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.

via I love typography

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!)

I haven’t drooled over a site in a while.

Visit this site for the reeder app, hover over each option and see what I mean.

Simple, but beautiful and quite effective.

Drool.

via Single Measures, sort of.

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

I tend to think that there’s an element of music that cannot be captured. Life cannot be captured. Human heart cannot be captured. The moment of creation itself is fleeting.

Parker Wilson
(played by Richard Gere)
in the movie Hachi

by Stephen Alvarez

via Kevin Chung at My Modern Metropolis

These are firefly trails! Photographed by a German guy named Kristian Cvecek.

And guess what? He’s a physicist. Aww yeah. Science and art, thank you very much.

via Alice at MyModernMet
read more at DailyMail

“He looked up at the sky, which was covered by a thick layer of stratus clouds that moved slowly across the landscape. He couldn’t remember the last time he had seen the sun. Then, to the south, a small hole opened up in the cloud and a beam of light split to earth, warm and welcoming after the prolonged winter and dismal spring. The pool of bright sunlight fell to earth two fields away, startling some sheep who had forgotten they possessed shadows. Then the hole closed again, and soft, directionless light once more settled on the earth.”

The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, p331