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Our guide to streamline digital asset management with file naming conventions, folder structures, and automation scripts. A workflow guide for creatives.
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Los Angeles based artist Rosie Clements’ recent project Pure Semblance was created by directly printing on bubble wrap with a UV printer.
In the world of arts and design, there’s a common thread I see among many creatives, including myself. We’re all caught in the same relentless cycle: create, post, repeat. Social media algorithms have us in a…
As a creative, one of my biggest struggles has always been effectively presenting my portfolio. Over time, I’ve learned some key strategies that have helped me refine my approach and showcase my work in the best light.…
We created a summary of productivity focused designer tools under four main categories because there is an abundance of tools on the internet right now.
Vietnamese illustrator Lucia Pham has a strong connection with her cultural and geographical roots abd mixes those inputs with her feelings and aesthetics.
The animated short movie “DRONE” revolves around a Predator drone equipped with a moral compass and compassion, thanks to its AI model named Newton.
Portuguese photographer Matilde Viegas documents children at a social housing project in the outskirts of Porto with her A Family of One’s Own project.
Graphics laboratory WIZZ produced the music video of Breakbot & Irfane’s EP Remedy. The team creates the perfect one minute loop by blending stop motion and 2D animation.
Erinn Springer’s work is the outcome of experiencing both rural and city lifestyles. She honors the characteristics of rural life.
Sam Wood is a London based 3D illustrator and animator. His style is colorful, eclectic, and flashy.
3D artist Aleksandra Bokova was born in Minsk, Belarus, and is based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She creates colorful, captivating, and moving visuals, and as an observer, you can instantly recognize her…
Shanghai based artist, illustrator, and creative wang2mu published a short animated film about a delivery of bubble teas with noir like setting.
Ellard DeVane creates psychedelic stop motion animations by slicing clay one frame at a time.
El after del Mundo is an animated short film created by Florentina González, the story is about small events that happened after life ended on the Earth.
Artist Aaron Luckman took over the streets of Boston during the lockdown in 2020 and started to observe gum wads and the Gum Shoo project was born.
Dominic Dähncke is a Spanish landscape photographer, and a master in monochrome photography and crafting beautiful compositions.
Musical Hallucinations is a short film co directed and designed by illustrator, animator and art director Germán Di Ciccio.
2D animator and comic artist Francesca Colombara let her thoughts run free and observe where they take her to.
Between Lines is an animated short film directed by talented Sarah Beth Morgan and created every second of it by an all women team. The story is about the scars created by bullying in high school and lifelong recovery…
Portland based creative studio Super Dope created quirky and funny short 3D animation Self Care Tips with Pinkie & Handtonio to remind ourselves to work on better healthy habits.
Chinese artist and illustrator Lushuirou found an authentic way to express subtle emotions and interactions between people through hand gestures.
Jose Berrio is a graphic designer and illustrator, who pursued his passion at the crossroads of music and illustration. His work features warm tones, nostalgic textures, and playful typography, adding a touch of…
The digital creators known as The Internet Office produce 3D models of abstract and amorph sculptures that drag the viewer in with curiosity.
Manchester based designer and illustrator Sam Tomson is recognized for his retro futuristic style by specializing in making artwork and product designs for the music industry.
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Japanese singer UA released her latest music video of お茶 [OCHA], directed by Sojiro Kamatani, welcomes you to a colorful, mesmerizing world filled with tea and hope.
Our interview series’ first guest is Kenichi Kuromaru. We love hearing their stories because there is no definitive, single way to be a successful designer.
It’s our turn to aim to make one of the most valuable AI design tools to benefit you and your creative process.
This week’s Inspiration Farmer’s collection features; yunbomu, ppuri , Jack Kenna, Lulu Lin, @junwoo park23, dadushin.
Sheffield, United Kingdom based designer Harry Wright is specialized in motion, illustration, typography and also various fields in design.
Chinese born, New York based designer and animator Yiting Nan shows these moments of happiness and stillness in her animations.
Jared Freschman is a queer Jewish American artist from Delaware. He illustrates artworks that exhibit his experiences or memories and share the perspective of the queer community.
Hiroshima Shinkichi is a Japanese artist known for his caricatured paintings that exhibit the everyday actions of humans with an added tone of mockery.
Katia Lifshin is a painter who finds inspiration in long gone memories of old photographs. Reviving these moments with a new perspective, the artist tries to resolve humane feelings while forming intimate illusions.
Discover the best Mac apps for designers in 2023. A comprehensive guide of free and freemium tools to boost productivity and workflow
LA based painter Sean Norvet create his compositions with contrasting and distinct objects from each other and make them meaningful as a whole.
Based in New York City, Noah Kocher is a Nashvillian artist who works on digital and physical illustrations.
Drew Englander is an American painter known for his trippy paintings exhibiting everyday normalities with objects and situations.
Cristina Arce is a Spanish illustrator and graphic designer from Santander and creates under her alter ego Tina Lotta.
María Jesús Contreras is a Chilean illustrator. Her works come together through a series of habits, such as documenting funny things that she encountered, taking notes, following trend memes, and then going through her…
Ziping Wang is a painter, who creates canvases that bring to mind the unavoidable online crowdedness caused by the digital age.
Based in Roeselare, Kristof Santy is a Belgian painter, who is inspired by folklore and by what was there before him.
Adegboyega Adesina’s paintings are tools to showcase the culture, the history, the political aspects and the personal belonging to his homeland Nigeria.
Chris Regner, uses his autobiography as a starting point of his paintings. Then he adds some satire, humiliation, grotesque elements to this baseline.
Seoul based illustrator Sisi Kim, presents a fake plastic world that shows the possibilities of different futuristic settings.
We collected the best free fonts that fits perfectly in your creative process in 2022, you can get every font in this list for free.
Edinburgh born, London based artist and writer Damien Cifelli create vibrant, colorful and soulful paintings about the people that live in Tarogramma.
Madeleine Bialke’s paintings are mostly without a person. It is the trees with rounded, softened flora on their branches that are the actors in her artworks.
How to design a poster using shapes and emojis? A video series focused on poster design tutorials. First we picked a frame for the outline and how to fill up empty spaces with happiness.
Toronto based German Brazilian painter Jeanine Brito’s paintings are often inspired by her recollections, but they revive on the canvases with a theatrical and surreal touch, while discussing the fragility of memories,…
Internet provided a huge space to express ourselves. It doesn’t matter which medium and technique, artists and designers can share their work and someone stumbled upon their work and made their day. Everyone mixes and…
New York born and raised painter Bambou Gili reappropriates the female body in many aspects, the women in her paintings do not have the ‘accepted’ standards.
Philadelphia based painter Sierra Montoya Barela is frequently portraying casual things from everyday life by depicting self narratives on her canvases.
Still life painter Paul Rouphail’s paintings have the power to shut out the surrounding world and drag the viewer into their narrative.
Fenna Schilling is a graphic designer and a DJ whose visual and sonic collages have versatile characteristics. The intuitively crafted artworks of the artist provide an opportunity for her personal exploration through…
Sasha Elage is a photographer whose work has no literary or transcendental significance. The aesthetic elements, however, are crucial to elaborate.
Chloë Saï Breil Dupont paints portraits of her people, who she knows in depth, knows as a whole, and appreciates their existence, and for this reason, she chooses to eternalize their uniqueness on canvases.
Internet provided a huge space to express ourselves. It doesn’t matter which medium and technique, artists and designers can share their work and someone stumbled upon their work and made their day. Everyone mixes and…
An illustrator, animator, and director, Igor Bastidas is known for his bold and clean lines with solid and vivid colors, all of them creating simple yet catchy illustrations and animations.
When I found out about Wong Chun Hei Stephen and Ariel Lee, two amazing artists one based in Hong Kong and the other in southern California, I was struck by their talent to reflect what they experienced in nature into…
Inspired by her experiences and memories, Céline Raffy, an Egyptian Lebanese illustrator and graphic designer, creates unique illustrations.
Marcelo Lavin is an artist and a digital animator from Mexico, who draws vibrant colored digital illustrations. Influenced by surrealism, his artworks are intriguing visuals of contemporary Mexican culture.
Internet provided a huge space to express ourselves. It doesn’t matter which medium and technique, artists and designers can share their work and someone stumbled upon their work and made their day. Everyone mixes and…
Hank Reavis is a Seattle born and raised artist. Graduated with BA from Western Washington University, he uses airbrushing as his primary choice of medium and paints reproductions of random imagery which occupies space…
French Lebanese illustrator Line Hachem draws colorful, smooth textured illustrations portraying elusive scenes filled with pieces of strangeness.
Born in South Korea in 1989, Ram Han is a Seoul based illustrator known for her candy colored digital paintings.
This week’s Inspiration Farmer’s collection features; Alvin Ong, Toby Zeng, Yimiao Liu, Vasya Kolotusha, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Anthony Eslick, ANTINORMAL
Inspiration Farmer is a collection of artists and designers we discovered recently. We are inspired by their work and decided to make a weekly collection.
American filmmaker and scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon created “What Comes Next” a short film by only using footage and soundtracks in the Public Domain.
The music video of SOUTHPAW is covered by Kuricoder Quartet and animated by Sawako Kabuki, and if you don’t know the original song or video, it doesn’t matter.
New Zealand based artist Sesh Monkey, creates 12 pages comic books based on popular hip hop songs.
South Korean designer Haeri Cho directed, animated, and designed a short titled Routine Rhythms! which focuses on daily activities and their powerful rhythms.
Run Forever is a perfect metaphor for running until dusk and dawn, created by Universal Everything which describes themselves as a remote working collective of digital artists, experience designers, and future makers.
Gitte Maria Möller is an illustrator based in South Africa, Cape Town. Drawing on many different fields such as ancient mythology, religious manuscripts and iconography, prayer paintings, mang, and early video games,…
Stop motion artist Jonathan Deutsch aka. 24framesofginger creates beautiful and captivating stop motion loops with quirky and sweet stories.
Minneapolis based broadcast design, effects, and animation studio motion504 released an animated short titled DOUGH JOE.
Permutation City is an experiment about video production, AI and parkour.
Sophi Miyoko Gullbrants is a freelance illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY, and currently a full time designer at Dame Products which is a female founded company that manufactures well engineered sex toys. She has…
Animation studio Unlimited Time Only created a gripping and pleasing music video for Terms of Surrender by LA based indie rock band Conditioner.
Hannah Eddy is an illustrator and muralist who loves to use colors and their vibrations between each other. She finds inspiration from skateboard, snowboard and surf culture and turn it into a feeling in her work.
Marvin Leuvrey’s works are somehow technological and carry the concept of urbanity. The artist works with many different techniques and mediums such as analog, digital manipulation in photography, 3D, and video.
Chinese designer Particle (Gao Yang), generated Earth’s simple yet crucial elements, mountains and rivers, on digital with algorithms.
Paris based illustrator Jiayi Li has a pure, glowing aesthetic. Airbrush vibes, anime aesthetic, humorous fruit sexuality can be seen in Jiayi Li’s works. Misty and glaring lights, gradients, details of reflection, and…
Psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard commissioned 10 brilliant artists to create a music video for each song on their new album Butterfly 3000.
Sebastian Cestaro’s style has a surreal side with a colorful cartoon like color palette, abstract faces, and big eyes that he uses as a repetitive design element in most of his works also we can call them his signature.
Imogen Crossland paints scenes that reflect the moments of joy like gathering, dancing, eating, drinking, swimming, partying in her multicolored and textured works.
French artist Stephanie Macaigne combines her passion for hip hop and art. recreating the existing album artwork and portraying them on a new medium.
Jiayue Li’s works, which she created with the taste of rough sketches with colored paints, have a soft and peaceful side. The presence of female characters in the foreground also emphasizes the theme of woman…
French born, Chicago based Julia Dufossé is a self taught designer & illustrator. Combining the inspiration from the airbrush aesthetics of the 70s and 80s with her own style in digital, she creates dazzling, dreamy,…
Half Colombian and half Mexican artist L Jo works on different mediums and styles. Also many titles and professions under her belt.
Paulina Almira’s works are almost dream like, shiny, and a bit surreal. The designer manages to give that dreamy vibe very nicely with the design elements on the one hand and the color palette on the other.
Toronto based multidisciplinary artist and muralist Curtia Wright focuses on today’s developed societies’ unbalanced and unjust reality.
Yasunori Kimata is a Japanese artist from Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture. He is also a muralist, live painter, ceramic relief sculptor, and designer who works in a variety of media.
Silvia S Hagge’s Five Eyes series is a result of struggle and relationship with her glasses. This collection of photos is a result of her frustration and decided to take them off.
Mike Pelletier is a Canadian artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, currently working as an individual digital artist. His works examine the fluid transitions of the divide between the digital and physical worlds and…
Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, American artist Zoe Hawk’s paintings investigate the challenging transitional phase of girlhood, being an adolescent and feminine identity.
The dominance of symbolism in Vladimir Hadzic’s works, the combination of colors with great harmony, and the division of the composition into grids are among the striking points of his works.
Romanian artist Nicoleta Mureş, discovered her interest in 3D editing and animation thus found her niche by creating digital collages.
Greece based multi disciplinary designer Eleni Tziotaki portreys a different story with her independent project called what if i told you campaign.
The Copenhagen based photographer Albert Elm, captures the vibrant world around him wherever he goes and reveals his stream of consciousness.
New York born, Maine based painter Nick Farhi uses his realistic style to paint small objects and ornaments and blends itself to the canvas.
The purpose of editorial design is to make publications interesting and to convey content accurately and legibly. While creating editorial designs, Chloe Scheffe successfully blends typography, graphics, and visual…
US based artist Euphoric Supply has a unique position between being a hip hop fan and an amazing artist. He makes toys, action figures, barcodes, rugs, sneakers, cassettes, and many more!
Tristram Lansdowne presents architectural structures, botanical forms, and futuristic worlds in his delicately embellished, smooth, and wonderfully detailed watercolour paintings.
London based artist and designer Mark Sneddon is very creative and productive because most of the work on his website shows that he has an urge to create.
New Aesthetic approaches type design as an opportunity to create art: looking at type design with a benevolence to experiments and processes.
Maysaloun Faraj, started to draw still life paintings of every corner of her house during the quarantine and then expanded the project.
Digital artist from Ireland, Aaron Fahy recreates his favorite rap/hip hop album covers with crayons in a children’s painting style.
Milan born Italian photographer Ronni Campana uses food as supporting subjects when photographing vibrant and bright compositions.
There has been a groundbreaking development in the fashion industry in recent years, virtual fashion. Sure, virtual fashion is not a new concept, but we can say that its popularity has increased with the pandemic. So,…
Artist Glen Martin Taylor repair broken porcelain objects by combining them with unusual objects such as barbed wire, spoon, scissors.
Audrey Large is a French designer currently based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. She explains her work as: “I’m interested in playing with digital aesthetics in a materialized object.”
Adam Powell, aka a damp owl, travels all around US and attend special events, contests and conventions to document them behind their walled garden.
We had the opportunity to interview Chloe Karayiannis who is a multidisciplinary creative focused on 3D art.
The Earthpass keyholder, which emerged from the partnership of Sibylle Hornung and TYPEWORLD, is more than just a keyholder.
New York based visual artist Danny Cole uses his paintings to show his imagination, and invite viewers to The Creature World.
New York based still life photographer Sergiy Barchuk tells about a time, change, and experience in soundlessness in his photographs.
By conveying the history, change, and development of the Middle East’s design world with cover designs, Arabic Cover Design Archive offers a wonderful experience that also reflects the connection between culture and…
Photographer Carmen Wayne combines portraits with frames from nature, hiding tiny, abandoned feelings together.
In this selection, we’ll be visiting the pages from sketchbooks that reveal the different styles of three different artists.
French photographer Edouard Taufenbach captures the dance of swallows in the air with his camera while observing their migration twice a year.
Out of Print Books is the bookshop by collect.compile. The biography itself is explaining the intention of the bookshop: “Some books are rare, hard to find, desirable, sought after, collectible and out of print 📚”
Los Angeles based artist Aryo Toh Djojo dreams about UFOs and opposes mass media’s twisted UFO prophecies while faces with LA’s oversaturated culture.
The project is focusing on introducing the new Saudi Arabia National Team Collection. Artists involved in the project created a kit launch for Nike Football and Saudi Arabia Football Team crafting bespoke Arabic…
US based Cuban artist Darian Mederos uses bubble wrap to hide his hyper realistic portraits just like our civilization uses plastic to protect organic materials.
In this selection, we’ll take a glance at the works of beloved artists that have left their mark on us & underground media lately.