Explosive Splattered Ink Animal Murals by Hua Tunan
The creatures depicted in Chinese artist Hua Tunan‘s ink paintings seem moments away from escaping the canvas. Each piece seems to pulse with energy, driven by Tunan’s frenetic painting style that borrows from traditional Chinese ink art and Western-style graffiti. The artist also works on much larger canvases with broad strokes of dripping spray paint on urban murals that have popped up around the world over the last few years. Continue reading »
Astonishing Straw Sculptures in Japan
At the end of rice harvesting season, the folks of the Kagawa and Niigata Prefectures in Japan hold a straw festival to celebrate the abundance of the harvest. Dried straws cover wooden frames to form larger-than-life sculptures from animals like sharks and gorillas to vessels such as ships and tanks. The family-friendly event invites visitors of all ages to engage, interact, and play on the enormous structures.
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New Reflected Landscapes and Photo Manipulations by Victoria Siemer
Brooklyn-based graphic designer Victoria Siemer (previously) explores the idea of fractured landscapes through photo manipulations and collages. Siemer makes use of reflected geometric shapes suspended over gloomy natural landscapes shrouded in fog and clouds resulting in portal-like mirrors. Continue reading »
Victorian Wars: Star Wars Characters As You’ve Never Seen Them Before
These artworks by Canadian illustrator Terry Fan, take some of the most popular characters from the original trilogy of Star Wars movies and give them a steampunk twist.
Some of the characters’ titles are translated to their real-world equivalents, while others receive new positions that still make sense. The protocol droid C-3PO becomes a baron, fitting for his dapper demeanor. Meanwhile the 900-year-old Jedi Master Yoda becomes a “Sir”, the title used for knighthood. Lord Vader barely even needs a name change, since he’s already a Sith lord. Also featuring are Boba Fett as a general, Chewbacca as a chancellor, a Stormtrooper as a sergeant and R2D2 as a Duke.
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Amazing Colorful Street Murals by Key Detail
Key Detail is an artist from Minsk, Belarus. His style is fresh and his colors are vibrant. Check out his work below.
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Eye-Catching Minimalist Street Art Made Using Masking Tape
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Buff Diss is a non-traditional street artist who specialises in creating work with tape. His love of traditional graffiti led him to see the city as canvas and paved the way for his unique style of art. He enjoys the tactile interaction with architecture, city streets and derelict buildings. His works explore the nature of line and how it can intersect space, generate volume and communicate figure. Continue reading »
Towering New Pigeon Murals by ‘Super A’
Ah yes, the majestic pigeon. An unlikely source of inspiration for such dominating murals, but at the hands of Dutch street artist Stefan Thelen aka Super A these ubiquitous urban dwellers are turned into something surprisingly beautiful. Continue reading »
Amazing Surreal Photo Collages by Elena Vizerskaya
Collage, photo-manipulation, photo-design are rather only the technical features of Elena‘s approach that allow her to create uncommon and often surrealistic worlds perceived by a spectator intuitively, on the emotional level. It is a special space that looks rather like a dream filled with reflections and allusions. A space where many things meant to be felt, not understood, where you come back again and again. Continue reading »
Brightly Colored Murals Mesmerize with Their Hypnotic Abstract Patterns
Miami-based artist Douglas Hoekzema, also known as Hoxxoh, uses vibrant colors to create murals that seem to burst with energy. The abstract designs cover the sides of buildings and stadiums, mesmerizing passersby with their hypnotic patterns. Undulating waves and psychedelic circular shapes are clad in bright blues, lime greens, and sunny yellows to make them instantly catch your eye. Continue reading »
Minimal – Symmetric – Colourful
“I am Ramin Nasibov, a multidimensional graphic designer specializing in Branding, Packaging Design and related Visual Communication. Apart from my principal activity, I am also enthusiastic about photography and architecture. These hobbies prompted me to create my Instagram account, where I post photos of architectural structures and places that possess the three key properties important for me: minimalism, symmetry, and, of course, vibrant colors. These are the properties that intensify the effect of perception of photos like that.” Continue reading »
Surreal Inspirations By Anil Saxena
Anil Saxena from Mumbay, India creates amazing photo manipulations using Photoshop. These surreal photos will truly amaze you. Anil started out doing conventional darkroom photo composition and retouching them before moving these skills over to Photoshop. Continue reading »
Russian Artist Adds Digital Pixel Glitches To Animal Tattoos. And It’s Awesome!
Russian tattoo artist Alexey Lauz’s eye-catching tattoos have this one problem – they’re glitchy. Continue reading »
Models Become Their Favorite Foods In Photographic Series
The picture, as we know, does not record smell. And that’s one of the good points for this (very) good food photography series. Looking at these models’ favorite food can be a temptation for the stomach. Continue reading »
Photographer Find Flags Hiding In The Streets Of Hong Kong
““FLAG IT UP” – when pictures claim their nationalities. I have been always attracted to graphic design and photography has become a tool to find graphics in the real world and give them life through the people moving in that space. In my search for geometry, patterns and colors, I found myself seeing flags.” Continue reading »
Weirdest Animals Facts That Will Make You Go WTF!
‘A zebra is white with black stripes’, if you thought this was amazing, you have no idea how twisted is the animal kingdom in reality. There are so many things you never thought that existed, you would never have thought that the creatures you’re sharing the world with have so much that you don’t know.
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Fantastic Street Art By Seth Globepainter
Artist Julien “Seth” Malland has become known around the world for his vibrant murals of people, most frequently children, who appear to be sucked into colorful rainbow-like voids. The figures are usually facing away from the viewer, their attention completely swallowed by pools of dripping color revealed behind drab, urban facades.
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Innovative Beard Cap Created For The Bearded Nation
Virgin Trains has launched an innovative swim cap for bearded men – the Beard Cap – which will be trialled with customers competing at the Great North Swim, Lake Windermere, June 12 – 14, 2015. The unique Lycra prototype extends down to wrap under the chin and packs the beard against the face to decrease drag whilst swimming. It’s reusable, adjustable and perfect for keeping bushy beards under control.
Responding to debates on swimming forums about big beards causing drag, the rail operator and official train partner to the Great North Swim commissioned its own research*. The findings revealed that over one in ten men (12 per cent) connected their beard to slower swim times, and nearly a quarter of men feel their beards hinder their sports performance. This could be because beards are an irritant for some sporting men (11 per cent), a source of discomfort for others (32 per cent) and a distraction for even more (42 per cent).
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Vles – Interactive Light Installation
Installation offers the viewer to feel the atmosphere of the mystical forest and meet its inhabitants, by moving the light beam through the panoramic visual surface. The installation was placed in the center of contemporary art M’Ars, within interactive exhibition LifeZone (Moscow, May-June 2015).
Literary Graffiti Around The World
Street art comes in many forms. These are the best examples of author and book themed graffiti, from around the world.
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Artist Transformes Famous Paintings Into Batman Pop Art
According to Vartan Garnikyan: “I guess it’s pretty obvious that I’m a big Batman fan. Though the “Starry Knight” has been going viral for all year, I’ve had some negative feedback over the years with people saying things like, “This isn’t art, you’re disgracing a masterpiece, etc.” as if I’m doing it to insult the artists. But truth be told, I see it as paying homage to them. I try to paint a new classic Batman piece every year, and each project is well thought-out, planned for a long time, and worked on for months!” Continue reading »
Street Messages – A New Book By Nicholas Ganz
Humans have been communicating for thousands of years by writing text in public spaces – on walls, on buildings and on roads themselves. The tradition continues today with the many street artists who work only with text. Street Messages is the first book to offer a deep insight into this literary form of expression in the world of global street art. Continue reading »
“It Happens Here” – Mutilated And Bloodied Union Jack Sends Strong Message About FGM
The TLDR is that London-based organisation 28 Too Many has just released some provocative imagery tackling the subject of FGM in an original and shocking new campaign to #endFGM. The campaign “It Happens Here” (by Ogilvy) features six designs revealing the mutilated flags of European countries where Female Genital Mutilation is prevalent. It communicates a powerful message: that FGM happens in places you wouldn’t expect.
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Space Invaders: Street Art In Hong Kong
Art is freedom of expression, it can be shown in various kinds of aspects like painting, sculpture, design, photography etc. We appreciate street art as it is everywhere and energetic, a concrete jungle like Hong Kong does really need more inspiration for people to remind them quality living is not only about how much you gain financially but also the way of how you live in a city. Continue reading »
Playing Arts: Edition Two
From the two of clubs to the ace of spades, each card in this deck has been individually designed by one of the 55 selected international artists in their distinct style and technique. Every day one new card will be revealed. Continue reading »
New McDonald’s Dual Lane Drive-Thru Poster Campaign
Leo Burnett London, has created an outdoor print campaign for McDonald’s UK, to promote the roll-out of their dual lane Drive-Thru service. Situated in close proximity to a number of converted restaurants, the posters feature two different vehicles parked side by side to create one amusing visual. Continue reading »
