Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem graduates challenge relationship between function and theme
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel August 2010: An exhibition in Tel Aviv initiated and organized by the MDes (Masters of Design) program at The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, will highlight a concept called “Autobiodesign”, which pushes the boundaries of design thinking and practice [...]

International Graphic Design Competition

We are organizing an international competition that involves graphic designers, architects and schools to represent the City on a human scale.
The competition will culminate with an exhibition of selected works in October in Venice.
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The primary objective of this project is to promote a debate around the basic theme of life in the [...]

Cologne, October 6th 2009 – There’s a new arrival in Cologne’s design family: CONTAIN Gallery selected design editions is Cologne’s first gallery focused on young international design. From now on there is a place in the heart of Cologne’s creative Belgian Quarter for exhibitions from the progressive world of young design.

The opening exhibition “Utopie jetzt! [...]

Valp is Maciej Hajnrich. Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Art Director.
Born in 1981, living and working in Katowice, Poland. Self-taught and full-time freelance artist with five years of experience in print and webdesign. Valp has established himself as a creative digital artist – after years of experimenting and playing with imagination he has build his own [...]

Come check out my new website and some of my new work. I primarily with a brush onto paper. Mostly with ink but sometimes i venture off into the messy world of paint.

Hank Snow Portrait of the legendary country musician Hank Snow. Digital mixed media.

Woah Tiger Inspired by the Chinese New Year 2010. Gouache on [...]

Boston Society of Architects (BSA) has honoured Jin Choi and Thomas Shine of Massachusetts-based architectural practice Choi+Shine with the 2010 Unbuilt Architecture Award for their ‘Land of Giants’ project.

Choi+Shine has transformed mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape by making only small alterations to existing pylon design. Making only minor alterations to well-established [...]

Processed Identity is a website that explores the creative processes designers use when defining and refining visual brands. Most of the content for the site is developed by designers willing to share their experiences and insights through Process Studies, Discussions and Articles.

“BLOOMSDAY”
the jUNE #6 issue of Daydreaming Magazine is now online!

DDProject has arranged for the second time BLOOOMSDAY, the celebration of the irish writer James Joyce and his famous work Ulisses, the 16 june which is the day of the novel’s action. The 2010 Bloomsday is an exhibition in real expositive places. titled “Four artists tripping [...]

Back Country Paintings
As an explorer of mountains myself, what I noticed whilst climbing and ski touring in the Alps and Himalayas was the quality of the light in the rare-ified atmosphere. This feeling is something I wish to communicate on canvas to my viewers. The particular language of seracs, arêtes, corniced ridges and rime ice [...]

This book is a photographic showcase about the vision of night photography. The selection of participants was curated by Andres Medina and Mikel Aramendia, promoters of this book, and partially comes motivated by the positive experience in the Flickr group Midnight Photo Addict.

This book project is including 34 photographers from locations around the world. Here [...]

3 Minutes is the second publication from non-profit organisation Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (DAHRA) and the second collaboration between DAHRA and Tibet Relief Fund.

The premise of the book is to show the full extent of the Tibetan conflict through 10 diverse and extremely powerful 3-minute interviews, each describing the 3 minutes that changed their [...]

To coincide with the launch of RipeType is the new Ripe font family released. You can use the entire Ripe fonts for any of your projects for free.

About the font:
A Geometric Postmodern slab seriffed face. The serifs feature simplistic rounded terminals and its stroke is uniform.
Ripe was designed to be a practical typeface. Each character [...]

I was born in Transylvania in 1962. During my school-years I was taught graphics and painting by some excellent artists. Later on I took private drawing lessons and was more and more attracted towards abstract works. I have been drawing and painting ever since I could hold a pencil in my hand… The field of [...]

Who says you can’t take it with you? Not Pantone. Now with the myPANTONE for iPhone and iPod Touch app you have access to a variety of PANTONE® color libraries and the ability to build color palettes and share them with colleagues and clients. myPANTONE offers graphic, web, fashion and apparel designers a way to [...]

The debut albumsite by Tunç Ak – born in Montreal – Turkish ancestry – Los Angeles based musician/designer. iTsAbEaT is an urgent, stereo imaged, tribal, electronic beat psychedelia… coined “Rock.Tronic”.

iTsAbEaT was constructed in the atmosphere of Pink Floyd (Dark Sides.., On The Run”) and The Beatles psychedelic musings, but composed under the inuence of Peter [...]

Book illustrations: Often small-sized pieces of art on paper that relate somehow to a written text.
Instead of sticking to that format, Felix Gephart and Dominik Hebestreit decided to paint book-related illustrations on walls.
Both agreed upon the “Baron Muenchhausen” from August Buerger, a tale that has been illustrated numerous times, way back also by Gustave Dore.
When [...]

Here’s a series of short viral films for DHL, featuring the deceptively fast service provided by their couriers. Creative direction and art direction by Michael Wong, directed by Chinese film director Zhu JinJing.

The films showing time standing still as DHL consignments are delivered to their destinations. Additional 3 more spots of the campaign can be [...]

Grove is a design collective based in Portland, that is dedicated to creating products that bring art into your everyday life. Their first product is a bamboo iPhone case engraved with designs from their artist series or a custom design of your choosing. Clever packaging is made from bamboo left over from the carving process [...]

As I am sure you are well aware, two major climate conferences were held in the last few months to bring together the world’s superpower’s to discuss possible prevention programs for global warming.

What I bet you weren’t aware of, however, was the delightful little toy distributed by Greenpeace China at the 2009 Poznan Climate Conference [...]

The huge tub, 2 metres in length and 55cm in height was previously shown in Milan at I Saloni in April 2010 and is carved from a single enormous block of the purest white rock crystal, quarried in the Amazon region of Brazil. The block was discovered in 2006 when Paolo Baldi, father of the [...]