Art/Illustration
Classics in Lego
At one point or another, Eric bookmarked this flickr set for me called “Classics in Lego“. Basically, the photographer has taken the time and effort to re-create classic photographs with Lego. It’s pretty awesome.
My favorite is Bigfoot (because of the appropriate use of a Star Wars mini-figure), side by side with the original image:
For the full [...]
A couple of cool images
This first one is the “Real-World” photoshop. There’s a Flickr set of how they put this image of the Photoshop interface using real-life objects:
(via BoingBoing. See the full-size image here).
The second one is a great illustration by Patrick Moberg:
(via Drawn! See Patrick Moberg’s blog here).
Blast from the past
I was hunting through our archived files on our external drive and got distracted by some of the ghosts of electrons past. From a “Form and Colour” class during my design school days, we had a life drawing session where *gasp* the model was not naked. For some reason that would have been too [...]
Imps and Monsters
Both of us really enjoy a certain style of illustration, and we have a soft spot for monsters, so of course, Justin Hillgrove’s work gets our admiration. His style to me is rather Burton-esque (which is no surprise I guess, if you read in his bio that one of his influences is Tim Burton). [...]
It’s funny because it’s true
While I am an industrial designer and dabble in graphic design and other such creative endevours, long before that I used to be a big lab geek (in applied biochemistry — it’s a weird mix of backgrounds, I agree).
I found Ph.D. comics through a friend of mine (hi Shona!) who’s a grad student. This one [...]
Alphabet soup
I bookmarked this video a while back (found originally via drawn.ca).
I have a love for beautiful scripty fonts and I love how effortlessly the elder Wouters seems to write his letters. Of course, the younger Wouters’ lettering is oozing with charm and appeal :)
Cool DIY pinhole cameras
I *think* I originally saw this on drawn.ca. (?)Corbis (a source for images of all sorts) has a fun little site where you can download .pdfs of readymech pinhole cameras that you can make yourself. FOR FREE! Readymechs are *free* flatpack toys that you can download, print and build using a standard letter-sized page.
The downloads [...]
Big heart, little heart
From the time I could hold a crayon, I’ve always made my own cards. The very first ones were just folded sheets of lined paper with a drawing and a simple message written inside with a shaky hand. As I got older, the cards have gotten more sophisticated, and even more so when we acquired [...]
A new year :) and the top 7 highlights of the 2007 holidays!
We’re now officially back from our little holiday hiatus. I’d love to say that we travelled to exotic locales and experienced warm tropical climes, but that’s quite the opposite of what happened.
We stayed home, happy to take a break from work ;) (though again, thank you all for your orders and giving [...]
It’s funny ’cause it’s true
“Goodnight Moon, hello martini” by Sloane Tanen — the same author who did the book “Bitter with baggage seeks same” (which I love). I was surfing around imagekind.com and came across her work, and was quite pleased to see that you can buy prints of the different chicks from her various books, starting around [...]
