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The Secret World of Cats

Anastasia — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:28:36 +0000

I’m a big cat lover but I have to wonder: do I actually know my cat? Do I know what it does when I’m not at home, when I sleep, or even when I’m at my computer and it’s not sitting next to me? Cats can do some strange things when we aren’t there to watch them. The creators of the artwork below were an exception to the rule. They managed to capture cats in all of their occasional craziness (or at least what we imagine they really do when we’re not looking). Enjoy!

Cat Alley

by Bobby Chiu
Software: Painter, Photoshop

That sweetheart of a kitty begging its owner for some milk? This is what he does to the neighbor’s dog when you’re away.

What Your Cat Wants

by Serena De Biasi
Software: Painter

This one is definitely my kitty! My computer is turned on all day. It’s no wonder I found a file on world domination!

Fish And Cat at Granny’s House

by Dave Davidson
Software: CINEMA 4D

Looks like the cat of the future, but personally I prefer real cats to their mechanical brothers.

Dragoncat Test

by Matthew Romero
Software: 3ds max

Dragoncat speaks for itself, but I have to wonder what it eats. Dragon-mice?

Super Cat

by Lin Wu
Software: Photoshop

That’s a big angry cat in a wonderful Catland — Catzilla!

Cat Coffee

by Lin Wu
Software: Photoshop

And here’s a kitty’s perfect little dreamland — the place where all cats go to have fun when we’re not at home.

The Cat on the Roof

by Chekrigin Evgeniy
Software: Photoshop

Do you think that you are the only one looking at the stars and dreaming of other worlds? No way!

Cat

by Chekrigin Evgeniy
Software: Photoshop

That’s a moon cat. It visits small children who can’t sleep and tells them stories about wonderful Catland to lull them to sleep.

Cat Toy

by Laura Stevens
Software: Maya, mental ray

Want to hug that little creature? That’s a superhero cat whose aim is to save the world!

Cat with a Tail Hand

by Alperen Kahraman
Software: Photoshop

This cat looks kinda strange, but it’s pretty convenient to have a tail-hand. Don’t you think?

Cat

by Xoan Baltar
Software: Speed paint on Iphone whit Brushes app.

Mafia cat! Be careful playing with this self confident kitty.

Event cat create…)))

by Max Uzkikh
Software: 3ds max, VRay

This cat might be clever, but this also explains why the sand is always out of the box so quickly.

Bad Kitty

by Tamás Tóthfalussy
Software: 3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop, VRay

I didn’t do it! Blame the dog.

Tightrope Cat

by Eric Battandier
Software: 3ds max

That’s a good boy! Cats should also have some fun when we are out.

Amazing Examples of Typographic Style

Anastasia — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:04:30 +0000

Typographica — Review of typefaces and type books

Website: http://new.typographica.org/

Typographica is an excellent review of typefaces and type books with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design. The site was founded in 2002 by Joshua Lurie-Terrell.

Louis Verhoeve

Website: http://louisverhoeven.be

Louis Verhoeve is a Dutch designer who has a unique showcase on his portfolio website. He creates great font-based printed designs and book covers.

Silva! Designers

Website: http://www.silvadesigners.com/

Silva! Designers is an editorial design agency based in Chiado, Lisbon, old city. They do typographic design work for magazines, book covers, and catalogs. Their art is definitely stylish and original.

DSTYPE

Website: http://www.dstype.com/

DSTYPE specializes in creating custom typefaces. That includes designing completely new typefaces for every purpose as well as improving balance, legibility, and otherwise fine tuning existing typefaces and logotypes.

Denis Ponomarev

Website: http://www.verstak.ru/

Denis Ponomarev is a Russian typographer and graphic designer. He designs for books, magazines, CD covers, and other prints. His works are more than stylish.

Oliver Daxenbichler

Website: http://www.oliverdaxenbichler.com/

Oliver Daxenbichler is a German designer. His entire website is just one great portfolio showcasing some unbelievable conceptual works.

Frank Chimero

Website: http://www.frankchimero.com/

Frank Chimero’s a graphic designer teaching youth at Missouri S.U. about design foundations and typography. Each piece of his artwork is part of an exploration in finding wit, surprise, honesty, and joy in the world around us. For Frank the work is play, and the play is work.

TypeNeu

Website: http://typeneu.com/

TypeNeu is a typography blog. The website looks like a bunch of wallpapers glued together, showcasing a variety of info about fonts and typography.

Alison Carmichael

Website: http://www.alisoncarmichael.com/

Alison Carmichael creates amazing book covers, print advertisements, and graphic designs. She is an award-winning talent in typography and design.

86era

Website: http://www.86era.org/

86era is the portfolio of Maxwell Lord, a typographer and graphic designer. His works are fresh and you can find a huge collection of them on Flickr.

Marian Bantjes

Website: http://www.bantjes.com/

From the artist: “My ‘style’ is always evolving, and if you look at my work you can see multiple interests emerge. People tend to think of me in terms of the swirly, pretty vector art, but it is much more varied than that. I’m quite happy that my work is eclectic while still personally identifiable.”

HMF

Website: http://www.handmadefont.com

HMF is an Estonian design company. They specialize in developing unique, nontraditional fonts and take inspiration from everything that surrounds them. All the fonts are made manually and this is an amazing, though very complicated, art.

Graphical House

Website: http://www.graphicalhouse.co.uk/

Scottish graphic designers at Graphical House show their design skills to be in a highly professional league. You can explore nice visual moments in all of their work. Their portfolio is truly impressive.

Studiosnooze

Website: http://www.studiosnooze.com/

Snooze is a Croatian studio. They provide a broad range of design services, maximizing the true potential of their clients by building sophisticated and innovative solutions that enable them to develop deeper and more personalized relationships with their customers…. At least that’s what they say.

Today Is Sunday

Website: http://www.todayissunday.com/

Today is Sunday is the portfolio of Carlos Guedes, Portuguese Interactive Art Director, visual effects aficionado, and surfer.

Typography Served

Website: http://www.typographyserved.com/

The Served site brings a steady supply of top quality creative work to the table. They comb through projects from the portfolios of the most talented creative people and teams around the world.

Demonic Girls: Digital Art Through Photomanipulation

Anastasia — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:40:53 +0000

Demon Inside?

Demon

Harpy Demon

F.E.A.R.

Speak No Evil

BOXEL – Demon GIRL

Inocencia Perdida

Demon

Demon Taking Over

Nightmare Collection

My Sisters’ Sorrows Image

Heavens Mutant Children

Demons -And The Afterburn

Chaos Bringer

Scar Tissue

Inner Flame Demon

Teen Magazine Demon edition

Seducer + Destroyer

Have Faith And…

Poison

Quoth the Raven–Nevermore

Nevus Shroud

Darkness Surrounding

Fear of the Dark

Zombie Nation

My Dance For You. 3D Art.

Anastasia — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:05:07 +0000

It’s beautiful when you can dance beautifully Dancing is a complicated body science that requires lots of your time, efforts, patience and passion. It’s a real science to move in a dance and that’s a real art to create the dancers in 3D. Today we are glad to present you a showcase of some amazing 3D works featuring the dance. Girls look so real that I couldn’t first believe that’s not a photo or photo manipulation effects. Dance and enjoy with us!

A Fairy’s Dance

The Dance

To Dance

Dance

Let Your Body Dance

Dance

Joy of the Dance

Life is a Dance

Dance of Tranquility

Go Go Dance Yuri

Autumn Dance

Kerry Dance Room

Fire Angel

Gypsy Woman

Flutter Dance

Pretty Salome

Dance

Fools Can Dance

Candied Apples

Cloud Dancing

BaLLerina

Cosmic Girl

The Ballerina

Debonair

Sophisticated Fashion Illustration. Part1.

Anastasia — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:08:25 +0000

Kelly Smith

Portfolio: www.birdyandme.com.au

Kelly Smith lives and works in Tasmania, Australia. In 2006 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Tasmanian School of Art and has since gone on to pursue of a freelance career in both portrait and fashion illustration.

Antoinette Fleur

Portfolio: www.antoinettefleur.fr

Antoinette Fleur is a young French fashion illustrator. She works with a felt pen and creates fantastic images of fashionable Parisians. Stunning and amazing work, frankly speaking I’ve never seen anything like that.

Miyuki Ohashi

Portfolio: www.miyukiohashi.net

Miyuki Ohashi is a Japanese illustrator, depicting glamorous women is simple strokes. Her style is unique and her artwork is truly amazing.

Strange and Colorful World of Yoswadi Krutklom. Drawings and Illustrations.

Anastasia — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:18:24 +0000

Yoswadi Krutklom is a talented artist born in Bangkok,Thailand and now living in New York. Having graduated from Savannah College of Art & Design with a Master of Art in Illustration, she is now ready to face the world and show her own approach to illustration, drawing, painting and graphic design.

Illustration.

Painting.

Drawing.

Graphics.

The Allknowing Fog: Digital Art (photomanipulation).

Anastasia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:15:30 +0000

Through this fog

Mistic Night

Follow me

Walking in the fog

Trees in fog

Fog…

Fmora myhra

Fog

Soul of a fog

Book of fairy tales

Castle in the fog

Fog

The Fog

Fog takes the hill

Fog Walkers

Fog is…2

Fog

Demons of the fog

Her Ghost in the Fog

Fog..

Fog

Winter arrives

The Misty Land

The magic of the deep forest

DaRK FoReST

Some place

The Road to Wirikuta

Familiars

Come down

Top Notch Trash Designs: An Extraordinary Design Collection

Anastasia — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:49:30 +0000

Royal Art Lodge

Website: http://www.royalartlodge.com/
The Royal Art Lodge is an art collective based in Canada. Every other week they gather to create something mind-blowing, and at the same time naïve.

Misprinted

Website: http://www.misprintedtype.com/v4/
This amazing portfolio is full of ideas, either in the form of simple text, a collage, a drawing, or a typeface. All the work is personal — there is no client, no brief.

Creative porfolio of Kolomeitcev A.& V.

Website: http://www.k-feer.ru/
K-Feer is a Moscow design studio belonging to two brothers, Arkadij and Valentin Kolomeitcev. They work in different directions and have a huge portfolio of both artwork and commercial design.

The Mixhead

Website: http://www.themixhead.com/
This is a portfolio of Ukrainian freelance designer, Ulyana Kalashnikova.

Pierre Marie Portfolio

Website: http://www.pierremarie.fr/

Post Typography

Website: http://www.posttypography.com/
Originally conceived in 2001 as an avant garde anti-design movement by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen, Post Typography specializes in graphic design, conceptual typography, and custom lettering/illustration with additional forays into art, apparel, music, curatorial work, design theory, and vandalism.

Anna Om Line

Website: http://www.anna-om-line.com/
This is the portfolio of a Spanish Web designer and illustrator, Anna Maria Lopez.

Sebastian Onofszak

Website: http://www.sebastianonufszak.com/

Serge Maksimov

Website: http://omie.ru/
This is the design portfolio of Russian illustrator, Serge Maksimov.

Ghosts and Spirits. Digital Art :Photomanipulation.

Anastasia — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:32:48 +0000

Winter Ghost

by ~RedSigns

Angel Ghost

by ~Drusilla14

Forgotten

by =FreakyBabe

Marooned- Ghost

by ~emerald-rose

Cold Winter Ghost

by ~masiz

All I Am.

by =JinDevilKazama

I am still alive

by =MelGama

Watching us Wither.

by =JinDevilKazama

Her Ghost.

by ~Sacrify

Lonely Tracks II

by *Jenna-Rose

Black Dove.

by =JinDevilKazama

Fading Presence

by ~xDJx

Das Zimmer meiner Kindheit

by ~Sulathron

ghost

by ~anavy

The Rendez Vous

by *vm0572

My Spirit Of The Sea.

by ~BlackRosesWithering

The Ghost Dancer

by =Dragonfly113

Ghost

by ~suszymniebardzo

Love’s Victim

by ~drowninsanity

In Silent Moments

by =TayaRavena

Follow me…

by ~pisimau

Ghost’s Life.

by ~SHADOWZRWITHU

separate me from the living.

by =TayaRavena

Silent Reverie

by ~maryana01

Deep Silent Complete

by ~TearsOfEterinty

The Fountain of Oblivion

by ~MOracz

Ubume – My Japanese GhostStory

by ~princess-RxY

Early Winter

by ~tahtasiz

ghost

by ~jibinjoy

Whisper Your Fears

by ~maansterft

Ghosts of Romance

by ~SeekingDivinity

ghost bride

by ~qingg

FAIRY TALE NIGHTMARE – trade

by ~ensnared-death

only time…

by ~gothichristos86

inanotherfashionworld

by ~mariecr

Chew on This: Interesting Chewing Gum Ads

Anastasia — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:00:17 +0000

Strange thing, and you might not believe me, but chewing gum ads seem to be as rare as aliens in the White House. Though we see TV ads every other day and we might chew gum all day long, I have a feeling that chewing gum has become such an inevitable part of our lives that it doesn’t need to be advertised at all! It’s like air, water, or food. Anyway, I managed to dig up some of the few chewing gum ads out there, and you can check out their interesting design elements below.