Data + Design Project

Goldfish and Creatures Delicately Drawn

Thursday 06.30.2011 , Posted by

Born in Sydney, Australia, Nanami Cowdroy was still able to have close ties to her Japanese-European heritage, in fact, the red stamp on the corner of each of her paintings is her name in Japanese, meaning Seven Seas. Her artwork is a large mix of media from pen, pencil and ink, to water colour and spray paint on paper. After hand making her pieces, she later adds some digital elements including the soft gradient backgrounds. Cowadory’s favorite subjects are watery creatures and Goldfish. [Read more...]

Whimsical Paintings With Pop-Culture Swagger

Thursday 06.30.2011 , Posted by

Artist Drake Brodahl describes himself as a “part-time, pajama-wearing tube sock ninja”… and even better than that, we think he’s also a black belt with the paintbrush. Inspired by classic children’s books, his often whimsical acrylic paintings have a decidedly mid-century flair, mixing pop-culture references with charmingly humanistic animals. Based out of the greater Seattle area, Brodahl has been exhibiting up and down the west coast of the United States and is quickly gaining notoriety. See his website, drakebrodahl.com for more of his work, or see the latest at his blog, pumml.blogspot.com. [Read more...]

Visual Bits #69 > The Many Faces Of Johnny Depp

Wednesday 06.29.2011 , Posted by

Your daily links after the jump!
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Visualized: Your Content Is Their Profit

Wednesday 06.29.2011 , Posted by

While many people are concerned about privacy online and how their information is shared, what many people don’t know is that their user generated content (UGC) is often monitized by the site to which they upload it. That amazing video of your cat doing yoga or the chart topping song you wrote for your signifigant other? The social networking site hosting the content often has permission to automatically make money off the very content you spent long hours creating. This infographic, created by mycube.com, looks at the various popular websites, from Linkedin to Facebook and the vast amount of UGC that they hold… then it looks at the amount they might be pulling in from our work. [Read more...]

Portraits Carved From Completed Paintings

Wednesday 06.29.2011 , Posted by

In a process of creative addition and subtraction, artist Kuin Heuff creates her intricate portraits of men. Looking like intricate wood cuts, each painting began as a complete portrait on paper, Heuff then studies the brush stroke patterns and form of the painting and starts cutting away pieces. Her results are portraits with a light, lace-like structure that still retains its painterly color. For more on this Rotterdam based artists work including a selection of her uncut paintings see kuinheuff.nl. [Read more...]

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A One Man Mobile Studio At Burning Man

Wednesday 06.29.2011 , Posted by


When acclaimed studio photographer Eric Schwabel goes to Burning Man he doesn’t leave his passion behind. In 2010 he took a clever hand built “light suit” to the massive festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and captured the plethora of beautiful, colorful revelers in engaging detail. Below we catch up with Schwabel for an exclusive interview about his experiences on the dusty playa. [Read more...]

Pollen fossils from Antarctic’s warmer days

Wednesday 06.29.2011 , Posted by

By studying fossilized grains of pollen, researchers have reconstructed the climate history of the Antarctic Peninsula, which gave up its vegetation about 12 million years ago. Scientists are studying the region because it has warmed significantly in recent decades. [Read more...]

Better 3-D from amazing shrimp eyes

Wednesday 06.29.2011 , Posted by

A shrimp with a sharp eye is giving researchers insight into how to improve CD, DVD, blu-ray, and holographic technology. Peacock mantis shrimp are one of only a few animal species that can see circularly polarized light—like that used to create 3-D movies. In fact, some researchers believe the mantis shrimp’s eyes are better over the entire visual spectrum than any existing man-made waveplates. [Read more...]

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The US’s First Packaging-Free Grocery Store

Tuesday 06.28.2011 , Posted by

Be it beans, granola or sometimes even tomatoes, it seems today that everything we eat is somehow wrapped in colorful packaging. In fact, packaging makes up 40 percent of municipal waste in the U.S alone. Now, In.gredients a grocery store opening in Austin, Texas is hoping to fix that problem by creating the country’s first packaging-free, zero-waste grocery store. By eliminating all packaging from their products In.gredients is hoping to create a waste-free model to follow and make a significant dent in the mountain of garbage created daily. [Read more...]

Gripping Modern Art Made with Tape

Tuesday 06.28.2011 , Posted by

Many artists use tape to create their masterpieces, using it to mask off areas or to hold layers of their works together… Chris Hosmer takes the material a few steps further, making beautiful modern pieces with tape alone. His work has a superb linear look to it and even the tastefully placed color is made with the material. [Read more...]

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