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Pop Art Is Alive: Classics and Modern Artworks

From Vitaly Friedman
July 21st, 2008
76 Comments

As a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s, pop art aims to emphasize the nature of things popular in our daily routine. In pop art, most artists use mechanical means of rendering techniques that downplay the expressive hand of the artist. Being an art movement, it has ...

Let There Be Light: Light Paintings and Sculptures

From Vitaly Friedman
July 14th, 2008
51 Comments

Although light is considered to be rather a practical than an artistic tool, it has some properties which designers can effectively explore in their works. Indeed, light can also be considered as a medium for more powerful and more vivid artistic expression. In fact, many artists and crews make use ...

Pixels Go Mad: The Celebration Of Pixel Art

From Vitaly Friedman
May 5th, 2008
105 Comments

Pixel art lives both in and beyond computer screen. Artists design pixel art posters, magazine covers, album covers, desktop wallpapers, paintings, “pixelish” video ads and even pixelated tattoos. And there is a good reason behind it: in times when popular design solutions strive for real-life-look or perfection pixel art offers ...

Inspirational Hyperreal Vector Artists and Images

From Sean Hodge
April 27th, 2008
60 Comments

Hyperrealism is an art movement,which requires the same level of technical ability as photorealistic illustration. To get an idea what is actually meant by that, you can take a look at some excellent examples in the post The World’s Most Photorealistic Vector Art. While Hyperrealism brings a similar level of ...

Breathtaking Typographic Posters

From Vitaly Friedman
February 25th, 2008
120 Comments

You can’t design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate their ideas through their works. The results are sometimes crazy, sometimes artsy, sometimes beautiful, but often just different ...

Extreme Colors

From Sven Lennartz
October 22nd, 2007
24 Comments

The beginning of the week is always tough. Coffee breaks are tedious. The aftermath of weekend is still evident. And conversations with your colleagues aren’t that enlightening. Yet there is always a number of tasks you need to get done until the end of the day. To spark your imagination ...