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Black and White Photographs set in Motion | Animatics
Here is a Promo Idea for the London 2012 Olympics using the proverb 'Home is where the heart is.' With stylized black & white photography of athletes performing with all the drama and emotion captured using a super slow motion animation.
Love the way the video was treated. Simple but with a ...
What’s The Color of Your Eyes? Fx Eyes
Wouldn't it be great to change the color of our eyes depending on what we wear? I have seen a lot of people wear contacts, they change their blue eyes to green, others to brown. I think its pretty cool to wear them on occasion. One would also see awesome contacts in horror or sci-fi films. There ...
How To | Make a Paper Magic Ball – Origami
Origami is one of my favorite form of paper art. I thought of posting this article because its a great way to use some of these paper art examples here for Christmas decor and gifts to friends.
It takes some skill and practice to create a good Origami. Hopefully the 3 videos which is done step ...
Sleep Well in Beautiful Bedrooms | Design Inspiration
As they say sleep is truly important to have a very productive day. More often than not, we design the other rooms in our house but often times neglect our bedrooms. Decorating your bedroom can be real fun. But you need to do careful planning. A Bedroom is the most personal space where one can r ...
Extraordinary Pencil Sculptures
I love it when creative forms of art make you do a double take, like those times when you see something only to realize a moment later that what you saw was something different.
Jennifer Maestre’s pencil art sculptures are mind twisting like this. She draws her inspiration from the sea urchin, a ...
How To | Feel happiness while designing
The design job occupation can sometimes be quite monotone and become quite dull if you don't fill it up with what makes you happy. Too many times have I found myself in the middle of a project and felt that this is not what I want to be doing right now. It's not intellectually challenging, it's not ...
What’s next in Design? | Think Big
Design is quite a big word. It is sometimes minimize the explanation to just lines on a piece of paper or even a simple website. Design is, has always been and always will be more than that. It's everything around us. From the structure of your own body to the very waves if the sea. It never stops a ...
WOW | Genius way to describe great design!
I am laughing. I am staring at the screen at this crazy guy that I knew but still didn't. I have used his designs. I have seen his creations and so have you. But I knew nothing about him and how he saw design. I never thought of design this way and I am quite sure you haven't either. I am just simpl ...
The Cartoonist At Work!
Ever wondered how the cartoonist starts his work day? Here is a great video a look into a day in the life of Wilfred Hildonen. He is a newspaper illustrator from Norway. Here he shows us his typical day at work. He starts off by reading the story of the article he needs to make a cartoon on. T ...
What I Wore Today!
Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of October 2009[update], it claims to host more than 4 bi ...
The Art of Sketching
Sketching is a great way to start any project specially if you are still unsure of what outcome you want to present as the finish product. It is also a great way to capture a subject before you do a final render. Nowadays, it doesn't really matter which medium you use, whether it be hand drawn or ...
Funny and Well Crafted Food Art
When we were kids we were often told by our parents not to play with our food. But today, more and more people are into food art. Today we have Food photography .
Food photography is a still life specialization of commercial photography, aimed at producing attractive photographs of food for u ...
For Your Inspiration: Colors, Colors & More Colors
I’m always creatively inspired by bright colorful images. So much so that I started to wonder if our brain is actually stimulated creatively more by bright colorful images than by bland or faded images.
I’ve done the research and sure enough, it is true, especially when seeing the color blue. A ...
How To | Create a Paper Laptop
As a follow up post on Misty's "A Mix of Reality and Illusion | Animated by Evelein" I found this tutorial on how to create your very own working paper laptop in just a few steps. The great thing with this laptop is that you are able to really set the specs for it all yourself. It's no longer limite ...
Photoshop | Make Popart from your Photos
Are you one of those that have grown tired of constantly perfecting your photos using the various Photoshop tutorials that shows you how to enhance each and every part of your body and soul? Well, you're not alone. Anyone that says that they don't want to perfect just about everything they are not h ...