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 // 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 | 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...