Category: Art
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20 Modern Remakes Of Famous Paintings
You’re probably familiar with a lot of these famous Western art masterpieces, but probably not like this! It started when booooom.com partnered with Adobe to create the Remake project, which asked art students to recreate classic paintings into something else using photography. Here’s our favourite 20 of the remakes, including a couple of extras that we found…
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Animals Drawn with Moiré Patterns
This beautiful series of animal illustrations by Milan-based designer Andrea Minini began as a design experiment to obtain complex shapes and depth starting with just a few lines. Using Adobe Illustrator, Minini created textured moiré patterns that give each illustration a surprising intensity. You can see more from this series over on Behance. And don’t forget, if you’re looking…
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Optical Illusion 2D Lamp Looks Incredibly 3D
Studio Cheha in Tel Aviv, Israel is behind this innovative LED lamp that tricks your mind into thinking it’s looking at a 3D object. BULBING is a 2D lamp created using 3D wire-frame images. By transferring those images onto 2D materials, through a laser machining process, your eyes become fooled. The changeable design is made…
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Photographer Takes Stunning Surreal Photos With An Old $50 Film Camera
Oleg Oprisco is a brilliantly talented photographer from Lviv, Ukraine, who creates stunning surreal images of elegant women in fairy-tale or dream-like settings. There’s one significant difference, however, that sets him apart from other artists who create similar work – Oprisco shoots using old-school film photography. The fact that he shoots with film means that…
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LIX: The World’s Smallest 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw in the Air
LIX is the latest contender in the handheld 3D-printing field. Launched just a few hours ago on Kickstarter, the developers say the super compact design is smaller than any other pen on the market and it can even be powered by the electricity from a USB port. After turning it on the LIX takes less than a…
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Artist Photographs the Oldest Living Things in the World before They Vanish
Since 2004, Brooklyn-based contemporary artist Rachel Sussman has researched, collaborated with biologists, and braved some of the world’s harshest climates from Antarctica to the Mojave Desert in order to photograph the oldest continuously living organisms on Earth. This includes plants like Pando, the “Trembling Giant,” a colony of aspens in Utah with a massive underground root system estimated…
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Keisha Collins – A New Found Talent in Newfoundland
Keisha Collins was one of the youngest artists to enter our North American Artist Showcase. At 17, she still lives at home in a small community on the Eastern coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Showing an interest in art from an early age, Keisha soon gained the support of her whole community and now works tirelessly…
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33 Painfully True Facts About Everyday Life
Danish writer Mikael Wulff and cartoon artist Anders Morgenthaler – the creative duo known as Wumo – has created a brilliant series of graphs that illustrate some of the basic painful truths of everyday life in the Western world. Their graphs and diagrams are snarky and sarcastic but, for the most part, true. This, coupled…
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Inspiring Surreal Photos By Instagrammer Nois7 That Will Brighten Your Day
We absolutely love every single surreal photographer/artist that we write about, but much of their work tends to be rather melancholy or down-right dark. Not so with German art director Robert Jahns (a.k.a. Nois7 on Instagram), whose beautiful and adventurous images will inspire you and brighten your day. His images are surreal, but many of them are…
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Transfixing 3D Paper Patterns by Maud Vantours
Paris-based designer and artist Maud Vantours uses layer upon layer of cut paper to create hypnotizing patterns and textures that translate into set designs, fashion accessories, and editorial treatments. Vantors has explored a number of 3D paper treatments including floral patterns, spirals, and gemometric designs. You can see more of her work at Figure and over on Behance. And don’t forget, if you’re…