The alphabet, but not as we know it

alphabet light writing

The alphabet in light writing, found on Nir Tober’s Flickr page. If light writing is your thing, check out this previous post of mine, with some light writing YouTube videos.

In this post I showcase a number of creative ways to display the English alphabet. Some fascinating works of art.

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Escher in LEGO

Escher LEGO

Andrew Lipson has a talent. He merges his LEGO skills with some of my favourite works of art. You can view larger images of Escher’s ‘Waterfall’ by clicking on the image (above), or read on for some additional info here.

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How to effectively advertise musicians

Question: how do you advertise an event that features some of the world’s finest musicians?
Answer: with a stunning piece of visual artistry.
This video sequence (embedded above) is stunning, and I love how it subtly highlights the names of each musician in time to the classical piano music. The musicians mentioned will be making an appearance […]

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Light drawing and light writing

Light-drawing and light-writing is getting a fair bit of attention lately. Take these two commercials (below) for Sprint (also seen on Marc Schiller’s blog). Quite creative don’t you think?

They remind me of Toben Seymour’s music video for the song Jubilee by the Willowz (shown below).

I’ve been seeing more and more light-drawing over the past month […]

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Focus on art: Dan Havel, Dean Ruck

Dan Havel and Dean Ruck scultpurally altered two buildings in the Montrose neighbourhood of Houston, Texas.
Here’s an excerpt from the art league press release, written before the project started:
Havel and Ruck will create a large funnel-like vortex beginning from the west wall adjacent to Montrose Blvd. The exterior skin of the houses will be peeled […]

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Focus on art: Octavio Ocampo

Octavio Ocampo is an incredibly talented artist. Here I feature some of his best works.

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Focus on art: Julian Beever

Artists make their money in a variety of different ways, and I can’t think of any more interesting than these anamorphic pavement (or sidewalk) chalk drawings.
Anamorphosis is:
a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image.
Julian Beever, a.k.a the Pavement Picasso, is an […]

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The Graffiti Project on Kelburn Castle

If you haven’t heard, there’s a unique project happening right now, here in Scotland. It’s called The Graffiti Project and the idea is simple:
Take the vibrant and often transient art form of Brazilian graffiti out of its predominantly urban context and apply it to the ancient and permanent walls of an historic rural castle in […]

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Justice DANCE music video

Something a little funky for the Saturday night build-up? If you enjoy good t-shirt design then check out the multitude on offer in this music video from Justice, called D.A.N.C.E. I had to watch it twice to catch the animations I missed first time around. “Do the DANCE!”

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Top 3 most viewed creative design articles, ever

The top three Creative Design :: articles with the most views are (in reverse order):
3/ The fragile magic of paper
2/ Escher loves LEGO?
1/ Flags of contemplation
What does this tell me about your reading habits? In truth, not too much, because the majority of the traffic for these three posts came from StumbleUpon. I think it’s […]

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