If there’s any artist you should be following on Instagram, it’s Web and graphic designer Javier Pérez Estrella. There he posts photographs combining playful illustrations with real world objects like paperclips and pliers, creating an element of surprise. Below you’ll find some of my favorites of his work: Find more of Pérez’s illustrations on Instagram.… Continue reading These Playful Instagrams Combine Simple Illustrations with Everyday Objects for Unusual Effects
Month: November 2013
Stuck? Google Can Connect You With Knowledgeable Experts in Real-Time Video ‘Helpouts’
Whenever you’re stuck on a problem, don’t you wish you could get help, right then and there, from someone who really knows what they’re doing? With its new Helpouts service, Google is helping you use technology to receive just this sort of guidance exactly when you need it. Helpouts are a way to receive over… Continue reading Stuck? Google Can Connect You With Knowledgeable Experts in Real-Time Video ‘Helpouts’
Get Your Idea Funded: Branding Expert Nicole Delger Dishes about Running a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
Taking an idea for a business or creative project from brainstorming to reality can be daunting, especially when money is an obstacle. Bank loans can be extremely difficult for small business owners to obtain, and even when loans are accessible the terms can be debilitating. Sure, a limited number of artists and entrepreneurs are able… Continue reading Get Your Idea Funded: Branding Expert Nicole Delger Dishes about Running a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
The Modern Day Proposal
For years, philosophers have pondered many questions that challenge our observations and perceptions of reality. Like, “if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Fast forward to modern times and new existential issues have surfaced regarding how our behavior online relates to our… Continue reading The Modern Day Proposal
Meet Your Personal NSA Agent
John F. Kennedy once said you should “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” But national morale is pretty low these days, and people have begun to wonder if this country is actually doing anything worth standing up for. In an effort to buy some… Continue reading Meet Your Personal NSA Agent
Twitter Beefs Up Its IPO Price Range
In a surprising move on Monday, Twitter decided to raise the starting price of its initial public offering into the $23-$25 range. This is a significant increase from its previous $17-$20 pricing and would give the company a $13.9 billion evaluation! The move, which was likely made in response to great potential demand for the… Continue reading Twitter Beefs Up Its IPO Price Range
17 Psychedelic City Skylines and Watercolor Maps of the World
What do you think the world would look like to Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead? Perhaps if he ever documented and mapped his travels, it would look similar to these tie-dyed watercolor cityscapes and map diagrams by BOX21. Based in Sorbonne, Paris, Tom of BOX21 enjoys creating contemporary watercolor and oil paintings. He wrote… Continue reading 17 Psychedelic City Skylines and Watercolor Maps of the World
Visualize Your Designs on Real Surfaces in Real-Time Using New Illustrator Plugin by Apple Veteran
Creating believable prototypes of graphic designs in their real world context can be one of the most time consuming parts of the design process. To simplify this process and help give designers a more accurate feel for how their work would look on real surfaces, Apple design veteran Joshua Distler has created Context, a Mac… Continue reading Visualize Your Designs on Real Surfaces in Real-Time Using New Illustrator Plugin by Apple Veteran
