Portrait of an Insect

Portraits of Insects

Fascinating set of portraits of various insects.

[via BoingBoing]

Look Up More Often

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York.

Nice set of print commercials for the Renault Mégane Cabriolet, encouraging everyone to look up more often.

[via Design You Trust]

Environmental Graffiti

satellite image of Lena River, Russia

An amazing round-up of some of the the most stunning satellite imagery taken of earth that I have seen.

Silent World

Silent World by Michael Kenna

Zen photography by Michael Kenna.

Verkehrsprojekte

Hans-Christian Schink, A 71, Brücke Wilde Gera, aus: VDE (Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit)

Hans-Christian Schink proves with his Verkehrsprojekte deutsche Einheit that no underside of a bridge is too boring and no day too dull to take stunning architectural photographs.

Juan Molinet’s Useless Deities and Demigods

God of Sound by Juan Molinet

Including the ‘The Ogoh Ogoh Demigod of Cartoon Movies’, ‘The Malayan Sacred Ox of Partial Wisdom’ and the God of Sound (pictured).

Dmitry Maksimov

Photographic Illustration by Dmitry Maksimov

A truly wonderful balance of photography, illustration and execution by Dmitry Maksimov.

[via Design You Trust]

Colour Photos of Nazi Controlled Paris

Nazi controlled Paris

This one hit the news a few weeks back, very interesting (and rare) colour photography of Paris while it was under Nazi rule in the second world war.

Kunstformen der Natur

Hexacoralla from Kunstformen der Natur by Ernst Haeckel

Loosely translated as “The Artforms of Nature”, this is an online version of this stunning book of biological imagery from the 1900’s by Ernst Haeckel.

Figure and Ground

Jared & Glen  Maui, HI. by Richard Renaldi

Brilliant set of (mainly) portrait photography around (mainly) the US by Richard Renaldi.

Rod Hunt

Christmas Office Party by Rod Hunt

I have always been a fan of these isometric, well-detailed life illustrations, Rod Hunt is up there with the best.

A Day In The Life

Interesting doc-music-video detailing the production and stories behind The Beatles legendary tune A Day In The Life. Fascinating how much of it comprised of little ‘accidents’ which could never happen in today’s recording process, but culminate to make the track truly genuine and authentic.

[via Cynical-C]

Savas Ozay

Faces by Savas Ozay

Intriguing typographic poster design by Savas Ozay. There are also a bunch more ‘work in progress’ images on his Flickr stream.

BMW Kinetic Sculpture

Video of the fantastic kinetic sculpture at the newly opened BMW Museum in Munich. A set of silver balls suspended by strings, pulled like a puppet to create wonderful 3d flowing shapes.

[via engadget]

Wang Quingsong

Archaeologist by Wang Quingsong

Bejing photographer; Wang Quingsong uses huge sets and extras to pose for his stunning and poignant photographs.