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The Creators Project – Anthony Howe.
A little less than a week ago, the Creators Project released a new video on kinetic sculpture Anthony Howe and his otherworldly art. His pieces are engineered, designed, refined, built and tweaked to...
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Friday Inspiration. “Life Forms” A tribute to the scientist and artist Ernst...
This animated short film was created by animating light, plastic, and oil, with final compositing in After Effects. No CGI, just crazy hand techniques and some insane electronic music. Enjoy. Filed...
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Attention to Detail. “The Blue Carpet” by Jonathan Bréchignac.
I often talk about craft, attention to detail, and the hand of the artist in relation to the visual arts and design. Today’s piece of inspiration is the epitome of those things. At the Villa Empain,...
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Getting It Right, With Responsive Design.
I am a firm believer in “Keep it Simple”, and “Less is More” when it comes to design. Especially interactive design. In today’s world the average window to engage a mobile visitor to your web site is...
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What if Wacom Built a Tablet Computer? They Are.
If you are a designer or artist working with digital tools like Photoshop or Illustrator, you might have had a chance to work with the Wacom Cintiq. If you are unfamiliar with the Cintiq, it is Wacom’s...
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SculptGL. Cloud Based 3D Modeling.
As internet speeds become faster, and computers become more powerful more and more software is moving to the cloud. Less than 5 years ago SculptGL would have been almost impossible, but in todays world...
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Cut It Out. Paper Illustration by Fideli Sundqvist.
Recent graduate of Konstfack in Stockholm, artist, illustartor, and designer Fideli Sundqvist creates some beautiful sculptural paper illustrations. While these could be easily modeled on a computer...
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Type is Power. A Brief History of Typography.
You use type everyday, but most of us don’t give much thought to the history of typography. The stop motion video below is an overview of the history of typography in less than five minutes. Take a...
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American Illustration Annual’s Live Cover Project.
Art Director and Designer Richard Turley is well known for his interesting and unusual illustration and graphic choices for Bloomberg Business Week; so when he was faced with art directing the cover of...
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Plug In to the Adorne Pop-Out.
For the most part wall outlets and light switches are just plain ugly. With a few exceptions the design hasn’t changed much in the last 80 years. I understand that thanks to ISO standards, the part...
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The Drawing the Process.
“Drawing is a thought process, not a means to reproduce what you see.” this quote from Daniel Weil in the video below, is a a comment that surfaces about 3 minutes in. It arrives as Weil shows off his...
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Systems, Das Programm, Walter Knoll, and Braun.
I love Braun electronics from the 1960′s and I love mid-century international style design, so “Systems” is right up my alley. The exhibition is curated by das programm and produced in association with...
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PPG 2014′s Color of the Year, and 2014 Color Predictions.
Making the call for “The Color of the Year” is a pretty bold move, but if anyone can do it PPG can. PPG has released their color predictions for the 2014 market in a 100 page PDF that is available …...
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25 Turkey’s Just in Time for Thanksgiving.
With Thanksgiving just two days away, I thought I’d post a little something about Turkey’s since they are the food of choice on Thanksgiving day. Today most of us go to the supermarket, and grab a...
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Auto Aerobics.
Most of us think of 3D software being used to create special effects for movies and television, or for things like product design and architecture. It’s always nice when you see someone using it to...
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The Legendary George Lois Speaks.
The legendary George Lois is one of the most creative, prolific advertising communicators of our time. Recently he spoke at the Head, Heart, Hand conference in Minneapolis. The image below links to the...
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New York Times Book Review: Holiday Books by Johnny Kelly and Nexus.
This little piece for the New York Times was produced by Designer: Johnny Kelly and Nexus. Bright colorful flat design that pulls from book to book creating a series of scenes that cover the range of...
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Planeta Pop Glitz*.
Over the last year, “Flat Design” has become the big buzz word being dropped by, and embraced by everyone. The flat look is nothing new, it just seems fresh in a sea of over played sketchbooky, hand...
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Typeflake for your Christmas Tree.
So what do you get a graphic designer for Christmas? There are millions of answers for that, but if you know one that has an expressed passion for typography, fonts, and all things type, you might want...
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Simply Bent. Cowrie from Made in Ratio.
Since I was a kid, I have always been fascinated with furniture made from bent plywood. I think it comes from the fact that my grade school had so many Eames molded plywood chairs through out the...
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