Showing posts with label art/design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art/design. Show all posts

Friday, January 22, 2010

CLEARLY CALLING YOU: TRANSPARENT NOKIA CONCEPT PHONE



Carrying on the trend of awesome transparent gadgets, Columbian designer Juan Carlos Garzon has concocted a phone design for Nokia that adds some transparency to all of your conversations.  The touch interface gives a simple and clear view of which buttons you’re mashing, while all of the electronics bits are stored below in the white enclosure.



When not in use, the touch screen fades away, leaving only the white bottom and a glass-like top section that doesn’t give much of a clue about its true identity as a phone. The clear top portion of the phone lights up from the inside, giving the display more power and making it easier to see what you’re doing, even in the dark.


 



Despite looking very compact, the bottom part also houses a 5 megapixel camera – making this phone comparable to many of the more conventional phone designs on the market currently. We think the clean, crisp design would be a winner with design junkies, though like all transparent gadgets it would be a bit of a fingerprint magnet.

RETRO GAMES WITH MODERN THEMES

These are really witty, smart and creative! Penney Design is a freelance graphic design company from Perth, Australia..Their themes seem to be almost exclusively retro, classic, vintage, or anything appreciated from the past.
I can almost see myself playing some of these games on an Atari..!
 
 
 

Thursday, January 21, 2010

ARTWORK ON SPINES OF STACKED BOOKS

Artist Mike Stilkey is painting artistic images on the spines of stacked books. His art is called “book sculptures”. Stilkey uses acrylics and colored pencil to form one image of beautiful and elegant humans and animal that reminds of German expressionism. The sculptures are also inspired by fairytale. While this artist is using books spines for his drawings, this artist is using his own face for his art.










POTRAITS OF ICONIC MUSICIANS MADE OUT OF USED JOINT FILTERS








An artist from Pittsburgh named Cliff Maynard is making portraits by using marijuana filters. The portraits are of famous people like Bob Marley, Snoop Dog and John Lennon, to mention a few. It's not easy to make such a portrait and it takes about 200 hours to complete one, and it's certainly not cheap (or legal?), one portrait will cost you $2,000. Cliff Maynard is also a tattoo artist...
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