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A Doodle A Day Keeps The Stress Away. Artist Draws Terrifying Monsters On Sticky Notes. 2013 iphone Photos. Fucking Good Ideas FGI FGIdeas * Online Design news art and culture website. Impressively Detailed Pen Doodles By Kerby Rosanes. Do you remember those imaginative doodles you used to make in your high school notebook?

Impressively Detailed Pen Doodles By Kerby Rosanes

Maybe you still make them. Quit Your Day Job: Dark Cycle Clothing. Before they introduced the animal kingdom to bicycles, Adam and Coryn Enfinger from Dark Cycle Clothing were introduced by a mutual friend at a punk show.

Quit Your Day Job: Dark Cycle Clothing

On the drive to that show in 2002, Adam was chatting with a friend about relationships. As they pulled into the parking lot, he spotted Coryn and said, “She is my ideal girl.” It turned out Adam’s friend knew Coryn and she proceeded to introduce them. They hit it off immediately and became inseparable friends, spending time together playing music and making t-shirts and art. A Graphic Design Project That Explores A Different Way Of Counting. A 23-Year-Old Russian Makes Creepy Yet Adorable Fantasy Dolls. 82K views 93 days ago by Skirmantė Made by a 23-year-old artist from Moscow, these colourful creatures look like they could be the cuter cousins of the gremlins in Speilberg’s 1984 movies of the same name.

A 23-Year-Old Russian Makes Creepy Yet Adorable Fantasy Dolls

Whether you think they’re cute or creepy, these little gremlins have been selling like hot cakes. SupaKitch. Stunning Murals By “Etam Cru” Turn Boring Buildings Into Works Of Art. Given the extraordinary size of their epic street-art murals, it’s probably safe to say that the Polish street-art duo Etam Cru is one of the next big things in urban street art.

Stunning Murals By “Etam Cru” Turn Boring Buildings Into Works Of Art

The duo, which consists of street artists Sainer and Bezt, creates massive street art murals that are often several stories tall and dripping with color. Their work is rich in Eastern European mysticism and folkloric symbolism, but they also play with humor, sarcasm and surrealism. Although the Poland-based team works primarily in Eastern Europe, they have created works all over the world, with murals in the U.S., Portgual, and other countries. You! Be Inspired! - Inspirations from Sketchbooks. Articles, Inspiration September 19, 2012 Most designers, especially illustrators, architects, interior designers, fashion designers and even web designers have a simple sketchbook accompanying their design process.

You! Be Inspired! - Inspirations from Sketchbooks

Portfolio 2 on Behance. Doodle Rebellion! Incredibeard. Mike Matas - Roadtrip USA. I’m the design lead for Paper, a new app from Facebook that lets you explore and share stories from friends and the world around you.

Mike Matas - Roadtrip USA

Paper makes storytelling more beautiful with an immersive design and distraction-free layouts. Before joining Facebook I co-founded Push Pop Press, a digital publishing company that created Al Gore's interactive book Our Choice. Prior to starting Push Pop Press I helped design the Nest Learning Thermostat and worked at Apple where I designed user interfaces and artwork for the iPhone, the iPad, and Mac OS X. Before that I cofounded Delicious Monster, a software company that created the book cataloging app Delicious Library. Recently I worked with the spanish shoe company Preventi to design a new line of shoes the Mike Matas Global Nomads. Jean Jullien's online portfolio: Allo? 24 Clever Print Ads.

In print advertising world, agencies are bound to reflect their message solely with an image and they generally count on intelligence to accomplish this.

24 Clever Print Ads

Smart ideas on great visuals attract audience’s attention easily and they become a kind of art in the end. Architecture Student Bought a School Bus and Turned It Into Cozy Mobile Home. As a graduate architecture student, Hank was tired of seeing architecture projects that never left the drawing board.

Architecture Student Bought a School Bus and Turned It Into Cozy Mobile Home

So when it came time to come up with a final project, Hank did what was obviously the only logical solution – he bought an old school bus and, together with his brother and a friend, spent 14 weeks converting it into a modern, well-designed mobile home that can host up to 12 people complete with beds, a kitchen, a bathroom and two skylights. Most of the furniture in the bus is modular, so it can be moved, stowed away or converted to different functions. My neighbor jake. Confessions. 2012 Las Vegas, NV Interactive gallery installation in The Cosmopolitan that invites people to anonymously share their confessions and see the confessions of the people around them in the heart of the Las Vegas strip.

Confessions

Amidst casinos, restaurants and bars, Chang invited passersby to write confessions on wooden plaques in the privacy of confession booths. Johan Thörnqvist » Pictures from my phone. Illustrations Of Unusual And Rarely Spoken Words. Recumbentibus—A knockout punch, either verbal or physical.

Illustrations Of Unusual And Rarely Spoken Words

The Irish illustration duo of James and Michael Fizgarald, or also known as The Project Twins, have come up with a series of illustrations that visually represent rarely spoken and heard of words. In their series called ‘A-Z of Unusual Words’, the meaning of the words have been visually defined in the form of a whimsical poster—which can be purchased on their website. Here are some of their ‘informative’ posters: Art, design and visual ingenuity. Real Life Version of Up. Une belle initiative par la chaîne National Geographic avec ce concept de reconstitution de la maison du film Up (La Haut) des studios Pixar. Un lancement effectué depuis un terrain de Los Angeles, avec plus de 300 ballons à l’hélium et une maison grandeur nature. Mark Jenkins // Glazed Paradise. Besançon Rome Rio de Janeiro. Blog of Francesco Mugnai - Your source of inspiration.

Joe Fenton on Behance. Feric.com. Barcinski & Jeanjean. Barcinski & Jeanjean have parted. Viktor hertz - official website & portfolio. Client: Ray-BanBrief: Create artworks that somehow depict iconic people and famous characters that have been wearing Ray-Ban Aviators. The portraits were to be displayed in the Sunglass Hut store in Covent Garden, London, from March to April 2014.