by Mike Stilkey

The American artist, Mike Stilkey, has come up with a whole new possibility for the use of books. Making use of a mixture of paint, coloured pencil and varnish, Mr. Stilkey creates charming portraits – with a shadowy personality à la Tim Burton – utilizing hundreds of books as his original canvases.

Check the results of this curious technic and get to know the work of this inventive artist who has demystified the good old saying that “one can not judge a book by its cover”. (mais…)

Jan Lenica’s Posters

Jan Lenica (January 4^th 1928, Poznań, Poland – October 5^th 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist. Graduate of the Architecture Faculty at the Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica was specialized in poster, graphic design, book illustration, stage design and from 1957 on he became a collaborator on the early animation films of his compatriot and film director, Walerian Borowczyk. Author of the term Polish School of Poster, he lectured at the Harvard University in 1974 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1986 until 1994. (mais…)

Pt.1…

“Creativity, the ability to generate innovative ideas and bring them from thought into reality, meets Invercote in the latest campaign from Swedish premium paperboard producer Iggesund. The idea behind this campaign is actually quite simple:  What will happen if you give a designer a tool with which he or she can do whatever they like? The only condition being that they make use of the unique properties of Invercote.”

Those who liked about the project of Van Heertum Design VHD, may want to get to know the concept conceived by Landor Associates for the Black Box project Thinking inside the box. (mais…)

Adidas Facebook Superstars by Gerry Mckay

Adolf “Adi” Dassler was the founder of the German sportswear company, Adidas. Mr. Dassler, who died in 1978, has obviously never met the 26-year-old American entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg, who co-founded the most used social networking service, the Facebook. (mais…)

The Black Box project by Van Heertum Design

Thanks to Sven Spierings for both the suggest and the support.

One of the giants of the paperboard business, the Swedish company, Iggesund Paperboard – member of the Holmen Group and Europe’s leading manufacturer of high quality virgin fibre paperboard for use in the packaging and graphics sectors – has issued an exclusive challenge to designers or design teams with a proven track record experience in developing and producing complex packaging and print projects.

What will happen if you give a designer a tool with which he or she can do whatever they like? The only condition being that they make use of the unique properties of Invercote – Iggesund’s solid bleached board. The idea behind this campaign is actually quite simple: celebrate creativity as the ability to generate innovative ideas and bring them from thought into reality. The launch of Iggesund’s Black Box project Thinking inside the box was held few days ago, November 23^rd, in Paris, in the fabulous settings of the Cercle Suedois/Swedish Club in conjunction with the famous Les Places d’Or – design and luxury packaging exhibition. (mais…)

by Marcelo Daldoce

Wine addicts, please do not take this as a waste. Besides its normal function of delighting the world with a wide range of flavors and aromas, the Brazilian painter and illustrator, Marcelo Daldoce, has given this traditional beverage another finality. The artist explores the diverse tonalities of different types of wine and skilfully uses it as some kind of ink. The process consists in diluting the beverage with water to achieve a result similar to aquarelle.

Enjoy all tastes and fragrances that stylishly exhale from these fine paintings… Cheers! (mais…)

Wiktor Sadowski’s Posters

A fine representative of the great Polish poster tradition, Wiktor Sadowski, was born in Olendry, in 1956. Twenty five years later, in 1981, he graduated at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and obtained his diploma under the supervision of professor Henryk Tomaszewski. Specialised in poster, painting and book illustration, Sadowski’s work clearly manifests his tremendous artistry and skill. (mais…)