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I was scouring the net for serif themed inspiration when I found my way to this beautiful V. I love how the birds nesting on top of it seem so at home on its peaks and so oblivious to their oddity. I’ve always had a soft spot for images that address something in [...]
I often watch youtube videos from TedTalks. It shows talks from some pretty switched on people from TedTalks Conferences. I stumbled across one recently that, although not very technical, gave a nice little insight and gave me some food for thought.
In the video the talker, Elizabeth Gilbert, discusses how we view creative people, and how [...]
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What is a Dreamscape? Pieces of art based on dreams and the unconscious are not outlandish worlds without relation to our own, too strange for us to comprehend or imagine. They are beautifully crafted images that would have us believe their existence. All is in place but for the air of uncertainty and [...]
With the falling price of recording hardware and the rise of internet communities, so comes the rise of the Interactive Web Series. It has the potential to create truly unique and boundary breaking results. To bring people separated by massive distances and cultural disparity together in creating truly unexpected and diverse results. In my view [...]
Ed Hardy is probably the best know tattoo artist of modern times, his bold colours and designs are iconic of the American style of tattoo. He, like his predecessor and mentor Sailor Jerry Where both influenced by Japanese and oriental design.
Sailor Jerry was perhaps more influential than Hardy, he was a tattoo artist at a [...]
Futurism was an art movement to set the mood for many more to come, the first to organise itself like a business and the first to shamelessly self-publicize its art and philosophy. The movement was spawned in 1909 with the Futurist Manifesto, published in the prominent Italian newspaper, Le Figaro, by Futurist’s founder Filippo Tommaso [...]
A Very Basic Guide:
Screen-printing entails covering a mesh-screen with photographic emulsion. Once it has dried you use images painted/drawn/etc on mark-resist paper(similar to tracing paper), photocopied images, images printed onto OHP film or even items and place them onto your screen whilst exposing it to UV light. The exposed area becomes stable and you are [...]
