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New Pencil vs Camera works for West Africa

Belgian Ben Heine busted out into the art scene back in April 2010 when his incredibly creative series, Pencil Vs Camera, captured the hearts and minds of people from all around the world.Just recently, Heine made 10 pieces for the Art Official Concept, an art gallery in Cape Verde, West Africa. The Republic of Cape [...]

Really Amazing Sketch Notes by Amanda Wright

If you ever thought that your work or school notes had to be boring, then take a look at these by Amanda Wright. The London-based user experience designer opens up her sketchbook, not only sharing with us some interesting facts in an amusing way, more importantly, she also gives us a different perspective and a [...]

Audi A7 made out of paper by Taras Lesko

Taras Lesko, a 28-year-old originally from Ukraine, is a Seattle-based free-lance graphic designer by day and experimental visual artist by night. In 2009 he began doing graphic design work at Turn 10 Studios, Microsoft, for the Xbox 360 video game Forza Motorsport 3. His work there led him to design and create a one-sixth scale [...]

Funny Pictogram Movie Posters

Viktor Hertz combines two of his greatest hobbies, graphic design and film, into a clever series starring pictograms! Often seen on signs or instruction manuals, pictograms serve as our universal language, a way for all of us to quickly figure out where we’re going or what we’re (not) allowed to do. To him, this set [...]

X-Ray Origami of Endangered Species by Japanese student Takayuki Hori

Japanese student Takayuki Hori printed skeletons of eight endangered species on translucent paper. When laid flat, all you see are scattered bones. Once the papers are folded together, however, the printed components unite as a whole, and the animals’ frames spring to life!Oritsunagumono tells a visual story that highlights the environmental threat of pollution to [...]

Micromachina by Scott Bain

20 Years of graphic design has given me different eyes through which to see the world. Experimenting in various art forms enables me to explore the deepest corners of my mind. The journey is just beginning! With a dark fascination with dead stuff and dusty Victorian taxidermy, cabinets of curiosities are my main influence, antique [...]

Bizarre Black and White Portraits

Black and white photography is powerful and emotional. UK-based photographer Lee Jeffries proves this point with his spectacular shots. While he began his photography career taking pictures of sporting events, he soon found out that it wasn’t his calling. “A chance encounter with a young homeless girl in the streets of London,” his website shares, [...]

The Back Of a Most Popular Webpage

Ever wonder what the back of your favorite website looks like? Art director Jeff Lam asked himself the same thing. He’s the genius behind the Back of a Webpage series, which is filled with some witty and funny work!

Feel New Life into Old Globes

Wendy Gold takes old, vintage globes and transforms them into beautiful and whimsical works of art. Called ImagineNations, these globes would be otherwise abandoned, thrown into some old, dusty attic because they’re no longer geographically accurate.

Unbelievable Paintings by Josh Keyes

Josh Keyes‘ style is reminiscent of the diagrammatic vocabulary found in scientific textbook illustrations that often express through a detached and clinical viewpoint an empirical representation of the natural world. Assembled into this virtual stage set are references to contemporary events along with images and themes from his personal mythology. Josh Keyes’ work is a [...]