Daily Inspiration

Infographic: Should You Background Check Your Internet Date?

Houke de Kwant — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:39:06 +0200

With millions seeking love online, it's only natural that you want to make sure that your next hot date is who she says she is. Should you act on this urge or should you let yourself be surprised? And if you decide to look your date up, how should you go about it? How do you know if someone is lying on her profile? What can you do to make sure her story checks out? A lot of reasonable questions, but how do you find an answer to all of them? This infographic tries to help you with that.

Presented By: BackgroundCheck.org

The Portfolio of Sharonne Parfait

Houke de Kwant — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:20:00 +0200

In 'The Portfolio of...' I give you, the photographer/ designer, a chance to share your work with the world. Everyone likes to get some attention for their works, and we're here to help. Submit your portfolio to us and we'll try to publish it. Today it's time to show you the work of Sharonne Parfait.

New Works by Banksy

Houke de Kwant — Wed, 30 May 2012 19:33:00 +0200

Well known UK street artist Banksy has updated his website. He has added new works he’s been busy with. One of those works started appearing online on different websites (I've published it on our FB page as well) but it wasn't sure if it was a real Banksy, until know. What do you think of these, still as good as the older works?

Copywriter vs. Art Director

Houke de Kwant — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:12:00 +0200

Copywriter vs Art Director is a great Facebook page which got my attention this week. The page (CW Versus AD) illustrates the eternal dispute between Copywriters and Art Directors. In this post 11 illustrations with tools used especially by one of the two. Which one are you, the copywriter, the art director, or maybe both?

The Portfolio of Tiago Teixeira 'FydoProductions'

Houke de Kwant — Wed, 30 May 2012 09:30:00 +0200

The Netherlands Greets André

Houke de Kwant — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:15:00 +0200

As you probably know André Kuipers is a Dutch astronaut, currently in space. As a tribute to him Mobile Samsung has sponsored a huge message from earth to André. The work, called Nederland groet André (The Netherlands Greets André), consists of tens of thousands of portraits of Dutch citizens which have been printed on a 2,000-kilogram canvas that has been fixed to the ground by 1,100 tent pegs. Nederland groet André was designed by Spanish street artist Notasso who works with smartphones. More than 36,000 Dutch people submitted their pictures from their Facebook profiles (I didn't even know until now that this was going on -_-).

The work has the same surface area as one-and-a-half football fields - so big that André Kuipers can see it from space. Passengers taking off from or landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport can also see the enormous work of art in a field near the town of Nieuw Vennep.

Kuipers left for a six-month stay aboard the ISS on 21 December 2011 which means that, by the time he gets back, he will have spent more time in space than any other Dutch person.

Pets of Thrones

Houke de Kwant — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:21:00 +0200

In this post some very good Game of Thrones Fan Art, created by Mario Flores an art director and illustrator from Mexico. In these prints some of the main characters from the series as animals from their homes: Lobo for Stark, Lannister Leon, Dragon for Targaryen, etc... If you follow the series, you will definitely see the resemblance of these animals with the characters in the series. Even if Mario didn't include the names to the posters you would know who the animal represented.

Steampunk Faith

Houke de Kwant — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:32:53 +0200

This is an amazing work created by Jonfer Maia, a self taught artist from Brazil and it's called Steampunk Faith. The idea of this project was to take all the objects from a Steampunk book and turn them into 3D! All the objects were made by scrap in real life and Jonfer wanted to keep the same designs from the book. The background was done in Photoshop and this is like steampunk stuff hanging around in some paradise. The cool thing about this all? He made this with only 10 months experience in 3D.

Hipster Branding

Houke de Kwant — Tue, 29 May 2012 10:37:00 +0200

Hipster Branding - Holding up a mirror to the artsy community. This is all the text you will find on this cool ironically Tumblr blog created by Dave Spengeler. Of course there is more to find there... great hipster logos. Not designed according to the current design trends but in a totally different 'hipster' style. What do you think, would this work for those companies?

The Portfolio of Anastasia Drozhzhina

Houke de Kwant — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:32:00 +0200