While Stuck In Quarantine, This Artist Started An Art Project On Her Windows
28th of March
According to Krnács Ágota, a Visual Artist from Budapest, Hungary: ” The project’s real title is K_R_N_ – K_R_NT_N /. In English, it translates to C_R_N_ – Q__R_NT_N_. I think everyone knows what that means. It started from the 28th of March 2020 and we still don’t know when it will end. Continue reading »
Italian Graphic Designer Emanuele Abrate Perfectly Fixes The ‘World’s Worst Logos’
A brand logo can make it or break it in the big game. Just look at the most iconic ones—from Apple to Nike, there’s something genius, yet so simple about them. But that’s an exception rather than a rule. Continue reading »
Social Distance: A Graphic Story For The Coronavirus Age By Mark Haddon
In this touching story for the Guardian, artist Mark Haddon depicts a solitary man finding isolation no different from normal life. Continue reading »
Cards Against Corona: A Pandemic-Themed Card Deck Designed By 55 International Creatives
According to Daniel Bech: “We are two Danish designers, Casper Nielsen and Daniel Bech. Together we form the design duo, Oimachi. As we were struggling to find new clients under the current circumstances, we wanted to find our own creative way to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and react to the difficulties the creative industry is going through during this time.” Continue reading »
Empty Classic Paintings To Illustrate Coronavirus Pandemic
José Manuel Ballester adapts famous paintings to the time of COVID-19.
The Spanish artist transforms famous scenes from the classic paintings of Goya, Picasso or Vermeer by removing the central aspect: the characters. The pandemic has inspired many artists who use art to share their unique perspective on this particular time. Continue reading »
Someone Spotted That David Bowie Often Looked Like A Sea Slug, Created An Entire Blog To Prove It
Bowiebranchia is a Tumblr account that compares pictures of Nudibranchia and other Opisthobranchia to David Bowie. And I know, at first, such a blog sounds a little random. After all, what do they have in common? However, once you start actually looking at the images, the answer becomes obvious. Their appearances. Continue reading »
Animals In Suits: Very Well Dressed Animal Portraits By Ryan Berkley
Ryan Berkley creates comic-book inspired art and prints for your walls or family photo albums using mainly markers and colored pencils. Perhaps best known for his “Animals in Suits” series, Ryan likes to tackle surreal subject matter in a very friendly way. Continue reading »
Gluten-Free Art Museum Lets You Enjoy Famous Artworks Without Gluten
In one of the weirdest Internet art projects we’ve ever seen, French graphic artist Arthur Coulet has created a Tumblr called the Gluten-Free Museum that removes everything containing gluten from famous classical paintings. Some of the changes are subtle, while others are huge, but they all share one common vision – a world without gluten. Continue reading »
Chris Woodhead Has Found A Way To Cope With The Coronavirus Pandemic: A New Tattoo On His Own Body For Every Day Of The Lockdown
Sitting on the sofa in his flat in Walthamstow, north-east London, with his dog Pingu by his side, Chris Woodhead is trying to find space to add another tattoo to his already crowded body. Continue reading »
Japanese Artist’s Striking Illustrations Show Tokyo Overrun By Whales And Giant Flowers
“I take scenes which you may see every day, and I aim to create a different world by adding something else.” This is how Japanese illustrator Hiromu。(hiromu-maru) humbly describes his astonishing works which he illustrates in pen and colors in Photoshop. Continue reading »
Exquisite Realistic Paintings By Russian Artist Serge Marshennikov
Serge Marshennikov is a Russian artist born was born in 1971 in Ufa (Bashkiria, USSR). His grandfather was a general manager of a horse breeding company. His father an electric engineer and his mother a pre-school educator. As far as he can remember, Serge was always drawing, painting and sculpting, from any material he could land his hands on. Continue reading »
Places I’d Love To Live In: Beautiful Illustrations Of Lovely Places By Darya Shnykina
In these times of confinement, the time is for the mind to escape. Today we invite you to discover the beautiful work of Russian illustrator Darya Shnykina. She is the author of a series entitled of ‘Places I’d Love To Live In.’ Continue reading »
The Lockdown Illustrated By Mariano Pascual
This unprecedented period of lockdown has inspired many artists, including the illustrator Mariano Pascual. The Argentinian visual artist based in Barcelona has translated into images the dark, confused and a little anxiety-provoking feelings caused by the pandemic. Continue reading »
This Tiny Face Makeup Is The Perfect Solution For A Coronavirus Mask
While some women might be quite used to wearing a mask over their face due to their job specification or religious beliefs, others may find it difficult or oppressing. But don’t worry, #TinyFaceMakeupChallenge Instagram trend has you covered with a perfect quarantine makeup that will let you show off your amazing looks while wearing a mask. Continue reading »
This Bakery Turns Internet Trolls’ Insults Into Delicious Cakes, And Sends Them Back To Trolls
The New York City-based company Troll Cakes touts itself as a bakery/detective agency that can not only bake a chocolate chip brownie cake iced with a troll’s insult, but can actually track down the troll’s address and send the sweet treat anonymously so you can hilariously one-up your personal internet troll with a special delivery they’ll never forget. Continue reading »
Weird Kafka-Style Anatomies, Fantastic Creatures And Fancies Chart By Camille Renversades
Fantastic creatures and fancies chart by Camille Renversade, French chimérologist. Inspired by the old school boards, like the old Deyrolle boards that used to be found in all schools. Disturbing, do these creatures exist or not then? Continue reading »
What Happens When Adults Do Children’s Coloring Books
What happens when grown-ups take up coloring? Well, innocent children’s coloring book pages get defaced and turned into something sinister. Featured below are some of the funniest examples from Coloring Book Corruptions site. Warning: you shouldn’t scroll down if you’re easily offended. Continue reading »
Here Are 20th Century-Inspired Propaganda Posters About The COVID-19 Crisis In The US
There used to be a time when posters had great influence on the shaping of people’s behavior and opinions. I am, of course, referring to the old-school propaganda posters from the 20th century. The medium was quite popular from around the time of the two World Wars all the way up to the late 1980s. Continue reading »
“Learning New Words”: Educational Children’s Book Parody By Miriam Elia
Featured below are some of the funniest examples from the Dung Beetle Learning books – brilliant dark humor parodies of the much-loved British Ladybird early learning children’s books of the 1960s. Created by Miriam Elia. Continue reading »
These Beautiful & Free Kink Backrounds Will Put Your Boring Zoom Conference To The Next Level
Sci-Fi
For those of you who feel mandatory lockdown isn’t enough restraint, Kink has put together custom Zoom backgrounds to help you dominate your virtual boardrooms. Join a conference call from the Upper Floor! Call your grandma from the padded cell. Beam up to a Zoom orgy from our urinals. Swap out that suburban closet for our fetish-filled bondage wall — the world will never know! Continue reading »
Company Asks 100 People To Draw 10 Car Logos From Memory, Receives Hilarious Results
How well do you know car logos? Sure, you may remember the simple ones like Audi or Mercedes but what about the more complicated ones like Alfa Romeo or Vauxhall? UK user van retailer Van Monster wanted to see just how well people remember car logos and asked 100 people to draw them from memory. They challenged and rated the results of 46 men and 54 women and the results ranged from “pretty accurate” to “absolutely terrible”. Continue reading »
Artist Illustrates Common Household Items’ Conversations During Quarantine
According to Doodle Bhai: “Have you ever wondered what common household items, which apparently do not have a voice of their own, would talk? Would they discuss and share their feelings amongst themselves? They may be just as elated, frustrated, irritated, or perplexed by this global lockdown/quarantine imposed by most countries, as any ordinary human being. Continue reading »
Before The Pandemic: The Prophetic Paintings Of Copenhagen, Painted 15 Years Ago
“My name is Daniel Goldenberg (born in Canada, living in Denmark). My pictures of the streets of Copenhagen, painted 15 years ago, have suddenly become reality, this is what the city looks like during the quarantine period.” Continue reading »
Motion Designer Uses A Video Editing Program To Bring Old Photos To Life
Andrei Pershin, a motion designer based in Riga, Latvia, created a project called “The Album of Live Pictures”. In this project, he brings old photographs to life and tells the stories behind them in an unusual way. Continue reading »
Fed Up With All The Bad News, Artist Illustrates 15 Good Things About COVID-19
Obviously there’s hardly anything good about global pandemic, however Mauro Gatti (previously) wanted to create something positive as an anti-venom to the anxiety inducing rhetoric that pervades in media. That’s why he published 15 things about COVID-19 that are actually not that bad, so scroll down and we guarantee that you’ll feel much better about the world around you. Continue reading »
