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Ordinary Batman Adventures: Artist Sarah Johnson Perfectly Animated The Ordinary Life Of Superhero

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Illustrator and artist Sarah Johnson imagines the mundane, behind-the-scenes life of Batman. Scroll down to take a look at his side that we don’t usually get to see. More: Sarah Johnson. Source.

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Architectural Miniatures by Mohamad Hafez Promote Meaningful Dialogue About Conflict in Syria

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Framed Nostalgia (2019), 31 x 37 x 10 inches. Images courtesy of the artist. Connecticut-based Syrian-born artist Mohamad Hafez ( previously ) uses found objects, paint, and scrap metal to create architectural dioramas of Middle Eastern urban environments. The photorealistic miniatures are packed with detail and speak to the political and social issues plaguing the artist’s war-torn homeland.

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This Book Is Dedicated To Arcade Game Typography, And Only 1000 Copies Available!

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The first book of its kind – a definitive and beautifully designed survey of ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s arcade game pixel typography. Exhaustively researched by author Toshi Omagari (a celebrated typeface designer at Monotype UK) Arcade Game Typography gathers together 250 pixel typefaces, all carefully chosen, extracted, redrawn and categorised by style, and each with an accompanying commentary by.

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The Surreal Paintings of Shiqing Deng

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Shiqing "Demo" Deng is known for both riveting and haunting paintings, in which surreal surprises hide in the contours of her figures. She recently showed this work at Parasol Projects @ 213 Bowery in a show titled "All My Friends Are Monsters." The gallery says she often uses "fellow artists as the primary players" in her work, further facilitating a look at varying realities.

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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Amazing Vintage Photos Of Betty Broadbent, The ‘Tattooed Venus’ From The Late 1930s

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In 1938 Betty Broadbent, the ‘Tattooed Venus’ visited Sydney from America at the invitation of the Australian sideshow entrepreneur Arthur Greenhalg. PIX Magazine ran a story on Betty, who at that time had 465 tattoos on her body including a tattoo of the Madonna and child on her back and tattoos of Charles Lindbergh and Pancho Villa on her legs.

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Canadian Photographer Shows Life In The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Today

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This photo project illustrates real life in the Chernobyl exclusion zone three decades after the catastrophe of 1986 that made over 300 000 people evacuate. But some refused to leave and stayed. A Canadian photographer Robyn Von Swank paid a visit to them to take pictures of their daily life. When she was roaming about one of the abandoned villages, she notices traces behind her and a pack of.

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CA’s 60th Advertising Annual Now Available

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Communication Arts is proud to announce the release of our 60th Advertising Annual! With columns, feature profiles and the winners of our 2019 Advertising competition, the issue is available in print and on our online store.

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This Artist Creates Tiny Oil Paintings On Pennies

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According to Bryanna Marie: “I started painting miniatures a few years ago as a daily exercise, primarily with the goal to paint more often and hone my skills for finer detail in smaller compositions. More: Bryanna Marie, Instagram h/t: boredpanda View this post on Instagram The office of Dolores Umbridge, complete with pink curtains and velvet chair, all the way down to her floral teapot.

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Missed Nuance

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Missed Nuance captures all the intricacies and movements in dance, revealing its beauty along the way.

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The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.

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A Striking Photo Series Of Beautiful Adoptable Black Cats Posing Against A Dark Background

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Los Angeles photographer Casey Elise, who previously captured the quiet elegance of adoptable cats who are blind or have limited eyesight in hopes of finding them a new home, has put together another striking photo series in which she posed beautiful and adoptable black cats from West Los Angeles Animal Services and Milo’s Sanctuary against a dark background in ordder to emphasize their unique.

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Waka Waka

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Ben Mingo and Aristide Benoist combined tried and true processes with a contemporary aesthetic for this furniture artist’s site.

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40 Jaw-Dropping Cosplays At Comic Con New York 2019 By Photographer Ali Reza Malik

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Mario, Borderlands-Style Cell Shaded Comic Con New York 2019 has passed, but cosplay never stops. Pictures of cosplayers in their favorite superhero (or supervillain) attire from this year’s NYCC are still surfacing on the Internet. Ali Reza Malik, a Brooklyn-based photographer, is the artist behind a handful of iconic cosplay photographs from this year’s Comic Con New York.

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Clara Quinteros

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This Barcelona-based designer creates full-service work, from concept to branding, with a strong grasp on the pulse of design practices.

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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

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Belarusian Swimmer In A Potato Field Turned Out To Be A… Polish Model

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Not so long ago, there was a lively discussion of a photo shoot in which an elegant girl amuses herself in every possible way on a potato field: she dives into it, arranges a swim, and eventually takes first place and receives a “bulb (belarusian potato) fur” as a gift. More: Agnieszka Surdej (Instagram, Facebook), Pawel Dejankiewicz (Instagram, Facebook) It’s hard to understand.

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Hilariously Polite Graffiti

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It’s nice to be nice. When protesting or tagging a wall, remember to be like as polite as Canadians! Source.

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This Russian Guy Left Uni To Make Superhero Masks That Wowed Hollywood

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More like works of art than ordinary props, 24-year-old designer Aydar Migranov’s masks have already been used by Jason Momoa, Tom Holland, and other actors. More: Instagram, Etsy h/t: rbth Jason Momoa might not have looked so pleased in this photo had he not been holding an Aquaman mask — a gift from Aydar Migranov from the small Russian town of Beloretsk (1,600 km from Moscow).

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