Art
May 28, 2011

Powerful Mixed Media Art

Christopher Lucania is an artist who uses some unlikely mediums. Sure they include more common items like acrylic, latex and oil, but he also adds in plaster, alcohol and large amounts of copy toner. “I also use a process of transferring manipulated images to the canvas.,” he tells us. “It involves a jigsaw of copied printouts that I fix to the canvas with a gel medium.

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Art
May 25, 2011

Persuasive Strip Advertising

Clever advertising has reached new heights! Dutch outdoor advertising company Interbest uses extremes to bring awareness to their billboard visibility. Here they used a male stripper to grab the attention of onlookers in a campaign that won them the Gold at the 2011 Clio Awards!An overweight male strips down in each billboard with the caption “The sooner you advertise, the better.

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Art
May 21, 2011

Miniature Star Wars Characters

Who doesn't love a good miniature drawing..especially of iconic Star Wars characters? Mikey Turvey's cute Lil' Star Wars illustrations have been a sensation on the Tumblr scene. They are incredibly cute and so wonderfully executed that we can't wait to see what Turvey has next up his sleeve!

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Design
May 18, 2011

Manga Plates Make Comic Book Meals

Looking for some dinnertime fun? You've come to the right place. Check out Mika Tsutai's creative graduate project called Manga Plates. Tsutai, who studies at the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan, created these one-of-a-kind designs that feature different black and white drawings, each representing a frame from a manga anime. When the food is arranged in a particular way, it magically becomes a part of the scene!

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