Best of Design Art, Inspirational Ideas for Designers and The Rest of Us

In his series "Transform", Hungarian photographer Bence Bakonyi matched his models’ clothes to their surrounding in different locations...

You probably won't have a better chance to show off all your potential if it's not by designing a website for your own agency or web studio. It's time to push all those ideas and concepts forward. 95 inspiring Websites of Web Design Agencies. 

Fresh, innovative, creative, minimalist ... What's your style? You probably won't have a better chance to show off all your potential if it's not by designing a website for your own agency or web studio. It's time to push all those ideas and concepts forward, those a client would never understand or that would probably end up spoiling in the end. Now you have no excuses, it's time to surprise your clients, your competitors, and why not, the world.

New York City-based artist Shane Hope uses 3D printing to create complex and colorful layered paintings that look just like nano-molecular structures. Represented by the Winkleman Gallery, Hope’s work initially looks like chaos, but is actually a huge tapestry of interwoven pieces that form a beautiful piece of art.

The paintings push the limits of what is possible with low-cost 3-D printers in new and interesting ways, creating techniques that would be more at home with paint than plastic. To create these chaotic pieces, Hope keeps four RepRap printers working around the clock, feeding them with CAD files he has mined from the Protein Data Bank. In order to perfect these files, he first runs Python programming scripts that evolve the models until interesting shapes emerge, which he then hand picks and combines using image editing software.

Jonathan Edwards is a talented illustrator and character designer based in the UK with a unique style that is instantly recognizable.

His work first appeared in 1993 in Deadline and Tank Girl Magazine with strips such as Dandy Dilemma, Simon Creem, The Squabbling Dandies (with Richard Holland) and one pagers about, amongst others, Scott Walker, Sly Stone, Nancy Sinatra, Kraftwerk and The Beach Boys. Since then he’s worked for the Guardian, Mojo, Q, Mad, The Black Eyed Peas, A Skillz & Krafty Kuts, The Jungle Brothers, The Glastonbury Festival, etc. Comics include Aunt Connie & The Plague of Beards, A Bag Of Anteaters (with Ian Carney) and Two Coats McWhinnie (also with Carney). He’s also been a regular contributor to the Guardian since 1999 and illustrated the Hard Sell weekly column in the Guide since 2002.

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Kylli Sparre aka Sparrek spent years training to become a professional ballet dancer but later realized that wasn’t the path for her.

“I have been searching for an outlet for my creativity ever since. I found it in photography and then never looked back. My passion lies in this, to create images which are surreal, dreamlike, they come from my thoughts, observations, experimentation’s and experiences.

I desire to look beneath the surface, to hear the unsaid words and study the relationships between people and their surroundings and then project it all into my images.”

- Kylli Sparre

Spirographs and fractals look complicated but are actually very easy to create - it only takes a bit of experimentation. These fractals then can be used as artwork itself or as elements in photo manipulations, backgrounds, and graphic design related works.

The process of creating a great responsive layout includes many factors. Fluid-width designs are similar, but not always built with mobile devices in mind. Any typical responsive web design is going to feature staple elements you’d expect to find in most website layout. Navigation is a big focal point because you need to handle the shift between desktop to mobile in a usable manner.

In this article I want to cover various navigation trends found in great responsive websites. These examples should prove useful if you are new to responsive design or just want to understand navigation better. The mobile-responsive ideology is still fairly new and there is plenty of ground to cover for building unique solid navigation systems.

In this week's 'Photos of the Week' gallery I bring you a collection of surreal photography,

Sara Riches is an Australian artist living in Wheatbelt of Western Australia. She uses a mixed number of mediums including pen and ink, pastels, watercolour, oils and mixed medium. Published book...

“What happens to lovers while they are sleeping?”

The answer could be in this fascinating series of long exposure pictures by Austrian photographer Paul Schneggenburger.

These photographs are shot in the photographer’s spare bedroom against a backdrop of black sheets lit by Christmas lights.

Curious about how people behave when they are asleep, Schneggenburger set up a six-hour exposure camera that works from midnight to 6am to record the ‘nocturnal lovers’ dance’.”