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Zappar Street Sign Monsters (3 GIFS)

2014-03-05T12:37:00.003-08:00

JULY i - Canadian Street Artist

2014-03-05T12:23:00.001-08:00

JULY i is a Canadian based (Toronto) street & urban view artist.

Nuance by Marco-Antoine Locatelli (Gifs + Vid)

2013-09-26T04:12:00.000-07:00

A multi-disclipinary stylishness... Beautiful b&w photography of an athletic dance performance punctuated by brilliant mograph elements.

Nuance is a short film by French director Marc-Antoine Locatelli featuring dancer Lucas Boirat interacting with illuminated geometric shapes in a fantastic choreographed performance.

3D Murals by John Pugh

2013-09-13T08:43:00.000-07:00

John Pugh is an American artist known for creating large trompe-l'oeil wall murals giving the illusion of a three-dimensional scene behind the wall. Pugh has been creating his murals since the late 1970s. He attended California State University Chico, receiving his BA in 1983 and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003. He has received numerous public and private commissions in the United States, Taiwan, and New Zealand. He lives in Santa Cruz, California. His particular mural style sparked the term "Narrative Illusionism".

I Always Wonder... (Harun Yahya)

2013-09-12T13:21:00.003-07:00

Tattoo Girl Outdoor

2013-09-12T13:18:00.001-07:00

Pop Eye What Is True (Official Vid.)

2013-09-12T12:42:00.001-07:00

ARTIST: Pop Eye
TITLE: What Is True
Written & performed by Pop Eye
Directed by: 2am
(p) 2013 The Sound Of Everything Records Ltd
Published by Timespace Music Publishing Ltd

LYRICS
I wanna bring you back home, before it's too late
I don't care if you are wrong, my chosen soul mate
I'm gonna show you the light, the path isn't clear
But if you follow my heart, you should have no fear

I wanna bring you back home, before it's too late
I don't care if you are wrong, my chosen soul mate
I'm gonna show you the light, the path isn't clear
But if you follow my heart, you should have no fear

"What is true
Can be explained
With simple words or even by a child
With just one kiss
And I can feel
all the lies existing in your mind"

Lambent Chair by Glen Lewis Steele

2013-09-12T04:44:00.000-07:00

Inspired by a collapsible, wooden, giraffe toy from my childhood, the ‘Lambent Chair’ is designed to shed light where you need it. Be it casting a soft light over a room or directing it down onto the fine text of your novel. A glowing switch placed behind the braid allows for the lamp to work by itself when not being used as a seat. However when you choose to sit on its floating seat, your weight compresses an inbuilt spring loaded mechanism. Activating an internal system of tension wires which tighten and loosen like tendons in a finger, causing the lamp to angle down towards you and then straighten back up when you stand. The New Zealand beech wood and Techflex, silica, braided shaft seemingly dangle from the striking, crescent, LED lamp. All adding to the illusion of an ethereal piece of furniture.

source: Glen Lewis - Steele

Alix Sofa by Tilt, Limited Edition

2013-07-02T14:28:00.002-07:00

Internationally renowned French graffiti artist Tilt has collaborated with Amaze workshops to create an incredible and somewhat unexpected new piece of work. Alix , his personal reimagination of a sofa , is an iconic and boundary pushing piece of bold design. Tilt has created a covetable item that combines statement style and quality, whilst pushing boundaries to provide an evolutionary contribution to design led functional furniture. The bold monochrome palette enhances the equally striking contrast of the padded leather with a clean wooden framework. From behind, the sofa looks like another brilliant piece of Tilt’s signature traditional graffiti artwork , but once seen from the other side, it transforms into a luxury piece of furniture, with an inviting erotic edge. Created in France, master craftsmen worked tirelessly over 752 hours to make Tilt ‘s incredible creativity and imagination a reality; suffice it to say, the whole project was undeniably worth every second.

Baubike by Michael Ubbesen Jakobsen

2013-06-21T09:36:00.001-07:00

Inspired by Bauhaus design, the epitome of modernism, the BauBike makes artistic use of clean lines and geometric shapes. Creating a functional ride and a piece of art through design, the frame features squares and equilateral triangles limiting all of the lines to 60 or 90 degree angles. The extra open end piece over the back wheel gives you room to add an extra seat or basket.

source: DesignCombo

Patka Restaurant by El Equipo Creativo

2013-06-19T09:33:00.001-07:00

In the Quechua language of Peru Pakta means “union”; in this case the union of two cultures and their respective cuisines . The interior design created by El Equipo Creativo emerges from this same idea, considering that Japanese cuisine is the basis of the nikkei gastronomy but wrapped in Peruvian tastes, colours, traditions and ingredients. With this in mind, the basic elements of the restaurant such as the bars, the kitchen and the furniture are designed with a clear reference to the architecture of the traditional Japanese taverns.
An explosion of colours evocative of Peru envelopes the space. This chromatic “second skin” is achieved by use of a direct reference to the Peruvian loom, offering a surprising combination of colours which contrast with the austere Japanese design, and underlining the deep-rootedness of this artefact in Peruvian arts and crafts. However, the re-interpretation of the Peruvian loom goes further, sequencing its own elaboration process on the walls of Pakta, transforming this flat surface to offer a tridimensional character to the space, adding vitality and movement and blurring the limits which mark the locale. The traditional Peruvian weaving looms are wooden mechanisms where colored threads intertwine in various directions, forming a suggestive tridimensional space which generates an attractive atmosphere transformed and reinterpreted in Pakta.
The final result unites the re-interpretation of these two cultures--Peruvian and Japanese-- by means of some of their most emblematic traditional elements, creating a visually potent but balanced solution, at once spontaneous and rational, hilarious and silent, surprising but strangely familiar, as is the nikkei cuisine itself..

Ask Italian Restaurant by Gundry & Ducker At Bluewater

2013-06-16T15:02:00.001-07:00

Ask Italian restaurant by Gundry & Ducker at Bluewater, Greenhithe – UK..

Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle

2013-06-16T14:17:00.004-07:00

Opera Camper by Axel Enthoven

2013-06-13T09:58:00.001-07:00

Alighting in France’s Provence with the fragrance of lavender in the air. Enjoying a good glass of
wine in the hills of Tuscany. Day-dreaming with the murmur of the Mediterranean in your ears.
If you make the Opera your travel companion, a whole new world will open up to you. A world in which you can enjoy the luxuries of a comfortable hotel against the backdrop of your favourite natural landscapes. A world in which you have the freedom to go, or stay, wherever you wish, while relishing the purity of the outdoors in style. Welcome to the world of Opera, Your Suite in Nature.

The Opera is a mobile designer suite in a class of her own. Within minutes, she will show you her characteristic outlines, resting firmly on her legs in a level position. The teak veranda is an invitation for you to come on board, where you’ll be amazed by the luxury and detail. Such as the two electrically adjustable beds that can easily be transformed into one. Or the boiler supplying warm water to the kitchen, the fountain and the (exterior) shower. The hot air heating.
The ceramic toilet. The top loading refrigerator. The low-energy LED lighting from awning to floor. The Opera offers you the convenience of a complete holiday home.

Animated Gifs by RRRRRRRRoll

2013-06-10T14:53:00.001-07:00

Collection of animated GIFs depicting very colloquial and candid environments where a
subject or an object perpetually rotates on its central axis. Although the group or individual
is actually anonymous, we do know that the site and photos come from Japan.

Neil Dawson’s Horizons for the Gibbs Farm

2013-06-09T06:28:00.001-07:00

Dawson’s Horizons is one of the earliest sculptures to be commissioned for the Gibbs Farm. Sitting as it does on one of the highest points in the property it is also one of the few works that can be seen from the road. This seems fitting given the way the tromp l’oeil character of the work is suggestive of a giant piece of corrugated iron that might have blown in from a collapsed water tank on some distant farm, only to rest precariously until the next gale lifts it into the air again.
An unusual setting for a sculpture collection, this North Auckland property is dominated by the Kaipara Harbour. To appreciate all the artwork on the Farm it is a good 3 - 4 hr walk over undulating farmland and a reasonable level of fitness and mobility is required.

Nym - Et Moi

2013-06-08T14:52:00.000-07:00

Born in Fairbanks Alaska and raised on a farm on red Virginian soil, Nym blends folk, hip hop, and film score music with images of dusty attics, cat tails, warped VHS tapes and dimly lit saloons. Currently based in San Francisco, California, Nym continues to produce music that is hard to classify.
Nym's beats are emotionally intense, organic electronic instrumental hip hop interpretations of days past (and days yet to come).

Sample original: Nana Mouskouri "Que je sois un ange"

Intelligence Without Ambition

2013-06-07T17:16:00.003-07:00

Mosaics and Complex Digital Images by Charis Tsevis

2013-06-07T11:29:00.000-07:00

Charis Tsevis is an award winning visual designer living and working in Athens,Greece.

He holds a Diploma of Graphic Design from the Akademie fur das Grafishe Gewerbe, Munchen and a Master in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano.

He manages a modest studio by the name of Tsevis Visual Design in Athens serving clients all over the world.

His client list includes companies like Nike, PepsiCo, Toyota and IKEA, advertising agencies like TBWA\Chiat\Day, Saatchi & Saatchi LA, DDB Munich and Leo Burnett Hong Kong and media like Time, Fortune, Wired and the Wall Street Journal.

Charis is a part time professor of Editorial Design and Typography at the AKTO College of Art and Design since the year 1996. He has also presented seminars at the Panteion University of Athens and he has given lectures in numerous national and international conferences and symposiums like the International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication, the TEDx Athens, the Adobe D-Day and many more.

Charis is also a regular columnist in some of the most respected design and computer magazines in Greece (+design, RAM etc.). He has also written 2 books about Adobe Photoshop.

Charis' work is awarded in ED Awards (Europe), Epica Awards (Europe), NPSA (USA), Behance (USA), EBGE (Greece) and others.

His work has been featured in many books, magazines and websites around the world.

Digital Collage by Antigoni Vasilaki

2013-06-04T18:50:00.000-07:00

Antigoni Vasilaki lives in Corfu/Greece. Studied graphic design and she loves making collages and experimentation. Works as a freelance.

Diego Fazio's Photorealistic Pencil Drawings

2013-06-04T17:43:00.001-07:00

Diego Fazio aka DiegoKoi is 22-year old photorealism artist. Diego was born in Czech Republic, now he resides in Italy. Inspired by Katsushika Hokusai, Diego started his career as a tattoo artist, ending up creating own pencil and chalk drawing technique. What’s more exciting is that Diego draws like an ink printer, starting from top left corner of canvas. Diego uses only pencils and chalks. He spends around 200 hours on each painting. He won the NonfermArti Audience Award for Best Artist in 2011. You can easily confuse Diego’s paintings with black-and-white photographs, so no wonder, lots of skeptics doubt authenticity of his works.

Compressed VW Beetles by Ichwan Noor

2013-06-04T09:43:00.003-07:00

Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor creates fantastic automobile-based sculptures. To form his “Beetle Sphere”, he used five 1953 Volkswagen Beetles combined with polyester and aluminum.
“The idea emerged from a personal perception towards objects that are products of a ‘transportation culture’, which induces hints/signs of spiritual emotion. To behold a vehicle (car) is to have a “magical” (supernatural) identity. Sculptures represent the interaction between humans and the object realm, with strong spiritual tension that affects the subconscious, and that yields a new “animistic” attitude. By combining the techniques of manipulation and substitution, the form of this sculpture tends toward realistic distortion, which allows new interpretations about the object (car), as a shift in perception that creates an associative meaning.”

Ichwan Noor

source: theinspirationgrid

Spnkix Electric Roller Skates (Video)

2013-06-01T14:59:00.001-07:00

These motorized electric roller skates propel you at up to 8 mph. Simply strap the skates on over their shoes, held securely in place by dual fasteners similar to those on ski boots. Each skate has an 80-watt motor integrated into its rugged fiber-reinforced nylon frame that powers its smooth-rolling 6"-diameter rubber tires. A handheld wireless remote control throttles both skates simultaneously up to 8 mph; gentle stops are achieved by pulling the switch back—engaging the skates' electronic brakes—or by dragging the heel stopper. Each skate has a removable lithium-ion battery that provides up to 40 minutes of continuous power (5-6 mile range) ideal for travel across a school campus, to a local cafe, or while roaming a neighborhood festival.

Riders up to 180 lbs.

Batteries recharge in five hours using the included AC adapter.

Includes one removable training wheel.

Fits men's shoe sizes 6-14, women's 7-15 1/2.

For ages 16 and up.

10 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W x 9" D. (16 lbs.)

No Sweat by Darryl Agawin

2013-05-29T14:20:00.002-07:00

No, Sweat by Darryl Agawin is a 3-piece workspace furniture set that can transform into exercise furniture.
In today’s busy lives it can be difficult to find the time for daily exercise. By combining workspace and workout furniture, it allows anyone to take a break from their busy work schedules and partake in regular daily exercise. This eye catching set of furniture serves to remind the user of the exercise capabilities of their furniture.
The exercises that No, Sweat! utilizes are based on pre-established and well known routines and styles. The basic forms that shaped No Sweat! were drawn from the exercise step, the balance board, the weight bar, the skip rope and the kettle bell. Hundreds of exercises can be extrapolated from these basic structures and equipment.
No, Sweat! can be used wherever desk work is done; from the company office to a studio apartment. This set is designed for everyone, as exercise is important for all ages. No, Sweat! benefits those interested in fitness, yet have not joined a public gym or unable to purchase dedicated home equipment due to a lack of space or finances.
When design No, Sweat!, first hand research was used to establish a working baseline; exploring various exercise disciplines, finding the similarity between various forms. These forms were then dissected and rearranged into a workspace configuration. Pen-and-paper sketching, quick CAD prototyping and full-scale prototypes were used to explore and ultimately refine the myriad of possibilities.
To increase awareness of the project, a short teaser video was released online. Additionally, a custom print titled Curl Bars and Collars, was designed for promotional graphics and lithograph-style posters were designed and printed.
In the same fashion that the 1980s Memphis style design was a postmodern response to Bauhaus’ Form follows function, No, Sweat! proves that one does not need fancy, modern gym equipment in order to have a full body workout. No, Sweat! provides a mental and physical break from the work day and gets people moving.

FF1 Chair by Tom de Vrieze & James van Vossel

2013-05-28T12:38:00.000-07:00

Fox & Freeze is a Creative Cooperation between 2 Belgian designers : James Van Vossel

and Tom De Vrieze.  Vos is Dutch for Fox and Vrieze(n) is Freeze.

FF1 or Fox & Freeze1 is an indoor lounge chair made from 1 square sheet of synthetic felt.

FF1 is Extra Light, Self Supporting and Extra Strong.