Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration

Great collection of clips and making-of footage from notable visual effects films of the past century. The music track is "Rods and Cones" from the album "Audio" by Blue Man Group.

Freebies: Bird Vector

I’ve always liked vector, so I decided to created something in Illustrator and here is my result..A set of bird vector and I’ve got EPS available for you to download. I hope you can find a good use for them. :) You can download the EPS here: http://starsys.deviantart.com/art/bird-1-vector-134064268

Inspiration: Horacio Lorente

Incredible posters by Horacio Lorente. He created these posters last year for the The USHUAIA SHH… International Mountain Film Festival. I’ve seen some of his other work circulating on the blogs recently, but really enjoying these series. More Horacio Lorente work can be found HERE.

Artist: Krzysztof Lukasiewicz

I'm totally in love with krzysztof celebrities potraits work,his drawing is incredibly beautiful, I really envy his skills.:D

Make sure to check out tons more of Krzysztof’s work HERE. Found this via thechive.

The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web

This cool lego stop-motion video explains the secret behind the real-time web. Love it!

Lightsabre Chopsticks

Cool lightsabre Chopsticks via diskursdisko.

Video: let yourself feel.

Beautiful animation by Esteban Diácono, inspired by the beautiful music of Ólafur Arnalds. The song is called Ljósið and you can listen to some more here www.thesixtyone.com/olafurarnalds/

The Man With No Shadow

The Man With No Shadow. Designed by Makoto Tojiki, the life sized-figurine is made up of hundreds of strategically placed LED lights hanging from threads. More pic HERE.

Lemonade Movie Trailer

More than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this Great Recession. Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives.

More info here: http://www.lemonademovie.com

Inspiration: Irina Vinnik

Very inspiring work by russian designer,Irina Vinnik. Below are her "Bubbles and stripes" set. More info here: http://www.behance.net/IrinaVinnik

Ad : Target "Colour -Every Colour You Can Dream"

Target "Colour -Every Colour You Can Dream" 2009 Australia TV (television) Commercial. Remind me of Oren Lavie "Her Morning Elegance".

Color Scheme Designer

Have trouble choosing the right color for a website or project? My friend turned me on to Color Scheme Designer today and i'm already used it for some of my work. Very useful Javascript tool for developing a suite of colors that “play well together.”

Color Scheme Designer uses a color wheel to dynamically control color hues on the palette. The color wheel has a number of very interesting options. For example, you can select between 1, 2, 3, and 4 color schemes, labeled “Mono,” “Complement,” “Triad,” and “Tetrad.” The red arrow in the screenshot shows my choice of a “triad” scheme, which results in three circles on the color wheel. The black circle (purple arrow) is the main hue. The other two white circle (green arrows) represent the other two components of the triad. Selecting one of the white circles allows you to change the angles between the triad elements, resulting in marked differences in the color scheme. You can also specify the exact angle by clicking on the number.

Saturation and brightness are controlled on a dedicated pane selected below the color wheel (selection tab is left of red box highlighting the currently shown Hue pane). Saturation and brightness are applied globally, so that all the colors are affected equally and appropriately.

Just move your cursor around the color wheel and you can get instant color scheme. After that you can export the color pallete into HTML,XML,Text, Photoshop palette and also Gimp palette.

This is an awesome tool for web design, easily translate into a way to develop color schemes for other project too! Highly recomended!

Check it out here : http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Ad : Vodacom Single Ladies

Hillarious!! I can't stop laughing when watching this video. This funny Vodacom advert is currently airing on South African television and is mocking Beyonce's song "single ladies".

Graphic designer: Julien Vallée

Some nice artwork by Julien Vallée, a graphic designer living in Montreal involved in several projects like motion graphics, print, art installation and video. Dont forget to visit his portfolio. http://www.jvallee.com/

Joker's Daughter - Lucid

Check this out. This is awesome music video for Joker’s Daugter’s “Lucid”, directed by artist and animator Hayley Morris (who recently won Best Animated Short at the Sundance Film Festival).

Joker’s Daughter is a musical collab between legendary producer Danger Mouse and UK-born folk singer/songwriter Helena Costas.

More info here. http://www.myspace.com/jokersdaughter

Video: Google Chrome

This is an excellent short motion-graphic created by Motion Theory for Google Chrome. More info here. http://www.motiontheory.com/

Artist: Jennifer Sanchez

I came across a very interesting painting work by Jennifer Sanchez, Florida artist based New York. Nice work and lovely compositions. You can buy her painting at 20x200 site.

Nice PaperObject

Nice Paperobjects by Happycentro. Happycentro is a creative studio based in Verona, Italy. I love the blue the most. Found via FFFFOUND.

Inspiration art: Lego Starwars by Mike Stimpson

I stumbled onto Mike Stimpson work via whitezine and I’m really enjoying the style. His series Lego Starwars is just amazing, his flickr is certainly worth checking out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/

Inspiration: Ross Davies

Awesome illustration by Ross Davies. More info here. http://dreams-of-grandeur.com/

GCAP: Press the 8

“Against poverty press the 8. Push G8 leaders to take action against poverty.” Created by advertising agency: Grey, Milan, Italy. More pics at ibelieveinadv.