Human Paintings // Alexa Meade & Sheila Vand.Regular and long standing readers of this blog may recall my post about Painted People by Alexa Meade almost two years ago in which I reckoned I died from the awesomeness of Alexa's work. Anyway, turns out I lived just so I could bring you...
Design Free Thursday // “More Than Human” by Tim Flach.These extraordinary images captures animals' intriguing gestures and expressions in a series of intimate moments, all of which reveal a real depth and rawness of emotion. This project is a real reminder that humans are not the only...
Design Free Thursday // Bulldogs in Fancy Dress.You can go right ahead and consider this post to be my token tribute to Halloween. Or not. Either way, I find these images of bulldogs sporting fancy dress outfits intriguing, amusing and just plain hilarious, particularly given they date...
Design Free Thursday // Postcard Portraits by Amir Zainorin.These incredible postcard portraits of George Washington, Mao, Queen Elizabeth, Abraham Lincoln and Lenin are the work of Malaysian-born Denmark-based artist Amir Zainorin. Zainorin uses free postcards collected from cafes, restaurants and...
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 | 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 | Pin Portraits by Philip Karlberg.I am loving these sculpted portraits of famous people created by photographer Philip Karlberg for Plaza Magazine. Mr Karlberg used approximately 1200 carefully arranged wooden pins and clever lighting to recreate faces of "classic wearers...
Unfinished Portraits by Colin Chillag.Colin Chillag is a New York based artist who paints these incredible "unfinished" photorealistic portraits of the elderly. Each one of his pieces looks as though Colin decided to step out to lunch or out to the pub before returning to...
Mark Powell’s Bic Biro Drawings on Vintage Envelopes.Oh my! How craaaazy talented is Mark Powell? Talented with a capital T! Mark is a London-based artist who draws amazing portraits of the elderly on the backs of vintage envelopes using nothing more than a standard Bic Biro pen. Extremely...
