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September 17, 2015
Hyungkoo Lee creates anatomical artworks of cartoon characters
Hyungkoo Lee creates anatomical artworks of cartoon characters

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 […]

September 16, 2015
Surreal digital artworks by Jie Ma
Surreal digital artworks by Jie Ma

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.

September 13, 2015
Illustrations from the oldest color printed book
Illustrations from the oldest color printed book

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 […]

September 11, 2015
Urban safari, a street art experiment in Paris
Urban safari, a street art experiment in Paris

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.  

September 10, 2015
Spectacular laser cut wood art by Gabriel Schama
Spectacular laser cut wood art by Gabriel Schama

Gabriel Schama is an artist living and working in Oakland, California. He made himself a name with his laser-cutted artworks. He made amazing mandalas using that technique and got a lot of press for it, but his new work with portraits is just as awesome. Due to great exposure on top art and design sites, […]

September 4, 2015
Spectacular straw dinosaurs emerged in Japanese fields
Spectacular straw dinosaurs emerged in Japanese fields

In Japan, rice straw is named “wara”, and people have been making art with wara for ages. After harvest, farmers and people from the countryside create sculpture and stuff with all the rice straw they picked up. There is even a festival for this, the Wara Art Festival in Niigata. For the 2015 edition, visitors […]

August 20, 2015
Generative illustrations by Janusz Jurekby
Generative illustrations by Janusz Jurekby

Polish designer Janusz Jurek has specialized in digital art and illustration over the years. His more recent work involves a lot of generative illustration. Unfortunately, he didn’t document his working technique, so we can only take a wild guess and imagine that he works with some programming tools. In his body series, he makes lines converge […]

August 15, 2015
Fiction landscapes by J. Frede
Fiction landscapes by J. Frede

Artist J. Frede had an interesting idea to create new landscapes. Instead of painting the landscapes or creating digital images of it, he did some kind of collages using photos that aren’t related in one way or another. These newly formed, fictional landscapes, create new world from the view of several photographers, thus creating imaginary […]

August 3, 2015
Visualizing music with the help of light painting
Visualizing music with the help of light painting

At Designer Daily, we’ve always been fans of data visualization. We also enjoy good light painting projects when we see it. As you can imagine, this project by Stephen Orlando that mixes both arts is just a delight to us. The Canadian took his passion for capturing motion in space to a new field: music. […]

Chocolate Legos by Akihiro Mizuuchi
Chocolate Legos by Akihiro Mizuuchi

Chocolate. Lego. Space-invaders. If you are a normal person of the 21st century, at least one of these words should appeal to you. Japanese designer and illustrator Akihiro Mizuuchi has designed and built some moulds that let you create your own chocolate Lego bricks. It probably melts a bit too quick to really play with it, […]

July 24, 2015
Miniature worlds by Kendal Murray on everyday objects
Miniature worlds by Kendal Murray on everyday objects

Sydney-based artist Kendal Murray spends her time between lecturing about design at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts of the University of Western Sydney and working on her art. In this post we’ll focus just on her amazing art, tiny mixes of sculptures, miniature gardens and doll houses. Each of her tiny sculpture takes you on […]

July 23, 2015
3DXL: large scale experiments with 3D printing
3DXL: large scale experiments with 3D printing

Among the new technologies artists use to experiment with, 3D printing is in my opinion the most interesting. If you can take the experiments one step further than just playing with consumer 3D printers, it becomes amazing for the artist. At the time of writing this article, the DX | design exchange in Toronto is holding […]

July 22, 2015
June Digan creates gorgeous watercolor lettering for quotes
June Digan creates gorgeous watercolor lettering for quotes

Filipino artist June Digan has great talent for at least two artistic skills: lettering and watercolor painting. She combines the two by creating spectacular paintings of quotes, with gorgeous lettering of course. She mixes typographic styles with wonderful taste, using subtle color schemes that can only be made with watercolor. Most of her work is […]

July 18, 2015
Stunning architectural sand castles by Calvin Seibert
Stunning architectural sand castles by Calvin Seibert

Many sand castle builders are pretty amazing artists when it comes to patience and skills. On the other hand, sand castles are too often a bit kitschy for my taste. Artist Calvin Seibert gives an architectural twist to his sand castles. His monumental castles would look great as a big city’s opera house or a villain’s […]

July 9, 2015
Watercolor cats in black & white
Watercolor cats in black & white

The best part about watercolor paintings is the unpredictable effects you will get from it. The paint solves into subtle shades and creates beautiful edges that are hard to control. Serbian artist Endre Penovac is a true master of watercolor who can create cat paintings with just a few brush strokes. You can see all […]