Inspire me

a collection of art & design

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Afropunk Festival Rebrand by Yuma Naito

‘To piece the rebrand together Yuma created a custom typeface, APF Display, which represents the festival’s unique sensibility forming its own visual language “in a very playful way”. Alongside this, the designer has created a second poster series for its 15th anniversary event, Afrotopia. “The series of posters demonstrates how logotype would be used as a pattern, along with collages that represent DIY aspects of both Afropunk culture and Afrofuturism,” he explains.The result is bold and brave, with long elongated type that slots together satisfyingly and by “introducing onomatopoeia, the posters tell stories about what people would feel and experience at the event in a typographic way”.’

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Pokemon by Dane Cozens

‘I began drawing realistic Pokémon when I was 10.  Recently, I decided to revisit this challenge and understand the story of the pokémon world. In this suburban sci-fi world, children and teenagers leave home to go on a rite of passage.  To prove their worth, the children capture, train, and battle with monsters.  In my posters, the children use pokédex, a cellphone-like computer, to scan the fully-evolved versions of three iimportant pokémon.’

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Animated Illustrations by Yoyo

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Animated Illustrations by Pauline

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Paper Flowers by Haruka Misawa 

‘Sharpening my pencil, the pencil shavings presenting an arrestingly beautiful form. Curled up in a ring-shaped crown, they looked like the petals of a flower. I thought I could reproduce that stunning impression in a more crystallized way using layers of paper, so that a flower blossoms when a pencil-shaped cylindrical scroll of paper is sharpened. I printed BIOTOPE GA-FS paper with a color gradation, applied paste to the surface, wrapped it around a core into a pencil-like form, and shaved it. These “pencil” shavings are only about 15mm-40mm in diameter, but a close look reveals individual shavings made of thinly sliced, multi-layered paper. You can sense the materiality of the individual sheets of paper, both from the cross section showing the paper’s original color and from the printed side.’

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I Wonder What It's Like To Be Dyslexic by Sam Barclay

‘The principles of reading are fascinating when it comes to the importance of typography. This book shows a few different ways of displaying type that might best represent the way in which a person with dyslexia might read. In general, those that can read tend to take it for granted, and are confused by the struggles that many people experience. The question frequently asked is - ‘I wonder what it is like to be dyslexic?’. Inside is a short story from the book ‘The Small Pleasures of Life’. The story is used to express some of the struggles a dyslexic person might have while reading.’

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Dream Notebook by Lolo Zhang

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Book of Tree by H OUT H

‘After Xmas, New York people throw out all their newly bought fresh and green Xmas trees on the streets. It becomes a urban spectacle which stacked by holiday waste culture.The book binding design is from the concept of annual ring. Different size of papers and different side of images can make you reading this book much more fun by your own way.’

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Portfolio / CV—2015 by Kristina Nikaj

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Aerial Photographs by Jeffrey Milstein

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Your Name Trailer (or Kimi no na ha) Directed by Makoto Shinkai

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Sailor Moon Illustrations by Ann Marcellino

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Night Photography by Masashi Wakui

A beautiful photo series that explore the back paths of Shibuya, Shinjyuku and various other districts. 

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Fallout 4 concept art by Bethesda

‘Creating art is a very personal thing. Every individual who works here puts a little bit of him or herself into the game. A project of this complexity and scope requires extensive planning, structure, and organization, but our best work comes from the cumulative result of all these personal touches made by many creative individuals. You will encounter numerous things of this kind during your travels in the Wasteland—things that might have originated as an unexpected but inspired doodle or a little idea that an individual or group came up with, were passionate about, and then added to the game.’

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BRUTO by Manifesto Futura

‘We worked with Alfredo Villanueva, choosing "chili” as our main ingredient, so we could stand out our culture bringing the name of “Mexico” to an international exhibition not only by design but also by it’s gastronomy. In a world where everything screams, everything is flashy, BRUTO remains an outsider, confirming that what is well made can get along with simplicity. What is startling is not necessarily noisy’

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Illustration by Zain

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ÉCONOMIE DE L'ATTENTION by Elodie Loan

“Our attention today is easily disturbed by our smartphones, tablets, or other notifications. The amount of information that we receive is increasingly digital and invades our field of vision, attention. The technological and digital revolution brings increasingly over the years, the pixels in our environment. It is in a triptych I expressed the evolution and invasion of these digital media in our field of vision. “

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