Stina Persson
Stylish illustrations rendered in watercolor, ink and gouache by Stina Persson.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Visual Complexity
VisualComplexity.com is a resource space for visualizations of complex networks. You have to dig a little, but there's some interesting stuff to browse through.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Great Paper Sculpture Book
In response to Eunice's post on Peter Callesen's paper art, an art form that I used to experiment with myself, I have a great beginner's book on paper art which guides you through all sorts of complex paper sculpture, paper making, pop-up art techniques, origami and much more.
You can get a used version of this book for super cheap at Amazon. Or if anyone wants to borrow it, it's been part of my library for many years!
The Work of Kozyndan
You probably already know his art, mostly recognizable by the peeps in our industry from his cover on Giant Robot's magazine. I'm a huge fan of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, so what I admire greatly about his work, is his ability to mimic that traditional style but with a modern imagination. If you like this style and haven't already perused some of his work, check out this link!
Monday, May 21, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Thomas Allen
Book cover art using vintage pulp fiction paperbacks. Quirky and pretty inventive I think.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Quadroplastic
Lots of interesting things to browse through over at Quadroplastic from Maxim Zhestkov, a motion, graphic, and toy designer.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Photo Planets
I've been spending a lot of my free time creating these photo planets. It's a little addicting. They work best with a panoramic stitch shot with a fisheye lens for a nice 3D look, but any panoramic shot can work using the polarizer feature in photoshop.
Cool Business Card Ideas on CreativeBits.com
I was searching for interesting business card ideas and found this page. Thought some of the ideas were interesting. Take a look see!
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Etsy
I'm sure you've already seen this site, but it's worth another look. You can buy and sell your artwork or other creations here. You can also shop by color, with this nifty little interface.
Etsy: Your Place to Sell & Buy All Things Handmade
PLANET EARTH Series on Discovery
So I was ranting a bit on Monday about how it seems like not enough people have been watching this. Please check it out! Anyone who simply likes to learn new things will enjoy this amazing program. These filmmakers spent 5 years roaming the globe to capture rare footage on HD camera. If you have HD at home, you'll be blown away by the quality of the film.
Just Tivo one night and I know you'll enjoy this!
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/planet-earth/planet-earth.html
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
We Feel Fine
An experimental project that provides a forum for people to submit a rating of how they're feeling that day as well as brief comments. The site then takes the data and visualizes it in different manners. Lovely use of information design. Check it out.
Zoopsia at the Getty
You may have seen signs or banners hanging for this exhibition around town. It's called ZOOPSIA, the work of Tim Hawkinson, and it will be at the Getty Center through September 9th.
Tim Hawkinson creates a menagerie of zoological forms using common household and industrial items and reconfigured images of his own body.
The exhibition looks particularly interesting, in my view, because rather than exploiting animal carcuses, like some early 21st century sensationalist art has done, he uses his own form to mimic nature. Looks like this is defnitely worth checking out if you are into the art scene.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Navigation System To Go
Check it out. I want one. Will you buy it for me? Ted said his buddy used it at Coachella by marking where his car was before walking over a mile in a sea of cars to get back. Purdy cool.
"The Mio DigiWalker™ H610 is a stylish, handheld personal navigation and digital entertainment device. Perfect for anyone who would enjoy real time directions or entertainment while driving, bicycling or walking; the H610 combines high fashion, high accurate GPS functionality, comprehensive point of interest location and a feature-rich digital media player all in a single device."
If you like pdf mags...
...then you'll love this site. A nice directory of design-related pdf mags available online. See here.
Red Interactive Agency
More than just a company site, the Red Interactive Agency's Red Universe is an immersive avatar based chat environment. Create your character and fly around using the arrow keys, say hello. Brilliant!
May 1st Reboot
If you're not familiar with this annual event, the May 1st Reboot is an international relaunch of websites by authors and creatives working in the field of Web Design. You can view this year's sites under the participants section.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Artist Formerly Known as Pixelranger
New portfolio site (at least the last time I checked) of Shane Mielke, the creative director of some obscure agency called 2Advanced.
UnderConsideration.com
Established in 2001, UnderConsideration is dedicated to the progress of the graphic design profession and its practitioners.
It includes some great resources like The Design Encyclopedia and Speak Up, a forum expressly for design professionals.
Also check out the news archive and recommended reading, like THE WORD BOOK, as seen in the above image.
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