August 19, 2009

Crazy Cool Conceptual Art – Horacio Salinas (12 total)

Horacio Salinas has a weird and wonderful way of taking everyday objects and turning them into interesting pieces of art. The New York-born son of Argentine immigrants, Salinas has worked with everyone from Vogue, The New York Times, and GQ. Currently, he's based in New York. What we love most about his work is his fresh and clever perspective.

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August 12, 2009

CREATIVE ADS: Lego – The Shadow Knows

Though this is an older ad campaign, it's one that I absolutely had to share. From the agency Blattner Brunner, it asks you to imagine what these simple block formations mean. Using shadows, they tell us that it's simply our imagination that makes these blocks come alive and, that through our experience, we can see anything through them. Did you notice that the background colors were chosen to signify the sea (blue) or land (green)?

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August 6, 2009

Amazing Canned Food Art (18 pieces)

You know all that canned food that we give away during Christmas time? Maybe we should create some art with it before we give it away… The most unique food charity in the world, Canstruction is an annual international design/build competition where architects, engineers, designers, and students compete to design and build gigantic structures made entirely from cans of food!

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August 3, 2009

Experience the Planets (10 total)

Venus, Vortex by Ed Lopez Have you ever wondered what other planets in our solar system might look like? That was the question Greg Martin wants to answer. But instead of asking artists to create completely imaginary planets he wants to take a different approach. Instead, he wants artists to create scenes based on scientific fact or hypothesis. Each artist must research and gain an academic understanding of what they're painting.

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