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Intricate Paper Cutouts by Hand on Rice Paper

Friday 05.03.2013 , Posted by Paul Caridad

I am in complete awe of these delicate paper cutouts by Philly-based artist Bovey Lee. With the steadiness of a surgeon, she carves unbelievably detailed designs, patterns, and storyscapes into rice paper then backs them with silk- no laser cutters necessary! Although it looks like she has spent a lifetime mastering this technique, Lee has only been doing it since 2005. Her steady hand could be attributed to the Chinese calligraphy she practiced from the age of ten, growing up in Hong Kong. Lee’s imaginative designs blend fantasy with reality and her delicate execution is remarkable. [Read more...]

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: Art, Design

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: Bovey Lee, cut paper, paper art, paper craft, rice paper

Looking Back at a Year of Daily Geometry

Wednesday 05.01.2013 , Posted by Benjamin Starr

For just over a year now Tilman Zitzmann has been daily exploring two of his design fascinations: geometry and minimalism. Each day on his tumblr blog he posts a deceptively simple geometric form in his tasty retro style. Most examples look like they could have been lifted from your parent’s 50s or 60s textbooks, the ones that featured beautiful geometric instructions and infographics on the world before the term was even coined. For anyone design related, this is inspiration gold. [Read more...]

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: Art, Artist Spotlight, Design, Graphic Design

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: art, artist, design, geometry, minimalist

105 World Artists Decorate Paper Dogs

Saturday 04.27.2013 , Posted by Benjamin Starr

If you gave 100 artists the same square canvas’ and told them to paint them, what you got back would be a lot of square paintings. In a similar way, British design studio Lazerian is doing the same thing… only they are doing it with paper dogs. Nicknamed “Gerald” their pointer like pup has been passed around to artists world-wide (with a head nod to the now classic CowParade), creating a pack of colorful and creative dogs for people to collect and assemble themselves. [Read more...]

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: Art, Artist Spotlight, Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Painting

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: art, artists, dogs, Lazerian, paper craft

Carnovsky’s Fabulous RGB Shifting Landscapes

Thursday 04.25.2013 , Posted by Benjamin Starr

Carnovsky has continued their incredible color shifting wall coverings for Milan design week 2013, this time featuring themes of atmosphere, architecture, perspective, emotion and the ephemeral in constant movement. Their curved piece Atmospheric N.1, above, featured on the ground floor of the exhibition and changed from brilliant sunrises to sunsets, storms and even that elusive green flash as the sun disappears. The effect is created using bright LEDs in a RGB array, with illustrations in the exact same color on the wall itself. Simply by changing the color of the light, images come and go – merging together and solidifying as the lights brighten and fade. [Read more...]

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: Art, Design, Digital Art, Illustration

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: art, Carnovsky, mural, RGB, wallpaper

The Global Impact of Movember in Numbers

Wednesday 04.24.2013 , Posted by Jessica Czeck

What seemed like a fun excuse to try out growing a mustache is actually a global action plan that raised over $141.5 million and led to more than 2.3 billion conversations about men’s health! In the great month of Movember 2012, 1.1 million participants from 21 countries tried to do their best impression of 70′s Burt Reynolds. The powerful upper lip hair did not go un-noticed as people posted pictures of their staches all over Facebook and Twitter, each one reaching 2,413 people on average. When you multiply this number by the 1,127,152 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas participating, you get a whopping 2.72 billion conversations! [Read more...]

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: Design, Infographics, Visualization

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: health, Men's Health, movember, mustache, Prostate Cancer

A Visual Compendium of Cameras

Wednesday 04.24.2013 , Posted by Benjamin Starr

Whether you’re using a digital camera or a film camera, photography is photography… and we’re happy to say that Pop Chart Labs knows that. Their soon to be printed Visual Compendium of Cameras traces the history of the world capturing device through 100 landmark renditions, from the original film based Kodak camera of 1888 and the Leica A of 1925, to the digital Canon EOS 5D Mk II and Go Pro Hero III of today (yes, names have become longer). For any lover of capturing the world around them – whether in black & white or high definition moving color – this poster is camera gold. [Read more...]

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: Art, Design, Graphic Design, History, Photography, Technology

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: camera, design, digital camera, GoPro, Graphic Design

Meaningful Quotes, Minimalist Design by Ryan McArthur

Tuesday 04.23.2013 , Posted by Jessica Czeck

Attention quote and design lovers, here’s a poster series that marries minimalism with inspiration and will look great on your wall. Toronto based designer Ryan McArthur has created this awesome line of prints using quotations from some of the most brilliant minds. He illustrates each of his simple, clean designs by hand then manually traces each line converting it to a vector graphic to scale and manipulate. Next he adds in the speech bubble graphic of the author’s name along with the quote itself, and voila!
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: Art, Design, Graphic Design, Illustration

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: minimalist, Oscar Wilde, posters, quotes, Rumi

Animals Oddly Combining with Objects

Thursday 04.18.2013 , Posted by Benjamin Starr

Marcin Schleifer has a talent for combining dissimilar objects into a whole which almost makes sense. His art sees giraffes grow smokestacks for necks, fish sprout gun stocks for tails, a cat having its middle whittled away like wood… it’s all rather unusual. Using either cues from our culture, or simply the shape of the objects themselves for inspiration, he draws them together into images which are intriguing, comic and sometimes even disturbing. [Read more...]

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: Artist Spotlight, Illustration, Typography

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: animals, art, artist, drawing, Marcin Schleifer

Pecha Kucha Night: The Presentation Series in Posters

Wednesday 04.17.2013 , Posted by Benjamin Starr

Since its inception in 2003, Pecha Kucha has gone viral around the globe. The clever format of short talks gives the creative and interesting people of our world a platform to express themselves… while staying extremely concise. Presenters at each event are given just 20 seconds each to describe 20 slides. This short 8 minutes gives a Pecha Kucha Night the informal and spontaneous feel of something special and very personal. With all the creativity that flows from these events, we thought we’d share some of our favorite recent posters from the now 10 year old series. [Read more...]

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: Art, Design, Faces and Places, Graphic Design, People

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: architecture, art, creativity, learning, lecture