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.

via interview on psdtuts+

It’s a strange combination of nostalgia, earthiness, and whimsy. Time stands still. I am very much drawn in.

by Jeannette Woitzik

via My Modern Metropolis

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.

Much more at his Flickr!

by Alex Stoddard

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

via My Modern Metropolis

by Alex Stoddard

I love this.

He’s still in the middle of his 365 project… much more on Flickr

via My Modern Metropolis

Seriously? This is an email campaign company we’re looking at here, and their Resources page is chock full of gorgeously designed images for each section of information. Now this is how you get people to read information that’s not exactly what you’d call scintillating. I feel like I’m browsing a bookstore full of delicious books when I look at the page!

This Email Security image is so intelligent and well-designed that I want a poster of it on my wall. (And it’s for Email Security!)

Thank you Mailchimp Designers!

I love these. I’m going to use them on my phone. Better yet, I should jump start my stagnating creativity and make my own.

This one by Jason Dean is lovely… I don’t quite have the guts to do this though… my iPhone map is always there to save me. I should get over it. “Your map is in your mouth!” as my dad always says. (i.e. just ask for help!)

Which brings me to… Stop Asking For Directions by Matt Stevens. Now this… this is gorgeous. I’d resolve the opposite though… I don’t ask for directions enough.

Check out more at the To Resolve Project.

via Fuel Your Creativity

Spotted while wandering around the streets of Hangzhou. Snapped because it struck me as rather odd to have SAD boldly declared for a company whose innards didn’t look very art-related. It made me stop to look and gave me a mental thwap. Hence, ooh!

[Hangzhou, China]