Category: Digital

Funny

The saddest places in the world as shown on Google Maps

Yes, there are some truly sad places around the world and some of them have been identified thanks to Google Maps. Australian artist Damien Rudd’s Instagram is filled with screenshots taken from Google Maps. Doing quite...

By Umar Ansari · Oct. 19, 2018

Art

Colorful digital quilts with dazzling complexity

Andy Gilmore is a New York-based artist making dazzlingly complex digital compositions. His work looks like Digital Age quilts with colors, shapes, and patterns that would be far too complex to stitch by hand. They resemble a variety...

By Justin Crowe · Oct. 15, 2018

Illustration

Absurd online comic ‘Hyperbole and a Half’ moves to print

'Hyperbole and a Half' is a popular web comic created by Allie Brosh. Brosh draws the comic in a deliberately rough style using the primitive digital art program 'Paintbrush.'  The comic depicts real events in her life, including...

By J Hudson · Oct. 15, 2018

Video

Circus-like performance lets bodies move light and sound

In a stunning combination of bodies and light, this spectacular dance performance integrates digital technology to provide mesmerizing visuals. The 11 dancers in the piece 'Pixel' move through space in a way that seemingly engages...

By Steph · Oct. 14, 2018

Art

4 Disney princesses get an ethnicity swap and look beautiful

This series of Disney princesses by Tumblr artist Let There Be Doodles re-imagines them with different ethnicities. The series is called RaceBent Disney (The name is a play on his previous GenderBent series). This art lets you...

By Conner Flynn · Oct. 09, 2018

Creativity

Artist twisted reality through disturbing images of clichéd American photos

Weronika Gesicka is an artist from Poland. Although her main field of practice is photography, she is also a creator of objects and artifacts who frequently collaborates with craftsmen and other artists. She graduated from the...

By Venus Emma Marigmen · Oct. 07, 2018

Art

Catholic congregations 'look good' in new collaborative art project highlighting clothing of nuns

The Pink Sisters, formally referred to as the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters, are only one of more than 40 Catholic nun groups made as subjects in "Looking Good: A visual guide to the nun’s habit". The project is a collaborative...

By Sharee Ann Narciso-Tolentino · Oct. 06, 2018

Digital

Remarkable patterns created by thousands of standing people

From a distance, these patterns look like they might be created with pointilism or a similar technique. But look closely and you'll see that they're actually made up of thousands of people. But it's still not what you'd expect. Rather...

By Cameron Chapman · Oct. 05, 2018

Digital

Sculpting paintings in virtual reaity

Google has created the ultimate way to experience art. Their new app, Tilt Brush, connects users with their art with a digital brush and headset. Google partnered with HTC Vive to create the app and technology bundle which utilizes...

By Johnna Gurgel · Oct. 04, 2018

Illustration

Detailed 8-bit ‘Pixoramas’ of famous cities

eBoy is the leading Berlin-based pixel art team made up of Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital. Their insanely detailed 8-bit illustrations draw from contemporary pop culture, old school Nintendo video games and...

By Nhan Tran · Sep. 18, 2018

Digital

8 classic emojis recreated as ridiculous real-life icons

Liza Nelson is giving emoji the respectful artistic rendition it deserves with her real-life recreations of the universal mobile-based language for the Tumblr generation. Each emoji is carefully rebuilt in studio and presented...

By Nhan Tran · Aug. 31, 2018

Architecture

Achitectural photography by Jeroen Peters refreshes our eyes with a different view of the cityscape

Jeroen Peters is a freelance photographer based in Amsterdam specializing in architectural photography, with a strong graphic character. His work is best described as "a mix of minimal and architectural photography, with...

By Venus Emma Marigmen · Aug. 31, 2018

Industrial design

You can use VISA's new sunglasses to pay for stuff

Payment processing giant, VISA, was present at SXSW 2017 in Austin with a pair of sunglasses. That you can actually use to pay for stuff. Watch out Snapchat Spectacles! The glasses were designed by a local Australian brand...

By Umar Ansari · Aug. 17, 2018

Graphic Design

Plants sprout from iPhones and computers in Sasha Katz GIF series

Juxtaposing nature and consumer technology, Sasha Katz imagines just how well the two vastly different objects in our lives mesh together. As part of her ongoing GIF series, animator Katz has created a number of 3D animations...

By Umar Ansari · Aug. 15, 2018

Digital

15 retro-futuristic GIFs in glorious 1980s sci-fi style

The '80s is still alive and kicking butt in Kidmograph's fantastic GIF art. The Argentinian artist/motionographer (also known as Gustavo Torres) calls his neon-colored, retro-futuristic animated GIFs "personal animation...

By Nhan Tran · Aug. 07, 2018