Watercolour Paintings by Los Carpinteros

Los Carpinteros is a Havana-based artist collective currently comprised of Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez (a third member, Alexandre Arrechea, left in 2003) who produce a wide range of works including sculpture, installation, and film.via

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POST IT AWARDS 2013: Call For Entries

Международный студенческий конкурс дизайна Post It Awards 2013 открыт.A это значит, что все охотники могут смело приступать к выполнению конкурсного задания, а организаторы готовы принять работы и анкеты. В этом году студентам предлагается подумать на тему “Ребрендинг образования” и визуализировать свои мысли в форме плаката, выразить в фирменном стиле или оживить в моушн-дизайне.

Крайний срок подачи работ — 30 апреля

Авторы лучших работ, то есть оригинальных по идее и крепких по качеству исполнения, будут отмечены призами и подарками от партнеров конкурса: Insight Lingua, Hewlett Packard, Wacom, Moleskine, книжного магазина «Республика».

Главный приз—летний курс в колледже Central Saint Martins (Лондон)

Более подробно о правилах и условиях участия читайте на сайте конкурса http://postit-awards.com

Photography by Lisa Tomasetti

Australian photographer Lisa Tomasetti has worked as a visual artist and film stills photographer for the past 23 years. Her eye for cinematic drama comes through in her dance photography, a collection of images in which she is able to capture the beautiful elegance of ballet dancers set against the more rough, gritty urban city streets of Paris, Tokyo, and New York. via

Creative Video: Inspiration Set 17

While scanning the internet for great motion graphics we tend to find huge amounts of amazing videos which we’ve chosen to present in our “Motion Graphics Inspiration” section. Take a first row and enjoy the latest gems from this week! Check our Video Tumblr blog on Motioncollector.com. Join Designcollector TV Top 10 Vimeo Channel and Musicollector's Video Channel to discover more inspirational videos.

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Fotolia TEN 2013: Adhemas Batista

Following the success of the 1st Season, Fotolia launches the 2 nd edition of the TEN Project, a creative, digital and educational event. Today Fotolia introduces Adhemas Batista, the third digital artist of TEN, Season 2. The work can be downloaded as PSD file for free on the 8th of March - www.tenbyfotolia.com

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Simon Walker

We have featured the lettering design work of Simon Walker in today's inspiration set but his portfolio worth of a full and detailed view. We like every bit of the screen he filled with a great hand-lettering examples, typography experiments and commercial works, just take a look at his website, flickr or dribbble for more inspiration.

OFFF 2013 Cincinnati Titles

The old good "Offf Titles" motion design style is back. One-day OFFF Festival "On Tour" took a place in Cincinnati few days ago. Today they presented Official Titles created by magician of motion design Onur Senturk and spiced with graphics by Ipek Torun. Feel the atmosphere of the festival and hurry up with the tickets to the main action happening this June in Barcelona - grab the ticket on http://www.offf.ws/

http://vimeo.com/61217305

Unstable Matter kinetic installation by Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen

"Unstable Matter is kinetic sculpture by Finnish artists Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen, a.k.a. Grönlund-Nisunen. The moving table contains thousands of small ball bearings that move and crash within the confines of a giant wobbly table, sort of a modern take on a rain stick." via Colossal The table is part of several kinetic and magnetized works by the duo that were recently on view at Esther Schipper in Berlin.

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Magazine Covers: Inspiration Set

The rhetoric question "Will print magazines survive?" still has no answer as the market of independent magazine rised and never stopped developing. As a medium searching for inspiration we keep our eye on standalone graphic design branch - Magazine Covers and would like to share our findings. This set contains different covers, from typo-maniacal to eye-catching minimalistic. Enjoy!

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Pencil Carving by Cerka Hegyzo

I can't explain how much energy and patience one need to carve a flower from a carrot for a lovely salad but this pencil carving is out of my understanding and simply amazing. Budapest based let's say miniaturist sculptor Cerka Hegyzo creates masterpieces from a pencil's graphite. Endless inspiration ahead http://cerkahegyzo.deviantart.com/

Coffee Shops, Cafe and Stores Exteriors: Inspiration Set

This is a sister set of Interior Design inspirations. We selected most beautiful public exteriors selected from our daily findings and shared them with you.