Posts to inspire creatives, thinkers, wonderers, doodlers, photographers,
designers, illustrators, scholars and lost souls
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The 19-year old artist Minjae Lee is mainly self-taught and uses old-fashioned tools — such as markers, pens, crayons, acrylics — to create his illustrations. As I am currently investigating the use of colour in design these painting caught my eye by their ability to juxtapose palettes yet retain a life like atmosphere.
(Source: thecoolhunter.net)
Homo Faber
For the human, the creator of objects and the objects, creators of the human.
Kike Besada is a very talented boy!
American artist Christian Faur uses hand-cast wax crayons as pixels to create vivid images.
Faur arrived at the series through pushing the boundries of material limitations. rather than using the crayons to draw with, he uses the object itself as small points of colour like a pointillist painting.
Ian Crawford has created a series of pictures that involve models and state of movement being captured and isolated in a single frame. His entire showcase can been seen on Behance.
This is a redundant clock. And this is a redundant description
Clever use of type to convey visual object.
I have only just discovered the work of photographer Mark Shaw. His fashion photography exudes elegance and a dignity that, more or less, seems lost in the current world of fashion photography.
View a collection of his work at his website.
Inspiration can come from many areas. An area that is often overlooked by the masses is package design even though subconsciously it has a huge impact on our decision to purchase a product.
Lovely Package is a fantastic website that showcases some of the worlds best package designs.
Rob Schellenberg has designed these wine labels below based on the longtitudes of Italy’s famous wine regions.
This Papercraft Self Portrait was Eric Testroete Halloween costume in 2009. Eric is a 3D artist in the Vancouver game industry and he was inspired by the big-head mode seen in videogames.
Jonathan Puckey has developed an amazing Illustrator tool which allows artists to create images similar to this.
Fashion illustration doesn’t get any better than David Downton. A master of the brush stroke his work is timeless, capturing the beauty of his models with the simplest of lines.
A group of artists who search for unexpected but correlative, emergent patterns in their experiments and videos. Their manifesto states “The process is the product”
Jason Thielke is an illustration genius! Using architectural drawings as inspiration for his work, the final results give an anatomical yet futuristic/mystical feel.
A website created by London based freelance web designer, Jenna Law. See her portfolio website here at Plexus Design.
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