Happy Friday to you! They say that love is the bridge between two hearts- and we feel that art is a vehicle for love, so we chose bridges as our theme for “We Love Friday”. [Read more...]
Tracking Your Team Through the Baseball Season
Here in the States, Baseball season is upon us and the country is looking forward to a long and exciting year of stolen bases, double-plays and epic walk-off home runs. How are things going to pan out for your team? This beautiful interactive poster helps you track the data of your favorite team, game by game, through the full season… by the time October rolls around you’ll have a full, ready to frame visualization of how your team faired, from first pitch to their final standings. [Read more...]
Mixing Landscapes Into The Human Form
The beauty of working with mixed media is the unlimited amount of possibilities an artist can come up with: the ideas really, are endless. Although some may say it is getting harder to create an original piece of art (you know, the old “everything has been done before” mantra) everything in actuality has a derivative. Taking advantage of this happy situation, Oriol Angrill Jorda uses nature and the human form for the inspiration in his collection titled “Blendscapes”. He takes two images, one a landscape and the other a portrait, and then melds them together creating an image which reminds us that we are at once individual and of the world. [Read more...]
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The Sound of Jelly
Have you ever wondered what sound jelly makes? Well, now there is a kit that provides you with all the right materials to discover exactly that. The world needs to give a big thanks to Raphaël Pluvinage and Marianne Cauvard for creating the game, Noisy Jelly. Arguably the most fun combo ever, this musical jelly chemistry lab is something that needs to be experienced first-hand to get the full effect. Even though there are children playing with it in the video, you better believe this is a game for all ages. [Read more...]
Little Dreamers: Ethereal Visions of a Childlike Land
How often do you dream of being a child again? Living in a world populated by mystical tame animals, flying boxes of your own creation and colors that are only as realistic as you see them? 22 year old Dara Scully might be from Madrid Spain, but her heart is firmly rooted in the arboreal forests of northern Sweden, far from civilization and its lack of child-like fantasy and imagination. [Read more...]
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Not A Drop to Drink: America’s Very Real Water Crisis
In southern California we hear about a water crisis every year around springtime, when the cold is being flung away and our bones are ready to defrost in the warmth of the sun. Each year we hear about the water crisis, but what does that mean? The average American household seems to think that water flows from the faucet in nearly endless quantities, but while most people don’t think that water is something we’re in danger of losing anytime soon, this graphic shows why water quantity and quality should be a top issue. The four major components of the issue covered here: consumption, conservation, quality, infrastructure, and their interconnectedness. [Read more...]
From a Thread to a T-Shirt
Have you ever wondered how your favorite cotton tee went from thread to t-shirt? This clever animation, “Petit Bateau- du fil au t-shirt” provides a fun shadow puppet hypothesis. The short ad was produced by Doncvoilà Productions for the French clothing company Petit Bateau. It was directed and illustrated by Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet, who is also a graphic designer based in Paris. Check out more of his incredible animations and illustrations (including the one below the video) on his website. [Read more...]
The Robot With a Human Structure
The field of robotics is exploding with new innovation, from the recent hydrogen powered jellyfish robot to a jumping sand flea, but what happened to the idea of creating humanoid robots that look, act, and move like us? Besides a few shining examples of good design, most humanoid robots have been decidedly lacking in realistic human-like movement, placing them a bit at odds with a world designed around humans and making them far less familiar for us to interact with. [Read more...]
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Rear Window Exposed: The Movie Set in One Frame
With a little dissecting, Photoshop and After Effects, Jeff Desom reveals the entirety of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” set. For all of you who have seen this film, you will understand why this panoramic view is so fascinating. As the plot flowed from window to window in the original film, the world on the movie screen seemed so much larger. Now we can not only see the entire set, but also see the events of the movie happening in sync with the actual movie plot. [Read more...]
