You want it, too: brain scan studies reveal that the sight of an attractive product can trigger the part of the motor cerebellum that governs hand movement. Instinctively, we reach out for attractive things; beauty literally moves us.NYT: Why We Love Beautiful Things
Tuesday, February 26th
Wednesday, May 16th
There’s an amazing collection of fan art forming for Brothers’ indie game, Sword & Sworcery — and not without good reason. This game was, undoubtedly, my favorite game on iOS so far, with its fantastic story line, stunning artwork, and quirky dialogue.
This piece was contributed by the talented David Lanham, who, incidentally, also illustrated my Twitter avatar.
Tuesday, November 15th
For the 4th Sarasota Chalk Festival, artists Leon Keer, Ruben Poncia, Remko van Schaik and Peter Westerink made a three-dimensional drawing on the ground that was inspired by the Terracotta Army.
(via Scene 360)
It lets users create mixels in a few minutes, casually, almost without time to let their inner inhibitions about Art-with-a-capital-A take over. That’s exactly what we were going for.
Khoi Vinh on Mixel, a new social collage app.
During my brief stint in design school, collage was definitely one of my favorite activities. I could see this app quickly becoming one of my favorites. While I love the simplicity of its tools, I would certainly appreciate some more precise cropping features (which Khoi mentions are in progress).
If you’re on Mixel, add me as a friend and let’s make some collages!
Monday, October 31st
The Burger’s Inner Core by David Schwen.
Friday, July 8th
Some sweet Banksy MacBook and iPad decals over on Etsy. (via Uppgrader)
Tuesday, June 28th
Nick Gentry creates portraits by painting on obsolete floppy disks. The end result looks incredible.
Wednesday, June 15th
How to Create a Ligature: String (by David Schwen)
Monday, June 13th
Daniel Kornrumpf creates some amazing portrait embroidery, with a sewing style that closely resembles brush strokes. (via Scene360)