I've always loved this trick: inflate a balloon, pinch it shut, then doodle with a black marker and deflate. The lines left are incredibly thick and yet detailed, impossible to pull off if drawing at scale.
Three Chicago-based creatives have taken the approach, and depicted the art from the perspective of the not-currently filled balloon. Great stuff.
Check out this brilliant idea that Martin shared on CMYBacon - stocking-shaped blood donation bags.
As he remarks, 'tis the season for giving!
Michael Guppy, a recent design school graduate, has created "Selected," a series of reinterpretations of famous paintings.
Back in the heyday of business card exchangin' and rolodexes, classic was the game: Cillian Braille on bone, eggshell with Romalian type, or raised Pale Nimbus on white.
But, in the days where everything's online and most people can just folks they meet to "Google me," all bets are off, and folks are producing some seriously creative business cards.
Interactive cards, edible ones, foldable, cutable, those with games and those with free favors, it'll make you think differently about letterpress altogether.
Long exposure light painting photography will never cease to be amazing. From Picasso's early experiments with a flashlight to current artists making hand drawn animations with LEDs, combining actual spaces with impossible images is simply captivating.
And it doesn't just have to be hand drawn, either. There's an entire Flickr group dedicated to creating light paintings with Roomba vacuum cleaners. … read more
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