picas & pixels

Who luvs crayons? They do! They do! Mulheres Barbadas, aka the Bearded Ladies are an illustration duo from São Paulo, Brazil who fill up walls (piano, fridge, anything really) with black and white drawings! Totally amazing stuff!

Watch background movie, scroll to see their work.

Oh! Geraldine Klein designed these scrumpidelicious pen drives!

Well The London Police ain’t what you think. Strictly black and white, permanent ink on canvas illustrations of smiley characters populating mega-detailed (mostly urban) landscapes.

Going simple. Going easy navigation. Going pink for the Sopp Collective new website. You like?

Weeeee! Can you figure out what time it is? Took me a couple of back and forth through the different pictures to figure it out. Check the Defakto purist (and single-handed) watch!

Because time ain’t always on our side!

Like the idea of including everything you’ve done. seen, written and snapped in a single page and this approach was embraced by Paul Witherden, a London based designer.

Layout and image sequencing are key to avoid a drab listing.

25 No-Nonsense Ways to Power Up Your Productivity by Alex Mathers

“With tons of things to do and seemingly less and less time in the day, being productive is a core requirement to the lives of most freelancing creative professionals.”

Felipe Avila likes movement bursting with floating forms, shapes, lots of circles, fluid like opaque to transparent landscapes unidentifiable matter. Ad dramatic splashes of colors and voilà! Definitely someone to watch!

Check out the details of Mariana Pugliese edible art! Who would want to eat such a fantastic cake anyway?

WeLoveNoise is the creative outlet of Manchester based designer Luke Finch. Interesting panning navigation using the spreaded out project visuals.

Always flux because as says Gregor Žakelj their creative director, because we are never satisfied, VBG (which stands for Visual Brain Gravity) is a visual communication service. Everybody is talking about what they wanna-be. But we just are. And we have visions. Showing loads of visual treats, check their portfolio.

Est-ce que Flickr est mort en même temps que nos blogues qu’on a pas mal délaissés ces derniers mois (pour ne pas dire ces dernières années) ? Il me semble qu’avant il y avait toujours de nouvelles photos de mes amis sur Flickr alors que maintenant de moins en moins de monde semble passer par ce site pour afficher leurs photos. Pourquoi? Pour ne plus les montrer parce que c’est tellement 2008 ou pour les mettre sur Facebook? Il n’y a rien de moins agréable que la mise en ligne de photos sur FB alors ça ne doit pas être ça…

Mes photos favorites sur Flickr.

J’aime beaucoup cette photo prise hier à l’expo TechnoCRAFT présentée au Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Le sous-titre de l’expo en dit long sur le genre de contenu qu’on y trouve:

« Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers and Design in the Age of Individuality. »

La photo montre l’installation de 100 chaises trouvées à Londres et modifiées de façon à les éloigner de leur forme d’origine et en faire de nouveaux objets, comme une chaise de parterre en résine recouverte de velours, par exemple.

On s’éloigne de l’objet fixe créé par les designers pour poser un regard sur l’objet collaboratif ou modifié par ceux qui l’utilisent et lui donnent parfois une nouvelle utilité.

Une section de l’expo présentait aussi des objets inusités créés par des détenus: des sculptures en savon, des sacs de chips pliés à l’envers en petits carrés et collés en forme de cadre, des crucifix faits de fils de draps…

Fun.

Bungalow is a film, motion graphics, illustration and photography production company located in Barcelona. Luv what they did for this advert for Generalitat! Cute!

Festival Creative based in Australia, love bringing people together to work towards the common goal of great creative, effective outcomes and good times and they just launched their new website.

Appeasing blue background with a litteral metaphor of using a fair rides to convey their festive approach to design. Digging the top nav for client login, newsletter and social networks.

. i’d love to compile a list of all the things i’d like to buy: an iphone, an ibook, a new moop bag, books, and a 15 days holiday at the sea with C.
. i’d love to do a list of 100 things i love about Paris
. i’d love to let you know about the hard time and struggles related with my back and knee recovery, and all the emotions and lessons i am going through
. i’d love to share about how much i care about discovering who i really am, and where i got lost
. how much i wish my anxiety would be exchanged by humor, laughter and play!

Happy friday!

The gang at YouWorkForThem and us go a long way back. Back when the web was young and crazy stuff was going on. What I am particularly fond and admirative of, is their capacity to reinvent themselves. After many years, the last rendition of their website is a hair short of perfect.

What you can find there? Fonts, very lovely fonts and vectors, and images and videos and brushes and sound.. The website is deep and full of design goodies as well as fun to navigate.

Call for competitors for the Cut&Paste 2010 Digital Design Tournament. Competitions in 2D, 3D and Motion design in 10 cities worldwide. Entries will be reviewed based on quality of portfolios and select candidates will be invited to an in-person “test round” to determine final selections for the live city tournaments.

Online entry deadline USA: September 10

Online entry deadline EU – Asia – Latin America: October 25

Mark Summers who has earned quite a reputation in the field of illustration has created this history overview via liliput and totally wicked portraits of famous people! Wow this guy can draw!

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via: kitsunenoir

Joey Roth created this pretty smart graphic for “Hustle”, the first issue of 48 Hours Magazine of which Chris Guillebeau used, to illustrate a short essay on Hustling.

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via: Michael Surtees