McBess is a French illustrator currently residing in London. His work is loaded with so much swagger and rock n’ roll attitude you find yourself wanting more than anything for his characters to be real — flesh and blood. You’ll wish you could slam a cold one and cheer them on like the garage rock gods they are; a beer swilling version of the Gorillaz. Mcbess is known for mainly working in black and white, which is 10x more rock n’ roll than working in color. McBess began drawing at an early age, and carried it over into his adult life. He studied the third dimension of drawing and animation at art school, and falls for the second dimension pretty hard as well. [Read more...]
All I Own: Peoples Possessions Up Against the Wall
What would everything you own look like against one wall? Photographer Sannah Kvist gave her subjects a simple but fun assignment: take all your worldly possessions and build a sculpture in any way you want. In the case of some, that sculpture might look like a mountain, but in the case of these young people from Sweden, they just have a small pile. All of her subjects where born in the 80′s, which is part of the charm of the portraits and an explanation of why they own so few things. [Read more...]
Endearing Monster Drawings Pop From the Screen
It seems like the web is being overrun by animates GIF images, from short movie clips to 3D photographs that trick us into seeing all their dimensions… but to see an artist who makes his own artwork look 3D, that is very unique. These imaginative images look a lot like a cross between the cartoon work of Matt Groening and the linear qualities of the late Maurice Sendak, complete with friendly looking monsters. Seattle based illustrator/artist Dain Fagerholm has taken his original pen based artwork and remixed it in stereographic GIF form, giving his images the pop of simulated 3D. [Read more...]
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Beautiful Ad Campaign Features Instrument Interiors
Don’t you wish you could hang out and listen to some music in this beautifully lit space?
Featuring inside-instrument macro photography, this creative yet simple ad campaign is by art director Bjoern Ewers, for the Berlin Philharmonic with photography by Mierswa-Kluska. [Read more...]
Radio Heads Put a Musical Smile on Your Face
Out on the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean resides artist Toni Demuro. She is an illustrator whose minimalist style and color come out wonderfully in her art. Over the past year, she has been doing pieces revolving around figures with radios for heads (any inspiration from the band?). These art pieces are aptly titled Face Radio # 1 to #5 and were all posted this year on her blog. They all display a vintage radio from the past century replacing the facial features on various fashionable persons. [Read more...]
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Been Everywhere: Johnny Cash Inspired Luggage Labels
Ongoing design projects have been all the rage lately amongst the design community, and this luggage label project in particular has been getting a lot of viewers and designers very excited. The Been Everywhere Project was born out of graphic designer and illustrator, Adrian Walsh‘s, love for Johnny Cash’s music. After hearing the song “I’ve Been Everywhere” in his music queue, he came up with the brilliant idea of creating a project where he would invite talented artists to take part and design luggage labels for each of the 92 locations Cash mentions in the song. Once the project started, just as Walsh had hoped, designers began choosing places that meant something to them personally. Whether it was where they grew up, had family, visited, etc., each label so far has been very unique and meaningful. [Read more...]
The 25 Most Remote Places in the World
In spite of the fact that our planet is undergoing a population explosion, there are still some places where it would be hard to find a companion In just a few moments we are going to go on a tour that will involve everything from isolated arctic islands to secluded canyons. By the end of it you will have probably gained a new appreciation for the people in your life (or maybe you’ll start packing your bags). Either way, we hope you enjoy this compilation of the 25 most remote places in the world [Read more...]
Travel Posters For Lazy People
Spring has sprung: time to get outside and travel… or not. In the spirit of the now classic “demotivational poster,” these mock travel posters put a new level of laziness in the idea of going places… in fact, you might just stay at home in your very comfy bed, drink something spirit lifting and surf the internet. I mean, it’s a big scary world out there! [Read more...]
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17 Year Old Surreal Photographer: Maria Sardari
With models fading into the hallways, lights coming from their eyes… floating, sleeping, dreaming, wanting… these photographs are surreal and captivating like a dream you don’t want to wake from. They are the creations of photographer Maria Sardani, who is only 17 years old. [Read more...]
Beauties of Yesteryear: The Brinkley Girls
What do Prudence Prim, Flossie, Gloriette, Dimples, Pretty Polly and Sunny Sue have in common? They’re all 1920′s illustrated heroines by artist Nell Brinkley. Brinkley’s artistic career, spanning the 1910s to the 1940s, largely involved her producing action-packed weekly illustrated serials for newspapers like The American Weekly. She also illustrated quite a few advertisements for hair wavers and bob curlers. [Read more...]
