Fantastic Work of David de la Fuente
We love the work of Spanish designer/art director David de la Fuente. His identity and typography work is impeccable. And, appropriately enough, he even has a piece honoring February 14th. Check out some of his work below (identity for a sport fishing shop, business card for shower and bath screen specialist, film poster, identity for…
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Low-Tech Posters Reaching Tech-Savvy Teenagers
For those of you who grew up in the ’80s, the anti-drug public service announcements were inescapable. If nothing else, they were memorable (after all, we’re referencing them some 25 years later). When advertising firm Team Detroit was tasked with creating an ad campaign for the College for Creative Studies, they could have taken many…
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Brilliant Sculpture of Coffee Stirrers
North Carolina-based artist Jonathan Brilliant constructed this, well, brilliant structure, The Sumter Piece, from 60,000 wooden coffee stirrers. Never mind that it’s quite beautiful and spans two floors, reaching over a second floor balcony and suspended from the ceiling of the first floor, we marvel at the fact that it’s held together by tension. “No…
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Incredible Implements
South Carolina-based artist Jessica Drenk finds new ways to look at everyday objects. Her “Implements” series of nature-inspired sculptures consist of hundreds of ordinary pencils glued together. In her own words, Drenk says “By transforming familiar objects into nature-inspired forms and patterns, I examine how we classify the world around us. Manufactured goods appear as…
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Hero Eggs
It’s clear that we love superhero art (and, um, eggs, it should be noted), and there’s a lot of it out there. So when we came across this unique take (also see Helvetica Heroes and Superbugs) by Italian artist Simone Zulli, we had to share. Via Tumblr
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Double Exposure
French Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle is on a search to find 200 doppelgangers, people who happen to look like one another, but aren’t related. His goal is to compile a book of black and white portraits, and from the looks of it, he is well on his way. Brunelle says the project initially started among…
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Rubik Cubism
We are all familiar with Cubism, but Rubik Cubism? French artist simply known as Invader coined the term when he began creating mosaic art out of Rubik’s Cubes. Each small colored square on the face of a Rubik’s Cube represents one pixel. Invader’s early works were representations of early 8-bit arcade game characters such as…
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Tremendous Typography by Mount&Star
Japanese motion graphics designer and 3D illustrator simply known as Mount&Star is one to watch. His GIF animations are particularly remarkable… such subtlety and detail push the boundaries of what GIF animation can achieve. And his sense of typography, matched with excellent motion design and 3D modeling skills make for some really phenomenal work. Via…
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Pop Culture Postcards
Barcelona-based design studio Forma and Co. recently completed a fantastic project entitled “Re-Vision”, which is “an exercise in style and synthesis of different cultural icons.” These sophisticated illustrated portraits, in the form of postcards, are super minimalist, but immediately recognizable. And the colors are stunning! Wish they were for sale…. Via Behance
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