Get Inspired.

This is in fact my third blog, believe it or not. I have one which is more personal, another which focuses around a specific uni project/roller derby and this one which I will use as a personal scrap book of inspiration. I just feel it would be helpful to me as when I find some work/artist which I like I can just automatically place a link here, to which I can keep coming back to when I need to. I suppose if you follow this blog it could be inspiration to you too, who knows.

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 You Need To Hear This - Philips

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Some really nice hand drawn typography by David Smith, click on the source link to see it digitised. 

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SIMON HEIJDENS

Product Designer (1978-)

Design of the year award 2012 @ Design Museum

(commissioned for the Art Institute Chicago 2011)

The artist:

Having originally studied experimental film-making, the Dutch designer SIMON HEIJDENS (1978-) turned to product design when studying at the Eindhoven Academy and now applies the spirit and techniques of film to the development of objects – all of which explore his “fascination with evolution” by changing over time to tell a story.

The project (description from Simon Heijdens’ official website):

Shade

A responsive skin to the windows of a building that filters daylight into a moving projection of shadows, that translates the ever-changing natural timeline of the outdoor to the static and perpetual indoor space. Shade is a new material that applies as a glass window surface. Through variably blocking or passing light, it forms sunlight into a spacial, graphic projected moving image of shadows. It’s surface holds a grid of triangular cells that are each individually able to change their level of opacity, and hence block or pass light. The graphic shadows projected on the floor, walls and ceiling of the space - varying from sharp and graphic, to environing and spacial depending on the time of day - reveal the geometrical patterns of wind that pass the building on the other side of the glass, as choreographed by the measurements of an outdoor sensor. As both the angle of the sun and the patterns of wind are continuously changing throughout the day and year, the perpetual character of the artificial space is reconnected with an evolving, unplanned natural timeline. 

Commissioned by and part of the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago 

http://simonheijdens.com/

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Stuart Whitton, Construct, pencil and thread

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When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.

Neil Gaiman (via wryer)

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HauteMuse

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The fervent anthropomorphic portraits of Russ Mills  

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Illustration by Florian NICOLLE

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The Kraken Rum redesign, I love that you can see the process work in the Behance gallery 

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http://www.karlsimon.com/

Karl Simon Gustafsson is an incredible concept artist who has worked on films such as Captain America: The First Avenger, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, and as the example above shows, The Prince Of Persia, plus many more. 

 I highly recommend giving his website a look. 

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Julia Klinger  |  http://von-k.com

Art director and designer based in Graz, Austria. Focused on branding, typography, graphic design and art direction.

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Susan Sironi - New ABCs: Altered Books & Collages