Design Free Thursday // Jens Ullrich’s Collages.Today's post is a little tribute to the current Olympic Games fever. These brilliant collages by German artist Jens Ullrich are a clever fusion of contemporary athletes with classical Greek and Roman sculptures. This is visual wit at its...
Design Free Thursday // Cecilia Paredes Disappears Into Paintings.How nuts is this? Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes loves messing with our minds and performing disappearing acts in front of our eyes. Acting as both the photographer and the subject with cunning help of her assistants, she creates photo...
Design Free Thursday // Illustrations by Jaco Haasbroek.I love these silly illustrations by Capetown-based Jaco Haasbroek. This sort of humour always makes me laugh and brightens my...
Design Free Thursday // “Humanæ” Pantone Skin Colour Palette.First there were Edible Pantone Swatches and now we have Pantone Skin Colour Palette. Concieved by Brazilian artist Angelica Dass, Humanæ is a chromatic inventory of human skin referencing the PANTONE® colours. The series' objective is...
Design Free Thursday // Faces by Miller Goodman.Zoe Miller and David Goodman are millergoodman - a design duo from Brighton, England that specialises in products for children. They make kids books for the Tate Gallery, and are also the creators of award-winning wooden toys PlayShapes....
Design Free Thursday // The Illustrated 99% Conference 2012.Regular yellowtrace readers (are not only the sexiest bunch around, they would also) know about my weakness for quotes. And pretty pictures. Combining the two is sheer genius which rates quite highly on my "extreme love" scale. These...
Design Free Thursday | Aerial Nudes by John Crawford.This is such a fascinating birds-eye-view image series by Auckland based John Crawford, who is one of New Zealand’s best known photographers. The juxtaposition of single naked body placed within carefully arranged set-ups at interesting...
Design Free Thursday | Skype Family Portraits.As someone who has la ot of close family and friends overseas, I could really relate to this clever project by the Singapore-born, New York-based photographer John Clang. Formal family portraits of entire families are common practice in...
Design Free Thursday | “She Can Leap Tall Buildings” by Heidi Lender.I am madly in love with these whimsical images by California-based fashion writer & photo stylist / photographer, Heidi Lender. Titled "She Can Leap Tall Buildings", this clever series is a nod to all super-mums and superwomen of the...
