Carrie Ann Baade is an internationally exhibiting artist whose surreal oil paintings are rich with allegorical meta-narratives inspired by literature and art history. She is also currently an Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University.
Her imaginative portraits and narratives are informed by religion and mythology. Gods, rulers, demons, and monsters play out [...]

Nation Toys & Tee’s is Calgary’s premier boutique retailer of Vinyl Toys and designer goods for creatives. This unique product line is reinforced through the support of regular monthly exhibitions of original artist works. The overall feel of the retail environment is bright, fun and whimsical.
The website was created by Carbon, a “creativity with [...]

lightexture creates unique designer lamps that incorporate clay, porcelain, ready-made objects, lighting components and more. One of their goals is to create energy efficient fixtures, while maintaining focus on their atmospheric and spatial performance. Their dazzling illuminations are the result of a collaboration between Architect Yael Erel and lighting designer Avner Ben Natan. They design [...]

Alex Kuno depicts the folly and sinfulness of humankind in the wide-eyed and morose children with terrible secrets in the ever-changing story he refers to as “The Miscreants of Tiny Town”. His paintings recall the earthy, unsentimental, vivid genre paintings of Brueghel and some of his other influences on the series are Otto Dix, Beatrix [...]

To wear a piece of art, is to participate in it’s story. It is about forming an emotional link with the piece and realizing you are a work of art yourself. Sonya Lindsay of Ancient Grove doesn’t just create simple costumes, she creates wearable art in the form of one-of-a-kind fairy wings, fairy costumes, and [...]

The characters created by Michela Muserra are inspired by the manga and anime style, and partially to the typical disproportion of the Kokeshi dolls. Large heads and dreaming eyes are physical attributes that refer to the childhood and cartoon world. Her work can be defined as “kawaii”, a Japanese term corresponds to the English “cute” [...]

Nobody does it better than Elsa “Elsita” Mora, one of my favorite multimedia artists with a seemingly infinite evolution of ideas. In case anyone from art school is hovering, her awe-inspiring artworks grab your attention and make the most of every last detail. Her creations span so many media, it’s no wonder she is one [...]

Every now and again, I wander over to check on the Design for Chunks website. Created as a side project by Oz Dean of forcefeed:swede, it was an online exhibition site exploring the art of in-flight sickness bags that has run since 2000. They collaborated with Virgin Atlantic in 2004 and half a million bags [...]

Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, Lesley Reppeteaux is a published comic book author and illustrator and has exhibited her paintings at galleries such as Thinkspace, Copro/Nason, La Luz De Jesus, Gallery 1988, Strychnin, Last Rites, as well as many esteemed international galleries. She has been featured in King Brown, Hi-Fructose, Art Prostitute, Xfubs and Lemonade [...]

There was a bit in Eastenders when Ricky said, “we were goin’ at it ‘ammer ‘n tongs!” I think it’s brilliant that Hammer & Tongs pinched it for the beginning of their showreel.
When H&T was little (circa 1999), their big idea was: to make pop promos on MTV in a company where you could do [...]

Onextrapixel has compiled a group interview showcasing the some of the most talented female web designers from around the world. I am honored to be included on a list with so many talented ladies. I’ve been honing my craft as a web designer since the mid-90s, so it’s incredibly amazing to be recognized again this [...]

I’m a big fan of Tyler Stout’s intricately detailed illustrations. His limited edition movie posters are nostalgic, visual celebrations of some of the quintessential 80’s cult classics. In fact, I have his “Lost Boys” and “Blade Runner” posters hanging in my studio. His limited edition prints sell-out very quickly. I’m still kicking myself for missing [...]

If you can believe it, I still have almost every bookmark I made from the time I first logged into AOL in 1994. Sometimes, I look back at those really old bookmarks and compare their websites to the way they look today and check the design iterations along the way on the Wayback Machine.
This [...]

I have admired the work of Jennybird Alcantara since I first stumbled across her website in 2005. Even then, her enigmatic and thought-provoking paintings and sketches explored the darker realms of human nature. It’s hard not to mistake the artist when encountering one of her many provocative works set in subversive, mythological worlds. I would [...]

Philip Straub is a well-known fine artist and digital illustrator who creates breathtaking, magical masterpieces. His luminous and meticulously detailed digital and traditional oil paintings have classical influences but are purely based on the fantastic. Philip focuses on invoking an emotional response from his images through composition, color, light and subject matter. Although a conceptual [...]

WPin is a community resource for users new to WordPress. I’m honored that the Website Bakery was included in the “100+ Beautiful WordPress Blog Headers” article. It’s wonderful to be listed alongside the other excellent and inspirational WordPress website header artwork.
While all of the headers listed had very lovely designs, not all of them [...]

Ëlodie is a French illustrator specializing in fashion illustration and portraiture. With a fascination for 60′ graphic design and fashion, she plays with different kinds of traditional and hand drawn techniques such as pigment liner, watercolor and pencil. Then, they are digitally enriched with typography and other graphical elements to produce a vintage style.
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Yoav Kotik, the designer of the “precious metal” jewelry line, gives new life to scrap objects that have terminated their original purpose. Collecting mostly metal items, caps and cans, he polishes them from the dust of the road to fulfill their vast potential, revealing layers and exposing emotions from their “past life”. He bends, [...]

DrFranken is a digital illustrator and graphic designer. He’s also one half of the NastPlas studio of digital art illustration in Madrid, Spain. They collaborate to create pictures with different techniques such as Airbrush, 3D, Fractal Art, matte painting, vector art. Demeter, their latest project, took several weeks to complete. The idea was to [...]

All the best from the Netherlands… Patswerk, a graphic design agency, was founded in 2008 by long time friends Ramon Avelino, Rogier Mulder and Lex van Tol. Their shared love for graffiti, drawing and graphic design is what binds them. Even though each of the Patswerk members has his own graphic style, they always try [...]

Old Savannah tours is the only locally owned and operated Trolley Tour Company in Savannah. When I first started living there in the 80’s, I took a tour through more than two and a half centuries of history so I could get to know the city. It’s fascinating to see Savannah as the early colonists [...]

Venture into the glorious world of color with LouLou & Tummie, a Dutch illustration duo who spend their days building an ever expanding empire of candy-coated graphics and cute, happy characters. Led by their craving for toys, happiness and all things cute or robot-like, they abuse their computers to spit out designs that can be [...]

Ludovic Jacqz is a French artist living in Bordeaux with an affinity towards portraying melancholy young females with gemstone eye details in dreamlike atmospheres. Influenced by Japanese animation and works in watercolor, markers, paints, crayons and Bic, Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Martin Romero is a Visual Effects Artist and 3D generalist currently teaching online fx classes at the Academy of Art University where he is also pursuing a masters in visual effects. He specializes in the creation of visual effects and also photo realistic texturing and lighting using tools such as Maya, 3Ds Max, Photoshop, After [...]

Stunning illustrations by the enigmatic artist, Kei Liwanag, an old digital painter and a new oil painter from the Philippines. She is deeply inspired by the works of oil painting masters like Rembrandt, Sargent, Bouguereau, Repin, and a lot more.
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Wellington-based Salted Herring, is an award-winning interactive agency specializing in creating quality online experiences. In 2000, while in London, Kate Handley and Pep Zuijderwijk collectively established their Dutch-inspired Website Consultancy. They’ve worked with a number of big Europe-wide campaigns and have gained valuable experience into the global industry of Interactive Media and Website Design. After [...]