8 websites to look for infographics inspiration

16.07.11

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Information graphics or in short, infographics, are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. With visual aids, complex data can be presented in graphical way and is easier to remember and more enjoyable when reading it. Currently, there are a lot of educational articles are presented in infographic on the Internet, and I found [...]

TokyoGenso: Illustrations of imaginative ruined Tokyo

25.08.10

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TokyoGenso is a series of amazing illustrations based on real locations in Tokyo but in ruined condition. It looks like the places has been abandoned for many years and become some sort of a dead city after an apocalyptic event. The artist of this series actually paint the illustration on an actual photo, thus the [...]

Amazing Illustrations from Zain7, a Japanese Illustrator

13.05.10

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When I look at Zain7 (ざいん) artworks, my eyes went big. Her illustrations are very rich in color and vivid, with a bit mix of texture and 3D space, which making her illustration really unique. I really like the illustrations of urban environment and structure with a girl character in it. Below are some of [...]

Rate your favorite “Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto” Cards

01.09.09

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Here we go again, this is the latest Foldees designer’s greeting card competition called “Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto”. From the name itself you will know that the competition theme involves around robot and a total of 85 cards are selected to be the finalists. That’s a huge collection of cards and now it’s time to [...]

Kazuki Takamatsu in Distanfeerism

16.04.09

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Yay! My first post after came back from vacation. During the trip to Japan I went to two big art event in Tokyo, one is 101Tokyo at Akiba Square and Art Fair Tokyo at Tokyo International Forum. Both art fairs are astonishing and I’m really impressed about the quality of the art works displayed and [...]

23 cool illustration style J-pop CD cover art

24.09.08

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Today we are going to appreciate the beauty of illustration style Japanese music CD cover art. CD cover art is something unique, some covers are designed to reflect the music styles and atmosphere, and some are to portray the personality of the music artists or groups. Many of them are using illustration instead of using [...]

Fun with FONTPARK 2.0

08.08.08

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Do you know that the image above was made out of Japanese characters? Recently I stumbled upon a very interesting flash site FONTPARK 2.0 by font foundry Morisawa. In FONTPARK 2.0, you can create interesting artwork by using only typography. It’s absolutely freedom on the creation and the only limit is your creativity and imagination! [...]

Retro Japanese pattern at Néojaponisme

20.07.08

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I always fascinated on Japanese retro pattern arts, because of it’s aesthetic and harmonic motifs. Recently I stumbled upon Néojaponisme site, where they released this interesting pattern that inspired by 1950′s modern Japanese graphic design. This red, black and white colored patterns will be released weekly, so be sure to check back the space in [...]

Download, print, cut & fold papercraft

22.06.08

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So suddenly you found out that your working space is a little boring and wanted to put some little cute miniature stuffs but without spending any money. Well, why don’t just making this do-it-yourself free papercraft? There are several sites that offer free downloadable nicely designed paper models in PDF or picture format. You can [...]

Tokyo Plastic geisha dolls x Jon Burgerman’s Tiddles

19.05.08

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Look at the sweet collaboration between Tokyo Plastic’s famous geisha dolls with Jon Burgerman’s Tiddles character illustration. This dolls was part of the Tokyo Plastics’ “King of Masters” exhibition at The Showroom in New York City. Well from the result, it is just plugging the Geisha Dolls head into Tiddles, but indeed the result is [...]