? The answer […]

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Illustrator Adds Funny Cartoons To Strangers’ Instagram Photos (Part 2) 

Lucas Levitan is a Brazilian multimedia artist that created the fabulous iPhone app Photo Invasion that allows people to add cute and funny cartoon characters into their Instagram pics. Being an illustrator himself, Lucas also invites people to submit their photos and get them invaded by Lucas. It’s really fun to see the product of his imagination whether those are the photos modified by him or by his app Photo Invasion.

Source: Illustrator Adds Funny Cartoons To Strangers’ Instagram Photos (Part 2) | Bored Panda

14+ Of The Best Crazy Hair Day ‘Dos Ever

Crazy hair day is a great just-for-fun celebration that schools and other institutions that work with kids love to throw to let kids (and their parents) express their wild side a bit. On Crazy Hair Day, kits are encouraged to come in with the wackiest and most creative hair design that they can possibly imagine – hair gel, hair color and even toys are all fair game.

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Superhero, Pop Culture, And Iconic Body Canvases By Jody Steel 

Bodies have become my favorite canvas. I started drawing on myself in college and decided to film the process. Once the media picked up the story, one thing led to another, and I now have a Facebook Fanpage, Youtube, and Instagram where sharing my artwork has become a full time job.

Source: Superhero, Pop Culture, And Iconic Body Canvases By Jody Steel | Bored Panda