Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor. One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work. Mrs. Zamula, my childhood art teacher, first warned me about black when I was in middle school. And I heard the same again multiple times at RISD. It sounds weird at first, but it’s good advice. Problem is, we see dark things and assume they are black things. Shadows aren’t black. In high school, I spent lots of my free time in the art room with a few other art-loving friends. I probably went through that book ten times.
His shadows are some of the most saturated parts of his paintings, and that’s on the screen too. Now you might be thinking, “Yeah, but those are paintings. But I must have been thinking the same thing, because one of those days in art class Mrs. I was amazed. The corner of Chestnut and Polk. The darkest part of that image? Black overpowers everything else. When you put pure black next to a set of meticulously picked colors, the black overpowers everything else.
Mrs. Steve McCurry's Blog. Mind-Bending Single Sheet Origami. Japanese artist Yukio Nishimura creates all of these sculptural pieces with a single sheet of creamy white paper– the mind bending origami is comprised of thousands of folds that make beautiful patterns of light and shadow. The medium could not be any simpler, but he has imagined incredible variations for each pattern.
There’s something so mesmerizing about each piece, especially the ones the undulate and curve. Folding pristine curves into paper must take incredible patience. From Nishimura’s site: Only by folding one piece of paper an expressive masterpiece can be created. Even the creamy quality of the paper is marvelous– each piece is something that can be stared into for hours. Book Origami: The Art of Folding In. Artist Isaac Salazar recycles old books into surprising works of art by folding in the pages to make words and shapes visible on the edges of the book. He’s posted much of his work on Flickr, although his Etsy page says that he no longer accepts custom orders for these beautiful books. Via Recyclart: “I see my work as a way to display a meaningful piece of art onto a book that would otherwise sit on a shelf and collect dust; it’s also my way of recycling a book that might otherwise end up in a landfill.The words or symbols I use are drawn from anything that invokes inspiration or encouragement, such as “Read”, “Dream” and the Recycle symbol.
If my work also makes people look at a book and even art in a new light then the piece has done its job.” I imagine that making this means tracing a flattened version of the image onto the edge of the book, then carefully folding to meet the lines of that tracing (and perhaps cutting when necessary, to fold in the smaller curves). Room Portraits by Menno Aden. German photographer Menno Aden has shot a series of Berlin interiors from an unconventional viewpoint: looking down from the ceiling. The Room Portraits include a bar, a classroom, a shoe shop, a supermarket, a car park and an apartment. In each instance the camera was positioned in the centre of the ceiling to create an image that appears flattened and abstracted. See more stories about photography » Here's some more text sent by the photographer: Through challenging camera angles Menno Aden abstracts most familiar actual living environments and public interiors into flattened two-dimensional scale models.
A camera that the artist installed on the ceiling of various rooms takes pictures downwards of the interiors. The resulting images lay out space in symmetrical compositions that look like assemblages stripped of any kind of objectivity. The views into private homes and secret retreats bring up associations of the ubiquitous observation camera. JUST IN CASE ® - End-of-the-world-survival kit - on the Behance Network. The Boys And Girls Lego Table. Logo Designer Profile: Melanie McDonald. Melanie McDonald has been successfully running her own design firm for the past seven years but has found time to combine that with building a collection of logos on StockLogos as Melanie D. There's no doubt that she has developed a recognizable style that has found favor with site visitors.
Below we've included examples of both her StockLogos designs and work created for the clients of her design firm. Could you please tell us about your background and how you got into logo design? What design and illustration qualifications and skills do you have? I’m a 28 year-old graphic designer from Ontario, Canada. My passion for artistic expression has always been a part of my life in some form or another. This passion led me to furthering my education in the direction of Graphic Art at Georgian College Design and Visual Arts. Marquiel Exclusive Tailoring - Logo for a new company that provides tailored men’sshirts and furnishings (cufflinks, ties, socks, etc.)
Treedom Fox Field Farms - Sold Botswana. Nice publications. Time for one of our regular round ups of lovely printed publications. Included is the new issue of Centrefold magazine, the latest hardback graphic novel from Nobrow, an illustrated diary by Jon Burgerman and an unusual mailer by Crispin Finn... OK, so it isn't technically a publication as such but seeing as this mailer by London-based design duo Crispin Finn is based on a 'book' of matches, we felt that it qualified to be showcased here. At 145mm x 175mm it is substantially larger than an actual book of matches.
Inside each "match" bears the Crispin Finn website address and can be torn out, although rather than be used as a giant matches, they can be given out as unusual business cards. crispinfinn.com Part sketch book, part diary, illustrator Jon Burgerman's new self-published 92 page book, My American Summer, charts his constant struggle with procrastination. My American Summer costs £12 and is available from burgerplex.com It's intense, but it's also hard to put down. Doane Gregory Photography.