Animated Iconic Paintings

Revived Artworks is the latest project from Feel Desain. Inspired by the world’s current love of all things animated, they've brought some of the most famous portraits from history to life, like The Girl With The Pearl Earring, Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe and Edvard Munch’s The Scream. Taking these iconic images, they put some expression back into the subjects faces, and now they can look at you right out of your screen. The collection is comprised of 9 images, and they’ll be adding others soon.

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Sincerity Machine: The Comic Sans typewriter

"Sincerity Machine: The Comic Sans typewriter was made after viewing a document with a typewriter font present in it; Jesse England realized there was nothing stopping him from altering a typewriter to write in a different font. He used a laser engraving machine to etch new letters out of acrylic, and glued them onto the strikers of a 70's era, Sears-branded Brother Charger 11 typewriter, which he found in the street a couple years ago. He also used a vinyl cutter to make new key covers as well."

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Paper Art: Principle of Design Poster Series

"Turkish graphic designer Efil Türk has created series of paper art posters for her Thesis project called: Principle of Design Poster Series - featuring top 10 design principles; Balance, Hierarchy, Pattern, Rhythm, Space, Proportion, Emphasis, Movement, Contrast, and Unity with their own paper art form."

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The Elements of Design

Elements of Design from matt greenwood on Vimeo.

In just 50 seconds this animated video will illustrate the standard elements of design. These traditional elements of design are taught in design programs and if you know nothing about design and these elements then spend 50 seconds to learn something today.

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Smarty Pins

Do you like maps, love trivia, and you know where most cities are on the map, then you're going to love Google's new SmartyPins game. This map-trivia game runs on the Google Maps platform and allows you to spend 1,000 miles trying to mark the correct location to each question asked.

Make Your Own Grid Paper

At Gridzzly.com you can create printable grid paper. You begin by choosing from a variety of styles, including dot grids and line grids. Once you've made your choice choose your grid size by using a slider. When everything is to your liking click on the "Print" button to print out your creation.

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Origins of Common User Interface Symbols

"They are road signs for your daily rituals — the instantly recognized symbols and icons you press, click and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know about their origins?"

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African Fractals

A fractal is a pattern that repeats itself at different scales. It is ideal for modeling nature: a tree is a branch of a branch of a branch; mountains are peaks within peaks; clouds are puffs of puffs, and so on. But modern computer scientists aren't the only ones to use fractals: Africans have been using them for centuries to design textiles, sculptures, architecture, hairstyles and more. In this website you will learn how fractal geometry is used in computing and science, and apply that knowledge to simulating African designs.

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Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life

"It has been almost two decades since the beginning of the web. This means that the web is no longer just a technology of the present, but also, a record of our past.

Email, one of the original forms of social media, is even older than the web and contains a detailed description of our personal and professional history.

Immersion is an invitation to dive into the history of your email life in a platform that offers you the safety of knowing that you can always delete your data. Just like a cubist painting, Immersion presents users with a number of different perspectives of their email data. It provides a tool for self-reflection at a time where the zeitgeist is one of self-promotion. It provides an artistic representation that exists only in the presence of the visitor. It helps explore privacy by showing users data that they have already shared with others. Finally, it presents users wanting to be more strategic with their professional interactions, with a map to plan more effectively who they connect with."

Koalas to the Max dot Com

What does a koala have to do with a big dot? You’ll just have to see.
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Camper Obscura

After more than a year of planning, the Summer of 2010 saw FOTONOW bring their project Camper Obscura into life. Photographers Jonathan Blyth and Matthew Pontin had already established a practice in working with communities in building camera obscuras in working with young people on education projects, the idea of a mobile vehicle emerged in the shape of a Foster and Day coach-built 1986 VW T25 camper van. The UK photographers have taken their lesson to the streets - literally - by converting the camper van into an enormous camera on wheels that they call Camper Obscura

d*face Spraypaint Skateboarding at Ridiculous

In a project by london-based artist d*face at the Southern California skate pool 'ridiculous', skateboarders become the human brushes on the concrete canvas of the pool's walls, leaving permanent colourful skatetrails as they ride.


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The Nine Eyes of Google

Artist Jon Rafman created this compelling collection of images from Google Map's massive Street View project to photograph the world's highways and streets. Scroll through the fascinating photos or click the 9-camera image on top to read Rafman's essay about the project.

The artist explains: "Google sent out an army of hybrid electric automobiles, each one bearing nine cameras on a single pole. Armed with a GPS and three laser range scanners, this fleet of cars began an endless quest to photograph every highway and byway in the free world. Every ten to twenty meters, the nine cameras automatically capture whatever moves through their frame. Computer software stitches the photos together to create panoramic images. To prevent identification of individuals and vehicles, faces and license plates are blurred."


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Tilt Shift Van Gogh

Serena Malyon took several of Van Gogh’s paintings and edited them using photoshop to create a tilt shift effect. If you dont know what tilt shift is, its a kind of photography that uses a short range of focus to create photographs that look minature.

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Artwork: Single Sheet of Paper

Each artwork in this collection is made of a single sheet of paper.


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My Food Looks Funny

If your food ever looks funny, take a picture and send it to this website.

Funny Foods

Pencil Talk

"Pencil Talk is a blog devoted to exploring woodcase pencils and related topics. Of course, it is also more than just that – it is a meditation on the basic tools used by writers, artists, students, and office workers, and how these tools influence us."

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Shadow Art Created From Junk

"British-born and -based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster skilfully skirt the boundaries between beauty and the shadowier aspects of humanity, playing with our perceptions as well as our notions of taste. Many of their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile."

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Indexed

Caption: “I’m not here to make friends.”

"Started in August of 2006, Indexed has been noted around the web—much to my continued shock. Thank you to everyone who has shared the link and joined the party.

Originally, I described this site this way: “This is a little project that allows me to make fun of some things and sense of others without resorting to doing actual math.”

Today, I’d have to take the word ‘little’ out of that line."

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Wordle for generating "word clouds"

"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

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