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New Brand – Awwwards

Recognizing excellence through simplicity. It’s time to make things simple, to cut through the noise and focus on highlighting the essence of good design – we’re going minimal with a brand refresh. www. means the whole internet, w. is a summary, it shows the best.

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Levine/Leavitt

LEVINE/LEAVITT is an international artists management agency representing a select, diverse roster of outstanding photographers, illustrators, designers and directors. The agency, based in New York and Los Angeles, was founded in 1999 by Elizabeth Leavitt and Jeff Levine and provides each artist with exceptional management, development, support and guidance.

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Splash and Burn: An Artist-Led Initiative Raising Awareness About the Negative Effects of Palm Oil Production in South Asia

Indonesia is the world’s largest exporter of palm oil, the harvesting of which has been shown to have extremely adverse effects on wildlife and natural resources, including deforestation, fires, and the displacement of people and animals. Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic (previously) witnessed th

Source: Splash and Burn: An Artist-Led Initiative Raising Awareness About the Negative Effects of Palm Oil Production in South Asia | Colossal

45 Doodled Portrait Illustrations in the Style of Grime Art

Grime Art is a surreal style of illustration that is popular in the worlds of Tumblr and Instagram. It’s a simply concept where portrait photographs are digitally doodled upon with drooping, cartoonish drips of slimy flesh in vibrant colours to produce weird and wonderful zombie-like images with a gross, but somehow cool effect. I’ve enjoyed […]

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Slinky Spirals of Clay Form Topsy-Turvy Vases by Michael Boroniec

Michael Boroniec subverts the age-old conception of pots and vases as useful vessels of containment with his sculptural ceramics. The artist began his spiral motif in 2008 with a focus on teapots, and the style has since become the predominant theme of his body of work. Boroniec forms each vessel on

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Tin Cans Transformed into Famous Art Historical Self-Portraits by Allan Rubin

Allan Rubin’s aptly named series CANON presents a range of famous artists throughout history, all rendered from an amalgamation of tin cans. The works are each painted in the style of the artist’s self-portrait, such as a Post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh or Neoclassical Angelica Kauffmann.The

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Natural Materials Organized into Precise Geometric Shapes by Kristen Meyer 

Prop stylist and designer Kristen Meyer melds quotidian materials into distinctive outlines in her series of geometric flat lays. The designer, who is based in New Haven, Connecticut, gathers crackers, sticks, spaghetti, herbs, and other common raw materials and arranges them in circles and squares.

Source: Natural Materials Organized into Precise Geometric Shapes by Kristen Meyer | Colossal

Discarded Objects are Beautified with Colorful Coral-Like Growths by Stephanie Kilgast

Stephanie Kilgast takes discarded objects like tin cans, jam jars, and old cameras and embellishes them with vibrant amalgamations of coral-like growths. The artist honed her detail-oriented skills by making hyperrealistic miniature food, and she continues to use polymer clay and hand tools to craft

Source: Discarded Objects are Beautified with Colorful Coral-Like Growths by Stephanie Kilgast | Colossal

Artist Spotlight: Fanakapan

Some jaw-dropping work by artist Fanakapan, whose chrome balloons have become something of a trademark. Of all the paintings I’ve seen, the image below is my favourite. The balloons, the strings, all that is painted, and if you look closely, the exit sign is reflected in the balloons. Next level stuff.

Source: Artist Spotlight: Fanakapan – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS

Braille Neue: A Universal Typeface by Kosuke Takahashi That Combines Braille and Visible Characters

Japanese designer Kosuke Takahashi has created an ingenious font that merges different typefaces to allow both sighted and blind readers to use the same text. Thinking ahead to Tokyo’s hosting of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, Takahashi shares on his website that he hopes his font will “create a

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Startup Fair 2018

Being on the crossroads of Europe Startup Fair empowers pre-selected startups from the Baltics and CIS countries to meet investors from around the world. It is happening in , a former home to the palace of Lithuanian nobility and then a military hospital which was later turned to a 9000+ sq. m. the biggest startup and tech hub. If you’re striving for innovations, you want to be there!

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