Aerial

Pilot and photographer Alex MacLean takes aerial photos that highlight the patterns that we’re too close to the ground to see:

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Plain speaking

It’s hard not to tread on familiar ground with anti-smoking advertising, which is why a lot of it ends up shrill and alarmist. The understated tone of this ad makes it all the more powerful:

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Down to the wire

Two wire frame cars by Benedict Radcliffe – A Subaru Impreza and a Lamborghini Countach:

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Making my mark on the world

A while ago I wrote about the artist Jim Denevan who creates vast drawings based on geometric shapes and progressions in either sand or snow.

Recently, I stumbled across three different artists who work in a similar style – geometric patterns, on a large scale, on impermanent surfaces…

Firstly, Sonja Hinrichsen‘s massive snow drawing was trampled into the snow with the help of 5 volunteers last month at Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado:

Next, Andreas Amador etches massive sand drawings onto beaches around San Francisco during full moons when the spring tides create the largest potential canvas:

Finally, Simon Beck also tramples out shapes in the snow. However, his designs are far more rigidly geometric than Sonja Hinrichsen’s and are created with snowshoes:

(via and here and here)

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Infectious

I’ve featured interesting business cards before (for a vetinary hospital, Durex, and the agency A Hundred Monkeys), but this is probably the most ‘high concept’ … and also the most self-congratulatory.

The viral marketing arm of Italian advertising agency Enfants Terribles  is called Ebolaindustries (*cough* wanky *cough*).  As an act of self-promotion they created microscope slide business cards. Ebolaindustries employees operate under pseudonyms — mr white, mr blue, mrs green, etc (*develops r.s.i. from dismissive wanking gestures*) —  so the only way to read their real names, which are printed in 1.6 point type, is to examine the business card under a microscope.

It’s a pity that everything about this is so smug, because the idea of a microscope slide business card is pretty cool (though very impractical):

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Artnapping

Snarky vandalism by French artist Julien Berthier:

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Thread of an argument

Fluid, interconnected  animation for a fictional educational channel for Hardy Seiler‘s Bachelor project:

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Around the world

This amazing 360 degree, 24 hour, panoramic photograph (known as a stereographic projection) was recently captured by Chris Kotsiopoloulos during a 30-hour photo shoot in Sounio, Greece. The image is comprised of hundreds of photographs shot from daytime to nighttime that have been digitally stitched together to represent an entire rotation of the Earth. It’s seems like little planet style  photography taken to extremes:

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Death becomes her

Tom French‘s Don’t Look Back paintings depict couples in seemingly amorous relationships that create skeletal optical illusion: 

It seems quite strongly influenced by C. Allan Gilbert’s memento mori, optical illusion All Is Vanity…

…which was elegantly recreated in Dior’s ad for Poison:

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Laughing to keep from crying

Travis Millard’s swirling, interweaving drawings could be great to illustrate mental turmoil:

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