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Designs Gallery and Inspiration

Designs Gallery and Inspiration

The Fractals of Strange Fruit, Flemish Lace, Red Ant Above: Fractal Labs Organism Fractal Image The Fractals of Strange Fruit, Flemish Lace and Red Ant. These images are created with an application named Fractal Lab, a shader based real time 3D fractal generator (I’ve included more details on Fractal Lab at the end of this post). Below you’ll see some fantastic renderings of various source textures: Above: Red Ant Mixed Media Fractal Image Above: Embossed Foil Fractal Image Please Stumble this Post: Above: Organic Fractal Image Above: Strange Fruit Fractal Image Above: Flemish Lace Ceramic Pattern Image More Information About Fractal Lab – A WebGL based web application for rendering 2D and 3D fractals in real-time. Discovered via But Does it Float // Images © copyright and source, Flickr user Roddh. You may be interested in reading another post about Fractals I wrote over on Andrew Kelsall Design named 10 Excellent Fractal Images for Inspiration. ★ Related Posts here on Design Soak Magazine ★

What Big Teeth You Have! Of course, you already know the wolf's answer... This scary week continues with the last and most frightening installment of Animalarium's visual exploration of this enormously popular tale. See my previous posts here and here, and visit Shelley Davies for more Red Riding Hood goodness. Fluorescent Water by Mark Mawson [8 Images] This stunning collection of photos showing fluorescent water is from a project named “Aqueous Fluoreau - Inspired by the vibrant colours that brighten up everyday life.” They are from London & Sydney based Mark Mawson, who spends his time between the two locations shooting for advertising agencies & magazines. Marks work has been a feature in several galleries. His own personal photography is also in various private collections across the globe.The galleries include the Sophie Maree gallery, The Hague and Lux Archive in New York City. Fluorescent Water Gallery Please Stumble this Post: Credits: All the images shown in this post are Copyright © MarkMawson. ★ Related Posts here on Design Soak Magazine ★

Quipsologies • Quipsologies, is a division of UnderConsideration, chronicling the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry on a daily basis. • Quipsologies uses TypeKit to render P22 Underground, Skolar Web by TypeTogether, and Coquette by Mark Simonson. • Quipsologies is run with Six Apart’s MovableType 6.3.2 • Syndicate / RSS Feed • All comments, ideas and thoughts on Quipsologies are property of their authors; reproduction without the author’s or Quipsologies’s permission is strictly prohibited • Contact us by e-mail • Search through our archives (starting with Vol. 45 September 2010) UnderConsideration is a graphic design enterprise that runs a network of blogs, publishes books, organizes live events, and designs for clients. online Brand New / Displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work. FPO (For Print Only) / Celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.

Pencil Sculptures by Jennifer Maestre Here are some wonderful pencil sculptures by Jennifer Maestre. As can be seen, the artworks are made entirely from coloured pencil-ends. I really love the “Luna Pencil Sculpture” shown above. Here are some more: Above: Asteridae Pencil Sculpture Jennifer explains what inspires here works: My sculptures were originally inspired by the form and function of the sea urchin. Above: Flex Pencil Sculpture Above: Imp Pencil Sculpture Above: Silkie Pencil Sculpture Please Stumble this Post: Above: Ozma Pencil Sculpture Above: See the Pencil Sculpture Above: Tiamat2 Pencil Sculpture Above: Aurora Pencil Sculpture Above: Aurora Details Pencil Sculpture Further Information All images are © copyright Jennifer Maestre. Like this post? If you liked this article, you’ll love to see Dalton Ghetti’s Pencil Sculptures. ★ Related Posts here on Design Soak Magazine ★

The Book Cover Archive An Animated Video of The Scream - this is Truly Amazing! Wow! This is simply amazing. I can’t put into words how good this video is! It’s surreal. It’s weird. “I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.” ► SEE ALSO: Entropic Images by Jim Kazanjian. Please Stumble this Post: Watch the Video: Scream animation painting [below] If you’re reading this post via Email Subscription or via RSS and can’t see this, click here to watch the video. © The Scream from Sebastian Cosor on Vimeo. ★ If you liked this post, then I think you’ll love… Floppy Disc Art by Nick Gentry This floppy disc art by Nick Gentry is totally unique. ★ Related Posts here on Design Soak Magazine ★

SUMMER FLOWERS - botanic illustration, flowers, nature, sustainable lifestyle, do-it-yourself, creative environmental options, craft, organics, gardening, planting, flower pots, reusing, old and vintage, nature, environmental news, rec He's at it again! Pencil versus reality artist produces stunning perspective drawings By Rob Cooper Published: 10:07 GMT, 18 May 2012 | Updated: 14:55 GMT, 18 May 2012 A monkey takes the underground and a lion walks down the street in these mind-bending photos. Belgian visual artist Ben Heine, 28, blends photography and pencil sketches to create imaginary scenes. Other images show a baby's face in a sunflower, a fisherman catching a shark, and a cat snuggling up to a dog. A different perspective: As these sunflowers smile, the one in the middle screams in this picture originally taken in Spain Rush: A monkey on the underground in this image taken in Barcelona. Reeling in a whopper: A fisherman appears to catch an unusual trawl in this perspective-bending picture taken in Tunisia as part of the Pencil Vs Camera series by Belgian visual artist Ben Heine Ben said: 'I find a location, then do the drawings, then take a photo to combine with the drawing. 'I like to stretch people's imaginations. He has used locations in London, Spain, Tunisia, and Belgium for his work.

The Jealous Curator Book Igloo Home is a recent sculptural installation by Colombian artist Miler Lagos. The piece was constructed at MagnanMetz Gallery late last year using carefully stacked books to create a compact dome that is entirely self-supporting. (via chris moore, thanks megan) Art Hound Satire & Animals by Ricardo Martinez Great satirical illustrations of animals by Ricardo Martinez… Ricardo Martinez Superbes illustrations satiriques d’animaux par Ricardo Martinez…

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