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Simple, hugely effective and shockingly brilliant, the always-impressive Australian design studio, Mash, have produced a beautiful identity and label for an adventurous new fine wine brand….

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Keeping the dream alive for vinyl fans around the world, UK-based ‘The Vinyl Factory‘ produce beautiful limited art-editions, often in collaboration with high profile artists and/or the musicians themselves… their latest work is a reproduction of Grace Jones’ recent album, in celebration of the new Grace Jones by Chris Levine exhibition ‘Stillness at the Speed […]

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If Futura 2000’s graffiti was soundtracked by emerging New York hip-hop and Banksy’s satirical stenciling played out to the sounds of political trip-hop, then Brooklyn photographer and street artist, Color Me Katie, must be listening to a lot of Belle and Sebastian… as she delivers charming street art that doesn’t want to challenge, provoke, or […]

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Whilst of course we fully support designing for new and innovative technologies – see our Alice for the iPad feature – one of our biggest concerns of late has been the modern designer’s over reliance upon the technology they use to create works… there simply cannot be a more liberating approach to design than getting […]

Art Inspiration Painting Photography

New York based illustrator Nook pumps out some seriously beautiful artworks, using a splendid blend of 3D and 2D to create dramatic, dreamlike scenarios that are, at times, both delightful and distressing….

Design Illustration Inspiration New York

Brooklyn based designer/artist Mark Pernice has worked on projects for the likes of Universal Music Group, MTV, Geffen and Virgin Mobile to name but a few…. his latest work, for a forthcoming self promotional piece, is a fantastically twisted concept based upon an effect from Apple’s Photo Booth application. Mark, with help from Christian Hanson, […]

Articles Bizarre Inspiration New York Photography

Shoreditch based ‘I Love Dust‘ have long-impressed, with their sensationally strong portfolio of illustration, type design, print work and first-rate animation. It’s their shockingly brilliant animation that we’re focusing on here – and their work for Nike’s ‘Sister One’ range for the South East Asia market. Slick, perfectly executed, and effortlessly cool – this clip […]

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Currently living and working in Vienna, German born designer Marek Haiduk has a wonderfully dreamlike collage style that, luckily for him, lends itself very well to magazine publishing… a fact that hasn’t gone unnoticed by the likes of Financial Times, Computer Arts and countless other high profile titles that commission his unique works…..

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Over on We Heart, we recently featured an inspired demo of an interactive magazine spread, designed for the iPad… making no secret of our excitement for the future of publishing, we banged on about it for days afterwards. Much to our delight then, that software studio, Atomic Antelope, have come up with an inspired new […]

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According to her website, Stephanie Davidson hails from Providence, Honolulu, Tokyo, and Hong Kong… and is studying illustration as a senior at Rhode Island School of Design. Seemingly being well travelled evokes a certain eclecticism to your work, at least that’s the case here, and in particularly so in this lovingly created series of collages…..

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Calling in a crack team of illustrators and designers from 10 of the world’s top footballing nations, 55DSL – along with cult sticker giants, Panini – have delivered a uniquely creative approach to the inevitably huge amount of World Cup themed merchandise you can expect to see flooding retail outlets across the world in the […]

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