Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Inspiration | A couple of cool images

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

We draw inspiration for not our modern jewelry in a number of ways, such as seeing what other creatives are doing. Since both of us have a design-background, we regularly use tools like Adobe Illustrator of Photoshop in our ‘ideation’ phase when we come up with new products.

When we saw this “Real-World” photoshop image, we knew we had to share.  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).

We also love illustration, which is part of the reason why we started up our Metal for Monsters line — it gave us an excuse to collaborate with some really talented illustrators.  The second image that crossed our paths recently is a great illustration by Patrick Moberg:

(via Drawn! See Patrick Moberg’s blog here).

Inspiration | Cool DIY pinhole cameras

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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 give you a full list of required materials (which includes an empty film canister and how to open one), and then you too can make your own pinhole camera.

Check out the site to see some of the images taken with a pinhole camera. I’ve always loved these simple cameras and how you can take an ordinary scene and produce these wonderfully surreal images with a box, a small hole and some film.

Inspiration | The Beauty Within

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I’ve been very negligent with the whole blogging thing. I’ve been leaving it all up to my better half. Once in awhile I would send her links to cool stuff, but that’s been pretty much the extent of my involvement. Well there’s no turning back now…

Just when you thought you’ve seen it all someone shows you something that was never meant to be seen. Like the early sketch of a painting, the complicated tools used to create the simplest tasks. These are often more interesting then the final product. There’s something magical about the thought process, the production method. Along comes Kent Rogowski with his photographic art of teddy bears turned inside out.


Childhood magic lives on, albeit in a slightly twisted way. In his interview with Nicole Pasulka, Rogowski says that his work is more about the childhood icon represented by the teddy bear than about recreating the toy. I beg to differ, but I’m not about to turn my boo bear inside-out to test it.

Found via BoingBoing.

Inspiration | Dreams of flying

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Eric found the work of Jan von Holleben and pointed out to me this wonderful series of photographs that von Holleben has called “Dreams of flying“.

The Dreams of Flying photographs features children in fun, semi-fantastical poses that are accomplished by having them actually posed on good solid ground.

Here’s a few favourites from the series:



For the complete series go here. Information about von Hollenben’s other works is here, and details about purchasing his work can be found here.