Image manipulation site Worth1000.com’s latest Photoshop contest called on entrants to insert celebrities into works of Renaissance art(yes, some of the entrants applied a liberal interpretation to Renaissance—many of the paintings spill out of that time period).
The sitting Congress has the most women of any in history. Artist Emily Nemens is capturing each of them in paint, and using their likenesses in graphics to show how far we still have to go to bring gender equality to Washington.
The women of Congress, in fabulous watercolor infographics
Big philosophical ideas reduced to simple shapes, from graphic designer Genís Carreras .
How color-coded notes make you a more efficient thinker:
Separating “branches” of your map by color stimulates the creative side of your brain, helps you visually separate and recall distinct themes of the stuff you’re working through, and encourages you to map through even boring topics that seem cut-and-dry.
“Add a dash of color … and all of a sudden the notes come alive. They are unique, they are unusual, they are memorable and they are more interesting.”
Ashley Kolodner wants viewers’ reactions to her photo series GayFace to be something along the lines of, ”‘Hey, that kind of looks like my cousin,’ or ‘My aunt kind of looks like that.’”
Can these beautiful photos of gay Americans help gay rights?
What Rihanna, Lady Gaga, And Britney Spears Eat Backstage, Rendered As Classic Still Lifes
“Britney Spears orders fish and chips, McDonald’s cheeseburgers without the buns, 100 prunes and figs, and, maybe most crucially, a framed photo of Princess Diana.”
“Hygge” (Danish): Comfort and coziness. The feeling of enjoying food and drink with friends and family.
Infographic: 19 emotions for which English has no words
An Artist Attempts To Draw All The Buildings In New York
John Gulliver Hancock is working on a new book called All the Buildings in New York.
This cataloging of buildings has “become an almost ritualistic undertaking, a therapy of sorts, helping me to organize the overwhelming infinity and chaos of New York into something I can know and understand.”
See and read more here.
“It fascinates me that older objects were so well-built, and were most likely put together by hand. These items were repaired when broken, not discarded like our devices of today.” —Photographer Todd McLellan tears apart objects to expose their hidden complexity.
The Smith-Corona typewriter from 1964 has 621 parts. The Swiss Army Knife? 38.
Only four days left to enter our INNOVATION BY DESIGN contest. Winners will be featured in the October design issue!
“We want to give innovators and businesses a record of the year’s most intriguing design ideas—and a catalogue of designers to hire. And we want to celebrate those designers whose influence rarely goes appreciated on a large, mainstream platform.”
If you have friends who are designers, spread the word! Here’s how to enter.
This new ultra-simple deck of cards from designer Joe Doucet has simple geometric motifs for minimalists. But the back of each card is marked with a single diagonal line to ensure you don’t inadvertently show your hand.
Fab.com, the fastest growing e-commerce site on the web, wants to develop original products, and is asking designers and students to submit their ideas.
Despite Fab’s ongoing success as a third-party retailer, the company is looking to pivot once again, away from the flash sale model and toward developing Fab as a design brand. The ultimate goal, according to co-founder Bradford Shellhammer, is to become “the world’s alternative to Amazon and Wal-Mart.”
The competition will serve as a testing ground for Shellhammer’s ideas about co-creating products with designers. Want to submit your stuff? Have a look at some of Fab’s other previous products.
See What Your iPhone And Other Personal Effects Will Look Like “100 Years Later.”
A new project from Maico Akiba shows modern objects as you’ve never seen them before: the way our descendants will see them 100 years from now.
