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FiftyThree is blowing my mind away right now!
Great ideas start on paper!
Meet FiftyThree, the team which introduced mobile whiteboarding at the speed of thought!
Whether you’re sketching out a new product, a kitchen remodel, or a business plan, FiftyThree’s iPad tool kit helps you capture new ideas quickly and beautifully.
It’s as easy as diagram, fill and cut.
You don’t have to be an artist or someone with serious drawing skills to get started. Let their technology allow you your freedom of expression at the speed of thought.
Confused? I was as well when I first came across it. But start by watching the two videos below and then downloading the app for free on iTunes.
This is one wicked app!!! And a great gift for an art-loving friend!!! You don’t win the award for App Of The Year for a simple reason…
Some Creative Product Designs
…that may have slipped your radar!
Wooden Camera iPhone Case – $7.99
Retro Pointer Finger Cursor Icon Pixel Mouse – $18.42
Zombie Cookie Jar Head – $39.95
Pick Your Nose Party Cups – $9.00
Grandfather’s Ice Tray – $6.99
Collapsible Bucket – $29.99 (I need about a dozen of these!)
Macbook Air Cover Decal – $19.94
Glass Cream Carton – $24.99
Coke Can Glass – $6.77 (pack of 4)
Twist Whisk – $10.00
Really Cool Rolling Pins – prices vary, via the Etsy Shop
iPhone Keyboard Dock – $9.99
Tetris Sticky Notes – $9.26
Head Tissue Box Cover – $17.95
iPad Arcade Cabinet – $59.99
Digital Peephole Viewer – $88.84
Mini Shopping Cart Organizer – $3.19
Salt n Pepper Switch Dispenser – $10.89
Kate Spade Salt & Pepper Phone Dispenser – $26.99
Let your imagination go wild
If I could, I’d bring out the child in everyone by passing out these coloring books on birthdays, or better, host a coloring party with my close friends. And let everyone’s imagination go loose!
Johanna Basford, the UK-based creative mind behind these adult coloring books, has already sold a million copies containing detailed and vivid imagery brought to life on a piece of paper.
“Every piece I create starts life as a simple pencil sketch, evolving into a rambling pen and ink drawing usually spanning several sheets of paper. I love the tactile nature of the materials I use and the joy of smudgy fingerprints.”
Her books are priced between $10-$20 and have already made a statement in Paris outselling French cookbooks.
See it for yourself.
Available on Amazon for your visual pleasure!
South Korean artist Yong Wong Song
South Korean artist Yong Wong Song creates unique life size sculptures using thread and wire. The sculptures look as if the figures have have been scribbled with a pen or pencil.
reblogged from Tu Recepcja
Meet Peter Gould
“Peter’s photography is as much about the spiritual as it is about the visual, offering no questions or answers but rather affording the viewer to simply being in that moment and that moment at first glance seems to curiously exist without time or consequence. This is the true beauty of Peter’s work where there is a present quietness about it that shares the essence of purpose of the art and architecture of the past through contemporary mediums, one of the quintessential markers of the true Muslim artist.”
Nur Shkembi, Curator, Islamic Museum Australia
Medina Arches
Mecca – Kaaba Door
Istanbul – Evening Mosque
Damascus – Zainab’s Tomb
“Peter’s beautiful work is a welcome addition to the contemporary Islamic art scene, a mixture of deep faith and youthfulness that represents tangible modern interpretations of Islam’s everlasting beauty in mind & spirit.”
Juliana Rahim, Curator, Islamic Arts Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hajj
Lego Kufic
Iqra Book Shelf
Fanaa
Peter Gould embraced Islam in 2002.
But…he didn’t quit on his creativity…
Meet Peter Gould!
Let’s convert Hate into “Peaces”
Hong Kong-based artist Johnson Tsang reflects on violence and compassion in his stunningly surreal, ceramic sculpture conversion.
Ceramic hands holding a melting revolver symbolizes Hate Converted to Peace.
via Jedavu Art
London Art Exhibit Made Out of Lego
My fellow Londoners, be sure not to miss this Art of Brick Exhibition at The Old Truman Brewery featuring eighty sculptures by artist Nathan Sawaya. Created from a million Lego bricks, the exhibition runs until January 4, 2015.
‘Computer’
‘David’
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’
‘Everlasting’
‘Augustus of Prima Porta’
Artist Nathan Sawaya stands with his sculpture ‘Yellow’ at the Art of Brick Exhibition in London
Insane Makeup Turns Models Into 2-D Paintings Of Famous Artists
Russian make-up artist Valeriya Kutsan teams up with photographer Alexander Khoklov and post-processing expert Veronica Ershova, using a breathtaking array of techniques to paint the faces of models to resemble the flat, two-dimensional works of famous 20th-century artists.
Yin meets yang
A bodice laced up
Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me?
A heartbeat
Pinwheel
Pixellated
Mondrian muse
Worthy of Lichtenstein
Here is a face-painted like a chalk drawing
With her art, Kutsan has used an array of techniques to paint the faces of models to resemble the flat, two-dimensional works of famous 20th-century artists
She turns the human face into an unparalleled canvas
The facepainting of Russian makeup artist Valeriya Kutsan is breathtaking stuff
Infuse your space with a sense of you, literally!
Genetic Ink, a New York City-based startup, aims to elevate genetic sequencing to high design
After you send in a swab of your genetic material, Genetic Ink sequences your DNA in their FDA-approved lab
Using an algorithm, the company turns your DNA into a print based on an original design by Mathieu Daudelin
The final product comes in 17 different color schemes and four different sizes
They’ll even image your dog’s or cat’s genetic material
Alex Pyatetsky, a senior advisor at the company, says the art is “not necessarily a complete and all-encompassing picture of your DNA.”
“Part of what we want to do with Genetic Ink is say, we can express your DNA in a way that really expresses you, and it can be beautiful,” he says
The pieces run between $200 and $700. Such is the price of individuality
Turn yourself into a work of art, and I mean literally, by following these simple steps:
- Genetic Ink sends you a DNA collection kit
- Swab the inside of your cheek and send it back to the company
- Using an algorithm, the company turns that sequence–your individual arrangement of A, T, C, and G nucleotides — into a work of art, based on an original design called Spark, by Swiss-Canadian artist and designer Mathieu Daudelin
Such is the price of individuality!!!
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