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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

Title: J. J. Abrams

Material Design: The models and miniatures of Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’

#JJ Abrams #Ridley Scott #Blade Runner #Material Design #Miniatures #Film #Cinema #Movies

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge - the abyss.

Text: Guillermo del Toro

Illustrations: Storyboards from the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

#Guillermo del Toro #Alfred Hitchcock #Illustrations #Film #Storyboard

‘‘If you don’t daydream your life is a nightmare.’’

Text: Karl Lagerfield (The New York Times Style Magazine ‘The Greats’ Interview)

Illustrations: Henn Kim

#Karl Lagerfield #Henn Kim #Illustrations #Cosmic

Save order from Chaos Save order from Chaos Save order from Chaos Save order from Chaos Save order from Chaos

Text: Marlon James (‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’)

Surreal Collages: Sammy Slabbinck

#Sammy Slabbinck #Marlon James #Collage #Pop Culture #Surrealism

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

Text: Roland Barthes (‘A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments’)

Photography: Aline Smithson (Hollywood at Home)

#Aline Smithson #Roland Barthes #Photography

"My hovercraft is full of eels."

Title: John Cleese in Monty Python’s ‘And Now For Something Completely Different’

Illustrations: Thomas Hedger

#Thomas Hedger #Monty Python #Illustration #Graphic Design #Pop Art

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other…

Title: Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and the Margarita)

Paintings: Andrey Remnev

#Painting #Art #Russian #Andrey Remnev #Mikhail Bulgakov

"I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.”

Title: Susanna Clarke (‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’)

Illustrations: Alex Konahin

#Susanna Clarke #Alex Konahin #Illustrations #Gothic

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can’t, then you’re not looking properly.

Title: Sir Paul Smith

Street Art: OakOak

#OakOak #Sir Paul Smith #Street Art #graffiti

Novocaine for the Soul

Life is good And i feel great 'cause mother says i was A great mistake Novocaine for the soul You'd better give me something To fill the hole Before i sputter out

Title: ‘Novocaine for the Soul’ - Eels

Art Prints: Computarded

#Computarded #Eels #Art #Prints #Post Modern

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

Title: Richard Yates

Paintings: Grant Haffney

#Richard Yates #Grant Haffney #Paintings #Art

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

Title: J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

Photography: Daily Overview

#JRR Tolkien #Daily Overview #Photography #Topography #Geography

I am the Walrus

Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, All mixed together with a dead dog's eye, Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick, Then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick.

Title: The playground nursery rhyme that influenced John Lennon to write ‘I am the Walrus’

Illustrations: Edward Carvalho Monaghan

#Edward Carvalho Monaghan #Art #Pop Art #Illustrations #Pop Culture

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

Title: Norman Rockwell

Paintings: Adam Lister

#Norman Rockwell #Adam Lister #Art #Pop Culture #Painting

Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.

Title: Haruki Murakami (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage)

Generative Design: Michael Rigley (FITC Tokyo 2015 Titles)

#Haruki Murakami #Michael Rigley #Generative Design #Graphic Design

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

Title: Ernest Cline (‘Ready Player One’)

Artifacts: The Art of Ping Pong (FiveFootSix)

#Art #Charity #Creativity #Inspiration #Playful #Graphic Design #Pop Art #Pop Culture #FiveFootSix #Artifact

Stairway to Heaven

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold And she's buying a stairway to heaven. When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed With a word she can get what she came for. Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.