Fervr Design

11/07/2020

BBC Arts

BBC Arts

What's the connection between the imperial docking bay on the Death Star and a glass shower screen bought from a DIY shop? James Fox explains... (via BBC Four)

10/30/2020

The New Yorker

Bye, haters.

10/30/2020

My Modern Met

My Modern Met

Have you ever seen wood bend without breaking? Designers Serge and Pablo have developed dukta (flexible wood) through an ingenious method of carving.

08/09/2020

From 'Wild Horses' to 'Wild Things,' a window into Maurice Sendak's creative process

From 'Wild Horses' to 'Wild Things,' a window into Maurice Sendak's creative process

Fans of “Where the Wild Things Are,” Maurice Sendak’s most famous book, might know every page by heart. But few know the winding path it took from idea to published book – a gestation process that involved experimentation, playfulness and persistence.As professors of children’s literature ...

08/07/2020

The Velvet Underground as Peanuts Characters: Snoopy Morphs Into Lou Reed, Charlie Brown Into Andy Warhol

The Velvet Underground as Peanuts Characters: Snoopy Morphs Into Lou Reed, Charlie Brown Into Andy Warhol

The fun cartoon above was apparently found in a 'Guide to the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol's Factory' published by the French magazine, Les Inrockuptibles in 1990.

07/30/2020

The New Yorker Cartoons

A cartoon by Jody Zellman. http://nyer.cm/bHTcOvU

07/09/2020

Gary Larson just shared his first new Far Side comics in over 25 years

Gary Larson just shared his first new Far Side comics in over 25 years

Earlier this week, Larson quietly posted a handful of new, single-frame comics on his website—his first new public work within the series in over two-and-a-half decades—and, thankfully, they’re as oddball as ever.

07/01/2020

Drawing Escape

Drawing Escape

Artist Berkay Gursoy takes a very technical approach to accurately drawing everyday objects from different angles.

07/01/2020

BBC Archive

BBC Archive

#OTD 1945: Debbie Harry was born. In 1981, 'Newsnight' caught up with her on the set of her H.R. Giger directed music video.

06/28/2020

The End of an Era: A Short Film About The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at The New York Times (1978)

The End of an Era: A Short Film About The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at The New York Times (1978)

This is usually what happens when I write a piece for Open Culture: As I drink an overpriced coffee at my local coffee shop, I research a topic on the internet, write and edit an article on Microsoft Word and then copy and paste the whole thing into WordPress.

06/06/2020

Mad magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 after a record-breaking career

Mad magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 after a record-breaking career

Mad will pay tribute to Jaffee next week, with its final issue of all-new material.

05/21/2020

Explore KEITH HARING | JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: CROSSING LINES in 3D

Explore KEITH HARING | JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: CROSSING LINES in 3D

Matterport 3D Showcase

05/19/2020

Traditional Animation

"The Mystery of Mickey's Ears Revealed" by Ward Kimball #MickeyMouse #wardkimball #waltdisneyanimation

04/25/2020

The New Yorker Cartoons

A cartoon by Joe Dator. http://nyer.cm/P0te5d8

04/24/2020

The New Yorker Cartoons

A cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein.

04/17/2020

Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Releases Free Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away & More

Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Releases Free Backgrounds for Virtual Meetings: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away & More

To a degree that surpasses any other studio in animation history, Studio Ghibli has created a reality of its own.

04/01/2020

Handwritten 19th-Century Color Guide Poetically Describes Where Shades Are Found in Nature

Handwritten 19th-Century Color Guide Poetically Describes Where Shades Are Found in Nature

With these notes, artists, naturalists, and other curious observers of the past were able to study their surroundings like never before.

03/26/2020

Art Hunter

Art Hunter

Artist Fynn Jackson creates amazing origami masks that are incredibly detailed. The way he creases and folds a single sheet of paper to produce faces unbelievable!

03/26/2020

Japanese Artist Has Drawn Every Meal He’s Eaten for 32 Years: Behold the Delicious Illustrations of Itsuo Kobayashi

Japanese Artist Has Drawn Every Meal He’s Eaten for 32 Years: Behold the Delicious Illustrations of Itsuo Kobayashi

Since the 1980s, Itsuo Kobayashi has drawn a picture of every single meal he eats. However notable we find this practice now, it would surely have struck us as downright eccentric back then.

03/16/2020

Hey, Did You Know Bob Dylan Is A Steampunk Metalworker?

Hey, Did You Know Bob Dylan Is A Steampunk Metalworker?

Me, neither! But Mood Swings, a new exhibition at London’s Halcyon Gallery, will be showing off a series of large-scale metalworks—seven gates made from vintage iron scraps, hand-welded by the man himself.

03/16/2020

Moonlight Etchings of the Forgotten Artist who Taught Edward Hopper

Moonlight Etchings of the Forgotten Artist who Taught Edward Hopper

Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; a retired art teacher who had found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression took away the demand for his craft, leaving Lewis to spend his last three decades teaching other people how to etch. History chose Edward

01/30/2020

The Forgotten Woman Who Designed The Creature From The Black Lagoon

The Forgotten Woman Who Designed The Creature From The Black Lagoon

A new book by Mallory O'Meara explores the life of artist Milicent Patrick, who worked on Fantasia and costumed a legendary Hollywood monster — and then ran afoul of misogyny in the workplace.

01/04/2020

Vogue Italia Reduced Its Carbon Footprint by Hiring Artists to Illustrate Its January Issue Instead of Staging Elaborate Photo Shoots

Vogue Italia Reduced Its Carbon Footprint by Hiring Artists to Illustrate Its January Issue Instead of Staging Elaborate Photo Shoots

To cut back on the environmental toll of photo shoots, the magazine has tapped artists to depict the issue’s fashion.

12/28/2019

The New Yorker Cartoons

A cartoon by Pia Guerra.

12/10/2019

A Giant Alien Xenomorph Made Out of Gingerbread

A Giant Alien Xenomorph Made Out of Gingerbread

Norwegian cake designer Carolina Eriksson built a truly impressive giant Alien Xenomorph sculpture. In order to make this, Eriksson took homemade

11/30/2019

66.media.tumblr.com

66.media.tumblr.com

11/24/2019

Doctor Who and the T.A.R.D.I.S.

10/05/2019

Art and Expression

Origami cat. By nyanko sensei

08/30/2019

Synchro Graphic

日本艺术家已经超越了人类的极限‼️

08/09/2019

Eric Alper

A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

07/31/2019

BBC Archive

BBC Archive

#OnThisDay 1981: Newsnight went to Zurich, to report on an unlikely collaboration between H.R. Giger and Debbie Harry.

07/05/2019

When Accidental Art Is Better Than Your Actual Art (202 Pics)

When Accidental Art Is Better Than Your Actual Art (202 Pics)

Bored Panda has compiled a list of accidental art to show that sometimes the most beautiful art is just pure luck.

06/30/2019

Amazing Macro Shots Taken Inside Instruments By Adrian Borda - Arthusiast

Amazing Macro Shots Taken Inside Instruments By Adrian Borda - Arthusiast

Adrian Borda is an artist and photographer from Reghin, Romania. Borda managed to take a fascinating series of photos from the insides of old instruments like a cello and contrabass. To achieve these shots, Borda fit a Sony NEX-6 camera equipped with a Samyang 8mm fisheye lens inside the instrument....

06/28/2019

Dynamic Wood Sculptures Carved to Look Like Pixelated Glitches

Dynamic Wood Sculptures Carved to Look Like Pixelated Glitches

Taiwanese sculptor Hsu Tung Han continues to amaze us with his expertly crafted wood sculptures.

06/14/2019

8 Psychological Tricks of Restaurant Menus - Mental Floss - Pocket

8 Psychological Tricks of Restaurant Menus - Mental Floss - Pocket

How restaurants use their menus to influence what you're having for dinner.