You Are Cordially Invited...

This is a series of invitations by Keetra Dean Dixon. I love how she uses a typically mundane topic, a formal invitation, and makes it original and fun. Her unexpected invitations to "invest in the fantastic" or "twist the cynical loop" make me smile, and the invitations themselves are very visually pleasing as well, especially the typography. Her letters are beautifully crafted and so unique, I could look at them for quite some time.

http://www.booooooom.com/2009/02/25/keetra-dean-dixon-cordial-invitations-graphic-designer/

Also, I stumbled upon this useful design resource site and I thought I'd pass it along-

http://www.designerstoolbox.com/

It is especially helpful if you are looking for the dimensions of something with a standardized size (postcards, dvd and cd inserts, envelopes, etc.)

James Brown

I really like this image. It has a good use of cool colors that are being used to give the image a certain feel. This is a great use of typography to create the face of james brown. Looks like this artist took a long time sketching and brainstorming where they wanted what words and how big they wanted them. This example gives the impression that he is singing because of the words going out from the head in a radial way.

Dancing with the Sun

This image is on the cover of a magazine I subscribe to and it really caught my eye. I love the colors, the movement of the drawing, the simple images. The artist's name is Mara Berendt Friedman and you can find more of her work at http://www.newmoonvisions.com/home/nm1/smartlist_109/artnote.html.

Illustrations - Alberto Seveso

I'm really interested in the usage of the body and forming the different words on to them...and completely forming the shape of the body using other illustrations.. the use of color and everything is really balanced out.

I found this and i thought it was pretty interesting. The color choices are great and I think the outline is unique, I like that it's only there in certain places. I think the use of black in his shirt also lets the remaining colors pop out more around the composition. I just think it's pretty cool, has a pop art mood to it.

Virtual Galleries?

An example of yet another potential artistic outlet...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kGxCP0x0co

When I saw this I imagined creating some sort of dreamscape as part of a project, something like this could easily be engineered to cater to not only wide audiences for movies and videogames but also to the digital artist looking to expand into more realistic artwork or even as a way to portray quite literally a virtual gallery of their own work. Something like this would allow viewers on say the internet or in a museum to navigate through a virtual gallery of an artists work, where the gallery setting itself could be fully customized to the artists liking. I realize I'm a technology nerd but there's so much potential for beauty from the innovations to come.

Interesting

I found this design while searching the net. This really caught my eye with the colors and because of the strong diagonals it uses. The way the bottle blends into the background color with certain features emphasized also helps this piece too.

beyond penmanship

This piece caught my eye because of the way the artist used only lines to create something that is visually interesting. They were able to give it texture and depth just by the way that the lines are arranged next to each other. It also keeps your attention and leads your eye through the entire piece because there is so much movement.

Invisible Creature

This is the website for the design firm Invisible Creature. They do a lot of quirky character designs for posters, album covers and advertisements. I really like their childlike style and subtle use of texture. They do a lot of great work and are definitely worth checking out.

http://www.invisiblecreature.com/#/home

Honey skeleton

I like the idea how the artist using hornets' nest to created another object which is skeleton. As an artist, we need think about how the art could become more abstract and creative, and this is a good example for us to create an abstract piece.

Also, the artist create two types of bees, so it make me to think about a role of bee.

I was on the communication arts website, and I was looking through featured artists and found an illustrator named taylor callery. Here is one of his pieces along with the website i found it, it's pretty interesting..

http://www.commarts.com/fresh/taylor-callery.html

design in sports

Hey guys check this out. I like the way this image portrays the human muscles but also gives it a robot feel. Real nice graphics. Check the web site out, there are some other cool images.





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DVD Cover Design

Francesca Alvino Work - Someone who I have worked very close with, her work is absolutely amazing, in this particular DVD cover which was all done in photoshop I love the texture that was used and the usage of the different images to put together, the usage of the blood like tear drops really enhances the face and makes it pop. I love how the text almost is apart of the face but still manages to stand out just enough. The typeface that was picked out was enough where it works with the project, it's still readable with everything going on and yet doesn't over power too much...

This is an interesting design of a phoenix I found on http://www.webdesignerwall.com

On this website it gives design ideas, new trends and great tutorials to follow :)

Technology and Art

I can't say how much or in which ways technology will enable artists in the coming years or the far flung future, however it is obvious with a little research that major changes will be made.
For instance the advent of consumer 3D technology is readily available, for a steep price still, but it will come down in price over the next few years. Holographic hard drives, that is hard drives that store data 3-dimensionally are already here, though they are mostly for government use, research, and other extremely high end users. Quantum computing is here and its coming up fast. This being the point of my article.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/quantum-computer1.htm

We are at the cusp of giant changes in technology, things are about to get much faster and much weirder. This article explains how quantum computers are already here, though they are in their infant state, but explanations are abound about how qubits will be replacing the bits we are all used to understanding. Binary is the generic term for using 0s and 1s, yet quantum computing utilizes 0s, 1s and everything in between or what the scientific community calls "Superpositions". Schroedingers cat is the metaphor used to describe these superpositions of states and its also why quantum computers happen to be so fast, they're able to process multiple tasks at once where old school turing machines are unable to do so. For people who don't understand how computers work, it's going to get much worse. It will be akin to how mechanics feel around cars that don't utilize traditional mechanics.

Alberti Cerriteño

this illustration uses textures extremely well. this composition keeps my mind going from the whale to the water to the "speech bubble" and back around looking at the detail in the textures and each aspect of the design.

Milan cathedral, Italy

I have always had a fascination of architecture, and especially gothic cathedrals. I find all of the incredible detail that go into these buildings combined with the sheer size of them really remarkable to look at. I would love to someday travel to Europe to take a tour of some of the classic Cathedrals.

Innovative Alarm Clock Design

Being a night owl myself, I am typically inclined to ignore my alarm clock in the morning and wait to be dragged out of bed by my roommate. I was looking through this list of clever alarm clocks recently, and was very impressed at the ideas behind them. They really push the boundaries of the traditional alarm concept and I feel they would definitely get me out of bed, especially the bacon clock... Mmmmmmmm, bacon...

http://www.toxel.com/tech/2009/06/06/12-unusual-and-creative-alarm-clocks/

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