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October 18, 2009
What if you could create a fairly convincing image montage in mere minutes, using an online tool that automatically does all the work for you? It sounds insane, but five students from Tsinghua University in China and the National University of Singapore have created a program that does just that. PhotoSketch allows users to create photomontages […]
September 22, 2009
Emma Hack has made a name for herself as one of the most creative and visionary Australian artists to come along in years. But she doesn’t work on canvas or clay; her medium is the beautiful form of the human body. Hack began her career as a makeup artist, hairdresser and children’s face painter. But […]
September 17, 2009
How would you react if you were walking down a crowded city street and 20 people suddenly ran past you and crammed their bodies into the tiny space between two buildings? What if you happened to look up and see someone hanging from a street light, wedged into a window frame, or squeezed into the […]
August 20, 2009
The words Bus and Boring share more than just their initial letter but that hasn’t stopped an assortment of visionary artists from jazzing up this most utilitarian form of transport. These 15 examples epitomize the height of slick transit glorious! C’Mon, Get Hippy! (images via: David Icke, Buses On Screen and Career Capitalist) Bubble gum on a bus? Sure […]
August 6, 2009
Trucks… cars on steroids or society’s workhorses? Trucks are cool fresh off the assembly line but such huge, mobile canvasses just naturally invite artists to add to their awesomeness. Here are 15 examples of awesome art made for, with and upon trucks. Burning Man’s Big Rig Jig (images via: Laughing Squid and American Steel) One of the visual […]
July 20, 2009
You’re crammed into a tiny space with several other people, spending an average of thirty seconds staring at either the floor or the wall. That’s what makes elevator advertisements and art so brilliant – people have little choice but to look. Marketers and artists have taken advantage of this very captive audience in some brilliant […]
May 27, 2009
(from WebUrbanist) Smokin’ on the water… that’s how hot these cool canoes, krazy kayaks and bodacious boats are! It’s amazing what a little tech know-how and a vivid imagination can do when whipping up wild watercraft. Here are 15 that’ll really float your boat. Pedals, Not Paddles (images via: Life In The Fast Lane) Trampofoil, Hydro-bike, HydroSlide, Hydrothopter, […]
May 8, 2009
(from weburbanist) Ad-agencies are finding it more and more difficult today to get through to the average consumer, and marketing saturation only grows with every year. It’s for that reason that guerrilla ad-campaigns are becoming so prevalent in the industry. Here we take a look at some of the recent, most effective and ingeniously simple […]
April 10, 2009
from: weburbanist.com Much of the enjoyment of wine is in the selection. Whether you are a casual drinker or a wine connoisseur, the process of picking a bottle of wine is made more exciting by the packaging. Wine labels that catch our attention are the ones with beautiful artwork, sleek and elegant designs or the […]
April 2, 2009
From weburbanist.com Guerrilla marketing has perfected the technique of catching people’s eyes and grabbing their attention, targeting consumers in unexpected ways and unconventional places. That, of course, is the point of this once-fringe form of advertising, which has now been taken up even by large corporations like Adidas and Microsoft. These 10 posters show just […]