Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Shingo Shimizu

Editorial for WEB Magazine by Shingo Shimizu

Eye catchy graphic illustrations by Shingo Shimizu, part-time DJ and full-time illustrator.

[via Paintalicious]

Renderings by Maxim Zhestkov

render_004 by Maxim Zhestkov

Maxim Zhestkov’s brilliant light and shadow test renderings created with 3dsmax and vray.

Nicholas Ainley’s Shineybinary

Life Type by Nicholas Ainley

Avid scrollers will notice that I linked to Shineybinary about 15 months ago. I thought it was time for another look, and it would seem that artist; Nicholas Ainley has been very busy in that time, most notably in the realm of typographic illustration.

Made in Tokyo

Urbano-végétal (structure 1) by Frédéric Gautron

Made in Tokyo is the architectural and photographical home of Frédéric Gautron, who also creates these wonderful yet relatively simple photoshop compositions using a similar formula each time.

[via Pink Tentacle]

Design by Dieter Rams

Combiscope by Dieter Rams

A really nice photo pool of Dieter Ram’s design for Braun from 1953 -1995. Recently resurged in popularity as one of the main influencers of Apple’s Jonathan Ive.

[via PlasticBag]

Creating Fire in Slow Motion

A Lighter being lit in super slow motion

The simple things are often the most fascinating, especially when shot in super slow motion.

[via BoingBoing]

Shannon Fagan’s Blackboards

Blackboard by Shannon Fagan

Shannon Fagan’s Blackboard photography set, yes, photos of blackboards in various states of usage. No really, it is actually quite interesting…

Gothic Construction by Wim Delvoye

Gothic Machinery by Wim Delvoye

Belgian conceptual artist; Wim Delvoye creates these incredibly constructed, gothic construction vehicles.

[via Centripetal Notion]

Cara Barer’s Open Books

Butterfly by Cara Barer

Bluring the line between objects, sculpture and photography; Cara Barer creates and takes these fascinating photographs of splayed books.

No important books have been injured during the making of any of these photographs.
Cara Barer, photographer.

[via FunForever]

Nobuo Takahashi’s Japanese Development

This is a nice animation done back in 2004 by Nobuo Takahashi, illustrating the expansive growth of Japanese suburbs since the middle of the last century.

This video is entitled simply ‘Japan‘ his other work on the same theme is called ‘Musashino Plateau‘.

[via Pink Tentacle]

Denis Darzacq, La Chute

La Chute by Denis Darzacq

When the social elevator is broken you have to know how to bounce. Between the take off and the fall, the man parachuted in the city learns to control his trajectory.

Lively and humorous photography of some very stylish falls in progress by French photographer Denis Darzacq.

Alberto Seveso’s Surreal Photographic Illustrations

A Me Mi Piace La Gnocca! series by Alberto Seveso

An incredibly surreal set of images of models who have passed through the screen of talented Italian designer Alberto Seveso.

Drummers Aged 1 to 100

An interesting video montage showing 100 people aged from 1 to 100 banging a drum.

[via Cynical-C]

Carved Crayons

Ten Carved Crayons by Pete Goldlust

Some incredibly intricately carved crayons by artist Pete Goldlust.

[via It's Nice That]

Maco Acero

Lorena by Maco Acero

A collection of part-vector, part-bitmap illustrations by Columbian digital artist; Maco Acero.

[via Lost At E Minor]