• How big is our universe?
• Creating a mini universe
• Antikythera mechanism explained by LEGO

Words such as beleza, amor, doçura, firmeza and orgulho (beauty, love, sweetness, firmness and pride) were painted on the walls in perspective and revealed from just one point of view,  as people walk past the one location where the lines merge into the form of words.

See more typography murals after the jump.

via Visual News

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• Street frescoes
• Poetry is on the streets
• Beauty is in the street

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• First quiz of the year
• Last quiz of the year
• See the object, guess the movie

See more after the jump

See also:

• Poetry is on the streets
• I shall not live in vain
• In their own words

Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It’s just a little while, and then it burns away… Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

A definition of love by Charles Bukowski.

via Brain Pickings

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• Poetry after the beep
• In their own words
• The Man in the Black Coat
• Lolita butterflies

Can you guess the titles just by looking at the icons?

via Design Taxi

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• 10 + 1 ways to visualize lyrics
• Cinematic pictographs
• Minimal design, maximal inspiration

“An interesting way to share ideas and feelings about society and life. After all, this is what street art is made for”, says Fabrice. See more light stencils after the jump.

via Colossal

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• Naked in the city
• Hiding in front of the camera
• The windmills of our city
• Watching from above

In each of his photographs, he uses recognizable princesses, such as Cinderella, Red Little Red Ridding Hood, Snowhite, Alice in Wonderland to create dark and complex narratives, revealing, thus, intriguing new ways for how classic fairy tales could have ended.

See more bad endings after the jump

via jocundist

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• The drugs of Alice in Wonderland
• Minimal tales
• Behind closed windows
• Cut. The last image

Landscape in the Mist (1988). RIP Theo Angelopoulos

Can you recognise them?

via Fast Company Co.Design

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“I was walking along a path with two friends / the sun was setting / suddenly the sky turned blood red / I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence / there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city / my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety / and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.”
Edvard Munch, 1893

Not only poems can be animated, as we have seen in our previous post, but paintings as well. Edvard Munch’s The Scream gets a life of its own in this amazing video, created by animation director and graphic artist Sebastian Cosor.

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• There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
• Guernica comes to life
• Ceci n’est pas une post

Designer Monika Umba attempts a magical immersion to Bukowski’s world with her mesmerizing animation video of Charles Bukowski’s poem “The Bluebird,” originally published in his 1992 anthology.

The Bluebird

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?

via Brainpickings

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• The Man in the Black Coat
• Things deteriorate
• Art above time

You know the procedure: Each letter and a movie title.

See also:

• Last quiz of the year
• See the object, guess the movie
• Clockbusters: the movie quiz

For Mark Powell envelopes have become the perfect medium to paint his portraits with nothing more than a standard ballpoint pen.

Pretty amazing. Don’t you think?

See more postal art after the jump

via Colossal

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• Killing time on a tablecloth
• Flight diaries
• Wouldn’t life be perfect if…

Michael Rigley creates an amazing motion video tracing the information we feed into the network everyday .

via Quipsologies

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• In 60 seconds
• The universe of social networks
• The internet in 2015
• It started with the occasional profile update and now you are hooked: social media addiction

Evening’s Kiss by Willis Earl Beal

Using an old Asian photography technique and incorporating traditional calligraphy and elements of traditional Chinese paintings, Hong-Oai creates mind blowing landscapes, “bringing us back” the essence of past decades.

via My Modern Metropolis

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• The man and the moon
• Art above time
• Living windows
• The streets are sad

Each letter and a movie. Can you recognise them?

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• Clockbusters: the movie quiz
• See the object, guess the movie
• Typo posters
• Minimal design, maximal inspiration

E.M. Escher’s paradox:

Classic photographs:

Music record covers:

Oscar nominated films:

What else will these magical bricks build next year?

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• Architects play with LEGO
• Antikythera mechanism explained by LEGO
• 3D geopolitical maps out of LEGO
• Battle of the plastic figures: Playmobil dark wave vs LEGO heavy metal

Merry Chistmas!

Photo credit: Birgit Veigel, Johannes Veigel, ThomasVeigel

Photo credit: Nicolas Lincy

See more sleeveface art after the jump

Photo credit: Jennifer Mai / Keith-Mai

Photo credit: Paul Span, Meike, and Douwe

Photo credit: Sioux Skylightning

Photo credit: Robin and Oscar from Holland

Photo credit: Johannes Veigel, Thomas Veigel

See all sleeveface portraits here.

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• Create your own record cover
• Classic rock albums revisited
• Sketching reality
• The first ever designed album cover

In Genesis,  a 3D short film, Andreas Wannerstedt is taking the change to create a miniature universe and become a mini God.

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• Science songs
• How big is our universe?
• Science distilled in a phrase
• Antikythera mechanism explained by LEGO

See the full infographic after the jump

via Mashable

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• I shot the serif
• You’re a comic sans criminal
• Can you name the typeface?
• Shape type: the letter shaping game

See more after the jump

Orson Welles’ The Third Man

Woody Allen’s Sleeper

Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream

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• This is definitely a horror film
• In the name of design
• Minimal design, maximal inspiration
• Etsy finds: Claudia Varosio’s movie posters

Watch the amazing making-of video.

via Laughing Squid

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• Made of crayons
• Ceci n’est pas une post
• The quest of an artist
• The Man in the Black Coat

See more photos after the jump

via My Modern Metropolis

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• Connecting light
• Behind closed windows
• Mocking gravity

Written and directed by: Jeroen Houben, Tim Arts, Stefan van den Boogaard

Travel experts Thomson sponsored this wonderful interactive infographic following contemporary music genres as the traveled from Africa to the US to Europe and beyond. From Swing to Disco and from Hip Hop to Trip Hop, check out the history of music.

Bauhaus’ “All we ever wanted was everything” by MGMT