Spencer Elden The Famous Nirvana Baby Recreates The Album Cover 25 Years Later
The legendary Nirvana album from 90’s Nevermind has a legendary cover, too. I think it’s impossible that some among you never seen it before, and it looks like this: a newborn in a swimming pool reaching for a dollar bill on a string. The message is powerful, for sure, and clear, and that’s one of the reasons this album cover is rated as third most iconic album cover ever by the readers of the Rolling Stone magazine. Continue reading »
This Artist Duo Uses Face As A Canvas To Recreate Famous Classic Paintings
Art has a different way of inspiring the audience, and for photographer Tatiana Jablonskaya and makeup artist Oksana Vinogradova, it inspired them to re-create paintings on a canvas they knows very well — on the face. The Belarus-based artists has taken classic paintings like Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, Kazimir Malevich’s abstract paintings and transformed them into makeup masterpieces. Continue reading »
Photographer Dresses Pets Up As Famous People And Photographed Them To Raise Money For The Local Pet Shelter
The hotly anticipated 2017 desktop calendar featuring rescue dogs and cats photographed by Emma O’Brien. Continue reading »
Famous Album Covers Get The Star Wars Treatment
Music and movies fan Steven Lear runs an Instagram account called @WhyTheLongPlayFace where he shares his “random vinyl/movie mash ups” – generally, they’re riffs on classic album covers featuring popular characters from iconic films, and generally they’re very good indeed! Continue reading »
An Artist Combines Famous Brands Logotypes With Classical Painting
National Aeronautics and Space Administration + The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
According to Eisen Bernardo (previously): “I mixed popular logos with classical paintings. Each of the juxtapositions has images depicting the same object but done in different styles. They are parallel images but not communicating the same message. An examination of art and capitalism; of expression and function; of personal and corporate. Logo+Art is an offshoot of my Mag+Art Project.” Continue reading »
Charming Cut Paper Silhouettes Playfully Transform Famous US Landmarks
King Kong has invaded New York while Marilyn Monroe makes a rare appearance at Las Vegas’ Neon Museum. Not really, of course, but cut paper artist Rich McCor imagines a world where they cleverly interact with the surrounding landscapes. Since we wrote about McCor’s work last year, he’s traveled to Europe and the UK, altering what he sees with simple shapes and black paper. Continue reading »
Guy Visits Locations Of Famous Movies To Compare How They Look Like Now
Phil Grishayev revisited movie and historic locations and posted them on Instagram for general enjoyment of all cinemaphiles. Continue reading »
Color Palettes From Famous Movies Show How Colors Set The Mood Of A Film
Trainspotting (1996) dir. Danny Boyle
Color sets the tone and mood of a film before any of the actors have even uttered a word. Directors Lilly and Lana Wachowski used a green tint in The Matrix (1999) to create a mood palette that was suggestive of the early monochrome computer monitors. Yellow was used in Kill Bill (2003) to depict Uma Thurman’s character’s madness and instability. Romantic comedies use pastel shades like beige, pink and lilac. Sci-fi and cyborg films use shades of blue, grey and green. Teal and orange seem to be the trend in Hollywood nowadays, especially in movie adaptations of graphic novels and comic books. Continue reading »
Prisoners Draw Portraits Of Rich And Famous People Who Really Belong In Jail
For over a year, Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider asked prison inmates to draw portraits of CEOs, executives and other powerful people who committed crimes against the environment, economy and society and yet haven’t served any time. The powerful project is called “Captured: People in Prison Drawing People Who Should Be.” Alongside the portraits, “Captured” lists the crimes perpetrated by the pictured and the artist. Continue reading »
This Dino-Man Photoshops Himself Into Famous People’s Photos
Actor Lorenz Valentino, also known as Dino, has a unique approach to getting close to the stars, actors, singers and politicians he loves. Instead of elbowing through crowds or entering packed arenas to catch a distant glimpse of larger-than-life personalities, he cozies up to them personally through the magic of Photoshop, wearing a funny Dino costume. Continue reading »
10 Famous Movie Titles Written Using Negative Space
In a world already full of negativity, two junior advertisers have found some space in a personal project. As you would expect out of any personal work, Eduard Cîrstea and Luca Costea managed to find a pleasant subject they were both keen on: feature films. Starting from this, they let their imagination run loose. Continue reading »
What World’s Famous Landmarks Could Look Like In An Epic Drought
A graphic designer has produced a haunting look at what the world’s most famous landmarks would look like if they were hit by a severe drought. Joel Krebs has intricately dried up hot spots such as the Tower Bridge in London, the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Niagara Falls and Machu Picchu. The designer’s works are enough to make viewers feel thirsty – they feature cracked surfaces, roll upon roll of sand, and vultures searching for carcasses in the dry heat. Joel, from Salem, Ore., revealed the idea behind the series came to him when he entered a design contest to remove famous landmarks from their surroundings, as if they’d disappeared. Here: Tower Bridge, London, after severe drought. 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 »
The 17 Coolest Signatures Of Famous People Throughout History
Nowadays, most of us sign our names on checks and documents in plain ol’ cursive. But some signatures are way better than others, whether they’re elaborate illustrations, cool designs, or simply gorgeous handwriting. Continue reading »
Children With Down Syndrome Recreate Famous Paintings To Prove That Everyone Is A Work Of Art
Albanian photographer Soela Zani gives a new life to individual with Down Syndrome by recreating most famous paintings, and it’s been a great accomplishement. Continue reading »
3D-Printed Paintings Let The Blind “See” Famous Art For The First Time
The Unseen Art project wants blind and visually-impaired people to be able to enjoy classical art in museums and galleries. With 3D-printing and an IndieGoGo fundraiser, their mission could soon be a reality. Continue reading »
Andy Warhol’s Rare Polaroids Of His Famous Friends
Warhol documented his whole life in Polaroids, taking more than 20,000 shots of the famous and fabulous. Here are a select few of Dolly, Divine, Basquiat, Burroughs – and a super-70s Audrey Hepburn having a cigarette break Continue reading »
Oscar ‘The Traveller Dog’ Visits Most Famous Landmarks
A dog called Oscar has laid claim to the title of the animal kingdom’s most intrepid explorer after visiting famous landmarks around the world. His travels include five continents, 29 countries and stopping off everywhere from the Eiffel Tower to the Taj Mahal. Continue reading »
Obama, Merkel, And Putin As Leading Actors In Famous Movies
According to artist Luigi Tarini: “My name is Gigi and I am an Italian based in Krakow. When I don’t work full-time at a corporation, I kill time messing around with pictures in Photoshop. In this blog, you will see Barack Obama and Angela Merkel starring in famous movies, with Vladimir Putin occasionally joining them.” Continue reading »
Minions Taking Over Famous Places All Around The World
Recently a giant inflatable minion broke free in Dublin and caused major traffic delays. Following the news, DesignCrowd.com thought they would ask their global community of designers to imagine if giant minions really took over. Continue reading »
Disney Girls in Real Life: An Artist Reimagined Some Of Disney’s Most Famous Princess
Jirka Väätäinen is a Finnish artist from Melbourne and he recently reimagined some of Disney’s most famous princess. He took these iconic characters and made them look like real people. Continue reading »
What Famous Brands Would Look Like If They Were Insects
If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if mother nature’s creatures took on the look of certain well-known brands in all their corporate glory, wonder no more. Malaysia-based design agency, Kickatomic, has come up with a series of graphical insects that take on characteristics of some of the world’s most prominent brands such as McDonald’s, IKEA, MTV and Starbucks, just to name a few. Continue reading »
Two Girls Revisit Famous Film Locations
A couple of roving film fangirls have recreated some of their favorite TV and movie moments by traveling to the exact locations and capturing them using their iPad. Tiia Öhman and Satu Walden have travelled thousands of miles across North America and Ireland to recapture the magic of their best loved scenes. However, instead of featuring their movie heroes, the pair, from Cardiff, have replaced them with an iPad or a phone screen displaying the action.
Here: A scene from the film 12 Years A Slave, and its location in real life Felicity Plantation, New Orleans, Louisiana. Continue reading »
Famous Travel Photographer David Lazar Captures Indonesia In 18 Amazing Images
Hailed as one of the finest travel photographers and portraitists in the world, David Lazar has only recently begun to explore the great diversity and cultural richness of the Indonesian Archipelago. From Borneo to East Java, Bali, Lembongan and Flores, the results are nothing less than extraordinary.
The National Geographic contributor & 2014 winner of Best in Culture at the Indonesian based Guruda International Photo Competition, David will be returning to the islands soon to lead one of his extraordinary photo tour workshops.
Underwater Buddha, Bali. Continue reading »
Beer-Tualising: Famous Brands Turned Into Beers
Printsome agency adapted famous non-brewed brands into beer brands while maintaining their core and beer-shaping their slogans. Check them out! Continue reading »
