These are some art projects that I found interesting or amusing in the past months. Instead of keeping it in my bookmarks, I thought that it would be better to share it with my dear readers. 1. Fly on the Wall Swedish photographer Magnus Muhr seems to have a lot of fun with insects, especially […]

The Internet is a never-ending source of awesome illustration, here are 20 great illustrations that I find inspiring with links to their creators. 1. Sheharzad Arshad 2. Léopold Rabus Picture taken from Galerie Adler‘s website. 3. Sad Mascot 4. Marcelo Braga 5. Daisike Tsutsumi 6. Eric Lacombe 7. Johnny Crap 8. Shigeru Ito 9. Burlesque […]

Futurorg is the online portfolio of Timothée Mathelin, aka Shift, a french designer with mad Photoshop skills. I’m only sharing some of his personal Photoshop artworks here, but he also presents some interesting photography or commissionned graphic design work in his portfolio, go take a look.

This chinese painting, named “Along the River during the Ching-Ming festival” and executed around 1085-1145e, is considered as one of China’s great treasures. The National Palace Museum of Taiwan created a nice page to get a good vizualisation of the 5.28 meters wide painting. For once I was quite happy to see some Flash allowing […]

Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hyeronymus Bosch. Google has just announced a new layer in Google Earth. When this new layer is activated, you can browse a selection of famous paintings from the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Once you’ve chosen a painting, you can take a very close look at it, […]

Advertising billboard hacking is probably my favourite form of street art. The project “Don’t forget…”, photographed in a subway station in Berlin, is a good reminder of how fake the advertisements you see in your streets and magazines are. The artists simply pasted some photoshop interface boxes and tools to remind that the photos were […]

Russian calligraphy is far from being as famous as chinese or arab calligraphy. From what you’ll see in the following examples, it’s a shame that it doesn’t get more exposure. All of the artworks here have been taken from Leonid Pronenko’s book on russian calligraphy, which is downloadable for free on his site. Somewhere in […]

The Wiimote multiple hacks have pushed some to think of new (fake) concepts. In itself, the Wiimote is already an amazing object that revolutionized the way video games are played. This is not so surprising since Nintendo has a habit of being one step ahead of other video games companies. The more surprising thing is […]

Smoke + Type, nice typographic work by Daniel Gordon. If you don’t want to miss any of the links shared, you can of course follow me on my Tumblelog if you are a Tumblr user. Infographics Can Help You Spread Ideas and Attract Attention Interesting article with examples on Dosh Dosh. Kustaa Saksi Retro-futuristic design […]

Prepare yourself to be inspired. I researched through almost 250 pages of Graffiti Art (mostly from Flickr) & (Vi.sualize.us) and chose the top 20 personal favorites. I also included some great links at the bottom in case this post wasn’t juicy enough for you and left you wanting more. “Graffiti is the name for images […]

Most of this blog’s readers probably already know that an image can be perceived differently depending on the environment, Drzach & Suchy demonstrate this brilliantly with their art project “Relativity”. Using a technique invented by Drzach, a panel combining several pictures in one physical object to display the separate images under appropriate lighting conditions. The […]

Thanks to social media sites like Digg or StumbleUpon, Philippe Toledano has become a very popular photographer on the web. I am also a big fan of his work for its beauty of course, but also because Toledano has great ideas and offers an original look on societal topics. Days with my father Very touching […]

I know, my title is kind of overused and everybody knows that an image is worth a thousand words, especially advertisers or politicians. In his presentation at TED, Chris Jordan proves once again the power of image over words to represent huge data and numbers. Plastic Cups, 2008 – 60×90″ – Chris Jordan Depicts one […]

Born in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1760, Hokusai is now the most known japanese ukiyo-e artist in the world. His astonishing work gives an insight on the japanese society of the time, and still inspires artists from all around the modern world. By looking at things from different angles His notorious series 36 views of […]

Reverse graffiti is a pretty artistic concept, reverting the graffiti process to make you think about the environment. Taking a dirty wall by the highway in San Francisco, using masks and cleaning products the artist creates a drawing on the wall by removing dirt. The result is beautiful and quite refreshing, you can see more […]