Light Paintings by Janne Parviainen

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"Photographer Janne Parviainen has been experimenting with a fun form of photographic light painting that resembles 3D topographical maps. Exposure times can take over 30 minutes as he carefully moves through the room with a light “tracing” every surface and object." via Colossal

View more on Janne's 500px account

Street art by JR

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"A semi-anonymous street artist of international renown, JR plasters giant, monochrome photographs of faces in urban centers—on rooftops and walls, in church windows, and along the sides of buses. Calling the street his gallery and “using art to turn the world inside out,” JR delivers a message of social action, telling the stories of the marginalized or voiceless." via Art.sy

Filippo Minelli

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"Filippo Minelli (Brescia 1983) is a contemporary-artist connoting his artistic productions with interventions in public space, several times of urban typology. His artistic path in traditional Graffitism begins in the second half of the nineties but the urge of evolving his productions into something more contemporary became insistent with the years." says Sweet Station

16 Flags of Globalisation

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Frankfurt gallery ABOUT invited 16 artist to reinvent a flag for a global world (Rem Koolhaas was the first to create a colourfull barcode World flag in 2001). Curated by three young German graphic designers, Flags posed a simple question: If you could design a flag for your version of the world, what would it look like?

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http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670214/new-glory-16-artists-invent-flags-for-a-globalized-world#2 and http://www.goldcoastcreativeagency.com.au/2012/07/new-glory-16-artists-invent-flags-for-a-globalized-world/

Fashion attack by Tara Dougans

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A second fashion attack by Tara Dougans mimicking and reworking men fashion haute-coutre in illustrative way, now made after Paris Fashion Week. "Originally concepted as an 'animated editorial', the project kicked off shortly after Paris Fashion Week Menswear in January. Inspired by the Burmese proverb 'beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting', the idea was to juxtapose the subtle stoicism of menswear imagery with a cheeky animated wink. Having previously worked almost exclusive with pencil, the aim was to create a multisensory experience without losing the feel of handcraftsmanship."

http://vimeo.com/44189505

Menswear F/W 2012: An Animated Editorial Illustration and Direction by Tara Dougans Original Score by Johnston Sheard

View full series on Tara's Behance

Art of Nick Flatt

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Nick Flatt is a realist painter and sculptor notable for his large-format portraits. n Flatt’s words, “This show is about the things we want, and how the need to obtain these vices influence our everyday lives.” Rather than examining the influences conditioning us to lust after sex, money, and power, this exhibit considers “the carrot,” “the glossy images of desire that makes us feel like we are not quite living up to our potential,” “that make our lives feel mediocre.” These portraits, glossy and glamorized yet also uniquely raw and assertive, force us to confront the cheap objectification and manipulation we encounter from countless sources in our daily lives. Flatt explains, “By addressing the strings that pull us to these empty wants, it makes cutting them that much easier.”

I bet this is a tribute to another great artist Charmaine Olivia

http://vimeo.com/26561620

Anamorphic Typography by Thomas Quinn

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Briefly "Anamorphic Typography" is an illusion where the type in the space or any location looks just right when viewed from the exact right spot, but it looks stretched and warped on the walls when viewed from elsewhere in the room. Chicago based designer Thomas Quinn did this famous trick with elegance and good results

http://vimeo.com/14817245

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