Everyday Objects Turned Into Delightful Alternative Reality By Illustrator Tineke Meirink
With her series ‘Stop Watch’ artist Tineke Meirink proofs that ‘it’s just more fun to take a closer look’. The Dutch artist takes photos of everyday objects found on the streets that are mostly dull or even invisible to most people but not to her. Tineke Meirink recognizes the beautiful potential in them, revealing it to us by digitally drawing delightful characters on the pictures. That way the photos get a whole different meaning, they come to life. She hopes it makes people realize that everything has its beauty. Continue reading »
37 Brilliant Illustrations That Show Daily Life In A Parallel Universe
’Meanwhile in a Parallel Universe’ is a webcomic genre where all the fundamental rules, realities, and cause-and-effect relations are reversed. They usually take the form of comic strips, demonstrating some alien universe where everything is just the same… but exactly the opposite: cats are saving stray firemen, monsters are afraid of kids, and so on. Continue reading »
These Artists Turned Vintage Greek Canvases To Instagram Posts
According to the artists: “We, at Serial Kolor, are a creative agency, operating on interdisciplinary levels. We are passionate about telling stories – through integrating compelling designs, motion and sometimes live actions. We chose couple of renowned vintage Greek artistic creations and modified them with insane inscriptions and hash tags. We made it like as the first craftsman transferred those a very long time prior. How about we examine a percentage of the famous canvases from the times passed by and remember them in the light that they ought to have been initially seen.” Continue reading »
Serene Ocean Paintings By Emma Fineman
For the ‘Ocean Series’, artist Emma Fineman creates serene oil paintings inspired by her life at the coast of California. Continue reading »
Anti-Valentine Cards With Weirdly Sweet Messages Will Make You Laugh
Artist Julie Ann won’t make your usual Valentine’s Day cards. Julie’s funny, weirdly sweet and sometimes naughty messages are ones that you won’t find in hallmark cards and have won admirers everywhere. Continue reading »
Hilarious Photoshop Trolling
Never ask the internet for Photoshop help! Continue reading »
Living With A Rare Disease And Chronic Pain, This Artist Found Joy In Creating Beautiful Art
Artist Beau Bernier Frank suffered from chronic pain for several years that was recently attributed to an autoimmune disease called Ankylosing Spondylitis. The disease caused such severe pain and inflammation within Frank’s joints that he had to quit his job. Stuck at home for five months, Frank found himself in a dark tunnel of purposeless pain. As a means of coping with the unfortunate realities of his situation, Frank turned to the things he loved most about life — art and world travel. Continue reading »
Things We Tend To Forget
Sticky notes left to their fate in public places each day… Continue reading »
Thsi Artist Projects A Digital Street Art Safari Across Orlando Architecture
Following the wild popularity of his ‘urban safari’ in Paris, french artist Julien Nonnon continues the series the other side of the Atlantic, bringing digital street art to sunny Florida. During two nights in November, Nonnon projected new characters and creatures around downtown Orlando, allowing the collection of smartly-dressed figures to interact with the urban landscape, the architecture of the city and the night light. Continue reading »
Craziest Client Requests Become Amusing Art
Designers, ever heard of that line coming from a clueless client? Leaves you speechless doesn’t it? It’s very difficult to answer these type of requests and not sound the least bit sarcastic. But you try your nicest. They say kids say the darknest things, well, clients too. Sometimes, even more so.
Seeing the bright side of this situation are Ireland based designers Mark Shanley and Paddy Treacy. The duo crowd sourced some of the weirdest and real client request from different ad agencies and creative types and asked them to make it into fun posters. Continue reading »
This Artist Created The Most Unreal Pokémon Fan Art
Swedish artist Lisa-Marie Melin began posting her incredible fan art online to become an online sensation by blowing away Pokémon lovers around the globe. Her colorful style and original spin on classic Pokémon characters will have geeks looking at their favorite characters in a brand new way. Continue reading »
Digital Artist Remixes Famous Faces To Create Seamless Celebrity Hybrids
What began as a playful premise in 2002 has developed into an internet sensation for digital artist @gesichtermix, who remixes some of the world’s most famous faces into hybrid celebrity portraits. The digital artist seamlessly brings together two photographs of different actors, singers and political figures, and merges them into a single composite being. Continue reading »
Chinese Artist Paints Rock And Roll Stars As Deities In “Revels Of The Rock Gods”
Beijing based artist DU Kun incorporates his passion for rock music into his new oil painting series titled “Revels of the Rock Gods”. His works, which just debuted at Mizuma Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, are monumental portraits of rock musicians that appear carved out of mountains, cliffs, oceans, stones, trees and waterfalls. Continue reading »
11 Motivational Posters By Busy Building Things
Busy Building Things is an inspiration shop for community of doers, go getters, and sleepless dreamers. They make beautiful motivational prints like the ones you’ll see below! Continue reading »
“Star Wars” Characters Brilliantly Reimagined As “Calvin And Hobbes”
Story artist Brian Kesinger is back with even more adorable images of characters from The Force Awakens depicted as characters from ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. Continue reading »
This Artist Combines Human And Animal Features Into A Single Self-Portrait
Forming a likeness between the animal kingdom and the human form, hungarian artist Flora Borsi has formed the series ‘animeyed’, which creates curious hybrid beings from two different species. The collection of self-portraits sees Borsi situated side-by-side six separate creatures: a cat, dove, blowfish, goldfish, snake and hare. The effect forms hybrid entities that play with the perception of the viewer and cleverly display the physical similarities between the human and animal features. Continue reading »
These Humorous Illustrations Perfectly Sum Up The Reality Of Living With Anxiety And Depression
British illustrator Gemma Correll has created comical illustrations to help her cope with the everyday struggles of living with clinical anxiety and depression. Correll — a graduate of the Norwich School of Art and Design — penned the comic-book style illustrations to raise awareness of the condition and to encourage people to speak more freely about the condition. Continue reading »
Riikka Hyvönen Captures The Beauty Of Bruises In Giant Artworks
“Fresh Meat in Fishnets!,” 2015
Finland born, Helsinki based artist Riikka Hyvönen sees an inspiring myriad of colors that tell a story. Her art combines hyperrealism painting with sculptural elements, pop and kitsch styles, taking the pain that we have all experienced at some point and making it strangely alluring. She calls bruises “kisses”, specifically worn by roller derby girls, of which she collects photographs and then reinterprets into large-scale artworks. In roller derby, players wear their bruises like a badge of honor, which are then posted and shared online. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Inspiring Typography On Landscapes
Don’t you just love quotes that still the mind? If so, you’ll enjoy this series by Julian Bialowas. This is a collection of inspiring snippets (that will make you think about life) set on beautiful photos of landscapes and mountains taken by Julian himself. Julian Bialowas is a Canadian freelance Designer & Photographer currently living in Calgary, Alberta. Creator of 365q and a co-creator of 16HOURS Magazine. Continue reading »
Our Deepest Darkest Fears Turned Into Terrifying Cartoons
Irrational fears, dark thoughts, and ghost stories from around the world. Deep Dark Fears tells stories about the creepy things that pop into people’s heads and won’t let them be. Animator Fran Krause has a webcomic where he draws his fears and those that people submit. It’s utterly horrifying. Continue reading »
Use These Honest Oscar-Nominated Movie Posters to Prepare For Oscar Season Without Watching Any Movies
Who has time to watch all the movies nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars just to keep up with pop culture? For the record, that’s 17 hours and 29 minutes that could be spent aimlessly surfing the internet. If you want to stay relevant with your cinephile friends that badly, these honest posters are all you need. Continue reading »
The Trick Copy On These Clever Ads Shows Another Side To Homelessness
Here’s a clever outdoor campaign from Publicis London for the homelessness charity Depaul that manages to tell two different stories with the same copy. The ads are being placed on corners, with text on each side. If you read only the left side, the copy is all about the negative ideas people have about giving up a spare room to a homeless youth. But reading them in full, the ads actually argue for the benefits of volunteering.
“There’s another side to the story,” says the tagline. Continue reading »
Feeling Sad? The ‘Emergency Compliments’ Will Cheer You Up
Feeling grouchy? The Emergency Compliment website gives you exactly that, an emergency compliment. Its thoughtful entries will certainly make you smile. Don’t take things seriously. Here, have some more compliments below! Continue reading »
“Super Best Friends”: Friendships Are Everywhere We Look!
Actually, it is not necessary to have a lot of friends especially if they’re not real and instantly disappear when you desperately need someone to lean on. In fact, one is enough, one whom you can call your best friend who will be there for you no matter what. Italian illustrator and designer Mauro Gatti celebrates friendship through his adorable book entitled “Super Best Friends”. The artist believes that smile is the cheapest way to be happy. Continue reading »
“The Life of Art” Cartoon Quotes Inspired By Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, is a 20th-century American writer known for his humanist beliefs. Reading motivating quotes like his really makes someone’s day brighter and more positive. Fortunately, an exceptional artist named Gavin Aung Than thought of a website inspired by quotes from famous people that are adapted to cartoons. Continue reading »
