Leaf Carving Art

Fall is around the corner and the ground is painted with leaves. For one artist, he has plenty of canvas to master his art. These are leaf cut out illustrations by Nature’s Art from China. The process is very intricate:

Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving.

Check out a few more over at WHATtheCOOL

Visualizing Speed

Sure you can tell your clients that you have a fast turnaround, but how do you visualize that? Ogilvy & Mather Jakarta have created this campaign for UPS by visualizing "speed" in the form of art installations placed around the city in public places.





Via Campaign Brief

Fruit Fresh All Summer

I hope everyone is staying cool this summer. I know these fruit will be!

Via Calgary Farmer's Market.

Atlas of Wildlife

Sure a fox and the state bird of Ohio, the cardinal just look like prints, but looking closer, these are curious collages of beasts created by recasting old maps into quaintly colorful still-lifes. Birds, deers, rabbits, butterflies, and other animals come to life in this series: The Atlas Is Painless

From the artist:

"I digitally manipulate cartographic materials to create fauna, mostly birds, in poses reminiscent of field guides from a similarly early era of publication. The patterns of forests and shores often become an animal's feathers or fur, while the rings of topography often trace out wings or antlers."

You can purchase a number of his birds and fauna here. LaFerrera

Via Illusions 360

Rubik's Cube Head

Bed head always gets my head twisted around.



In this case, a seriously mixed up head uses Drench to sort out his cube head, and gets himself back together.

Moss Graffiti

I love wall murals and graffiti. So much that it makes for the best urban art. Here's a look at both on a "greener" side of graffiti via German artist DTagno.




Via Beautiful Decay

World's Strongest Beer Now With More Dead Animal!

A brewery in the UK has created what it says is the world’s strongest beer, at 110 proof: The End Of History. That’s not the weird part. It's all about the product packaging!

Only 12 bottles have been made and each comes with its own certificate and is presented in a stuffed stoat or grey squirrel. The striking packaging was created by a very talented taxidermist and all the animals used were road kill.

You can get a bottle here, but be prepared to spend a pretty penny.

The End of History from BrewDog on Vimeo.

Urban Woods

One tree and four mirrors will give you an entire forest!

'Unlimited Urban Woods' is part of 'Liefde in de Stad' and can be visited (for free)

One tree in a mirror pavilion reflects into an endless forest. A forest to flee the city, in the middle of town.

Is it your destiny?

Nice spot from Argentine advertising agency Ponce. Winner of a Bronze Lion at this years Cannes Advertising Festival.