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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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World’s best father!

09/24/2012 by chicquero

Photographer Dave Engledow made this funny and bizarre series of portraits of himself and his little daughter Alice Bee. And no Photoshop was used, I swear — wink, wink. David received a degree in photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin, most of his professional life has been dedicated to progressive politics and workers’ rights. The artist is relatively new to the world of digital photography “I was inspired to purchase my first DSLR in 2010, upon learning that my […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: baby, bizarre, cool, dad, daddy, daughter, dave engledow, digital, father, funny, humor, photography

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

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Barbie and Ken are in crisis!

08/16/2012 by chicquero

Vancouver-based photographer Dina Goldstein shoots for magazines and ad agencies around the world. Her series, In the Doll House, examines the less than perfect life of Barbie and Ken. Barbie is a super doll, the most successful doll in the world. Her partner Ken is grappling with his sexuality and finds himself in a loveless marriage. He struggles with his position in the household and faces his lack of authenticity. A little girl is visiting santas grotto and is asked what she wants […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: barbie, beauty, couple, crisis, dina goldstein, doll, funny, gay, humor, in the doll house, Ken, marriage, photography, pink, sexuality, 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

Funny monkey portraits

07/26/2012 by chicquero

Jill Greenberg was born in July of 1967 in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in suburban Detroit. She graduated in 1989 form the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography and moved to New York City to pursue a career in photography. Jill was based in New York until 2001, and now resides in Los Angeles. For the series “Monkey Portraits”, Greenberg has created a series of monkey portraits and asks us to consider, in another way, […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: animals, arts, cool, funny, humor, jill greenberg, monkeys, photography, portraits

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Funny objects in real life

07/23/2012 by chicquero

Terry Border’s photo blog Bent Objects, begun in 2006, anthropomorphizes inanimate objects using bits of wire and a few props. He creates scintillating inner lives for the ordinary things that most of us take for granted. Originally, Border says, his bent-object sculptures and photo scenes came about almost by accident. He studied photography in school and initially made his living as a commercial photographer. When that grew old he tried cartooning, then landed in sculpture. All objects, all phases of culture are […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: art, artsy, bent objects, clever, creative, food, funny, humor, objects, photography, Terry Border

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The Secret Life of Snarky Toys

05/08/2012 by chicquero

Toy Stories Aled Lewis is a designer, illustrator and author based in London, England. Lewis is a life-long gamer: influenced and inspired by comics, film and television. In-between client work he participates in gallery shows and creates one-off and limited edition artworks. His clients include Polaroid, GQ, Reader’s Digest, Gap, Urban Outfitters, Emirates and HOW Design. . Toy stories started as a personal project for his own amusement and then began to develop a life of it’s own. He created these […]

Categories: Artsy, Design, Laugh • Tags: aled lewis, animals, arts, clever, cool, Design, funny, humor, illustration, toy story, toys

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Holy Potholes!

02/28/2012 by chicquero

Potholes is a series of photographs depicting the concave street cracks and holes as a collection of imaginative tableaux in the city. Captured within the backdrops of Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York City, the sets explore the urban ﬂaws as a playground creating a multitude of uses out of the potholes. Directly engaging the street, the city, the highly imaginative series transforms the bad into good, creating a tongue-in-cheek collection that is at once contextual and surreal. How […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: arts, Claudia Ficca, Davide Luciano, funny, humor, My Potholes, photography, Pothole, Potholes, street

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Google Street Chaos

01/05/2012 by chicquero

Google Street View Jon Rafman is a lucky man for at least two reasons: (1) his priceless sensibility is a veil through which he sees a more beautiful world, a precious one that reaches such a state through the very aesthetic of non-preciousness; (2) he, through scouring the near infinite territory of Google street views, is statistically even able to consistently find universal moments of “condensed being” which would make the greatest haiku poet weep. Google is a global Rorschach […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: 9 eyes, funny, Google, google street view, humor, images, jon raffman, lol, photography, street view, wtf

Who’s Your Daddy?

01/03/2012 by chicquero

Daddy’s getting nuts Sean Dufrene is a cool photographer from Los Angeles. The following images represent a caricature of his father. Each image is based on situations that he experienced while growing up at his house. Very funny series, love the lighting and colours too. His dad is the old man in the photos! “There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.” Samuel Johnson >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Listen to your […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: dad, daddy, father, funny, humor, photo, photography, sarcarstic, sean dufrene, son

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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

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Stuff no one told US..

11/13/2011 by chicquero

Stuff no one told me.. Everyday’s life advices in the shape of witty and humorous cartoons. Awesome blog, please check them out! Stuff no one told me

Categories: Artsy, Laugh • Tags: advice, art, arte, cartoons, culture, draw, drawings, everyday, Fashion, fun, funny, humor, life, life advices, quotation, quotes, satire, snotm, stuff no one told me, witty

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Oivind Hovland fab illustrations

09/20/2011 by chicquero

Øivind Hovland is an experienced freelance illustrator with a huge list of international clients, covering a broad range of media. He is the author of two illustrated books, published by Tabella, and his work has been short-listed for Best Norwegian Newspaper Illustrator, IMAGES and the Nationwide Mercury Prize Art Exhibition. His work is all about storytelling: “Even if you only have one small image at your disposal, a story can still be told. And that, in a nutshell is my aim, […]

Categories: Artsy, Laugh • Tags: art, arte, chic, chicquero, cool, creative, desenhos, Design, draw, drawings, Fashion, hipster, humor, illustration, illustrator, images, Oivind Hovland, trend

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