10 magnificent Nyan Cats
Nyan Cat, also known as Pop Tart Cat, was originally an 8-bit animation depicting a cat with the body of a cherry pop tart flying through outer space. The Pop Tart Cat animation was posted on the daily comics site LOL-COMICS run by illustrator prguitarman on April 2nd, 2011. Since then artists have given Nyan Cat new life through their own artistic interpretations.
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The unrealistic scenes of Nathan Spotts
Nathan Spotts has always been captivated by the beauty of our world, and often dreams of the things that lay just beyond what we can see. He recently wanted to create scenescapes (via photo-manipulation) that are not-quite real, but that almost could be…
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Eyes wide shut photoshoot
Fashion embraced S&M and fetishism with 13 inch heels, handcuff and masks at the ELLE, eyes wide shut event. It’s time to be perfectly good at being bad in this amazing photoshoot by artist Brendan Zhang.
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Animal Portraits by Morten Koldby
‘Animal portraits’ is an ongoing project of Morten Koldby, which will eventually become a coffee table book. Morten started out doing these as a weekend project with about four initial images and it has taken off from there. The theme in the series reflexes the almost human facial expressions of the animals: some look nervous, some arrogant, attentive and so on. Enjoy!
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The inner demons of Jim Pavelec
Jim Pavelec has been a professional freelance illustrator and artist for the past 15 years. Aside from his freelance work, Jim has been in several gallery shows and has published three books: Hell Beasts, Wreaking Havoc and Ink Bloom. His recent work include a kickstarter art project detailing some amazing demonic creatures.
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The Flow
The Flow looks at the supervening layers of reality that we can observe, from quarks to nucleons to atoms and beyond. The deeper we go into the foundations of reality the more it loses its form, eventually becoming a pure mathematical conception. Layer upon layer the flow builds new codes that create new codes, each version computing a new state based on the previous one. Visit mrkism.com/flow for more information.
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10 terrific color swatch images
Color swatches help artists and graphic designers pick the perfect color for their project. Here are ten vibrant images with associated color swatches put together by designworklife. Enjoy!
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Handmade fonts
HMF (HandMadeFont) is an Estonia based design company which was founded in 2008 by Vladimir Loginov and Maksim Loginov. They specialize in developing unique, untraditional fonts and take inspiration from everything that surrounds them. Their developed fonts are of such a high standard that they can be very widely used, from business cards to an outdoor advertisement.
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Thor, character design & concept
Michael Kutsche is an award-winning conceptual artist/illustrator and 3d artist located in Berlin, Germany who has worked for the vfx industry since 1998. Here is his awe inspiring work, crafting the design and feel, for the 2011 movie Thor.
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Kontrast music event, design and photography
Kontrast™ is a Nueva Forma – curated audio / visual electronic music event, and creative social mixer in Portland, Oregon. Here are some of the logo design works and photos from the event, by colorcubic. Enjoy!
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Preserved white rabbit, from Alice in Wonderland
Some amazing assemblage art by Alex CF. Here is the taxidermied corpse of an anthropomorphic rabbit, part of the his Charles Dodgson collection – preserved at the moment of death. It can be ascertained that the creature died from heart failure, brought on by stress. This item is for sale by the artist, see his website for more information.
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The woodcuts & etchings of Tugboat Printshop
Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth together make Tugboat Printshop which is their printshop, home, and studio space in Pittsburgh, PA. They specialize in amazing original woodcuts and etchings. Through their pursuits, they hope to keep printmaking alive in the public’s mind, reaching new audiences through travel, online interactivity, and direct conversation.
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