How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
-Edgar Allan Poe from “The Bells”
Former Navy Seal Ryan Williams is the mind behind Demon Bells. These works of art aren’t for raising evil from the depths with a bone chilling toll. They’re handcrafted workout weights that come in a variety of ornamental designs.
Check out Chad Hagen’s surreal manipulations of Victorian portraiture.
New York graphic designer Nick Agin has created a fun turn of the century series of Star Wars characters.
Justin Van Genderen has created a fun set of comic book themed travel posters.
Behold the steady hand skills of talented chalk artist Dana Tanamachi.
Installation by Elise Morin and Clemence Eliard composed of 65,000 old CDs hand sewn together. More images via designboom.
Photographs documenting start to finish of the first Coca-Cola neon sign for Piccadilly Circus in 1954. See more via Creative Review.
Check out the fun pop culture and film versions of finger puppets and more over at AbbeyChristine. Anyone who dreams up an Omar Little bib is a-okay by me.
A creative variation of printing. This example of book printing utilized four different types of printers for each of the CMYK colors.
Wonderful movie poster design variations from the mind of Adam Juresko.
Great use of limited color palette and shapes from Matt Taylor.
Matsys design studio explores the relationships between architecture, engineering, biology and computation. The sculpture “C Wall” has an organic cellular structure that creates beautiful light and shadows.
From a selection of paintings and sculptures by Kathie Olivas for the Monsters and Misfits Show.
The talented and clever John Martz has created a poster of 235 pixelated Star Trek characters. Can you name them all? If you can, there’s a good chance to win one of these beauties.
Artist Austin Kleon creates clever poetry by blacking out blocks of newspaper columns. He has also written a very insightful and helpful list of ideas that every creative person should read: How to Steal Like an Artist.
John Karpinsky has created a fun series of Star Wars characters combined with Day of the Dead motifs.
