Category: Digital

Creativity

Awesome aquarium designs from the 2016 International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest

Standby for an onslaught of amazing, eye-melting aquariums. Over 2,000 participants from 60+ countries took part in the annual International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (IAPLC) and there were a number of them that...

By Umar Ansari · Feb. 18, 2018

Design

The visionary broken glasses typeface: Schossler Font

Looking for a new way to share a message?  Polish marketing and design agency Sek has come up with the Schossler Font. This new typeface is a clever attempt to show, rather than tell, your vision-based message taking advertising...

By Shane Jones · Feb. 15, 2018

Industrial design

These switches are designed to use your OCD in saving electricity

The OCD Switch is a switch design created by Pakaporn Teadtulkitikul as a smart solution to saving electricity. As its name suggests, it is mainly intended for people with obsessive-compulsive tendencies who tend to forget to...

By Mariza Monta · Feb. 12, 2018

Illustration

Breathtaking digitally created vistas and floating fantasy cities

Matte painting has become an integral part of game and film production studios worldwide. To be able to imagine and create colorful vistas is a skill that only some have mastered. One of these skilled artists is Tuomas Korpi. As an...

By Umar Ansari · Feb. 11, 2018

Creativity

Andrea Ucini's illustrations contain hidden narratives

Andrea Ucini illustrates scenes that, upon closer inspection, reveal hidden narratives. The self-taught Italian illustrator has a penchant for adding conceptual twists into his digital illustrations. Her imaginative...

By Umar Ansari · Feb. 02, 2018

Digital

Short Trip: An interactive illustration by Alexander Perrin about a cross-country train

There's just something therapeutic about watching this interactive illustration by Alexander Perrin play out. Cleverly titled, "Short Trip," the story follows a conductor operating a cross-country train. The user is able...

By Umar Ansari · Jan. 27, 2018

Art

Fun 3D illustrations of personified robots doing normal human stuff

Illustrator Steve Talkowski created these amazing illustrations of robots just going about their daily adventures of work and play. They are so 3D and life-like that you would think they were photographs of toys, instead of computer...

By Conner Flynn · Jan. 27, 2018

Digital

Six-foot tall dachshund prowls streets of Brooklyn in fantastic children’s book

A dog is such an integral part of its owner’s life. To capture the bond founded by this relationship, Mitch Boyer took to Photoshop. The writer, photographer, illustrator, and director used his dachshund, Vivian, as the...

By Umar Ansari · Jan. 25, 2018

Digital

The world's oldest multicolored book now online

When valuable artifacts are discovered, they’re usually displayed in museums for people to see. With the advent of digitization, however, everyone can catch a glimpse. Such is the case with the Manual of Calligraphy...

By Umar Ansari · Jan. 24, 2018

Digital

Mysterious digital humanoids in an imagined world

Polish artist Adam Martinakis experiments in the field of computer-generated 3D visual media. He shares his time between Greece, Britain and Poland, teaching design at multiple art institutes and working on his own creations....

By Nhan Tran · Jan. 12, 2018

Architecture

Photographer singled out these buildings in a photo series and the result was stunning

“In times of an endless flood of images and greed for perfection I see the necessity to look into an entirely different direction: The images is not enough, it is the abstraction and the individual view of the beholder, together...

By Venus Emma Marigmen · Jan. 11, 2018

Graphic Design

These hypnotic slow-moving GIFs will put you into a trance

The mysterious Echophon, also known as Yancy Way, is a talented artist from Seattle, Washington whose work consists of computer-generated GIFs. Art, motion graphics and geometry are among his primary interests. Echophon...

By Nhan Tran · Jan. 09, 2018

Photography

Website users combine random photos to create trippy illusions

Wondering how to combine your favorite photograph and your favorite piece of art? Look no further than Russian website Ostagram and Google’s Deep Dream Generator. Ostagram users have been mixing photos and art using the generator,...

By Katie Bowles · Jan. 01, 2018

Culture

Chen Man is being called Asia’s Annie Leibovitz and her photos prove why

Born in China’s worst living conditions in the 1980’s, Chen Man harnesses her work’s inspiration from her hard experience through childhood in Beijing. And although the Asian country has seen better days economically...

By Mariza Monta · Dec. 26, 2017

Creativity

Amusingly cute GIFs illustrating comical life situations

Hama House, a Japanese illustrator, creates GIFs to demonstrate and capture the anxieties and comical moments of everyday modern life with an offbeat, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. Mixing dreams and reality, his cleanly animated...

By Nhan Tran · Dec. 16, 2017