Category: Art & Culture
I came across this conceptual art piece by British artist Fiona Banner which is currently on display at the Tate in London.
Some labour-intensive identity work from Dutch designer Roald van der Meer using forced-perspective to bring the MTV logo to life.
Europe is filled with Cathedrals built centuries ago that were designed to inspire awe and show off the wealth of the church and the city-states that helped finance them.
With the release of Chris Parkinson's book on the street art of Timor Leste I went through my photos and uploaded a selection of images I took of street art and murals in Dili.
Tomorrow is the last day of the Peace of Wall exhibition being held at Until Never gallery in Melbourne.
NotJones.com is the web portfolio of UK Graphic designer Aled Williams and he's also not half bad.
I think most people are a little suspicious of the high price tag attached to large commercial re-branding and logo design projects. They look at something like this three letter wordmark for Nokia's 'Nex' division and wonder why something so simple cost so much to develop. Surely an experienced graphic designer could knock that out in an afternoon.
Came across this beautiful footage shot by US photographer/videographer Sean Stiegmeier of the unpronounceable volcano in Iceland responsible for the Big Airport Kefuffle.
Sometimes a good, simple idea is like a gorgeous girl on the arm of some average-looking bloke. You're jealous but at the same time you can't help but stare. I think this logo was a bit like that for me.
Found some great satirical packaging design on LovelyPackage.com.
Came across this terrific motion graphics piece by German artist Sebastian Lange
American designer and artist Dan McCarthy has an exceptional portfolio of poster illustrations on his site.
The good thing about living in Melbourne is that there are very few suburbs suffering from the sort of urban decay that you find in some European and North American cities.
I come across a lot of high-quality infographics in publications like New Scientists and I'm continually impressed by how designers find new ways to present information.
There are some truly remarkable places to work in this world but few opportunities to really see them up close. Corey Arnold is a Photographer who has worked for most of his adult life as a commercial fisherman and his images of life onboard these ships are powerful and frightening but also shot through with humour.
Taking a superbly trained eye to consumer culture we have US photographer Brian Ulrich.
Shamelessly cross-posted from Scott Hanson's blog iso50 we have Swedish sculptor and installation artist Michael Johansson.
I Ffffound British photographer John Short not long ago and discovered that as well as a collection of vivid commercial still life images he also has a great collection of landscape photographs.
I was born when this music video was the high water mark for computer graphics and I've watched as 3D modeling software evolved to allow for astounding photorealistic images and animation.
I came across Melbourne painter Jeremy Geddes on Design Is Kinky.