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Great design delivers sheer aesthetic pleasure. It sparks the imagination and inspires that “gotta have it” feeling.

Great design distils an idea down to its most basic visual properties. It overcomes barriers of language and culture by being uncomplicated and uncluttered.

link: Landor: Thinking: Articles: Eight principles of design

Paper art can be traced back to Japan, where it originated over a thousand years ago. From complex paper cutting to book carving, this is an ever expanding area of design that is hardly talked about. These intricate paper designs grace museums and exauhibitions throughout the world and is becoming yet another exciting medium of expression for many designers. Some of the artists featured here use simple materials, such as A4 printing papeel, while others resort to unexpected materials, such as actual books, as their prime materials. In this article, we’ll take a look at 13 remarkable artists and showcase their truly amazing pieces of paper art.

link: Paper Art – 100 Extraordinary Examples of Paper Art | Webdesigner Depot

Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. It’s often an incredibly experimental medium, and results in innovative and high-concept photography. Today we’ve collected a range of stylish and beautiful examples of fashion photography, and a few tips to help you shoot your own fashion images!

link: 100 Stylish Examples Of Fashion Photography

10 ways to overcome artist’s block and get your mind back to creative spot. It’s very common, but devastating moment for an artist to feel they’ve lost their inspiration, to encounter a creative block. But suffering from artist’s block doesn’t mean you’ve lost your imagination or ability to execute cool stuff. Good news is, over years of working in professional concept art environment I found that there are many ways that you can beat it permanently. :)

link: 10 ways to overcome artist’s block, get back creativity! @idrawgirls.com

Flickr: Fotostream von Michael Ostermann

Geniales Ding.

Wooden Mirror, by artist Daniel Rozin: http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html

This time we are bringing you a lot of Photoshop tutorials on all sorts of topics. It’s meant to be a good collection for those who aren’t quite pro yet, but want to be. From making amazing business cards to bringing a stone statue to life, these take us through hours and hours of practicing those skills.

link: 34 Photoshop Tutorials That Will Leave You Looking Like A Pro | Onextrapixel

“Making of” oder “behind the scenes” des 50 days, 50 photos, 50mm Projektes.
Auch die anderen Videos anschauen, sehr interessant!

Yesterday I completed my second Project 50. For those that don’t know Project 50 consists of 50 photos over 50 sequential days taken with a 50mm lens. That’s a lot of 50s, right? So yeah, started on the 1st of July & fifty days later I was done! A lot of you know that last year I did a photo a day for a year (See the set on flickr) you would think that fifty photos in a row must be a walk in the park. Well that would be true if I had approached it in the same way I did my 365 but for this project I wanted to keep the quality really high the whole way through.

Blogpost: Rick Nunn ~ Fifty of Fifty — 2010
MiniPage: Fifty of Fifty 2010 By Rick Nunn

Absolut geniales Projekt und grandiose Fotos! Vielleicht werde ich so etwas auch umsetzen! Wer macht mit?

Most people hate adverts. Intrusive, deceptive and boring are just three adjectives commonly used to describe advertising and its omnipresence in modern society. Say what you like about the 30 hilarious print ads below, however, boring they certainly are not!

link: 30 More Hilarious Print Advertisements | SpyreStudios

Diese Werbungen sind wirklich mehr als nur einen Blick wert. Hier meine Favoriten:

Flickr: Fotostream von Graffiti Technica

Captured: New York City from Above – Plog Photo Blog

When Harry Met Sally – eine Galerie auf Flickr