Milan-based designer Andrea Minini created this series of animal illustrations drawn with moiré patterns - visual interference caused by overlapping lines in different densities – using Adobe Illustrator.
Ceramic Coral Reef by Courtney Mattison
Our Changing Seas III is part of an ongoing series of large-scale ceramic coral reef sculptures by artist and ocean advocate Courtney Mattison to inspire policy makers and the public to conserve our changing seas.
"At its heart, this piece celebrates my favorite aesthetic aspects of a healthy coral reef surrounded by the sterile white skeletons of bleached corals swirling like the rotating winds of a cyclone. There is still time for corals to recover even from the point of bleaching if we act quickly to decrease the threats we impose. Perhaps if my work can influence viewers to appreciate the fragile beauty of our endangered coral reef ecosystems, we will act more wholeheartedly to help them recover and even thrive."
Check her website: www.courtneymattison.com/
"At its heart, this piece celebrates my favorite aesthetic aspects of a healthy coral reef surrounded by the sterile white skeletons of bleached corals swirling like the rotating winds of a cyclone. There is still time for corals to recover even from the point of bleaching if we act quickly to decrease the threats we impose. Perhaps if my work can influence viewers to appreciate the fragile beauty of our endangered coral reef ecosystems, we will act more wholeheartedly to help them recover and even thrive."
Check her website: www.courtneymattison.com/
Bubble Gum Advertising Campaigns
Check these most creative chewing gum advertising campaigns from all over the world :)
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This particular billboard depicts the aftermath of a bubble blown too big. Besides making a mess of the kid’s face, the gum also seems to have gotten on the surrounding trees and environment.
This creative advertisement was the golden award winner at Dubai Lynx Awards in 2008.
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Hubba Bubba bubble gum placed pink balloons with the brands' logo on existing advertisements and posters throughout Düsseldorf, Germany. People in the posters soon became Hubba Bubba Bubble Blowers.
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This unique ad display a huge pack of Calosene at the end of the greenery podium to create the effect that the refreshly cool feeling of the greenery is coming out of the Calosene.
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And this is for anti-litter campaign. The line on the poster says 'Throw your bubble gum in the bin'.
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This particular billboard depicts the aftermath of a bubble blown too big. Besides making a mess of the kid’s face, the gum also seems to have gotten on the surrounding trees and environment.
This creative advertisement was the golden award winner at Dubai Lynx Awards in 2008.
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Hubba Bubba bubble gum placed pink balloons with the brands' logo on existing advertisements and posters throughout Düsseldorf, Germany. People in the posters soon became Hubba Bubba Bubble Blowers.
[link]This unique ad display a huge pack of Calosene at the end of the greenery podium to create the effect that the refreshly cool feeling of the greenery is coming out of the Calosene.
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[link]And this is for anti-litter campaign. The line on the poster says 'Throw your bubble gum in the bin'.
Wonderland by Kirsty Mitchell
UK photographer Kirsty Mitchell created a series of elaborate fairytale-like portraits for her ongoing series 'Wonderland '.
"I live in a small village surrounded by beautiful ancient woodland in the English county of Surrey. It’s near London, but it feels a million miles away sometimes, which suits me very well. I live my life between the two places, and have one identity as a photographic artist, and the other as a fashion designer. I have spent my life being involved in the creative industry, and have studied many aspects. I originally trained as a costume maker for film and theatre, and then completed a second degree in fashion design and textiles in 2001."
"I do not work with any stylists or designers, everything has been created by hand, often from very basic raw materials. It is all shot using natural light, and is all on location - I refuse to fake scenery in a studio!"
"I have a tiny handful of friends and volunteers who help me with the props and sets when they can, but apart from that I only work exclusively with one very special friend - the hair and make-up artist Elbie Van Eeden. She works alongside me to finish realizing the creation of the individual characters in the series, as well as spending many hours helping me make the props till the early hours of the morning!"
"A huge amount of time goes into preparing for each shot. In some cases it can take up to a month, and we are always working against the clock because so many of the scenes rely on the extremes of weather (snow for example), or the appearance of wild flowers that can often only be around for a very short time. Sometimes these flowers can come into season all at once and I can be desperately trying to prepare for three ideas all to be shot in the same week."
"Regarding the colors, I take them extremely seriously. I make everything from basic raw materials, which means I often hand dye the fabrics for the clothes to match the exact shades of the flowers they will be shot against. This is where my costume training was really helpful, this attention to detail is normal in the industry, and is perfect for my needs. It means I am always in complete control of the balance of color and don’t have to compromise. You can often find me trudging around my local DIY store holding bunches of flowers up against spray paints, and giving petals to Elbie to mix up her lip and eye colors to match too! So yes, color is vital….. It’s not something I want to fake in Photoshop, I take it very seriously!!"
"Wonderland is a tribute to the memory of my mother who tragically died in November 2008. She was my best friend; she died of a brain tumor miles away from her family and friends in France, and had a tiny little funeral. I remember wanting, needing to do something that would let people know who she was. Something that would explain the gift she gave me, which was a vivid and overly excitable imagination. She was an English teacher and read to me (and hundreds of other children) for many, many years. She instilled a belief in beauty and wonder…. and this is how I wanted her to be remembered."
"Six months after her passing I began the project with Elbie who at the time was a total stranger to me. I wanted to create a storybook of unexplained beautifully strange characters, each within their own magical worlds. In all honesty Wonderland was as much a place to run away from her death, as it was to celebrate her. I suffered terribly with my grief, and the project not only became my therapy, it has also genuinely changed my life, bringing me ‘real’ life experiences I know I would have never discovered sitting at home watching TV. When the series is finished I want to publish the series as a book with her name on the inside cover, and end it all with an exhibition in London."
"All the pictures were shot in the south of England. I’m afraid I don’t disclose any of the locations. I get bombarded with emails from other photographers constantly asking for directions to various trees and ponds, which I don’t think is very fair. I spend hours walking trying to find these precious places, and I think that is vital to the series. They are meant to be magical, special, secret, and that is how I’m going to keep them. The one thing I will say though is that they are all real. I’m shocked at how many people think the lavender field wasn’t real, or the snow pictures were composites. My life would be so much easier if I made it all up in Photoshop!!"
"My aim was to portray time passing, an unsaid journey through four seasons, incorporating every colour in the rainbow."
All images are © Copyright of Kirsty Mitchell
Check her website: http://www.kirstymitchellphotography.com
Source: mymodernmet
"I live in a small village surrounded by beautiful ancient woodland in the English county of Surrey. It’s near London, but it feels a million miles away sometimes, which suits me very well. I live my life between the two places, and have one identity as a photographic artist, and the other as a fashion designer. I have spent my life being involved in the creative industry, and have studied many aspects. I originally trained as a costume maker for film and theatre, and then completed a second degree in fashion design and textiles in 2001."
"I do not work with any stylists or designers, everything has been created by hand, often from very basic raw materials. It is all shot using natural light, and is all on location - I refuse to fake scenery in a studio!"
"I have a tiny handful of friends and volunteers who help me with the props and sets when they can, but apart from that I only work exclusively with one very special friend - the hair and make-up artist Elbie Van Eeden. She works alongside me to finish realizing the creation of the individual characters in the series, as well as spending many hours helping me make the props till the early hours of the morning!"
"A huge amount of time goes into preparing for each shot. In some cases it can take up to a month, and we are always working against the clock because so many of the scenes rely on the extremes of weather (snow for example), or the appearance of wild flowers that can often only be around for a very short time. Sometimes these flowers can come into season all at once and I can be desperately trying to prepare for three ideas all to be shot in the same week."
"Regarding the colors, I take them extremely seriously. I make everything from basic raw materials, which means I often hand dye the fabrics for the clothes to match the exact shades of the flowers they will be shot against. This is where my costume training was really helpful, this attention to detail is normal in the industry, and is perfect for my needs. It means I am always in complete control of the balance of color and don’t have to compromise. You can often find me trudging around my local DIY store holding bunches of flowers up against spray paints, and giving petals to Elbie to mix up her lip and eye colors to match too! So yes, color is vital….. It’s not something I want to fake in Photoshop, I take it very seriously!!"
"Wonderland is a tribute to the memory of my mother who tragically died in November 2008. She was my best friend; she died of a brain tumor miles away from her family and friends in France, and had a tiny little funeral. I remember wanting, needing to do something that would let people know who she was. Something that would explain the gift she gave me, which was a vivid and overly excitable imagination. She was an English teacher and read to me (and hundreds of other children) for many, many years. She instilled a belief in beauty and wonder…. and this is how I wanted her to be remembered."
"Six months after her passing I began the project with Elbie who at the time was a total stranger to me. I wanted to create a storybook of unexplained beautifully strange characters, each within their own magical worlds. In all honesty Wonderland was as much a place to run away from her death, as it was to celebrate her. I suffered terribly with my grief, and the project not only became my therapy, it has also genuinely changed my life, bringing me ‘real’ life experiences I know I would have never discovered sitting at home watching TV. When the series is finished I want to publish the series as a book with her name on the inside cover, and end it all with an exhibition in London."
"All the pictures were shot in the south of England. I’m afraid I don’t disclose any of the locations. I get bombarded with emails from other photographers constantly asking for directions to various trees and ponds, which I don’t think is very fair. I spend hours walking trying to find these precious places, and I think that is vital to the series. They are meant to be magical, special, secret, and that is how I’m going to keep them. The one thing I will say though is that they are all real. I’m shocked at how many people think the lavender field wasn’t real, or the snow pictures were composites. My life would be so much easier if I made it all up in Photoshop!!"
"My aim was to portray time passing, an unsaid journey through four seasons, incorporating every colour in the rainbow."
All images are © Copyright of Kirsty Mitchell
Check her website: http://www.kirstymitchellphotography.com
Source: mymodernmet
Human Mosaic of The Arirang Festival Mass Games
The Arirang Festival Mass Games is a gymnastics and artistic festival held in the Rungnado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. The event usually begins in early August and ends around September 10th.
The particular mass games celebrates the story of North Korea. The extravaganza unfolds an epic story of how the Arirang nation of Korea, a country of morning calm, in the Orient put an end to the history of distress and rose as a dignified nation with the song Arirang.
The event is famed for the huge mosaic pictures created by more than 30,000 well-trained and disciplined school children, each holding up coloured pages in a book of printed sheets. Every 20 seconds for a period of two hours they switch the coloured pages to create stunning mosaics honoring Korea’s cultural heritage and its political regime.
Source: wikipedia, odditycentral
The particular mass games celebrates the story of North Korea. The extravaganza unfolds an epic story of how the Arirang nation of Korea, a country of morning calm, in the Orient put an end to the history of distress and rose as a dignified nation with the song Arirang.
The event is famed for the huge mosaic pictures created by more than 30,000 well-trained and disciplined school children, each holding up coloured pages in a book of printed sheets. Every 20 seconds for a period of two hours they switch the coloured pages to create stunning mosaics honoring Korea’s cultural heritage and its political regime.
Source: wikipedia, odditycentral
Figurative Wood Sculptures by Stefanie Rocknak
Artist Stefanie Rocknak created these figurative wood sculptures for her project 'The Triathlete'.
'The Swimmer', one of the piece in the series, was carved from a single piece of basswood.
"These days, I am not very interested in sculpted figures, or real people, that 'strike a pose.' I am much more intrigued by folks who are on their way to or from somewhere. They seem more genuine to me."
The other two pieces are called 'The Biker' and 'The Runner'.
Check her website: http://www.steffrocknak.net/
Source: mymodernmet
'The Swimmer', one of the piece in the series, was carved from a single piece of basswood.
"These days, I am not very interested in sculpted figures, or real people, that 'strike a pose.' I am much more intrigued by folks who are on their way to or from somewhere. They seem more genuine to me."
The other two pieces are called 'The Biker' and 'The Runner'.
Check her website: http://www.steffrocknak.net/
Source: mymodernmet
