Art is always one of the best sources of inspiration for designers.
Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Michaels likes to play with architecture and create new structures in a project titled “Architectural Composites“. These buildings and structures are made by arranging together parts of different buildings captured in different areas. Made of different buildings and pieces of architecture, Michaels’ buildings are surprisingly pleasing and modern. In a single cube, […]
Matt from retrogamereviews.com recently launched a cool little Kickstarter project that honors the games that we played when kids at Christmas time. This is, of course, if you are around thirty years old. He designed a set of prints and T-shirts that glorify retro gaming with a nice design. There are also cool sets of Christmas […]
Using ceramics, Korean artist Haejin Lee creates sculptures that look like they are unraveling. The faces dissolve into the air, questionning us on the fragility of human life when facing time. The craft, symbols, subtle color shades, everything in these sculptures is just beautiful.
The Disney research team in Zürich, Switzerland, recently released a pretty amazing demo that shows that coloring books may be about to change in a big way. They found a way to track real-life coloring from a traditional book and bring it to life on a mobile device. As you can see on the above […]
At the intersection between art, interior design, and generally cool stuff, you’ll find New York based artist Sebastian ErraZuriz. We’ve already featured a couple of his cabinets on Designer Daily, but this time we’d like to focus on his awesome functional sculptures. As their name suggest, these pieces are meant to be a sculpture that will […]
Hazuaki Harada creates toyish sculptures that look somewhat useless, but that bring some strange poetry to the place they are presented in. I have a personal preference for the “fitness pig”. You can learn more about the Japanese artist on his website.
Riu, who goes by the artist name of Mr. Riu, is a young Japanese artist who took upon the delicate art of paper cutting. He did a wonderful job at keeping a traditional touch, while mixing ancient and modern symbols in his intricate artworks. Some of his pieces are inspired by the art of mandala, […]
Everyone knows that the Internet is made of cats, and that Youtube or Imgur would probably bankrupt if cats went extinct. But cats are not only good at making you laugh or melt with their cuteness, they also inspire artists and illustrators to create cool prints. 1. World domination for cats I’m convinced cats are […]
Visual artist Noelle Oswald uses photography to create stunning surreal images, but she refuses to be called a photographer. Based in Budapest, Hungary, she creates self-portraits that are masterpieces. Always in black and white, she plays with light and shadows and includes her body in well-composed visuals.
Working and living in Vilnius, Lithuania, Gediminas Pranckevicius is a talented illustrator and concept artist. He specializes in picture book illustration, music album cover illustration, character design, illustration for advertising and so on. For this feature, I chose to focus on my favorite part of his work, the amazing surreal landscapes he creates.
Adam Lister is a New York based artist that recently got noticed for one of his cool projects. He took on famous, iconic artworks, and re-painted them as 8-bit watercolors. Can you recognize the paintings?
With resin, glass, paint, and wires, Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee creates unusual sculptures with modern topics. In the style of classic anatomical skeletons and figures, he imagines what the skeleton of famous cartoon characters could be like. He takes his work very seriously, so his sculptures and anatomical drawings are truly a thing of beauty. It […]
Jie Ma is a concept artist that creates fantastic and futuristic worlds. The scenes he creates are often surreal, giving you a feeling of what life in a modern empire could look like. It could also be taken from dystopian movies, each frame looking like a piece of art.
Some old books are fragile. Some others are VERY fragile. This Chinese book, named “Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu” (calligraphy and painting manual), is one of those. It is actually so fragile that it was forbidden to open it to take a look. Luckily, the Cambridge University Library got it digitalized, it is now […]
Julien Nonnon is a street artist with a rather special hobby, he likes to project well-dressed wild animals in the streets of Paris. Using video-mapping, the artist creates a new atmosphere and a surreal look-and-feel to the city. The project is titled Urban Safari and questions us on the dress-codes we conform to so easily.