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What do you get when you combine a Blink 182 song, a ambitious university student and a copy of Adobe After Effects? In this case you get a whirling kinetic animation that captures the punky energy of the song. What’s your favorite part of the animation...
Sometimes the best way to tell a story is with an animation. Melih Bilgil, a visual artist from Germany, show splendid usage of simple black icons on a white canvas in his ‘History of the Internet’ video.
Can you spot the subtle...
Kinetic typography is a form of animation that uses fonts and words as the main actors. This style of animation, also known as moving type, can create complex animations mostly on moving text. See the entire Reflecting on Design series.
The point...
What do you do with a book? If you are like most people your answer is probably; “read it…”.
But if you are an artist you might look at a book as a treasure to be mined for its internal beauty. All you need is a scalpel and...
Nature is filled with interesting colors and juxtapositions. Sometimes an organic shot is better than anything you can dream up for using as a pattern. Waterdrops on flower by Sophie Macro photography gives a close-up, detailed look at the...
Here’s an interesting idea. Create a picture using every possible RGB color.
The objective of allRGB is simple: To create images with one pixel for every rgb-color (16777216 to be exact); not one color missing, and not one color twice. Working...
What if you performed a color map of every frame of a film and built a conglomerate map with the results?
Alan Woo wrote a program to do just that and created a series of posters.
A program written in processing captures each frame of each movie...
More light painting photos. Some ‘not safe for work’ items. See the entire Reflecting on Design series.
The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, fine art, industrial design. Just maybe...
Painting with light creates vivid images. Sometimes called ‘light graffiti’.
From Recycle Bean
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The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture...
Walk around the Cardiff Bay locks and you see some unusual patterns in yellow paint. But stand in just the right spot, and suddenly it all makes sense. This is known as an anamorphic illusion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures...
While this technique has been around for a long time I still admired nicely rendered Typography art.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monya2008/2513930614/ http://camplinart.blogspot.com/2006/10/text-art-ii.html
A trip back to ASCII art...
Humans have been inventing new forms of containers for thousands of years. From clay pots to spun aluminum the ideas are boundless.
Here are a few of my favorite award winning entries in the Worldwide Packaging Design Award Competition. ...
Hicks Design on FontExplorer Pro
http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/recent-work-fontexplorer-pro
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The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, fine art, industrial...
Cut paper designs by Yulia Brodskaya
http://www.artyulia.com/index.php/Illustration/PAPERgraphic/2
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The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, fine art, industrial...
Last week I wrote about finding inspiration when creating your UI. I thought I would start a series of posts contemplating nice design. I’ll be choosing images from many disciplines. I’m deliberately staying clear of web...