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New Fabulous Fashion Illustrations Seamlessly Blend Real-Life Objects to Mimic Graceful Movement 

It takes serious out-of-the-box thinking to take common household foods, such as string beans and Oreos, from the cupboard to the canvas. Luckily, the creative eye of illustrator Edgar Artis sees the world differently. The artist, whose work first caught our attention earlier this year, has continued to expand his sketch collection of unconventional evening gowns. Using real-life objects as dress material—including gummy bears, seashells, kiwis, and cotton balls—he creates surprising object transformations that seamlessly blend with fashion illustrations into playful three-dimensional visions that would make any fashion lover envious.The female models Artis draws are graceful and fierce—often striking powerful balletic poses. Because Artis works with foods, flowers, and other materials that can crumble and taper, his illustrations feel alive and full of motion. It’s as if the wind just fluttered through the model’s gown, adding to the dynamic dimension of the work. No matter what…

Source: New Fabulous Fashion Illustrations Seamlessly Blend Real-Life Objects to Mimic Graceful Movement – My Modern Met

Amazing Paper Sculptures by Sam Pierpoint

Gorgeous artworks by Samantha Pierpoint, an independent illustrator and paper artist based in the UK.”I handcraft all of my creations from a range of fine quality papers, before photographing and editing the images digitally, to create each finished piece.My work is used both commercially and artistically, for a variety of different purposes ranging from advertising campaigns, magazine covers, editorials, installations, set design, product packaging and window displays. I have produced work for a large range of clients, including Goldsmiths University of London, Wimbledon Tennis, DLKW Lowe, Nokia, Kiehl’s, El Jimador, Paperchase, Camp Bestival, Unipart, Jetstar and Birmingham Royal Ballet.”— Sam PierpointMore paper artworks Visit her website

Source: Amazing Paper Sculptures by Sam Pierpoint | Inspiration Grid | Design Inspiration

Artist Draws Fantastical Creatures Interacting with Commuters on NYC Subway 

Riding on the subway every day might seem like it’d get old, but artist Ben Rubin keeps a fresh perspective with his imaginative series Subway Doodle. The ongoing project features snapshots of New York City train cars and passengers with a fantastical twist—Rubin adds his own characters into the scenes as they “interact” with real-world surroundings in both amusing and mischievous ways. The larger-than-life creatures hang on sleepy riders, sneak sips of coffee, and of course, are similarly engrossed in their phones.Subway Doodle begins while Rubin is en route to a destination—it’s how the series was first born. “I started sketching on my iPad during my commute just to pass the time. One day I took a picture with my iPad on the train and drew over the picture,” he explained to Odyssey. “It was fun so I did another. And another. Then it just kind of continued from there.”Years after beginning the project, Rubin continues to regularly post illustrations. Follow his Instagram to what’s…

Source: Artist Draws Fantastical Creatures Interacting with Commuters on NYC Subway – My Modern Met

Yehteh

Independent Illustrator from Switzerland, with experience in working with clients from all over the world. Philipp Dornbierer’s work has been recognized and exhibited by 100 Best Posters Award, Art Directors Club Switzerland and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

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27 Photos Capturing Burning Man 2016’s Creative and Carefree Culture

The 2016 Burning Man festival has come to a close, and its 70,000 attendees have dusted themselves off from Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and gone home. They’ve undoubtedly left more inspired as the week-long event celebrated incredible works of art and fostered a sense of community among all who arrived.Many use Burning Man as an excuse to technologically disconnect from everyday life and enjoy being in the moment. Although we got an early peek at some of the impressive, Renaissance-inspired creations that appeared this year, the photos that capture the people, culture, and desolate desert landscape have started to appear in droves. Seeing Instagram posts from attendees gives you a true sense of this festival’s immersive, engaging, and awe-inspiring scene—not to mention the Steampunk-inspired costumes!Check out some of our favorite photos that showcase Burning Man’s scene, below.Above photo credit: @dirtbagbarbie Photo credit: @lecatvolantPhoto credit: @mowynneingPhoto credit:…

Source: 27 Photos Capturing Burning Man 2016’s Creative and Carefree Culture – My Modern Met

25 Illustrations That Show The Sad Truth Of Modern Life

Marco Melgrati is a freelance illustrator based in Mexico City. He specializes in creating small illustrations that show the sad truth of modern life and how blind we are to the realities. People will have different opinions on the topics that Marco covers in his work, and that’s fair enough. But we can all agree that he’s got a talent for reading between the lines and expressing himself in his work, props to him.Don’t miss out on UltraLinx-related content straight to your emails. Subscribe here.1. Love your enemies2. Self Made3. Solving problems: logic or instinct?4. Social Media Narcissism5. Modern love6. Be whoever you want to be7. No more privacy8. Becoming trapped in work9. Karma10. Learn to use it better11. Power and politics12. Learning to forget13. What happens to America?14. Should be love.15. Everybody needs somebody.16. Pay attention!17. Influencers and followers18. The human cost of deforestation19. War in the name of God20. The language of the new media21. War is closer than you think22. Vanity23. From Consumerism to capitalism24. The hazards of optimism25. Smartphone addictionvia BlazePress

Source: 25 Illustrations That Show The Sad Truth Of Modern Life – UltraLinx

50 Artists Raid a Polish Scrapyard to Build a Collection of Recycled Metal Cars

In the Polish city of Pruszków you’ll find the Gallery of Steel Figures, an entire museum devoted to dozens of sculptures built from scrap metal salvaged from a local scrapyard. Their most recent addition is a collection of four iconic cars designed and built by roughly 50 artists over the

Source: 50 Artists Raid a Polish Scrapyard to Build a Collection of Recycled Metal Cars | Colossal

DEV # RANDOM NOTES – WebGL Playground and Interactive Experiments

DEV # RANDOM NOTES – WebGL Playground created by interactive designer Du Haihang using Three.js and custom Shaders. The real-time renderings of this project vary in gpgpu, frame buffer tricks, geometries and liquid simulations. From some of the unsorted folders to a finally organized experience on the screen, these experiments are so named as random notes.

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Heroes and Villains: Rio 2016 through the eyes of Wilfrid Wood

The Rio Games saw over 11,000 athletes compete for 2102 medals in 306 events of 28 different sports. More than 40,000 hours of TV footage were created, more if you include digital, as the eyes of the world turned to Brazil. Throughout the event Wilfrid Wood, with some help from the It’s Nice That team, has been watching events and looking to tell the alternate story of the Games, one that celebrates achievement in all its forms.

Source: It’s Nice That | Heroes and Villains: Rio 2016 through the eyes of Wilfrid Wood

Cool CSS Text Effects – 20 Amazing Examples

You came here for some really cool CSS text effects that will help you make amazing web typography for your websites. In order to successfully give a website a look that is more visually impressive, designers always concentrate on placing more emphasis upon typography that is both stylish and neat in nature. These same designers …

Source: Cool CSS Text Effects – 20 Amazing Examples

This Sculptor Will Deceive Your Eyes Into Believing His Ceramic Sculptures Are Wood 

Christopher David White is a sculptor, but he’s also an illusionist of sorts. Take a look at his amazing creations to see what we mean. Then take a closer look. Because what looks like petrified wood is actually meticulously-rendered ceramic.

Source: This Sculptor Will Deceive Your Eyes Into Believing His Ceramic Sculptures Are Wood | Bored Panda

Digital Design Days & Award + Offf Italia Milano 27 28 29 Ottobre 2016

Digital Design Days & Award è uno straordinario evento di 3 giorni che comprende conferenze esclusive, la prima edizione in Italia di Offf Milano, la cerimonia di consegna del Digital Design Award, workshops professionali, digital showcase, un party e numerose altre attività di networking.

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Amazing New Balloon Sculptures of Animals and Insects by Masayoshi Matsumoto

Forget your run-of-the-mill cutesy balloon dogs and crowns twisted at kids birthday parties, Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto (previously) elevates the inflated craft of balloon animals to an entirely different level. The Japanese artist uses a multitude of balloon colors and shapes to sculpt

Source: Amazing New Balloon Sculptures of Animals and Insects by Masayoshi Matsumoto | Colossal

Incredible Celebrity Illustrations by Néstor Canavarro

We’ve previous featured a couple artists that create amazing hyper-realistic art. And today we’re taking a closer look at yet another one – Argentinean illustrator/designer Néstor Canavarro. The level of detail in Néstor’s work is simply staggering, just take a look at the pieces below and you’ll understand what I mean.

Source: Incredible Celebrity Illustrations by Néstor Canavarro | From up North

Sculptures That I Created With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Nails

I am a sculptor of the human physique and I use nails to create my sculptures. These artworks take me weeks, sometimes even months to finish and I use thousands of nails.I translate my ideas onto large white wooden panels by hammering the nails at varying heights and distances to create the tone and texture.

Source: Sculptures That I Created With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Nails | Bored Panda

Pirate Printers Use Manhole Covers To Create Unique T-Shirt And Bag Designs

Pirate Printers use manhole covers, vents, and utility grates to imprint unique patterns on cloth. And that happens not in some workshop but on-site, right there on the streets. The Pirates already visited Amsterdam, Lisbon, Berlin and Paris and made the results available in their online shop.

Source: Pirate Printers Use Manhole Covers To Create Unique T-Shirt And Bag Designs

Self-Taught Artist Discovers Incredible Painting Skills While Taking Care of His Sick Dog

Derbyshire-based painter Darren Reid creates stunning, photorealistic landscapes of serene seascapes, expansive landscapes, and bustling cityscapes. Each work, when looked at closely enough, reveals a layer of acrylic detail that heightens the painting to a hyperrealistic level. A road is not just a road, but a pointillist blend of colors (think Seurat or Pissarro) that fuse together when looked at to play tricks on the viewer’s eye. Reid has mastered a strange and awesome technique: how to take impressionist skills and turn them into reality. His paintings, often of stark country houses or gritty industrial pavements, reinvent what it means to look at the world. He shows us there is more than meets the eye at first glance. Despite his keen eye and skilled hand, Reid picked up his paintbrush later in life, as a means of distraction. In 2011, his dog became ill, which left Reid housebound much of the time. In between giving his dog insulin injections every eight hours for the next two…

Source: Self-Taught Artist Discovers Incredible Painting Skills While Taking Care of His Sick Dog – My Modern Met

Self-Taught Artist Shares Stunning Process Behind Her Remarkable Paintings and Drawings

Self-taught artist Andreea Berindei has honed her painting and drawing skills to an extraordinary level. A passionate artist, she first began to paint at a very early age and cites the source of her creativity to rest in her faith and unwavering dedication to her spirituality. Born in Romania, the young Berindei has received multiple awards for her remarkable pieces, and for years has used her talent to spread positivity through her involvement in the Peace Project, an organization that seeks to render social change by mobilizing the creative community.Delicate and vibrant shading work imbues Berindei’s colorful drawings and paintings with a realistic quality that speaks volumes to her artistic abilities. As the nature and material of her work varies over time, Berindei continuously proves that she is equally talented, no matter the subject matter. Landscape drawings of powerful cresting waves are just as well done as the fine veins snaking through the petals of her flower paintings,…

Source: Self-Taught Artist Shares Stunning Process Behind Her Remarkable Paintings and Drawings – My Modern Met

Majestic Animal Illustrations Hand Drawn with Intricately Hypnotizing Patterns

UK-based artist Faye Halliday creates art that’s inspired by a combination of her travels, her attempts to inspire love, creativity, and adventure in others, and her desire to understand and capture beauty. She uses ink and intricate patterns to create elaborate portraits of animals and symbols. “I’ve always been inspired by beauty. Never on a superficial level, but more so as a concept; an interpretation and what it means to different people.”Halliday calls the journey of her art Haathi, which came about during her experience at The Elephant Festival in Jaipur, Rajasthan. For this single day of the year, elephant owners celebrate and embellish the beautiful creatures with vibrant colored scarves, headdresses, saddle cloth, and heavy jewelry while people perched atop sprinkle colored powder. After the Festival, she was compelled to explore the concept and perceptions of beauty around the world.Halliday declares that her works of art are her visions of beauty, soul, and…

Source: Majestic Animal Illustrations Hand Drawn with Intricately Hypnotizing Patterns – My Modern Met

The Side Project Accelerator | Hacking UI

An 8-week, online program, starting July 25th that will teach you how to build your personal brand, launch your side project, and earn passive income. After working on our side project for the past two and a half years, we were able to quit our jobs and do it full time. Now it’s your turn, and we’ll help you get there! “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Tony A. Gaskins So how do I get started? We believe that the first thing you have to do is build your personal brand. No matter what your side project idea is, if you don’t have an audience that wants to use it, it won’t be successful. Don’t believe us? Think about your idea and how you would launch it. Now think about if Jack Dorsey were to launch the same exact idea. Who would be more successful? We put together a free 4-part email series that will get you started with building your brand and gathering an audience. In this course we will teach you how to write and publish an effective,

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Marmo Elite

Marmo Elite è un azienda con sede a Domegliara, Verona, che si occupa dell’estrazione, lavorazione e commercializzazione di marmi, onici e pietre pregiate di difficile reperimento.

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I’ve Found A Way To Make People Smile Whilst Making A Living Travelling The World

Ever since Bored Panda helped my photography style go viral last year (see my previous posts here and here), I’ve been flooded with offers to pick up my camera & paper cut-outs and head off to some incredible destinations. Over the last six months I’ve been to Singapore, Nanjing, Hong Kong, Val D’Isere, New York and Las Vegas with various tourist boards and brands. It’s been an incredible string of adventures around the world, all whilst pursuing new levels of creativity in my photos- and what’s made these last six months extra special is that people around the globe have taken an interest in what I do.

Source: I’ve Found A Way To Make People Smile Whilst Making A Living Travelling The World | Bored Panda

I Spent 15 Years Photographing Cities In Water Drops

The story starts 15 years ago with a photo from my window. I kept this technique and photos away from public as I wanted to show it to the World first. And what a better way to do it with the greatest city in the World, New York!Some of the photos are on film, but most of them are digital, but it is a macro photography technique, not a Photoshop, that is why it has flaws in sharpness and a lot of blurs.

Source: I Spent 15 Years Photographing Cities In Water Drops | Bored Panda

Optical Illusion Graffiti Creates Portal to a Parallel Universe on the Side of a Building

Parisian graffiti artist Astro contorts flat architectural facades into illusory vortexes with a vibrant graphic twist. His painted patterns combine smooth, swirling curves and calligraphy with sharper shapes in dynamically detailed designs that are eye-catching on their own; and, as if to suck his viewers farther into each piece, he adds the appearance of dark, receding chasms, tunneling deep into the walls.Astro’s newest work is a massive and arresting mural on a residential building in Loures, Portugal, just south of Lisbon. Created on behalf of urban art project Loures Art Publica, the mind-bending masterpiece uses electric blue tones to create the semblance of shadows, and incorporates the artist’s trademark technique of warped perspective to contrive a fictional abyss. The optical illusion seems to offer entry to a parallel universe, so ordinary passersby might step off the sidewalk into new dimensions of time and space.Here’s more of Astro’s illusionary street art:…

Source: Optical Illusion Graffiti Creates Portal to a Parallel Universe on the Side of a Building – My Modern Met

French Artist Transforms Boring City Walls Into Vibrant Scenes Full Of Life

Imagine yourself coming back home from a long trip and… not being able to find it. This might actually happen if you lived in one of the buildings that got touched by this talented French street artist Patrick Commecy. Together with his team, he creates huge murals of hyper-realistic facades that bring blank and boring city walls to life.

Source: French Artist Transforms Boring City Walls Into Vibrant Scenes Full Of Life | Bored Panda

I Carved A Family Of Elephants Into A Pencil

My first pencil carving at this scale was of a train – and in December of 2015 it went viral across Facebook and the Internet! I was even featured on a TV show in Barcelona. Since then, I’ve been busy taking orders, answering questions and doing interviews.Recently, I have been doing only commission work and with that brings interesting and challenging designs.

Source: I Carved A Family Of Elephants Into A Pencil | Bored Panda

This Spinning Illusion Is Obviously Some Sort of Light Magic

I don’t know how these tiny dancers got trapped inside this spinning zoetrope but it’s the only explanation I can come up with for this insane light animation. Their movements are so smooth, and the shining light captures the grace of their dance so well that I’m sure some sort of magic has to be at play here.

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Surrealistic Illustrations by Antonio Segura Donat aka Dulk

Dulk is a hungry and insatiable all terrain illustrator. Urban art, illustration and graphic design are his fields, his twisted imagination does the rest. He has shown his work in England, Germany, Holland, France, Italy and Belgium, where he has recently won a major international award. His style is an explosive combination of influences like Caravaggio’s tenebrism or the obsessive detail brushwork of Flemish painting, all mixed with a bizarre, burlesque and affectionate touch that makes it compact, direct and very honest. Antonio enjoys creating characters and stories based on his own dreams and everyday events, mixing fact and fiction, with a touch of pop surrealism. He’s one of the leading figures of the Spanish illustration scene. https://vimeo.com/133736279 https://vimeo.com/122232638

Source: Surrealistic Illustrations by Antonio Segura Donat aka Dulk | From up North

Sculptures Combine Iconic Directors with Multiple Characters from their Films

Seattle-based artist Mike Leavitt creates amusing hybrid sculptures by mixing the faces of famous directors like Hayao Miyazaki, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson, with references to beloved characters from their most memorable films.               Mike Leavitt’s Website … Continue reading →

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Incredibly Realistic Wood Carvings Look Good Enough to Eat – My Modern Met

Wood carving artist Seiji Kawasaki has us completely duped with his amazingly realistic food creations. Hand-carving blocks of wood down to perfection, he then paints his pieces to mimic the intricate shading and details that are naturally found in each food item—you would never be able to guess that his sardines started their lives on land instead of sea. Just be careful not to mistake Kawasaki’s creations for the real thing, or you might lose a tooth to a chunk of driftwood that looks a lot like a tempting chocolate bar.The delectable-looking pieces take about 2-3 hours to complete, which is amazing considering the amount of detail apparent within each tiny recreation. While some are just lovely decorative pieces, often he attaches an element of functionality to his carvings, such as turning petite peppers into chopstick rests. Kawasaki’s cunning handiwork demonstrates a high level of artistry (and is also delightfully deceptive). He regularly posts new carvings to his Twitter and…

Source: Incredibly Realistic Wood Carvings Look Good Enough to Eat – My Modern Met

KM05｜KITAMURA MAKURA

During sleep, your head turns over right and left, drawing an arc about 30 times. If your head is not rotating smoothly from side-to-side on your pillow, you cannot achieve good quality sleep. KM05 is designed to keep your head in the right position as you rest in order to facilitate its smooth rotation. From the moment you place your head onto it to birdsongs awakening you in the morning, KM05 impeccably supports your a good night’s sleep.

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Alluring Illusions of Technicolor Portals Are Actually 2D Wall Paintings

We already know German artist 1010 for his vivid murals, which appear like multilayered, technicolor portals into parallel dimensions. Now, he has opened a new show at Milan’s 10 A.M. ART gallery, with an exhibition that includes not only a mural across the building’s entire exterior in his hallmark style, but also a collection of paintings displayed inside. Though smaller in scale than his street art, these new works might be even more remarkable. The compiled tones pop like paper cuts mounted with spacers in between the different slivers, receding into deep orifices—but in fact, the concave effect is an illusion created by 1010’s careful contrasts of light and shadow, created using nothing more than paint.Selected from several of the artist’s series, with titles including Portal, Limbus, Void, Fluss, and Abyss, some of the pieces present as craggy chasms like sliced geodes, while others take the form of smooth circular holes. Each multi-hued variation demands a closer look,…

Source: Alluring Illusions of Technicolor Portals Are Actually 2D Wall Paintings – My Modern Met

Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration (June 2016) 

newneweconomy-openerThere’s no doubt that simple design is hard, since it requires much more thought and inspiration. It’s about understanding exactly what your users need. Colors play a major role, and today I’d like to show you a couple of illustrations that may motivate you to try out some new color combinations and techniques. Take a look at the following photographs, posters and book covers that have been created with some really inspiring shades and color palettes, and some even show how to cleverly use negative space. From 3D illustrations to artwork created with ink and watercolors, I’m sure there’s something that’ll spark your inspiration. Be warned though, some of them may even give you wanderlust from just looking at them.

Source: Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration (June 2016) – Smashing Magazine

Lex Wilson

A series of typography experiments that play with 3D space to create opposing words when viewed from different angles.I start with basic sketches of the letter forms, before modelling them in Styrofoam and filming a final ‘fly-past’ that shows both words in one swoop.

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Impermanent Anatomical Drawings on Chalkboards by Chuan-Bin Chung

Chinese illustrator and anatomy instructor Chuan-Bin Chung encourages his students to understand the intricacies of the human body by drawing them. For many of his lessons he creates impermanent drawings on chalkboards as a helpful guide, but instead of quick sketches as one might be accustomed

Source: Impermanent Anatomical Drawings on Chalkboards by Chuan-Bin Chung | Colossal

Spiraling Rainbow Vortexes Created From Layered Paper by Jen Stark

Jen Stark’s work appears like psychedelic wormholes, pulsating and multi-colored portals that might throw you into another dimension entirely. Working outward from an equally prismatic core, the pieces radiate entire spectrums of color from layered paper, PVC, or foam board. These contrasti

Source: Spiraling Rainbow Vortexes Created From Layered Paper by Jen Stark | Colossal

Baubauhaus.

Baubauhaus is here to feed your daily need of design, illustration, photography, fashion and of all else art-related. Our goal is to visually inspire and entertain by promoting great content. It can be anything from your bookmark of images made by others (us), a trend, you – we call it Baubauhaus.

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A Short Film Detailing the Miniature Replication of Nix + Gerber’s Post-Apocalyptic Studio

Since 2005, artist Lori Nix and partner Kathleen Gerber have been producing dioramas that depict post-apocalyptic environments, everyday scenes that give the audience a glimpse of their world once nature has been left to take over. Nearly everything within the scenes is fabricated by the two und

Source: A Short Film Detailing the Miniature Replication of Nix + Gerber’s Post-Apocalyptic Studio | Colossal

Amsterdam’s new 3D-printed steel bridge is revolutionizing the building industry

The goal behind the experimental 3D-printing project is the eventual creation of an automatic construction site. According to Jan van de Ven, Heijmans’ Manager of Business Development, an…

Source: Amsterdam’s new 3D-printed steel bridge is revolutionizing the building industry | Inhabitat – Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

HP | Magic Words

Só no Brasil, ainda existem mais de 13 milhões de analfabetos. Viajamos o país inteiro atrás dessas pessoas e suas histórias e imprimimos, uma a uma, por comando de voz, em tempo real. Como mágica. Foram 4.500 páginas, que renderam uma tiragem de 25 livros. Tudo isso, com apenas uma multifuncional HP e o kit de cartuchos de ultra rendimento que vem na caixa da impressora.

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Artist Spends Over 8 Hours Recreating Iconic Paintings on an Etch A Sketch

For most of us, the Etch A Sketch is just a toy, but for artist Jane Labowitch, it’s an unconventional canvas and tool for her intricate drawings. Twisting and turning the two plastic knobs, she’s recreated one of history’s most iconic pointillist paintings: Georges Seurat’s 1884 masterpiece, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. It took Labowitch eight and a half hours to render its likeness—all while she was sitting in front of the original piece at the Art Institute of Chicago. The results are impressive, to say the least. Especially when held up next to Seurat’s painting, it’s made abundantly clear that Labowitch has managed to capture the essence of the masterpiece’s composition. Labowitch has been honing her craft for nearly all her life. “I’ve been pretty consistently using an Etch A Sketch as an artistic medium since I first started playing with the toy when I was 4,” she told Chicagoist. As an adult, she recognizes that patience is the key to creating a detailed piece like this. “It…

Source: Artist Spends Over 8 Hours Recreating Iconic Paintings on an Etch A Sketch

A Rotating 42-Layer Sculpture of Franz Kafka’s Head by David Cerny 

Located in a busy shopping center in Prague, this twisting and reflective sculpture depicting the head of writer Franz Kafka is the latest kinetic artwork by controversial Czech artist David Cerny. Installed in 2014, the enormous mirrored bust is comprised of 42 independently driven layers of st

Source: A Rotating 42-Layer Sculpture of Franz Kafka’s Head by David Cerny | Colossal

It’s All in the Details: Beautiful Flooring Transitions We Can’t Get Enough Of

“God,” German architect Mies van der Rohe once famously said, “is in the details.” It’s hard to imagine more beautiful details than these eight boundaries where two flooring surfaces meet, marrying different materials in innovative and elegant ways. If you decide to imitate these transitions in your own home, don’t be surprised if everyone spends all their time looking down.

Source: It’s All in the Details: Beautiful Flooring Transitions We Can’t Get Enough Of | Apartment Therapy

Figurative Found Wood Sculptures Pierced with Hundreds of Nails by Jaime Molina

Artist Jaime Molina works in 2, 2.5, and 3 dimensions, translating his aesthetic from large-scale paintings to sculptures, while also producing pieces that exist somewhere in-between. In this particular series, Molina has focused on bearded wooden heads, utilizing nails to form the hair of each

Source: Figurative Found Wood Sculptures Pierced with Hundreds of Nails by Jaime Molina | Colossal

New Editorial Illustrations Incorporating Cut Paper Textures and Shadows by Eiko Ojala 

Estonian illustrator Eiko Ojala (previously) brings a fantastic sense of depth and texture into his editorial illustrations by using carefully arranged layers of cut paper and shadows. The works are all assembled digitally, but the artist often incorporates his own photos to achieve the desired

Source: New Editorial Illustrations Incorporating Cut Paper Textures and Shadows by Eiko Ojala | Colossal

PolyWood: Toy Animal Concepts Rendered in Polygons by Mat Szulik

Sometimes it seems long gone are the days of kids sitting down and playing with simple wooden toys, trading tactile objects for screens and buttons. Freelance illustrator and 3D artist artist Mat Szulik straddles the two worlds of digital and physical in this fantastic series of conceptual wood

Source: PolyWood: Toy Animal Concepts Rendered in Polygons by Mat Szulik | Colossal

Here Are More Of The Most Amazing Images Of Exploding Cars You’ll Ever See

Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner is back with a second part to his “Disintegrating” series featuring classic model supercars “exploded” to dramatically reveal all the tiny, beautiful parts of the car. The photos are what I imagine engineers daydream about, and I can’t stop staring at them.

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27 Search Boxes With HTML and CSS – CSS Paradise

CSS experiments with a search form input and button. In this collection are the pens for anything related to search box, search bar, global search area that we can put to a website page. Searching Animation Inspired by Another Set of Eyes by Frank Rodriguez.*needs work in Firefox but looks quite nice in Chrome and Safari. Made by Ryan Mulligan. 24 April, 2016. Demo Download (7.7kb) Search-input With inset Shadow Made by Håvard Brynjulfsen. April 24, 2016. Demo Download (3.4kb) Animated Search Form Made by Kyle. April 22, 2016 Demo Download (5kb) Search Input Context Animation CSS icons Context animation Telegram App-like search loading effect Made by Riccardo Zanutta. April 19, 2016. Demo Download (6.7kb) Prefixbox Instant Search Box Design originally forked from sartios’s Pen Search Box: Expand on Hover.Made by Sverrir Sigmundarson. April 12, 2016. Demo Download (4.7kb) Simple Mobile Search Input This is an example of search input, that could be put in a mobile template for an e-commerce or wheather or much more. Made by Tommaso Poletti. April 12, 2016. Demo Download (3.3kb) Animated Search Input Made by Francesco Michelini. April 01, 2016. Demo Download (8.5kb) Search Menu Animation Made by ChenCody. March 16, 2016. Demo Download (1.8kb) Diagonal Menu With Search A small menu demo. Made by Jermaine. March 11, 2016. Demo Download (4.3kb) Search Box Search concept with options. Made by Fabio Ottaviani. March 10, 2016. Demo Download (5.9kb) Search Form Concep A little search concept. Made by Rune Sejer Hoffmann. February 07, 2016. Demo Download (4.9kb) Animating Search Box An animating search box made with HTML & CSS. Made by Jarno van Rhijn. February 03, 2016. Demo Download (3.9kb) Search Green Box An interesting effect of search action. Made by Konstantin Solodovnik. February 05, 2016. Demo Download (2.7kb) CSS Expanding Search Box An expanding search box/form powered purely by CSS. Made by WebDevStudios. February 02, 2016. Demo Download (6kb) Search Animation Made by Dmitriy. January 27, 2016. Demo Download (7kb) Flat CSS Search Box Concept With Loading Animation Concept for a simple dynamic search box with a loading animation that’s displayed in the search field. Made by Ines Montani. January 24, 2016. Demo Download (4kb) Search Form Animation Small Angular animation (could easily be vanilla js) to show user that a search result is pending. This is good UI to let the user know the server is working. Uses CSS flexbox. Made by Brendan Quinn. January 21, 2016. Demo Download (6.5kb) CSS Search Box It searches things, probably something similar been done before. Made by Jamie Coulter. January 12, 2016. Demo Download (4.1kb) Compact Search Input Input[type=“search”] with transition from magnifier icon to field.Inspiration: Sandeep Virk’s dribble https://dribbble.com/shots/1992789-Search. Made by Uli Schumacher. January 12, 2016. Demo Download (3.1kb) Search Box Made by Marco Livi. January 07, 2016. Demo Download (3.4kb) Search Transformation Interactive prototype of search form transformation.Originally made by Alex Pronsky (https://dribbble.com/aPronsky).Dribble item: https://dribbble.com/shots/2308755-Search-Transform-Principle-Freebie. Made by Lucas Bourdallé. October 22, 2015. Demo Download (2.3kb) CSS Animated And Responsive Search Button Concept A pure css search button that expends to a text input and a search button on click.It uses css transitions for animation and media queries to be full width under 480px. Made by napssy. October 21, 2015. Demo Download (4.1kb) Expand Search Button Button expands when hovering and shows search field. Made by Caroline Vermeir. October 06, 2015. Demo Download (1.9kb) Minimalistic Search Lightly designed, expanding/collapsing search field. Clicking on “Search” expands into an input field, and clicking on the “X” clears the field and collapses it back to its initial state.Made by Ryan Altvater. August 05, 2015. Demo Download (5kb) Search Input Focus Animation A simple animation for the focus event on a search input. Made by Nicolás J. Engler. July 26, 2015. Demo Download (7.1kb) Search Input With Animation Made by Arlina Design. April 12, 2015. Demo Downlaod (2kb)

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Misplaced → New York

misplThe Misplaced Series removes notable New York buildings from their surroundings and “misplaces” them in desolate landscapes around the world. Concrete behemoths and steel-and-glass towers rise from sand dunes and rocky cliffs, inviting viewers to see them as if for the first time. Out of context, architectural forms become more pronounced and easily understood. Each image is accompanied by a vignette, a flight of fancy that enhances the overall sense of absurdity, mystery, and humor. They are like scenes from a movie never made, fitting companions to images that could never actually be.

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La Sainte Paire

La Sainte Paire, c’est la combinaison déjantée de Noogaman l’ excentrique, et Osper l’appliqué.C’est l’association de deux jeunes illustrateurs parisiens qui cherchent à s’émanciper de l’écran digital par le dessin et à s’évader pour laisser libre court à leurs imagination !Voici l’ensemble de leur travaux.

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10+ GIFs Summing Up Famous Actors’ Careers

Screenshot at Apr 26 15-18-04When the Internet banned the horrible blink HTML element, many thought that GIFs would be soon to follow. But thanks to digital artists like Prasad Bhat, a self described film-buff, this simple form of web animation hasn’t gone the way of Geocities. How could it, with projects like Bhat’s “The Evolution” depicting a celebrity’s entire career in GIF format?

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1,400 Square Feet of Candy-Colored Resin Layered Onto the Floor of a German Museum 

Painter Peter Zimmermann has moved his colorful hues from canvas to floor in his latest exhibition “Freiburg School,” at the Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg, Germany. The installation is composed of bright blue, pink, and peach resin that appears like a candy-colored lagoon beneath t

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Bolden 

Screenshot at Apr 21 18-51-27Bolden is a design and development studio based in Amsterdam, we are specialised in online platforms, e-commerce and web applications.With our team of eight, we combine beautiful and user friendly design with solid coding and stellar service.

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Nicolas Lanthemann – Vanderlanth

Screenshot at Apr 19 09-59-46Hello nice people ! Welcome on my portfolio, I hope you will enjoy, cheers!Oops, I forgot. My name’s Nicolas Lanthemann. I’m a 19 years old InteractiveMedia Designer student in my last year at Eikon in Switzerland. Mostly focused oninteractions, I’m looking for opportunities. Feel free to contact me.

Source: Nicolas Lanthemann – Vanderlanth – Hello nice people ! Welcome on my portfolio, I hope you will enjoy my works, cheers!

I Created Light Fixtures Inspired By Star Wars 

With a minimalist style, designed to look like something you’d put at home, yet delicately catching the essence of the origin, these lighting fixtures are all inspired from Star Wars movies. Having that Scandinavian style, They are presented as pages in a Swedish catalog. The names remind the origin but converted to resemble Swedish and for credibility, paragraphs were added in google-translated Swedish with content from the original character’s Wikipedia page.

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Online speaker series: Samira Khoshnood advises how to adapt your consumer product for enterprise use.

samiraIn this talk, Samira Khoshnood, Product Designer at Evernote, will teach you how to adapt your consumer product’s design for enterprise use, the challenges of doing so, and lessons learned.

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Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took. All 30,699 of them – Los Angeles Times

Screenshot at Apr 17 10-06-56Kobe Bryant’s 30,699th and final field goal came from 19 feet with 31 seconds left against the Utah Jazz. During his 20 years with the Lakers, he fired up more than 30,000 shots, including the regular season and playoffs. Take a tour of key shots over his 20-year career, or explore the makes and misses over his long career on your own.

Source: Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took. All 30,699 of them – Los Angeles Times

My Paintings Explore Different Tragedies In People’s Lives

My name is Igor Dobrowolski I am an artist living in Poland. In my work there are many topics that I try to move, such as death, depression, war children, the problems of the poor and homeless, addiction, narcissism, lack of empathy. However, the binding agent that combines all of these problems or stories is suffering, particle of hope and attempt reminder that life can be terrible, cruel and thereby show that our problems are not so great, and all in all it almost does not exist in comparison to the aforementioned tragedy and thus can appreciate your life, our time, or ordinary moments, and the emphasis on understanding empathy, pressure empathy.

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A Gorgeous Animated Penny Arcade Music Video for Jane Bordeaux’s ‘Ma’agalim’

Please take a few moments to immerse yourself in this lovely new music video for folk country trio Jane Bordeaux’s ‘Ma’agalim.’ The animated short transports us inside a device inspired by components from an old penny arcade device that contains a perpetually moving landscape wher

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Using An Onboarding Process To Increase Client Lead Enquiries

Post originally published here. Every touch point you have with a client lead is an opportunity to provide them with a remarkable onboarding experience. Based on how you deliver those experiences, it could lead to signed contracts and more exciting work in the future. You’re a creative working with clients. You’re running a clientele business, …

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A Photographer’s Digital Journey to Produce a Lake of Shattered Mirrors

Swedish photographer Erik Johansson had a vision for a digital photograph of a lake shattering like a mirror, an image he wanted to produce as accurately as possible. To achieve this effect for Impact, Johansson bought 17 square meters of mirrors, found a boat and a model, and posed all three in

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Stillhouse

Screenshot at Apr 10 10-55-37Stillhouse America’s finest whiskey. Best served ice cold as a shot, on the rocks or in a punch. Flavors include original, apple crisp, peach tea, mint chip, coconut and red hot.

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Albedo Absolute

A dazzling contemporary allegorical tale about two young sisters crossing the bar from childhood to womanhood. Two young sisters disobey their parents warning to stay out of the forest. Something is in there, and it’s dangerous.

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Tender Moments Between Friends and Lovers Illustrated in Photos of the Sky by Thomas Lamadieu 

We’ve long be fans of illustrator Thomas Lamadieu’s quirky depictions of people inhabiting the strange spaces between buildings in his original photographs of the sky. His latest pieces are set against backdrops above South Korea, Italy, Germany, Austria and Spain, some of which also i

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