Cool concept. Working Proof partners with artists, they sell good looking artwork with a percentage going to different charities including Doctors without Borders, Suicide Prevention, etc.

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Dave Terry shares an interesting approach to using a journal for his work. Besides the clear little sketches the idea of taking a highlighter to the notes as a method of filtering and reviewing is very interesting.

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“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

-oscar wilde

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I am going to start adding some links to the Blogroll, over there in the top right of the blog. These are sights that I end up going to at least once a week just to see what is up.

Latest addition is the Lean Mean Fighting Machine blog. Great little agency in England that has a great eye for publishing quirky little moments from all over.

They are also responsible for this great site that promotes a new phone launch by having street photographer Nick Turpin take a photograph, then people can click on an area to vote for where he should take his next photo using the camera phone. He ended up traveling the whole globe, updating to Flickr, posting photos and videos. A really well done project.

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Find ‘em, shoot ‘em and share ‘em at cockshadows.

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I love photography and the way that it can capture what is so fleeting and momentary. I also really love illustrations, but for a different reason, they can capture the absurd in a way that seems perfectly natural and easily created.

That (along with, I wish I could get inky blacks like that) was going through my head when I came upon Katia Fouquet. Wonderful illustrator, designer and animator based in Germany.

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“By practicing slowly, by breaking skills down into tiny parts and repeating, the strenuous student forces the brain to internalize a better pattern of performance.”

Interesting article that works to debunk the concept of “genius” in the Op-Ed section of the NYTimes. Ends up pointing out that practice, especially a form of micro-practice, concentrating on the small elements that make a whole are the thing that may be a better indicator of the potential for success.

If you are going to build a toy, why not base it off the great works of Brothers Grimm. Looks absolutely amazing. Found it on Peter Brown’s site, inside his art section.

Great hand-sketched illustrations by Dara Diliegro. Also worth checking out her interactive work that has a nice handmade quality.
 

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Ralph Lauren continues to play in the forward part of the interactive game. They have a new app, and now interactive window displays where users can build and order their own rugby shirt design.
 

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Love the way that illustrator Anders Nyberg uses his workshop to try to  bring his sketches to life.
 

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