:: Snippets that tickle my fancy
This book cover is actually entirely digital, which bums me out a little because I would love to track down the nonexistent original and run my fingers over it. Texture and layers, how I love thee!
The colors are fantastic, the textures of the papers are fantastic, the edges and patterns created within each layer are fantastic, and yes, the typography… mmmm! faantastic!
Created by Carlo Giovani. See more at his site.
This is mouthwateringly gorgeous.
I love how it melds an organic hand-drawn feel with a crisp digital finish, and how the muscles weave in multiple tones below the skin. (I could do without the 2 circles, but I didn’t even notice this quibble until I was already drawn in and drooling!)
Created by John Mark Herskind to raise awareness for TOMS’s A Day Without Shoes.
Learn more at Herskind’s Behance.
Look at this gorgeousness!
Oh how that S nestles and curls within the B!
Look at the delicious negative space within! *Happy sigh*
This is thoroughly charming. My thought bubbles frequently do strange things, but never quite like this. But the next time they envelop my head, I’m making them melt into a puddle at my feet that I can jump and splash in!
[Shanghai, China, at a store outside Tian Zi Fang]
This movie poster literally made me squeak “ooh ooh ooh!” Look at the movie title and how it’s integrated into the scene as a table! I love how the poster feels layered but flat at the same time.
designed by Mojo
via The Font Feed
It’s a strange combination of nostalgia, earthiness, and whimsy. Time stands still. I am very much drawn in.
I’m a fan of the blog Little Big Details, a collection of the wonderful little considerate details in user interface design that make a big difference.
Here’s one humorous detail on a Yahoo sign up form…
Instead of an ugly DENIED! statement, you get a little jocular question… they might have to change this when time travel is invented. (Which, recent research has shown is impossible. Sadness.)
But Yahoo! has a sense of humor! Who knew?
via Little Big Details.
We’re meaning makers and story tellers.
From the series Be Careful of Things Left Behind by Nigel Grimmer
Dear Fork,
I understand that we haven’t spoken since I ran away with the dish, but I thought you should know that you have a son. His name is spork. He has your hair.
Sincerely,
Spoon
More beautifully letterpressed hilarity by Sapling Press.
text from dearblankpleaseblank.com
via SwissMiss
Brilliant ad campaign by JWT for Ford Motor Company Brasil and Conservação Internacional “aiming at encouraging and recognizing projects on the protection of nature and biodiversity.”
by JWT
Take a look at JWT’s site as well. (i.e. PLAY with it.) I love the way it works!
I love word play!
Spotted and taken by P&M Adventures! at the Portland State University Farmer’s Market.
created by Pieke Bergmans
These light blubs (not bulbs!) bring joy to my life. I also enjoy the sound effects they inspire in my head. And yes, they do take the form of blubs and glubs.
You can’t blub and glub without having a corresponding collapse in your body (just like the light blubs).
According to artist Pieke Berman, a light blub “is a light bulb that has gone way out of line.” This is behavior “you wouldn’t expect from such well behaving and reliable little products. Nevertheless, they seem to be enjoying their new free existences.”
The body is art. Food is art.
Who knew that combined, they’d make a landscape,
also art!
It’s beautiful, it’s playful.
Created by Tiberio Simone and Matt Freedman. Learn more at La Figa.
via Brainpickings
(learn much more there as well!)
This makes me grin. I like to grin.
Really though. His expression! The color splash amidst the grey! Heck yes.
This is amazing. It strikes and makes you feel. What it makes you feel exactly is up for grabs, but the point it, it MOVES!
More (and new gorgeousness) every day here at his Flickr!
“With a team of two assistants, Bolin paints onto his clothes and then spends hours positioning himself in front of backdrops until he’s virtually invisible.”
-MyModernMet
“In my work, the artist is hiding to restore his strength and to protect himself. I want my viewers to experience China as I know it, where the concept of artists as human beings was once neglected.”
-Liu Bolin
I love this.
He’s still in the middle of his 365 project… much more on Flickr
