Build Anything

Myself and my young apprentice Patrick enjoy playing with Legos! Here's something for him to enjoy, probably not so much as I did.

A Symphony of Color

500 colored pencils designed by felissimo, telling its own story with a unique name. Four different display methods let you keep your pencils at hand, while being displayed either as an artwork, or kept aside as a special collection.

'Orchestra' is a wall-mounted display which allows you to snap and swap pencils, giving you control over how to orchestrate colors on your wall.





Here's where you can buy.

Walls are Dancing

Mural painter Matt W. Moore created a series of painting performances on walls in France. Capturing the evolution of each mural, gathering over 700,000 pictures, and edited as a stop-motion animation. This collaboration of 3 artistic disciplines to make walls dance is part of the global initiative: Let's Colour Project.




via BEWARE

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

A little bit of acrylic paint and some creativity can take you far.





via Helmut Smits

Illusions of Daily Objects

Using daily objects to create imagery, Vik Muniz shows the depths of memory and illusion. Amazing pictures created with puzzle pieces and shreds of magazines.








Via WHATtheCOOL.

Ain't No Sunshine

Rain is a simple form of water. Here it becomes an artistic expression via 3 sons.

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.