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1 minute photoshop thoughts

01/21/2013 by chicquero

We absolutely love Austin, Texas based graphic designer Erin Hanson. Her work is inspired by simple “everyday random things” and some of her ideas are brilliantly showcased in this kinda minimal series called “1 Minute Photoshop Thoughts”. It´s clever, a little sarcastic and inspirational at the same time! Enjoy! I believe we all are prey to bouts of laziness. I am constantly in the throes and try to combat my ailment with a steady diet of inspiration and doing. Erin […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: Austin designer, clever, erin hanson, fun, graphic design, illustration, inspiration, photoshop, random things, sarcastic, thoughts

Truth and Lies

11/21/2012 by chicquero

TRUTH AND LIES A poster series by Justin Barber, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan – but currently located in Savannah, Georgia – Justin Barberis a freelance graphic designer who specializes in branding and identity. His work has been recognized by Apple, Behance, and International Designers Network, among others.This humorous poster series takes some of the most common, everyday lies we tell ourselves and hear from others, and bluntly translates them into the unequivocal truth. By visually representing the difference in […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: arts, cool, daily, Design, everyday lies, funny, graphic design, humor, illustration, Justin Barber, lies, posters, series, truth, truth and lies

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Beautiful and repulsive portraits

10/23/2012 by chicquero

Photo artist Oleg Dou is a multi award-winning based in Moscow. He is celebrated internationally for his staggeringly unique vision. His focus on artistry and craft is transformative. Oleg was born in Moscow on 19th of August 1983. His mother was a painter, and I he spent a lot of time among artists, though not particularly interested in their activities. “I felt an urge for arts and creation some time ago, when I was working as a web designer, which pushed me to study […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: artist, arts, beautiful, beauty, creepy, digital, graphic design, kids, Oleg Dou, photography, photoshop, portraits, repulsive, young

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Sexual and playful posters

09/07/2012 by chicquero

. Pablo Alfieri is an Art Director and Graphic Designer from Buenos Aires Argentina. After working as an art director in local studios he decided to create his own place “Playful” where he dedicates all his passion for graphic design illustration and typography. In his “Insert Coin Poster series”, the sexual connotation and his love for playful moods and colorful pieces are screaming out loud. Love his creativity and the use of signs to promote the Brazilian event, the last […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, brazil, colorful, graphic design, insert coin, pablo alfieri, photography, playful, posters, sex, sexual, sexual connotation, sexy

Minimalist art movements

09/02/2012 by chicquero

French Graphic designer, Outmane Amahou has created a series of minimalistic posters for your viewing pleasure, in which he pays tribute to major art movements, and iconic painters throughout history. Instead of focusing on the work of individual artists, Amahou decided to tackle entire movements in his very ambitious series. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Coolest minimal movie posters Dissected artists My face is a […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: art, art movement, artist, arts, cool, graphic design, illustration, minimal, minimalist, outmane amahou, painters, paintings, poster

Bubble Talk

08/28/2012 by chicquero

Cool drawings about talking by the artist Tang Yau Hoong. Speech bubbles are graphic convention used most commonly in comics, cartoons or illustrations. Instead of putting words into it to represent speech or thoughts of a character, what if the speech bubble itself has its own expression and characteristic? In this series of illustrations Tang wanted to explore the possibilities of telling a story/ message by speech bubbles graphically, without words or as least words as possible. Life is far too important a […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: art, bubble, cool, drawing, fun, funny, graphic design, humor, illustration, speech, speech bubbles, talk, tang yau hoong

Abstract food sketches

08/05/2012 by chicquero

New York based illustrator and graphic designer Erin Jang has an amazing ongoing series called Food Sketches which I could not help, had to share it! In these series Jang illustrates abstracted graphic representations of foods she has eaten in different restaurants. Such a creative way to share food experiences and how fun it could be! So hungry! A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Mini food feast Minimal […]

Categories: Design • Tags: abstract, dishes, Erin Jang, food, fun, graphic design, hungry, illustration, meal, New York artist, restaurant, sketches

Guys, fashion and graphic design!

08/04/2012 by chicquero

. MJXMB is a creative collaboration between photographer Monsieur Jerome and Design Studio Manhattan Born. Can’t wait to see what’s coming, I’m in love with their artwork! Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Guys, TATTOOS and attitude! Photography and illustration Fashion Photo manipulation Food and fashion Mash-ups Leather Fetish Mustache Monday

Categories: Design, Fashion • Tags: art, clothing, design studio, Fashion, graphic design, guys, illustration, manhattan born, men, MJXMB, Moda, monsieur jerome, street style

Great Movie clichés

08/02/2012 by chicquero

Launched in 1999, the New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) is now the premier Urban Latino film event in the United States. The NYILFF’s mission is to showcase the works of the hottest of the hottest emerging Latino filmmaking talent in the U.S. and Latin America, offer expansive images of the Latino experience, and celebrate the diversity and spirit of the Latino community. When the New York International Latino Film Festival wanted to get their point across that movies and films are […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: advertising, alvaro naddeo, cliches, cool, festival, film, funny, graphic design, humor, latino, marketing, movies, new york international latino film festival, nyilff, wing agency

Celebrities illustrated

06/27/2012 by chicquero

Pablo Lobato is a graphic designer and illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Soon after finishing his studies, Pablo started working as a graphic designer for different magazines. This, however, only lasted five years, since total boredom drove him back to his first passion – illustrations. Today, Pablo has made quite a name for him self in Argentina where he lives and works. His work is trully amazing, I love the colors, shapes and his “picasso” vibe. For more info about Pablo Lobato […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: actors, art, arts, artsy, celebrity, cool, designer, graphic design, illustration, pablo lobato, Singer

Insect mood

06/19/2012 by chicquero

With a very eye-catching style inspired by minimalism and modernism, it was only natural for Cristian Grossi to be embraced by the fashion set. The Italian artist and co-founder of KreativeHouse creative studio blends his abstract graphic style with a distinct love for organic patterns of nature and magical folk tales, as seen in his fun and bright digital graphic works. “Having spent my childhood in the hills, lakes and wildlife of Italy have formed and infused my work. I […]

Categories: Design • Tags: bugs, colorful graphic, Cristian Grossi, fashion sketches, gif, graphic design, illustration, insects, Italian artist, nature

Copywriter VS Art Director

06/18/2012 by chicquero

Great illustration project about the differences between copywriters and art directors by CW Versus AD. An art director oversees the art, photographs and drawn images, that appear in newspapers, magazines, ad campaigns and on book covers. An art director is usually the person who oversees the entire design department to coordinate what images will match up with what words. A copywriter hammers out the words that sell, promote, educate and inform. This means a great copywriter is gifted in the craft […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: advertising, art, art director, copywriter, Design, designer, graphic design, illustration, images, jobs, marketing, vs, words

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Car tires haute couture

06/04/2012 by chicquero

TREADWEAR – Goodyear Dunlop Carl Elkins and his team were approached by Goodyear Dunlop to photographically realize key, underlying themes in the Goodyear product line, namely: strength, robustness and armor. The result is a strong fashion editorial, perfect branding example to market tires in a modern world. Costume design: Carl Elkins @ Mierswa-Kluska Photography: Mierswa-Kluska Hair & Make-up: Susan Voss-Redfern Agency: Anzinger | Wüschner | Rasp I had to stop driving my car for a while… the tires got dizzy. Steven Wright >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Vans […]

Categories: Design, Fashion • Tags: armor, branding, cars, digital, Fashion, goodyear, graphic design, marketing, rubber, strenght, tires, treadwear

Your body is a fragile ego

04/05/2012 by chicquero

Kim Joon – Born in Seoul, South Korea, 1966 “Korean artist Kim Joon has an enduring interest in hidden desires. Using animation photography Kim makes templates of three-dimensional human figures, which he then embellishes with bright tattoo designs. There is a striking visual quality to Kim’s work that owes a great debt to his training as a painter.” “Common clay must go through the heat and fire of the furnace to become porcelain. But once porcelain , it can never […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: 3D, art, artist, dolls, figures, graphic design, human, kim joon, porcelain, tattoos

Feel free to inspire me!

03/20/2012 by chicquero

Abduzeedo is a very cool website about graphic design inspiration and photoshop tutorials by Fabio Sasso, who is a Brazilian designer living in Porto Alegre. ‘Expect the unexpected, nothing better than being inspired by something you have never seen before or even thought about it before.’ Here are some really random and very cool stuff selected to brighten up your day… if you have some nice inspiration feel free to share with us on the comments. Enjoy! ‘If your […]

Categories: Design • Tags: Abduzeedo, Brazilian designer, cool stuff, Fabio Sasso, graphic design, inspiration, random stuff

Want vs Need

03/14/2012 by chicquero

Want VS Need Great series of illustrations by talented designer Erin Hanson entitled Want VS Need. Very clever, reminds us about the important little things of everyday life. Hanson is a graphic designer/photographer currently living in Austin, Texas. Check it out his projects, visit Recoveringlazyholic. When I was 8 I wanted a puppy. When I was 10 I wanted parachute pants. When I was 12 I wanted a Ogilvie perm. When I was 14 I wanted a boy named Robbie. When […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: arts, clever, cool, designer, erin hanson, funny, graphic design, illustration, illustrations, recoveringlazyholic, want vs need

Plastic soup

02/17/2012 by chicquero

Mandy Barker is a recent graduate student from UK and her artistic direction has evolved from graphic design to photography and is currently focused on contemporary practice. Her work is brilliant! Entitled SOUP and named after the term given to plastic debris in the sea, this series of images aim to engage with, and stimulate an emotional response in the viewer by combining a contradiction between initial aesthetic attraction and social awareness. All the plastics photographed have been salvaged from beaches around […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: clean beaches, global collection, graphic design, Mandy Barker, photography, plastic, sea debris, social awareness, soup, UK

Human aquarium

02/13/2012 by chicquero

Angelo Musco is a Graphic Design and Fine Art graduate from Naples, Italy now based in New York. His work just can’t be absorbed in a glance. The contemporary photographer/artist’s pieces are composed of thousands of human figures (nude bodies) intricately and densely packed on panels as large as 8 x 20 feet, forming shapes that look almost like outer space bone MRI scans. Also Angelo has other very cool visual projects already under his belt and over a decade of exhibiting… ” The essential is to excite […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: Angelo Musco, aquarium, artistic photography, graphic design, humans, Italian artist, Italian photographer, naked bodies, Nales, new york, nude

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Life itself is a quotation

02/06/2012 by chicquero

Julian Bialowas is a Canadian freelance Designer & Photographer currently living in Calgary, AB. He is the creator of 365q and one half of the team behing 16Hours Magazine. The graphic designer layers inspiring quotes that he stumbled upon in books, movies, newspapers, lectures and conversations onto gorgeous landscape photographs that he took in his hometown of Alberta, among other locations. “They usually end up showcasing how I felt on the days the photograph was taken, or at the time […]

Categories: Design, Photography • Tags: canada, catch phrases, graphic design, inspirational, inspiring, inspiring quotes, julian bialowas, landscape photographs, photography, quotation, quotes, words

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Perfect minimal world!

12/22/2011 by chicquero

Her name is Catrina. She is a human being first, a graphic designer second, and a cat lady third. A twenty-something girl in California seeking a full-time design job opportunity. Let´s spread the word and help her out. You go girl If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be. Yogi Berra >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Stuff no one told us Seriously, believe them Dear Blank, Please Blank Listen to your grandma Literally spelled out

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: catrina dulay, fun, funny, graphic design, humor, minimal, perfect, quotes, world

Optical Illusion

11/14/2011 by chicquero

Optical Ilusion Great editorial for the British Idol Magazine (check it out the whole shoot and the complete look details). The world-renowned photographer Adam Richardson created these images inspired by the effect of optical illusion. I was wondering if they are 3-D. I wouldn´t mind to have some Pierre Braganza, Junya Watanabe, Finsk, Topshop, Christian Louboutin, Peter Jensen, and etc, jumping out of my screen! Come to me baby, come to mamma! Credits Magazine Idol Photography by Adam Richardson Styled by Simone La Rose and Gabrielle Stival […]

Categories: Design, Fashion • Tags: 3-d, 3D, adam richardson, art, arte, campaign, chic, culture, Design, designer, editorial, effect, emily mergaert, Fashion, gabrielle stival, graphic design, idol magazine, kim roy, Moda, model, optical illusion, photo, photographer, photography, photos, simone la rose, style, styling, stylish, trends

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