design
Fractalius is a Photoshop Plugin (by Redfield Plugins) that allows the creation of striking visual pieces, in one go.
It relies on the "extraction of the hidden fractal texture of the image" (paraphrasing a bit there).
The image above (fragment of the original, by DeviantArt user Hemamm) is a perfect example of the possibilities of such a tool.
Another great series: "Azurri Italia" is a set of old school, vintage-looking, distressed, evocative posters, depicting Italian football legends.
By Marija Marković.
OPTA's 110% is a football data visualisation competition.
The, first, winning entry:
More designs after the jumps.
Patented in 1953 by Robert Keaton, it's an improved version from an earlier model (also patented in 1936).
Its name says it all: it allowed typing music notation in a mechanized (and with higher quality) way.
AKA, Lady in Red, illustrates (and is a product of) what Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber dubbed Low-Complexity Art. The image/form/pattern can be computed from a simple/short program, without being obvious to the beholder, and this, is surmised, has an effect in its perceived beauty.
In some way, relating (equating?) Occam's razor with/to beauty.
The Zhangye Danxia (landform), located near the city of Zhangye in China's northwestern Gansu province, seems more like Nature's attempt in painting a masterpiece than a "naturally" occurring geological formation. And yet... The latter, rather than the former, seems to be the true qualification of what caused such a rainbow-like effect. Surprisingly...
A striking design, for the aptly named (Sheraton) Moon Hotel, in Huzhou, China.
Beautiful, evocative, nostalgic alternate-alternate-reality posters, advertising many a "tourist attraction" of the Star Wars universe.
For the "Let's Move" program/campaign, Stephen Mesko designed a series of posters, one for each the 7 deadly sins.
Paradoxically, and interestingly, it uses a 8-bit/digital/RGB visual style in order to draw people away from... technology.
Here is "Lust" (full poster):
Detail of "Lust":
An interesting concept/"mashup", between a door chain and a maze.
One that, on a second look, could raise the question: "What if one needed to exit in a hurry?".
A tutorial on how to create a font in TypeTool.
From threadless.com.
Notable features:
• Highly recognizable;
• Simplicity in shape and color;
• Ambigram/inversion;
• Type-based (but not in an obvious way);
And...
• It's beautiful;
A virtual landscape/canvas for your isometric, tridimensional, drawing needs.
The depicted cube size is the lowest resolution afforded, but this still allows for accomplished creations, limited only by imagination itself.
The color palette available is also the above depicted.
A vanship is a type of flying machine from the animated series Last Exile. It is often referred to as a "flying boat" in that it does not fly by means of aerodynamics like planes do, but rather by floating on the air and propelling itself through the use of a substance known as Claudia.
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It is, also.
A beautiful steampunk/dieselpunk design.
The USA chest badge logo, constructed using the 26 degree chevron from Nike heritage, is meant to be wildly different than anything ever seen on a USA uniform before. Its upward movement references high-flying athleticism, and its composition is meant to evoke the badging of super hero costumes. The uniform is blocked in various 26 degree angles, which also inform the custom typeface, developed in three weights and a full character set for international uniforms.
Adding on top of that, what I like about it is that it seems to have a spatial quality about it, "hinting" at a (or several) possible representation(s) along (all) the 3 dimensions.
