Animography: Check Out This Free Animated Typeface for Designers

What happens when you let 110 animators do whatever they like to one typeface? Franchise Animated, a dynamic typography set by Animography, happens. The typeface was created by one type designer and a handful of contributing artists providing different animations. The project asked each artist to animate one glyph in Adobe After Effects using no more than… Continue reading Animography: Check Out This Free Animated Typeface for Designers

12 Clever Illustrations Morphed with Real Life Objects

Here at DashBurst, we often like to mix a little humor with more serious real world matters. So you can imagine how we felt stumbling upon Alex Solis, a talented artist based out of Chicago, who often combines illustration with reality. His drawings cleverly merge real objects and drawn ones as if they were one. The… Continue reading 12 Clever Illustrations Morphed with Real Life Objects

The Gig Economy: Fiverr Celebrates 2 Million Services Milestone [INFOGRAPHIC]

Fiverr is a global marketplace of micro-jobs where sellers seek doers for small tasks and services, or gigs, that all start at, you guessed it, $5. Though Fiverr started just three years ago, it has already surpassed the 2 million gig milestone, listing gigs in 120 categories across more than 200 countries. Check out an interactive data visualization… Continue reading The Gig Economy: Fiverr Celebrates 2 Million Services Milestone [INFOGRAPHIC]

17 Iconic First Issue Covers of Famous Magazines

Do you remember when you could get a copy of Time magazine for only 15 cents? You probably don’t because that was nearly 100 years ago. Some of the magazines we read each day have been around for decades. As these magazines grow, they update their cover look and feel to move with the times. Can you… Continue reading 17 Iconic First Issue Covers of Famous Magazines

Fresh Looks for Classic Books: 10 Crowdsourced Cover Designs for Works in the Public Domain

Despite their age, classic works of literature like Dracula, War and Peace, The Time Machine, Crime and Punishment, and Madame Bovary are just as relevant to life today as they were to life when they were originally published. Luckily for us, when a book’s intellectual property rights expire they fall into the public domain. We… Continue reading Fresh Looks for Classic Books: 10 Crowdsourced Cover Designs for Works in the Public Domain

15 Spooky Yet Beautifully Animated GIFs That Explore the Duality of Life

Have you ever wondered about the duality often times presented to us in life? Like can there be life, without death? Or how in order to learn, you have to first be ignorant. The collection of art here today also has a unique quality of being both mysterious yet beautiful, combining vintage photographs from the… Continue reading 15 Spooky Yet Beautifully Animated GIFs That Explore the Duality of Life

If Corporate Logos Were Reinvented as Chinese Ceramics

What would happen if you combined traditional art with contemporary corporate culture? Artist Li Lihong is able to carefully juxtapose familiar corporate logos, like those of Apple and MTV, with traditional ceramics and Chinese iconography. In these pieces Li creates fresh works of contemporary art while paying tribute to older design forms. Check out Li’s… Continue reading If Corporate Logos Were Reinvented as Chinese Ceramics

Time is a Dimension: Artist Captures Passage of Time Through Layered Photography

Time is always present, yet it’s impossible to actually see. Time is a hidden dimension that photographer Fong Qi Wei looks to creatively capture in a single 4D-image by stacking layers of photo strips taken from the same location over a 2 to 4 hour timespan. The effect itself will make you feel like you’re… Continue reading Time is a Dimension: Artist Captures Passage of Time Through Layered Photography