6 Illustrations That Sum Up Instagram Perfectly
How many photos of food, hotel pools and sketchy supplements advertised by people who have nothing to do with nutrition have you seen the last time you were on Instagram? “Too many” is probably the answer you are looking for. Tired of this ridiculous Instagram culture, Russian artist Anton Gudim (previously) created a series of tongue-in-cheek illustrations that sum it all up perfectly. Continue reading »
Polish Artist Designs Shoсking Ads Of Major Companies That Show The Harsh Reality
According to Igor Dobrowolski: “My name is Igor Dobrowolski and I’m a Polish artist. Recently, I designed my own version of the real advertisement. Corporations like Nestlé and Unilever profit wildly from single-use plastic packaging while peddling the myth of recycling as a solution. But anyone who has thought seriously about the issue can see that recycling could never handle the amount of plastic surrounding our everyday life.” Continue reading »
Pietro Cataudella Playfully Merges Cartoon Characters With Real World
Italian artist Pietro Cataudella takes his sketchbook everywhere he goes, but his drawings don’t just depict of the places he visits: they become part of the landscape. Continue reading »
Fantastic Digital Art & Photo Manipulations By Cristian Girotto
Cristian Girotto is an italian digital artist born in 1979. He started as graphic designer in Turin, then moved in Paris in 2007 and focused on Photoshop as creative retoucher for the advertising industry. In 2012 he decided to learn 3D softwares and add new skills to his toolset to be able to work more indipendently as a whole creative figure. His most successfull personal project is ‘L’enfant exterieur’. He’s been nominated two times one of the best 200 Digital Artists worldwide by Lürzer’s Archive. Continue reading »
25 Year Old British Man Dresses As A 19th Century Regency Gentleman In Bespoke Clothing He Designs
25 year old Zack MacLeod Pinsent of Pinset Tailoring in Brighton, U.K. is a very dapper young man who dresses as if he were a Regency gentleman from the 19th century. Pinset told the BBC that this clothing is far more comfortable for him and builds his confidence more than modern clothing ever did. In fact, he burned his last pair of jeans as a teenager. Continue reading »
“Where Is My Mind”: Superb Surreal Collage Artworks By Aidan Sartin Conte
talian artist and photographer Aidan Sartin Conte creates amazing collages exploring the connection between the human mind and its environment in his ‘Chrononauts Stories’ and ‘Where is my mind’ series. Continue reading »
Classic Rock And New Wave Songs Brilliantly Reimagined As Vintage Pulp Fiction Paperbacks
“London Calling” re-imagines the classic Clash song as an issue of a 1950s-era pulp detective magazine. Prints come in four sizes, priced accordingly. Prints are on heavy, glossy archival-quality paper. The perfect gift for the punk rocker in your life.
Graphic artist Todd Alcott has brilliantly reimagined classic rock and new wave songs as vintage pulp-fiction paperback books. Continue reading »
Superb Surreal Animal Artworks By Andreas Häggkvist
Swedish artist Andreas Häggkvist creates impactful images in an effort to raise awareness about global warming and endangered animal species. Continue reading »
Artist Documents The Best License Plates That People Have Spotted On Cars
There’s something about vanity license plates that can cause a severe case of eye-roll; this person refuses to make do with a random assortment of letters and numbers like the rest of us and insists on making a statement. “Oh, look at me everybody!” Continue reading »
This Artist Created 5 Maps That Highlight How The World Is Connected
Cities
There are more than 60 million kilometers of roads in the world. On this map, you can see how people have build roads across some of the most inhospitable terrain imaginable. Even in places where no one lives, you can find roads stretching across deserts and mountains to connect people on the other side.
According to Peter Atwood: “We live in an incredibly complicated and interconnected world. Networks stretching across land, sea, and air let us travel and share goods and ideas around the world. Continue reading »
Japanese Illustrator Enchants Twitter With Magical ‘Full Moon Coffee Shop’ That Only Appears To Exhausted People
In the famously overworked country of Japan, many people are on the look out for the ultimate way to chill out after a hard days work, resulting in establishments like cat cafes and sleep cafes popping up in the cities. Continue reading »
Irish Street Artist Creates Anaglyph Mural Of Edward Bruce, The Last High King Of Ireland
ACHES was just invited by the good people from Seek Dundalk to paint for their first ever festival. As usual with ACHES, the piece is technically incredible and shows an image of “Edward Bruce”, the disputed last High King of Ireland. Continue reading »
Futuristic And Dreamlike Photography Manipulations By Annisa Tiara Utami
Whimsical photo manipulations by Annisa Tiara Utami, a gifted illustrator, graphic designer, and digital artist from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Annisa focuses mainly on collages and digital manipulations. Continue reading »
Honest Logos That Reflect Unfortunate Truths About Transnational Multi-Billion-Dollar Conglomerates By Viktor Hertz
In a hilarious project titled “Honest Logos”, Viktor Hertz (previously), the Swedish designer shows us what famous company logos would look like if they were brutally honest about their products. Some are funny, some brash and some brutally brilliant. Continue reading »
Artist Draws Obscure But Adorable Creatures From Hundreds Of Hatched Line
According to Luis Coelho: “A few years ago, I felt the need to get back to drawing after a long creative break. I’ve decided to explore the first materials with which I had contact when I was a child, and so I started using pens again. In that process, I discovered that I actually can have lots of fun and peace of mind by spending hours and hours drawing little lines to create characters. Continue reading »
“Don’t Let Traffic Change You”: Brilliant Ad Posters To Avoid Road Rage
With the concept ‘Don’t let traffic change you’, the ads created for Detran/RN (Rio Grande do Norte’s Traffic Department), represent, by a metaphoric way, the drivers’ changing of behaviour on their majority, when they enter a vehicle. Continue reading »
Guy Turns Bus Stop Into A Free Coffee Shop And Spreads A Little Joy
George Barratt-Jones set up a coffee shop inside a bus shelter and spread a little joy on people’s morning commute. George served people coffee, tea, and homemade cookies while cafe music played in the background. Continue reading »
This Artist Reimagined Keanu Reeves As 9 Different Disney Princes
Keanu as the Beast
In the past few months, people seem to have rediscovered their love for Keanu Reeves – and it’s not hard to see why. The 54-year-old actor is always doing something wholesome and people just can’t get enough of him. Inspired by the actor, LA-based illustrator Crystal Ro decided to recreate Keanu as nine Disney princes and it’s the Disney reboots we’ve all been secretly wishing for. Continue reading »
Street Artist Peeta Recently Created This Optical Illusion House For The Street Art Festival
Peeta recently stopped in the lovely city of Mannheim in Germany to create a new piece for the Stadt Wand Kunst Street Art Festival. Continue reading »
Ed Merlin Murray And His Quirky Hand-Animated Illustrations
With simple materials like paper and ink washes, Scotland-based artist Ed Merlin Murray creates lively and illustrations that come to life with the pull of a tab. Through hand-activated animation, the faces show expression by rolling or blinking their eyes and by slithering their tongues. Continue reading »
In Russia, Girls Ready For Exams!
It’s getting more and more difficult for students to cheat by taking notes into exams. These Russian girls have invent their own methods to pass exams. They choose rather intimate places for hiding notes, knowing that these place will never be checked by teachers. And it probably works well! Continue reading »
Russian Forest As Viewed By Russian Officials
The Rooks Have Come Back, 1871 by Aleksey Savrasov
Did you know that trees in Russian cities are being destroyed in massive numbers? They do it under the “tree sanitation pruning excuse”, but in fact, it’s nothing but barbarism. Poorly educated and incompetent officials simply destroy nature in cities, and there’s not any logical explanation for such actions. Let us now see how the country painted by famous Russian artists would look after “sanitation pruning of trees”. Continue reading »
Russian Artist Creates A Crazy Sole Drinking Art Project
An artist from Samara named Arseniy gave an unusual and risky performance at a height equivalent to a five-storey building. He created the image of a boozer sitting at a table, with a carpet behind his back. The performance became a part of the art project “1m2” devoted to the chase after a living space. Continue reading »
“Modern Renaissance”: Classic Paintings Recreated With Modern Celebrities
What happens when you have too much free time and like to play with Photoshop? This. This happens… The Photoshop wizards over at Worth1000 (currently owned by DesignCrowd) inserted some current celebrities into classic paintings. Continue reading »
Graffiti Artist Jimmy Swift Turns Beach Stone Into A Great White Shark
If you’ve ever seen a picture of a shark, you know they’re terrifying – just look at all those teeth! But despite the scary appearance, people are gladly taking pictures in front of one on the shores of Palolem Beach, South Goa, India. Now, you might think they’re crazy but relax – the shark isn’t real. It’s actually a beach stone cleverly disguised as a great white shark by American graffiti artist Jimmy Swift back in 2015. Continue reading »
