Put It On Paper — The Open Studio: A Blog by FiftyThree

We’re thrilled to announce that Paper on iPhone and iPad is live! Instantly create diagrams, sketch on top of photos, and make checklists with the swipe of your finger. Whether you’re remodeling your home, taking lecture notes, or creating a presentation, Paper redefines what it means to be productive and creative on-the-go. It’s free on the App Store. Download Paper now.

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How I got unexpected money for a design job [case study] 

Today I’m going to share with you my best strategies for getting unexpected money from my clients, based on a real-life example. Why do I call it unexpected money? Well, because it’s money my clients weren’t planning on investing in the first place. Also because it’s a catchy title. I promise that I didn’t drag you here …

Source: How I got unexpected money for a design job [case study] – The nuSchool

6 Web Design Chrome Extensions And The Creative Geniuses Behind Them.

6_Extensions_Muzli_ThumbnailWhen it comes to tools and utilities, web designers tend to have their own unique needs. After all, creative minds require the right environment to flourish and to make and design amazing things for their clients. Without tools, designers are stuck with the nitty gritty parts, leaving creative professionals with less time and energy to focus on things that matter.

Source: 6 Web Design Chrome Extensions And The Creative Geniuses Behind Them. | Blog | Webydo

20+ Things That Are Hilariously Similar To Each Other (Part 4) 

We love finding similar things, and we know that you love them, too! That’s why our list wasn’t just a one part deal, but also had a part two and part three.This list is our latest collection of surprisingly similar things. Have you found any unexpectedly similar objects or images? Vote on your favorite, or submit your own!

Source: 20+ Things That Are Hilariously Similar To Each Other (Part 4) | Bored Panda

Why I Became A Lunchbox Dad And Started Making Bento Lunches For My Kids

Three years ago, I started making these fun characters out of food for my daughter’s school lunches. Anonymous internet parents started telling me You have too much time on your hands and Get a real job. In fact, I have a full-time job, am married, and have three kids.

Source: Why I Became A Lunchbox Dad And Started Making Bento Lunches For My Kids | Bored Panda

15+ Mind-Bending Photos That Seem Fake But Are Actually Real 

If you’ve spent a decent amount of time on the Internet, you’ve probably developed a healthy skepticism – you shouldn’t always believe what you see online, because it’s fairly easy to falsify with Photoshop. These images, however, will turn your caution on its head – though all of these images look like they might be fake, each is 100% real!

Source: 15+ Mind-Bending Photos That Seem Fake But Are Actually Real | Bored Panda

Giant Straw Dinosaurs Invade Japanese Fields After Rice Harvest 

Niigata Prefecture, Japan, has thought of a novel way to use the straw left over from their rice harvest. A “wara” or rice-straw festival is held every August 31st, where local artists build elaborate straw sculptures over wooden frames. The frames allow the statues to be larger, and for spectators to interact with them.

Source: Giant Straw Dinosaurs Invade Japanese Fields After Rice Harvest | Bored Panda

Millions Of Dots Form Intricate Pen Drawings To Raise Environmental Awareness

California artist Kyle Leonard, who draws stunningly detailed stippled art with millions of dots, is inspired by the natural world and politics, especially the politics that affect the way we treat the environment. “I draw everyday as a creative outlet and for the meditative quality of it.”

Source: Millions Of Dots Form Intricate Pen Drawings To Raise Environmental Awareness | Bored Panda

Makeup Artist Turns Himself Into Superheroes With Nothing But Makeup

Argenis Pinal, a makeup artist based in Temecula, California, doesn’t need a costume to look like a superhero – he uses his fantastic makeup and body paint skills to change his entire appearance. With the right lines and colors, he can become a zombie Wolverine, cyborg Superman, or any one of hundreds of other cool remixed superheroes that he loves to paint on himself.

Source: Makeup Artist Turns Himself Into Superheroes With Nothing But Makeup | Bored Panda

Girl Surprised To Receive 3D-Printed Arm From Designer Who Is Also Missing His Left Arm 

Steven Davies, who is missing an arm, received a free prosthetic from Team Unlimbited e-Nable, and soon became a volunteer for the organization. When Davies learned that there was an 8-year-old-girl from Bristol who also needed prosthetic arm, he saw a chance to pay his good fortune forward: he designed an arm for Isabella, and then drove 200 miles to deliver it to her in person.

Source: Girl Surprised To Receive 3D-Printed Arm From Designer Who Is Also Missing His Left Arm | Bored Panda

Mental Illnesses Illustrated As Real Monsters By Toby Allen

These pieces of art represent mental illnesses illustrated as Monsters by genius artist Toby Allen.From anxiety to depression to body dismorphic disorder, Toby Allen intended by this artwork particularly to give these intangible mental illnesses some substance and make them appear more manageable as physical entities.

Source: Mental Illnesses Illustrated As Real Monsters By Toby Allen | Bored Panda

4:20 avec Dead Obies

2015… Dead Obies doit livrer un nouvel album répondant au succès monstre de Montréal $ud d’ici la fin de l’année. Au rythme d’un épisode par semaine, alors que les aiguilles de l’horloge frappent le 4:20, suivez les mésaventures du groupe en pleine quête d’inspiration. Les six membres de Dead Obies survivront-ils à la pression?

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A Peek Inside the Galleries and a Playlist of Short Films Showing at Banksy’s Dismaland 

Dietrich Wegner / Photo by Christopher Jobson for ColossalThe fun thing about Dismaland is that in addition to pieces by Banksy, you get to immerse yourself in the works of 58 additional artists, and films by 22 directors and animators. It’s impossible to grasp the scope of every last sculp

Source: A Peek Inside the Galleries and a Playlist of Short Films Showing at Banksy’s Dismaland | Colossal

MTVVMA.NET

Check the cool stuff people have made using 2015 MTV Video Music Awards VMA images and videos. If you want to make cool stuff too, download our images and videos, make your own versions and share with us. Your work could run on MTV screens and billboards.

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The Sad Truth About Today’s World Illustrated By Steve Cutts

Art isn’t all fairytale photoshoots and landscape shots – it can also act as catalyst of change. And Steve Cutts thinks that many things in the world should be different. Work shouldn’t be a grinding, soul-crushing rat race for the almighty dollar. Consumerism shouldn’t hold a vice-like grip on our lives. And social media, well, we need to throw-off the shackles we so eagerly put on ourselves. Wouldn’t life be better then?

Source: The Sad Truth About Today’s World Illustrated By Steve Cutts | Bored Panda

The Artist Turns Useless Hubcaps Into Impressive Looking Sculptures

Most of us get bored when we see old hubcaps jumbling the roadside, but artist Ptolemy Elrington has spent 12 years setting them for the good use. Elrington takes dismissed hubcaps and repurposes them into wonderful animal sculptures. The impressive thing is that he doesn’t try to hide t

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Welcome to Dismaland: A First Look Inside Banksy’s New Art Exhibition Housed Inside a Dystopian Theme Park 

WESTON-SUPER-MARE — Inside the walls of a derelict seaside swimming resort in Weston-super-Mare, UK, mysterious construction over the last month—including a dingy looking Disney-like castle and a gargantuan rainbow-colored pinwheel tangled in plastic—suggested something big was afoot. Suspic

Source: Welcome to Dismaland: A First Look Inside Banksy’s New Art Exhibition Housed Inside a Dystopian Theme Park | Colossal

Y Combinator Gets Hardcore About Hardware

The traditional catered lunch had been replaced with a new buffet: hardware startups. Sandwichbots, teabots, futuristic shower heads, and Internet-connected mattress covers lined the room’s perimeter inside Mountain View’s Computer History Museum.Y Combinator is known for software success stories like Dropbox, Stripe and Zenefits. But now it’s evolving to make the “real world” a *better* place, too. Last season’s batch had just 11 hardware starupts. 2014’s classes had just 8 and 9. This season, 20 of the 102 startups build hardware — a far bigger percentage than ever before. The include a weight scale that generates a virtual reality avatar of you that shows where you’re getting fat, and a full-service cafe on a bike. [Check out our “Top Startups From Demo Day 1,” or writeups of all 50.]Y Combinator president Sam Altman insists that Y Combinator’s investment thesis hasn’t fundamentally changed. “Anything that could be a $10 billion-plus business, we’ll fund.”

Source: Y Combinator Gets Hardcore About Hardware | TechCrunch

Concá Vodka

Screenshot at Aug 18 13-04-48Living con carácter means living passionately and being true to your self. It’s for people who, like us, believe authenticity isn’t purity, but about blending everything that inspires us. Because at the end of the day, it’s not the label that really matters. It’s the spirit inside.

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Home

Nebia is making products the world needs, starting with the shower. Premium experience, innovative design and 75% water savings. Launching summer 2015.

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Stunningly Detailed Sculptures Carved From Pencil Tips By Bosnian Artist 

All artists use tools, but Bosnian sculptor Jasenko Đorđević turns tools into art. Born in Tulza, Bosnia, Đorđević uses an X-acto knife and tiny chisel to carve pencil-tips into detailed sculptures, with a result that resembles something made from stone or charred wood. The work is difficult, but this is part of the appeal.

Source: Stunningly Detailed Sculptures Carved From Pencil Tips By Bosnian Artist | Bored Panda

Artist Charles Young Completes Work on Daily Paper Model Project After Designing 365 Structures

It’s daunting to witness the labor poured into a 365-day creative project, be it taking a daily photo, doing a quick sketch, or even writing a few lines. Edinburgh-based artist Charles Young (previously) gets particularly high marks for completing his daily paper model project that he started

Source: Artist Charles Young Completes Work on Daily Paper Model Project After Designing 365 Structures | Colossal

Historic Glass-Plate Photos From Romania Restored And Turned Into Colorful Art 

Continuing with her Dancing with Costică series, Australian artist Jane Long uses photographs from Romanian photographer Costică Ascinte restores, recolours and transforms them into something unexpected!Some people love them and some people hate them but there’s little doubt they all involve lots of painstaking retouching in Photoshop. The original images are part of a collection being restored and digitized by Cezar Popescu ( http://colectiacosticaacsinte.eu/ ) for the Ialomita County Museum.

Source: Historic Glass-Plate Photos From Romania Restored And Turned Into Colorful Art | Bored Panda

CSS Design Awards – Redesign

cssdesignCSS Design Awards provide website awards and web design inspiration with the best sites being featured in our CSS Gallery. A leading international platform, CSSDA accepts submissions from freelance designers, studios & agencies. Winners receive official certificates, award trophies and acclaim from an international judging panel of web design and development experts.

Source: CSS Design Awards – Website Awards & Inspiration – CSS Gallery – CSSDA

Dad Gets Tattoo So His 6-Year-Old Daughter Wouldn’t Feel Different

It’s heartbreaking for a parent when their children don’t fit in. New Zealand native and hardcore dad Alistair Campbell decided to take the extra step to help his daughter, Charlotte, feel better about her cochlear implants by getting one tattooed on his head. The six-year-old girl suffers from extreme hearing loss, and received her first implant when she was four years old.

Source: Dad Gets Tattoo So His 6-Year-Old Daughter Wouldn’t Feel Different | Bored Panda

Russian Photographers Show How Birds See Our World And It’ll Leave You Breathless

If you dream of travelling the world and seeing it all from a bird’s-eye view, these sweeping, epic panoramic photos by AirPano might be one of the best ways to do it. This team of Russian photographers and specialists travels the world to take stunning aerial photos of the world’s most beautiful locations.

Source: Russian Photographers Show How Birds See Our World And It’ll Leave You Breathless | Bored Panda