Ace of Spades: A Showcase of Card Art
We’ve all played cards at some point, but seldom seem to give a second look at the variation and art we handle so commonly. Pixellica takes a look at several iterations of card design and art, epitomized by the most common card of them all.
Focus on Shane Devries
Australia-based Shane Devries is an excellent illustrator and captures the heart of a character’s emotion. The facial expressions he put on his creations tell the whole story, even if nothing else were visible. Shane is twenty-five, and ”likes to draw.” Check out his blog (link below)
Focus on Digital Illustrator Glenn Robinson
Glenn Robinson, who works as Creative Director for Intrinsic Nature and also maintains his personal site FreshIsrael.com, is an entirely self-taught illustrator living in Sacremento, CA, USA. His illustrative style ranges from abstract to that flashy Photoshop style you can imitate yourself and just plain have fun with.
17 Awesome Examples of Animate & Inanimate Origami
Paper folding is a very hands-on art. Rather than simply making the paper sculptures, these artists created a story using origami and stop-motion animation. Art takes a 3D, time-consuming process to completion in each of these examples — some are short, but still in a way tell a beautiful tale of patience and creativity.
Video: Rooftop Scene from The Matrix in Legos™
I saw this a couple days ago on Twitter — and haven’t seen it linked up anywhere else so here it is. I’m no fan of the movie, but it’s cool seeing it done with the very Lego™ bricks and guys I used to play with when I was growing up. Video after the break…
Awesome Typographic Illustrations by Tariq Yosef
Every once in a while there’s an artist who kind of blows your mind. Tariq’s style of rendering illustrations and portraits in typography is nothing short of breathtaking. Tariq is on Behance, on Flickr, and you can check out his personal website as well.
Skateboard Art that Makes You NOT Want to Actually Do An Olly
Who knew the common skateboard could be a media for personal expression? Pixellica presents some of the coolest custom designs on the half pipe. Check out the links at the bottom for more.
Black Friday Focus on Furniture: The Symbol Chair
Granted, a chair isn’t exactly a pixel-based creation, but can you imagine a waiting room in a design agency filled with chairs like this? The Symbol is available in all the colours of the rainbow (mostly) as well the timeless classic, Greyscale. Too bad the website’s in Italian.
Focus on Digital Painter Raphaël Lacoste
Paris-born digital artist Raphaël Lacoste is the man behind such well-known video game covers as Assassin’s Creed & Prince of Persia, which both won awards. He worked at game maker Ubisoft for seven years before moving to Rodeo FX. Catch up with the rest of his artwork at his personal site, Raphael-Lacoste.com.
Very Cool Bird Photography by Andrew Zuckerman
Zuckerman has a very raw talent for capturing birds with his camera. You can check out more of Andrew’s work at his website, BirdBook.org. Due to copywriting I can’t reproduce any here — I strongly encourage you to browse through his work. It’s very good.
20+ Awesome Photographs of Japanese Maples
Everyone knows Japanese Maples, right? Those bright,
9 Examples of Cool Perspective Photography
Here’re nine great examples of head-on photography that highlights perspective and distance. Your eye can easily follow the line of perspective from foreground to background and back again — and there’s more detail to each than first meets the eye.
