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Colourful logo made from toothpaste

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By Contributions in New Design on Thursday 14 March 2013

Melbourne-based Lure Graphics is a graphic design studio with an uncommon approach. Founded by 23-year-old graphic designer Melissa Pepers, their effervescent and successful concepts are inspired by life. The eye-catching logo featured here, designed for vending machine company Candy Solutions, demonstrates Lure Graphics’ avant-garde process. Beginning with handcrafted letterforms created from toothpaste, the company’s monogram [...]

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Shape Shifting rug designed by Michelle Weinberg

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By Michelle Weinberg in New Design on Thursday 14 March 2013

The Irregular Polygon rug is designed by Michelle Weinberg. It is hand-tufted of wool and silk, measures roughly 7′ x 7′, and is manufactured by Odabashian. The design of Irregular Polygon is inspired by Weinberg’s painting PreFab2, and it appears to shift shape when viewed from varied vantage points. The rug, in turn, inspired an [...]

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Three Sheets to the Wind: a photo series about the UK club culture

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By Jack Larbalestier in New Photography on Thursday 14 March 2013

Queue forever, fight to the bar, squeeze onto the dance floor and try not to throw up in the taxi on your new found soulmate. Techno and ecstasy has had a formal replacement of chart music and jagerbombs. A sure-fire winner if you need to blow off a bit of steam because the bartender at [...]

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New Illustrations by Brooklyn’s Jonathan Zajdman

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By Reese Vaccarezza in New Illustration on Thursday 14 March 2013

Jonathan Zajdman is an illustrator based in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. He’s worked for a handful of ad agencies and small publishers, but it’s his portraits and story book-styled illustrations that are really worth checking out.

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Paulius Rudokas shoots using only black and white film

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By Jessica Chow in New Photography on Tuesday 12 March 2013

With the increasing technology and many with a decent camera at the convenience of their mobiles, almost everyone can claim to be a ‘photographer’. It is in this digital world that Paulius Rudokas challenges this orthodox. At only 18 years old, he is unlike many of his age; prefering to use black and white film [...]

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Yellow Ribbon: a nostalgic love note app

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By Contributions in Tech on Tuesday 12 March 2013

We just recently finished a low poly commercial for a Korean company called MagnaLAB to promote their flagship app, YellowRibbon. The app allows the users to send a message to a person who can only open the message when he/she gets to the specific location the sender wants them to go to. This video explains the story [...]

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Dark, emotionally charged photographs by Nick Sparks

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By Contributions in New Photography on Friday 8 March 2013

Based out of Denver, Colorado, Nick Sparks is an editorial and art photographer. After picking up a film camera at age 20 and shooting landscapes on Kodak Tri-x film for a few years, Sparks decided to ditch film and start shooting editorial work using digital format. He composes vivid, emotionally charged portraits, drawing the viewer [...]

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Creative sculptures from Myeonbeom Kim

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By Contributions in New Art on Friday 8 March 2013

Combining objects in unexpected ways challenges us to rethink our understanding of the common world. The unique way artist Myeongbeom Kim merges objects from nature with those that are man-made absolutely blows me away. Personally, I would have never though to plant a tree in a urinal. But I guess that way it gets watered.

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Reduce, reuse, recycle: cardboard fine art by Mark Langan

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By Contributions in New Eco on Friday 8 March 2013

We are told on a daily basis to recycle and reuse and one Ohio based artist has done just that. Mark Langan takes supplies from his trash and the neighbourhood, reusing cardboard and reclaimed materials in order to create his art. Corrugated Art, as named by Langan, uses a material for which it was not purportedly [...]

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Amazing interactive world created for kids hospital

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By Nexus Interactive Arts in Cool Travel on Wednesday 6 March 2013

Nexus and Chris O’Shea transport children to an interactive woodland world with their new activity space at the Royal London hospital. Chris O’Shea, the artist and interaction designer, has collaborated with digital production company, Nexus Interactive Arts, to create ‘Woodland Wiggle’, an innovative interactive installation at Europe’s newest hospital, The Royal London, which helps children benefit [...]

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Edwardian meets modern architecture on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula

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By Contributions in Architecture on Wednesday 6 March 2013

Located on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne, Willow Creek Vineyard is the site for a new Cellar Door and Bistro designed by Carr. The architecture and interior of the Cellar Door and Bistro reflects a strong contemporary design that sits embedded in the rural landscape adjacent to the original Edwardian house. The new architectural [...]

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Funky felted wool jewelry by Adina Marin

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By Contributions in New Fashion on Wednesday 6 March 2013

For all the wool fashion lovers in the world, Adina Marin comes with soft pieces of jewelry basing her work on needle felt. This type of felting is a popular fiber arts craft because it creates felt without the use of water. Then a special, in fact, a magical needle is used as a sculpting [...]

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Beautifully twisted fashion illustrations by Priscilla Ainhoa Griscti

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By Contributions in New Illustration on Wednesday 6 March 2013

Priscilla Ainhoa Griscti is a self-taught visual artist living/working in Malta. Her illustrations depict tumultuous interior emotions as being expressed through outward form. Her artworks often lend themselves to anthropomorphic and surrealistic imagery that further expresses the subconscious thoughts behind her dream-like vision.

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Glitch art inspired typography

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By Contributions in New Design on Tuesday 5 March 2013

AlphabeNt: Experiments from A–Z presents the 26 characters of the Latin alphabet as you haven’t seen them before: broken, distorted and aesthetically corrupted using digitally destructive techniques not usually found in the designers handbook. Co-authors Drew Taylor and Daniel Purvis created the characters using audio editing software such as Audacity, using standard text editors, by [...]

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Cambodian family portraits taken off the grid

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By Contributions in New Photography on Tuesday 5 March 2013

Between 2003-2004, I worked as a volunteer in the Cambodian community of Oakland, CA. I grew up in small town, USA and at the time was unaware of the amount of culture and the things that the Cambodian people went through during the Pol Pot genocide. I heard so many stories of pain and loss [...]

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