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GIF-ITTI: Trippy Street Art as GIFs

Graffiti artist INSA started a series of GIF-ITTI (GIF + graffiti) recently, which lives in the odd but absolutely interesting intersection between real world art and viral online images. Each GIF-IT...

7 h ago 2 people like this

Thousands of Glass Raindrops Suspended from the Skylights

This stunning installation titled RAIN has only three photos (alas!) but the impact is nevertheless quite evident: Chicago-based Stacee Kalmanovsky suspended hundreds, if not thousands, of glass rain...

1 day ago

Floating Paper Art: Lovely Installations by Zim and Zou

French design duo Zim and Zou are pros at making wonderful paper pieces, but their work with suspended paper installations is an especial favorite of mine– on top of creating intricately cut an...

2 days ago 1 person likes this

We Make Carpets: Creating Carpets Out Of Unexpected & Everyday Objects

The typical carpet comes in a few familiar fabrics and textiles, but the artists Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten and Bob Waardenburg at We Make Carpets have been throwing in a dose of the unexpec...

6 days ago

Funny Moustached Paintbrush Packaging

This made me smile today: Simon Laliberté, a student at UQAM, designed this clever and quirky paintbrush packaging for a fictive company called Poilus that uses the two brushes for humorous effect in...

22 may 12

Awesome Inflatable Meat Balloons

This post needs no fancy title– “Awesome Inflatable Meat Balloons” seems to explain everything perfectly. The Chicago-based Object Design League (ODL) handpainted these fantastic me...

21 may 12

Lovely Handmade Geometric Glass Terrariums

I’m smitten with these handmade glass terrariums by Matthew Cleland of Score+Solder– according to Old Faithful Shop, which is where I first saw these beauties, Cleland is a traveling gyps...

18 may 12 1 person likes this

Designing for Camels: The Art of Dressing Up Your Desert Beasts

Rajasthan, the largest state in India, is mostly made of up desert, and the largest city in that desert, Bikaner, hosts a yearly Camel Festival every January which features the familiar desert beast....

15 may 12

Angles of Light: Making Shapes Out Of A Single Sunbeam

These shapes and lines that appear to be floating actually ARE suspended in mid air, because they are made of nothing but a single beam of light. Artist James Nizam drilled holes into his studio wall...

14 may 12 1 person likes this

The Beauty of Civic Pride: Thousands of Colorful & Unique Manhole Covers in Japan

In the States, we don’t give a second thought to the plain-jane, utilitarian manhole covers that appear on our streets, but apparently nearly 95% of the 1,780 municipalities in Japan have their...

11 may 12 1 person likes this

An Ingenious Foldable Ladder: The Corner Ladder

This is one of those designs where I’m astonished that no one came up with it sooner. Designed by the Barcelona-based Company & Company design studio, the Corner Ladder is a beautifully con...

10 may 12

What’s On Your Desk? Artfully Arranged Color Combinations of Office Supplies

Shooting still life is no easy matter, especially when taking photos of typically overlooked everyday objects like office supplies. Swedish design trio Kontor Kontur are masters at arranging, styling...

09 may 12 1 person likes this

Trippy GIFs with Motion Graphics: The Amazing Work of Mr. Div

GIFs are great at capturing moments in film and video, but they often depend on repurposing an outside source (taking a clip from a TV show, for example, or layering movie stills.) Original GIFs are ...

08 may 12

Flawless Watercolor: Perfectly Hand-painted Letters, Numbers, and Patterns

Brooklyn-based illustrator Sasha Prood has mastered and mixed the precise lines of typography with the warmth of watercolor illustrations to create flawless work. The colors flow naturally from one g...

07 may 12

Jar of Geometric Shapes: Perfect Papercraft from Present & Correct

Present & Correct is one of my favorite online shops– based in the UK, they are famous for their limited runs of vintage, graphic stationery, some of which is sourced from all over the wor...

03 may 12

Unbelievable Sugar Murals: Making Street Art Out of Frosting and Sugar

I know there’s been an influx of street art on here lately, but this was too amazing to ignore– Montreal artist Shelley Miller puts up these pieces of sugar street art that are incredibly...

26 apr 12

Porcelain Pinguins: Adorable Ceramic Tableware Companions

I’m completely taken in by these porcelain penguins: these ceramic table toppers are part of the Pinguin Rei tableware series by Luiz Pellanda & Aleverson Ecker. Each sleek little penguin c...

26 apr 12

Steady As She Goes: Ornate Type Made By 3D Printing

3D printing is a fascinating process that has grown quite popular in the last decade– machines can now easily create a real, three dimensional object using data from a digital file to “pr...

23 apr 12

Eerie and Richly Colored Street Art by Aryz

22 year old Barcelona-based street artist Aryz does beautiful illustrations both on canvas and on walls– his outdoor work, however, is notably stunning due to its richly layered hues and enormo...

20 apr 12 1 person likes this

Wood Casting: Rugged Furniture Made By Melding Wood And Metal Together

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 aroun...

19 apr 12

Selected: Clever Animated GIFs of Famous Art With Missing Subjects

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 artw...

18 apr 12 1 person likes this

String Rainbows of Color, Color, Color: Ethereal Thread Art Installations

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 opacitie...

17 apr 12 1 person likes this

Anatomical Sculptures: Imagining the Insides of Pop Culture Toys

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 c...

16 apr 12

Designer Nori: Delicate Laser Cut Seaweed Patterns

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...

13 apr 12

100 Life-Size Cardboard Monkeys and More: Enormous Cardboard Sculptures

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 st...

12 apr 12

Animal Prints: Carved Shoes That Leave Behind Realistic Tracks

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 ing...

11 apr 12 1 person likes this

Iconatomy: Seamlessly Merged Photos of Past and Present Movie Stars

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”...

09 apr 12 1 person likes this

3-Story Tribal Fox: Spectacular Urban Art In Atlanta

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...

06 apr 12 1 person likes this

Versus/Hearts: Pairing Up Rivals In Heart Illustrations

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, whethe...

05 apr 12

Reflections: Touching Photographs Of People As They See Themselves

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 ...

05 apr 12

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