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The Gap: A New Typographic Interpretation of Ira Glass’s Iconic Quote About the Creative Process. This beautiful visual accompaniment to Ira Glass’ iconic quote about the creative process was created by Daniel Sax after encountering a similar video by David Shiyang Liu that was shared extensively back in 2012.
Great to see such a wonderful sound bite still inspiring people to make new stuff. (via Quipsologies) British Journal of Photography. New Instagram Photos of Everyday Objects Turned into Whimsical Illustrations by Javier Perez. Ecuadorean illustrator and art director Javier Pérez (previously) returns with his second installment of clever Instagram Experiments where he turns everyday objects and food into clever minimalistic photo illustrations.
Several of his pieces are available as prints through Society6, and you can follow his new work almost everyday on Instagram as well as on Behance. 42 great examples of doodle art. Doodling is a great, fun way of expressing yourself.
But it's often underrated as an art form. Yet doodle art can help you learn how to draw and make a great addition to your design portfolio – as highlighted by these brilliant examples. Combining child-like doodles with expressive illustrations, they show how doodling can be used to create beautiful and arresting designs. Who knew there were so many doodle art styles? 01. Bold and beautiful, this gorgeous piece is the work of illustrator Hattie Stewart (as is the opening image). Best known for her 'doodle bombs', Stewart frequently redesigns magazine covers with her own twist. 02. Jon Burgerman is best known for his colourful, fluid and playful creations and this one is no exception. The brief was to depict the trials and tribulations of being an artist, including creating a concept, playing with ideas, taking a break and checking emails. 03. 04. 05. This South Korean artist is the master of the doodle. 06. 07. 08. 09. The Radical Boundaries of African-American Performance.
William Pope.L performing “Eating the Wall Street Journal” (2000) at The Sculpture Center, New York, 2000.
(image courtesy the artist, photo by Lydia Grey) “Be African-American. Be very African American.” Thus reads a typed instruction on an otherwise blank piece of paper sent by veteran performance artist William Pope.L to Clifford Owens as part of Anthology, the latter’s crowd-sourced performance project staged last year at MoMA PS1. The cryptic directive, together with the other performance scores that Owens solicited from an intergenerational group of 26 black artists, is now on view in the first installment of Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery. Bizarre New Animated Gifs from Zach Dougherty. Digital artist Zach Dougherty (previously) is back with a new round if really strange animated gifs, placing his strange amorphous and glitchy objects against ordinary backdrops.
Brief History of the Turner Prize - Photo Essays. Art Director Javier Pérez Turns Everyday Objects into Whimsical Illustrations. Ecuador-based illustrator and art director Javier Pérez has been posting a fun series of photo illustrations over on his Instagram account.
The simple ideas mix everyday objects with line drawings, creating balloons out of grapes, porcupine quills out of nails, or light bulbs out of balloons. These are a few of my favorites but you can see much more here. 22 Unbelievable Places that are Hard to Believe Really Exist. Our world is so full of wonders that new and amazing places are discovered every day, be that by professional photographers or amateurs.
Different geographical locations, climatic conditions and even seasons offer the widest variety of natural wonders: pink lakes, stunning lavender or tulip fields, breath-taking canyons and mountains, and other places you can hardly believe actually exist! [Read more...] Some of the pictures in this collection will be of all natural sights you can find while traveling around the world, while the others have experienced human interference – but even in these cases, the result of such collaboration is spectacular.
The Japanese learned how to tame thousands of orchids and form a romantic tunnel out of them; another one was formed all the way in Ukraine by a passing train; and what eventually ends up as hot tea in our mugs, first grows in stunning tree fields in Asia. Feel free to add more places in the comments under the article. NOTICE: A Flock of Signs. With Kim Beck's NOTICE: A Flock of Signs, visitors will discover clusters of signs crowded along landscape pathways.
Sited in several areas throughout the Park, the overabundant, densely packed signs create surprising, nonsensical landscapes in an otherwise serene nature preserve. Beck's signs deliberately perplex, misdirect, and even contradict one another. A hyper-informative, look-at-me garden folly, NOTICE: A Flock of Signs elevates the everyday—the paths, trees, flora, and traces of fauna—to something worthy of notice. Kim Beck (b. 1970) grew up in Colorado and divides her time between New York, NY, and Pittsburgh, PA, where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.