David Airey, graphic designer

Exit Through The Gift Shop

Published on April 8th, 2010 8 appreciated comments »

I don’t care much for the majority of street art, but there are some pieces that just capture the imagination, with Banksy an inspiration to many.

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The origami of Sipho Mabona

Published on August 3rd, 2009 19 appreciated comments »

Sipho Mabona, a young artist currently residing in Switzerland, was commissioned by ad agency Nordpol+ Hamburg to design and create the origami models for this stunning five-minute video.

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The alphabet, but not as we know it…

Published on November 15th, 2007 56 appreciated comments »

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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Archived under Art, Photography, Typography.

Escher in LEGO

Published on August 23rd, 2007 14 appreciated comments »

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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Light drawing and light writing

Published on July 8th, 2007 31 appreciated comments »

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?

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Archived under Advertising, Art, Graphics, Photography.

Focus on art: Dan Havel, Dean Ruck

Published on July 5th, 2007 22 appreciated comments »

Dan Havel and Dean Ruck scultpurally altered two buildings in the Montrose neighbourhood of Houston, Texas. Read on for more photos and description of the fantastic installation.

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Focus on art: Octavio Ocampo

Published on July 1st, 2007 41 appreciated comments »

When it comes to fine art, it takes more than a simple still life to really capture my attention. This morning I was reading a few forum threads in the 9rules art community when I was prompted to revisit the surreal paintings of Octavio Ocampo.

Here I showcase some of Octavio’s excellent works of art.

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Focus on art: Julian Beever

Published on June 11th, 2007 26 appreciated comments »

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.

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The Graffiti Project on Kelburn Castle

Published on May 29th, 2007 36 appreciated comments »

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…

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Justice DANCE music video

Published on May 5th, 2007 15 appreciated comments »

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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