Design Free Thursday // Elliott Erwitt’s Phototoons.

Elliott Erwitt is a master photographer, born in 1928 in Paris. He is best known for his black & white documentary style images within everyday settings. I especially love his "Phototoons" which capture spontaneous moments in ironic and...

Design Free Thursday // WTF Posters.

These funny little "WTF posters" really made me chuckle. Graphics were designed by Buenos Aires-based creative studio Minga (yep, that's seriously the name they go by) who specialise in Creative Direction, Design & Art Direction. If you...

Design Free Thursday // Shelving the Body.

Well isn't this fresh and quite funny? Except it's meant to be kind of serious. ‘Shelving the Body’ is Darragh Casey´s MA research project about manipulation of our perceptions. These images showcase three generations of the Casey...

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 | 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 | Steve Lambert.

Steve Lambert is an American conceptual installation artist and all around shit-stirrer. My kind of dude, really. I find his work to be intelligent, brave, eye-catching, interesting and funny, but these are just some of the reasons I love...

Favourite Quotes.

Bonjour! It's Si here again from the FrenchByDesign. Dana asked me to compile a selection of quotes I posted on my blog in the last few months. People often ask me why I post so many quotes…. For some reason, I have a thing for quotes...

Design Free Thursday | Sleeveface.

No biggie. Just a blog about people holding vinyl record sleeves in front of their faces. So simple, so silly and so hilarious. It's no surprise they now have their own book. Too...