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fromFast Company
5 days ago

Meet Kyoto: the typeface that bleeds (on purpose)

Kyoto blends Japanese calligraphy with classic Latin forms, reflecting a handmade, human feel in design.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
5 days ago

Nao Lee's posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

Nao Lee's design philosophy embraces juxtaposition, using everyday vernacular influences to create layered, interpretive compositions that inspire debate and curiosity.
#illustration
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

"Nothing is new" to Dave Bowers, so he illustrates the familiar in his own style

Dave Bowers creates simple, whimsical illustrations inspired by his daughter, focusing on spontaneity and personal enjoyment rather than a specific message.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

"Nothing is new" to Dave Bowers, so he illustrates the familiar in his own style

Dave Bowers creates simple, whimsical illustrations inspired by his daughter, focusing on spontaneity and personal enjoyment rather than a specific message.
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

R. Kikuo Johnson's "Meet-Cute"

I was childless into my early forties. By then, my partner and I noticed that a lot of our peers were at a similar crossroads: dog, cat, or kid?
Parenting
Music production
fromKotaku
1 week ago

Attack On Titan Studio Caught With Generative AI In Latest Anime

Wit Studio confirmed the use of generative AI in the production of Ascendance of a Bookworm's opening sequence.
Video games
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week ago

Let's Play: Genki Kawamura and Jiro Nagae on a New Kind of Video Game Cinema

Genki Kawamura adapts the indie video game into a film, merging artistry with box office potential in a unique horror narrative.
Arts
fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Yamamoto Masao's Otherworldly Portraits Introduce Us to Expressive Owls

Yamamoto Masao's photographs evoke emotional connections between image and memory, focusing on owls and their diminishing habitats.
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 weeks ago

This Artist Creates Dark Wood-Burned Illustrations Exploring Identity And The Human Psyche

Robb is an Italian artist known for his intricate pyrography, creating dark, psychological imagery that explores themes of identity and isolation.
#animation
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

Liang-Hsin Huang's comics sketch soft paths through nature

Liang's comics are inspired by everyday experiences and imaginative scenarios drawn from nature and community interactions.
UX design
fromSmashing Magazine
1 month ago

Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow - Smashing Magazine

Design quality depends on emotional pacing and flow management, not just visual elements. Successful products guide users through emotional states coherently, while poor design creates emotional conflicts through misplaced elements.
Arts
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

At 97, Japan's art icon Yayoi Kusama is Instagram-ready

Yayoi Kusama's art reflects her mental health struggles and personal experiences, transforming hallucinations into immersive installations and polka dot sculptures.
Typography
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The way the world is, something daft is appealing' why everything from pizzas to podcasts has a cartoon character on it

A distinctive visual style combining 1920s rubber hose animation, 1950s Americana, and contemporary graffiti aesthetics has become the dominant branding approach for independent food and beverage businesses since the late 2010s.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Iranian Artist Speaks Her Heart

The Lower East Side institution's OMA-designed, $82 million expansion debuted this week to mixed reviews, reflecting a range of opinions on its new look and functionality.
Arts
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Pokemon Pokopia Fan Artists, Are Y'all Okay?

Humans have disappeared and their Pokémon have been left behind, trying to make the remains of the old civilization into one that they can live in and sustain by themselves. Throughout this process, these Pokémon talk about how much they miss their human partners, and the information we can glean from the notes and letters we find lying around is that a climate crisis forced them to evacuate the planet and leave the Pokémon in a massive PC server for their safety.
Games
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

These emotionally charged illustrations are here to make your imagination wander

Xiao Hua Yang creates illustrations that blend digital and analogue techniques to suggest emotions through subtle imagery rather than explicit statements, prioritizing implication over explanation.
#contemporary-art
Film
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Painting the worlds of Studio Ghibli with art director and background artist, Yoji Takeshige

Studio Ghibli builds atmosphere through painted depictions of light, humidity, and grounded detail while preserving traditional background painting techniques.
Games
fromKotaku
2 months ago

Persona Artist Kazuma Kaneko Reveals New AI Art Card Game

Kazuma Kaneko's new Switch card game, Kazuma Kaneko's Tsukuyomi, launches April 23 with AI-generated art and includes 3,600 curated AI-produced cards.
#visual-art
Photography
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Incredible Behindthescenes Reels Where A Loose Doodle Evolves Into A Polished Illustration Packed With Personality And Story

A diverse collection of contemporary visual art, advertising, and inventive photography highlights creative reinterpretations, surreal manipulations, and socially aware installations across global artists and campaigns.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review trippy anime adapted from Japanese folk dives into virtual reality popworld

Cosmic Princess Kaguya! is an adaptation of a Japanese folk tale, the story of a princess from the moon discovered inside a bamboo stalk in a poor rural village. A decade ago, Studio Ghibli adapted the tale into a gorgeously animated movie with a traditional, lovingly hand-painted feel. This film could not be more different, a trippy, high-energy, techno anime set in the near future, half of it in a virtual reality world and TikTok-ifed with emojis and stickers exploding all over the screen.
Film
Design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Visual communication that challenges convention: Phantasia on how graphic design can forge true collaboration

Phantasia, a Barcelona-based design studio founded in 2021, prioritizes meaningful projects that serve communities through intentional collaboration, diversity, and accessible communication.
Photography
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Incredible Ironic Design Objects by Russian Illustrator Oleg Pomortsev

Artists and designers employ diverse materials and techniques to produce inventive, handcrafted, nostalgic, and hyperrealistic works across paper, sculpture, photography, and product design.
Photography
fromDesign You Trust - Design Daily Since 2007
1 month ago

Spectacular Monochrome Winners from the Irys Photos Black & White Photography Contest

Black-and-white photography boldly declares itself through light and shadow, with the Irys Photos Spotlight competition celebrating monochrome's enduring power and visual storytelling purity.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Takashi Murakami: Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme's Genesis @ Perrotin, Los Angeles

Takashi Murakami presents 24 new paintings tracing ukiyo-e's influence on Impressionism and exploring bijinga's global impact at Perrotin Los Angeles.
Graphic design
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

How a prize-winning cartoonist brings hand-drawn comics to the web

American journalist Danny Fenster, imprisoned during Myanmar's 2021 coup, collaborated with cartoonist cousin Amy Kurzweil on an interactive comic documenting his six-month incarceration and psychological survival.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Alex Ram's blocky characters are an ode to spending quality time with yourself and others

Alex created five interconnected Wordle illustrations featuring everyday activities like foraging, gardening, and dining, with Wordle numbers incorporated into the designs to reflect how the game integrates into daily life.
Arts
fromColossal
2 months ago

Surreal Dreams Reign in Hieu Chau's Digital Illustrations

Hieu Chau creates dense, surreal digital paintings that blend flora, fauna, altered scale, and painterly textures into dreamlike, layered compositions.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Life is in constant motion in Chiara Xie's kinetic and flowing illustrations

In illustrator Chiara Xie 's work, everything is in motion. Rooted in a deep reverence for vitality, Chiara is fascinated by "the rhythm that flows through a scene", lingering like a suspended breath, and other times "surging as a vibrant, agile current of motion". It's not hard to know what she means: every illustration is filled with motion, arcs of light and air bouncing off every corner.
Graphic design
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