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Illustrator and designer Jessica Hische, who has an array of big name clients including Barnes & Nobles, American Express, Victoria Secret, has created Veiny Type, typography that is reminiscent of a heart with its purple, blue and reds colors and, of course, its veins. It was created for her client Chatelaine and accompanied an article about women’s…

Bristol-based Illustrator Andy Council creates detailed urban dinosaurs that have literally become a part of our modern landscape. Consisting of buildings, highways and anything else you would find in a city, these dinosaurs are far from prehistoric. Council describes his work by saying, "I use my drawing skills and love of detail to create bizarrely intricate collections of…

Design firm P-06 Atelier collaborated with architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça to create a stunning surrounding space for the Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon. Dubbed SKIN, the moveable walls in the interactive science and economy museum have symbols, typography and patterns cut into them. The walls also contain the American Standard Code for Information…

Véronique La Perriére M.'s charcoal drawings are surreal and almost a bit creepy, yet one can't help but to continue to look at them and wonder what's going on. La Perriére describes her art by saying, "My artistic practice is choreographed around questions that relate to memory, perception and identity. Through the medium of drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation and video,…

Steve Wheen started the Pothole Gardener project as part of a university course. Over time, the project turned into a blog that follows his gardening efforts around East London. Wheen describes his endeavors as "part art project, part labour of love, part experiment, part mission to highlight how s*** our roads are – the pictures and gardens are supposed to put smiles on peoples faces and…

L’éclat, the chocolate boutique of the Righa Royal Hotel Japan, has created beautiful planetary chocolates that look too pretty to resist. The chocolates are edible replicas of the planets Mercury (coconut mango), Venus (cream lemon), Earth (cacao), Mars (orange praline), Jupiter (vanilla), Saturn (rum raisin), Uranus (milk tea) and Neptune (cappuccino).

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Themed weddings have become quite the trend. Kelley and Edmund's Up-themed wedding proved to be cute and adorable and now Lauren Brimhall's creative Alice in Wonderland-inspired wedding photos have popped up onto the scene. In this series, Erin as…

Colored pencils are not only great for creating art, they can be art themselves! We've already seen this once with the gorgeous gradient color pencil display and now we see it again with sculptor Motohiro Tomii's Table of Pencils, an installation at the Museum of Contemporary…

How wonderfully whimsical is this? For lighting company Estiluz, CrousCalogero has designed a beautiful balloon-shaped lamp that's perfect for lighting up any room. With its playful design, the lamp would be absolutely perfect for a child's room or even a nursery. Casting a soft white glow and available as a suspension lamp or a wall lamp, it measures 10 1/4" across and 13 1/4"…

Jason Hull searches for lightweight, plastic vintage cameras at flea markets, garage sales or on eBay to convert them into creative and cute nightlights. Hull does not modify cameras, however, if they are rare or in pristine condition. As he explains, "I'd rather they stay usable as…

In order to entice more people to read, rather than spend time on social media and the Internet, Milwaukee Public Library launched an interesting advertisement campaign that puts a funny twist on the famous social media logos we've all grown to love. Specifically, they've put a clever spin on the Facebook, YouTube and Twitter logos, giving people a friendly…

After given the amazing opportunity to paint segments of the Berlin Wall in Los Angeles, artistic duo Herakut exhibited their unique style of painting in a pop-up show in Germany. Herakut…

Artist Anne ten Donkelaar heals damaged butterflies by giving them new wings made of a variety of materials including gold, old maps, roots, threads and embroidery. Although the butterflies are no longer alive, they are given a new lease on life with their interesting new wings which are both beautiful and intricately designed. Donkelaar, who is inspired by nature and found objects,…

Walter Mason of Germany considers himself a land artist but what exactly does that mean? A land artist is someone who uses nature as an art form, displaying materials like flowers, soil, snow, rocks in their natural habitat. Walter Mason's vision is particularly stunning. In fact, the photograph shown above has become a viral hit on Tumblr!

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Date of Birth: May 4, 1910

Through his freelance exhibition project Jahrhundertmensch, which means "Happy at One Hundred" in German, Karsten Thormaehlen takes photographs of men and women over one hundred years old. These portraits are very sharp and detailed, clearly showing every wrinkle (and twinkle) present in the subjects' faces. The…

Canadian environmental artist Nicole Dextras creates large ice sculptures to form letters and words as part of her Ice Topography installation series. She made the icy block letters, which range from 18 inches to 8 feet tall, by pouring water into a very large mould and then freezing it. She then assembled the letters to create words and strategically placed them against beautiful…

Tsuneaki Hiramatsu's photos of fireflies and their light trails are nothing short of magical. The photos, taken in various places around Maniwa and Okayama Prefecture in Japan, are a series of slow shutter and multi-exposure composites that show fireflies as they mate after thunderstorms during the June to July rainy season. Light painting in photography is nothing new, in fact, it's a trend we…

Models Saskia de Brauw and Joan Smalls pose near the ocean at France's Hôtel du Cap Eden Roc for Chanel's 2012 Spring campaign. Captured by Chanel's creative director Karl Lagerfeld, the black and white photographs feature these gorgeous models striking athletic poses on gymnastics equipment, but it doesn't look like they're breaking a sweat. Rather, they look…

Canadian photographer Danny Turcotte, owner of Catch-Light Photography, put his camera on a tripod and then used long exposures in the dark (with the shutter locked open) to create these colorful yet spooky light painting photos. Astoundingly, each of the photos in this series are from one single exposure. He did not use Photoshop or any other type of post processing software to achieve these…