Unbelievably Precise Hand Lettered Quotes That Are Almost As Small As Coins
Indonesian artist Dexa Muamar creates tiny hand lettered works of art with pencil. Muamar’s pieces are precise and incredibly proportionate, and it would be hard to guess that they are usually 3-4cm small. His Instagram posts usually feature his works with his hand or coins for scale, but it’s still hard to accept the fact that he is able to obtain such precision with a pencil. Continue reading »
Designer Turns Ridiculous Sketches Of Bicycles Into Realistic Designs
Designer Gianluca Gimini went around with a pen and paper, asking strangers, friends, and family to draw him a normal bicycle from memory. Hundreds of drawings and more than five years later, Gimini renders the collected drawings as real bicycles in a project called ‘Velocipedia’. Continue reading »
France, Often Late To U.S. Culture, Had A Great Reaction To Getting “Game Of Thrones” On Time
To promote French cable provider Canal+ airing the Game of Thrones Season 6 premiere at the exact same moment it debuts in America on HBO (that’s 3 a.m. on April 25 for those en France), agency BETC created a clever outdoor campaign. Continue reading »
Artist Envisions Futuristic Fort-Like Homes Designed To Withstand Hurricanes
Spanish designer Dionisio Gonzales creates surreal forts meant to endure natural disasters such as hurricanes. These fictional structures made of iron and concrete are hybrids of beach houses, bunkers and space ships, and are part of the artist’s latest series of designs entitled “Dauphin Island”. Continue reading »
This Chair Was Designed Specifically For Cigar Aficionados
Chilean architect, Rodrigo Gonzalez, together with German lawyer, Alexander Sauer, conceived the idea of creating a smoker’s armchair for El Purista. The armchair is made of molded beech and walnut wood, and offers the cigar aficionado a personal retreat to relax, smoke, and enjoy. Continue reading »
Man Takes Hilarious Face Swap Photos With Sculptures At The Museum
Face swap is becoming the new craze, where you swap faces with your friends or pet for a good laugh. Redditor Jake Marshall recently took it up to the next level by taking face swap photos with sculptures in the British Museum in London. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates Beautiful Figures Of Olympic Athletes Out Of Layered Paper
According to the Spanish artist Raya Sader Bujana: “The concept of this design was to express movement using paper. The added texture, light and volume that the serial planes technique provides reinforces the fluidity of the pieces. All the sculptures are entirely hand cut and assembled, some of the figures have around 150 pieces and up to 500 separators. The project required many, many hours of work, but the end result was very satisfying for me.” Continue reading »
A Photographer Has Captured Hundreds Of Leaves To Show The Beauty Of Diversity And Imperfection
According to the photographer: “Last Autumn I photographed hundreds of leaves to show that the nature manufactures unique and incredibly beautiful structures. I think they look that interesting because they are not perfect and differ so much.” Continue reading »
IKEA-Inspired Manuals Will Teach You How To Get Over A Breakup
Designer Caisa Nilaseca has produced a series of IKEA-inspired instruction manuals on how to get over a breakup. Just like the Swedish furniture brand’s iconic manuals, these illustrations provide a step-by-step guide that includes the materials you will need and how to start moving on from a breakup. With seven different ways to get over a breakup, such as traveling or simply taking your time to grieve, we are sure there is something for everyone. Continue reading »
An Artist Has Designed Attractive Anti-Social Media Banners To Fight Social Media Addiction
According to Slovak artist Slavo Glinsky: “Using social media nowadays is so addictive it can be compared to smoking 50 years ago. My aim is to show, how it steal our attention and make us more engaged, but less joyful – even depressed.” Continue reading »
Monochrome Bodypainting Project “Exoskeleton”: Brilliantly Textured Body Paintings Turn The Human Form Into A Walking Work Of Art
Artist Yusk Imai has a long-held fascination with human anatomy, and he displays this reverence for the body in an unconventional painting project called Exoskeleton. The skin is his canvas as hands, arms, legs, and shoulders are covered in intricate textures that mimic reptile scales, brushed metal, and feathers. Imai’s meticulous handling and solid black painting is reminiscent of the blackout-style tattoo trend we’ve recently admired. Unlike those tattoos, however, his work is created with acrylic ink and water-based markers, making its existence fleeting. Continue reading »
Be Fearless. Be Seated. A ‘Dangerously Safe’ Stool Series For The Fearless
This project merges stools with popular weapons, but with a twist. The stools are made of strong glass and one can see clearly through them. While the weapon will not pierce the furniture when seated, it creates an illusion to do so. In return, only the fearless will dare to take a tour of this stool. Continue reading »
A Fascinating Photo Project About The Reflection We Want To See In The Mirror
It’s human nature to desire and, at the same time, be afraid of change. But as technology becomes more advanced, we now have a great opportunity to contemplate changes in our appearance without worrying that the consequences will be permanent. With the help of a retouch artist’s capable hands, you can experiment with your appearance: create an incredible hairstyle or even change your skin tone. Sometimes, this impartial perspective can help you understand that when one of your personal traits disappears, you can lose your individuality. Maybe you’ll even become a different person.
Polly: ‘I’ve always wanted to have narrower cheekbones, full lips, and a darker skin tone. And thick hair. I think I would be a real beauty!’
Bright Side offered a group of brave people the chance to take part in a photo project that highlights these issues. They explained their ideas for their ideal appearance to a retouch artist and asked them to make them happen. We suggest you take a look at the result and try to find ten differences. Continue reading »
Traveller T-Shirt With 40 Icons Lets You Communicate In Any Country Even If You Don’t Speak Its Language
George, Steven and Florian, are three friends that got together to create a t-shirt that makes it easier to communicate in a foreign language when you are traveling. It all started when one of the friends was traveling by motorbike in rural Vietnam, and their motorbike broke down. Continue reading »
This Couple Made The Most Epic Star Wars Engagement Shoot Ever
This “Finn and Rey” photo shoot is the most epic engagement we’ve seen yet! Shot in the Little Sahara Dunes in Utah, these beautiful photos are both incredibly well done and genuinely heart warming. The shoot features real-life couple Victor and Julianne and their little daughter dressed as BB-8 droid. The series was shot by photographer Robert Lance who also plans to shoot their wedding this May. Continue reading »
Daredevil Photographer Attaches LED To Drone For Hauntingly Beautiful Photos
Photographer Reuben Wu transforms the vast desert landscape into otherworldly scenes with his stunning series Lux Noctis. The dramatic images feature solitary rock formations surrounded by nearly pitch-black darkness, only illuminated by a selective spotlight. This approach both highlights their incredible characteristics and visually creates the feeling that an alien ship is about to land on the curious grounds. Continue reading »
Cats Can Finally Destroy Priceless Artwork With These Masterpiece Scratching Posts
Cats like to scratch stuff. It’s what cats do. Sometimes it’s your sofa. Other times it’s your face. You just never know with cats. But if it’s expensive or important, chances are that your cat will want to scratch it. This rule also applies to priceless paintings. Continue reading »
Extremely Rare White Giraffe With Ginger Mane Spotted In Tanzania
Omo the giraffe is fifteen months old. She has survived her first year despite being born with leucism – a condition which means only some of her skin cells can make pigment, which gives her almost white skin. She was photographed by Dr Derek Lee, founder and scientist at the Wild Nature Institute, whilst she was roaming the Tarangire National Park, in Tanzania. Continue reading »
Photographer Spends Three Years Travelling The World To Capture Stunning Landscape Images At Sunrise And Sunset
These breath-taking shots taken at sunset and sunrise are the result of one photographer’s amazing three-year trip around the globe. Julien Grondin set off in 2013 to exercise his love of travel photography and said he soon realised that shooting with the sun directly in the frame yielded his favourite final result. Continue reading »
11 Illustrations That Describe Life In The Office Perfectly
Many of us spend a large part of our lives in the office. And every office has its own tradition and features: the beginning of the day, the lunch rituals, the different relationships we have with our colleagues. However, there are some common situations that almost every office worker faces. Continue reading »
Through Darkness Into Light: The Concept Art Of Ivan Khomenko
Ivan Khomenko is a freelance concept artist and digital illustrator based in Kostroma, Russia. He currently works as a concept artist at One Pixel Brush. We have an amazing collection of science fiction and fantasy themed works by the artist below from both commercial and personal projects. Ivan Khomenko’s illustrations and paintings have an incredible cinematic quality. Continue reading »
Days Of Future Past: Natural Act Collages By Merve Özaslan
We tried to get in touch with Turkey-based photographer Merve Özaslan for quite a while now and finally we succeeded. So we gladly present her creative photo collages that merge multiple images into one narrative. She’s using vintage black and white photos that she blends with fragments of nature to create visual stories. She fits the natural elements into shapes of bodies, windows and floors to boldly interrupt the old-fashioned events with modern, color components. Her images are vivid and talk about the joys of life, reminding us to live everyday to the fullest. Continue reading »
Walk To The End Of The World: The Stunning Concept Art Of Simon Weaner
Concept art is a great way to think of fantastic worlds, whether it’s an awesome, technological future or a terrible vision of an apocalypse. I really enjoy checking an artist’s vision of different times and places. These are the concept art illustrations of Canadian artist Simon Weaner. I hope you like these as much as I did! Continue reading »
A Talented Body Painter Has Created A Series Of Mind-Bending Illusions That Cover Entire Torsos
Natalie Fletcher’s work are enough to make people double-take, the spiraling patterns of some appearing to fade into the abyss. In other works, the artists designs look as though they are never ending, while some show body parts appearing to protrude from models chests. The idea behind the ongoing series came to Natalie as a means of keeping entertained during the winter months. Continue reading »
Normal People Vs Me: 9 Amusingly Truthful Comic Strips
We all have our own «weird stuff» that we have to deal with on a daily basis. And that’s super cool because that’s what makes us human. You know the kind of things we’re talking about; some people refuse to eat unless they have a knife, some people have a fear of looking into a mirror in a dark room, others avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks — all these quirks are common, and we all have them. Do you recognize yourself in any of these joyful illustrations? Continue reading »
