Inspirations.  

Baroque Co-creation: Jan Brueghel I and Rubens

During the seventieth century, two of the most famous masters of baroque art - Jan Brueghel the Elde...

Dürer - Observer of Nature

Master print-maker, draftsman, and the Renaissance man from Germany, Albrecht Dürer was a keen obse...

François Schuiten

François Schuiten was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1956. During his studies at the Saint-Luc Instit...

Satoshi Itasaka: Lighting

Lighting design by Satoshi Itasaka, designer from Tokyo.

Skrivo Chairs

The Milan based studio Skrivo was founded in 2011 by the Croatian/Irish product designer Stefan Kriv...

Body & Soul

A year ago the Museum of Arts and Design in New York opened an exhibition titled "Body & Soul: New I...

Tom Blachford: Havana

Tom Blachford, photographer from Melbourne, travels to Cuba.

Creatures of the Planet Tror

Graphic designer Lee Sung Eun from Seoul presents

An Art Collector in His Art Chamber

2014 is the anniversary year of four-hundredth birthday of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614-1662) of H...

Inon Rettig: Plonter

The vase "Plonter" is a project led by keter plastic group as part of a fund raiser targeting high-r...

Melvin Galapon

Melvin Galapon graduated from Central St. Martin’s. He is based in London where he works on Portr...

Summer by Arcimboldo

Call him creative, whimsical, or deranged. Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a stained-glass ...

Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey

This painting tells the story of a poem about how Cupid complains to his mother, Venus (the goddess ...

Parmigianino: Schiava Turca

The exquisite portrait of an unknown woman called the Schiava Turca ("Turkish slave") is an icon of...

San Marco by Canaletto

With the Palazzo di San Marco on the right and the Palazzo Ducale on the left, this painting depict...

Black Box

Photographer Jeffrey Milstein studied architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. His ...

Finnish Type: Kokoro & Moi

Kokoro & Moi was founded in 2001 by designers Teemu Suviala and Antti Hinkula. Clients include City ...

Lernert & Sander

Lernert Engelberts (1977) and Sander Plug (1969) create concept art films and installations. They h...

Apollo 11

Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin took over 1400 pictures with a Hasselblad 70mm camer...

Hong Kong

Hong Kong´s unexpected greenery as seen by photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze. He says: "No matte...

W196R

The remarkable Mercedes-Benz W196R won the 1954 German and Swiss Grands Prix with driver Juan Manuel...

Logistics

Photography by Rüdiger Nehmzow. Born 1966 in Ansbach, Germany, living since 1987 in Düsseldorf. Af...

Merijn Hos

Merijn Hos is an Illustrator and Visual Artist based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He divides his tim...

Jamie Keenan: Covers

Cover designs by London-based graphic designer Jamie Keenan. www.keenandesign.com

Charles & Ray

Black-and white photos of the most famous couple in industrial design: The architect Charles and the...

Carta. Materia viva, vibrante, mutevole.

Work by Daniele Papuli. Daniele´s material of choice is paper. He creates moving sculptures and ins...

Polar Melt

My most recent drawings portray Greenland´s melting ice. This body of work documents climate change...

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera was born December 13, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. Rivera began drawing at the age of th...

Disaster, Catastrophe, Collision

Spectacular illustrations from Le Petit Journal, Paris in the late 1900s: The Yellow Press was prett...

Stripes and Stripes

Striped graphics - a graphic design trend? Examples from: www.farrowdesign.com www.burgess-studio.co...

Abarth

Carlo Abarth, born Karl Albert Abarth, was an automobile designer. He was born in Vienna, during the...

This is Not Normal

The presentation of BMW Group at the IAA 2013. Photos by Die Photodesigner.

Cafe Gaga Shenzhen

Architecture by Coordination, photos by Die Photodesigner.

Emmanuelle Moureaux

Corporate architecture and design by French architect Emmanuelle Moreaux living and working in Tokyo...

Going far away in style and comfort

A selection of illustrations about travel and transportation from the fifties, including L´hydravio...

Auto

Images from "Dominique en Auto" by Francois La Paraz, with illustrations by Andre Galland, published...

Russian graphics

A selection of Russian graphics from 1920 to 1930.

Stahl house

Stahl House or Case Study House #22 by Pierre Koenig. The modern residence overlooks Los Angeles fr...

Italy vs Germany: Design Classics

Iconic design creations from Italy and Germany: Brionvega versus Braun, Fiat versus VW, Alfa Romeo v...

Food

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.” ― Oscar Wilde, The ...

Istanbul

Fascinating animated images by Istanbul-based visual artist Erdal Inci. Erdal is currently available...

Alvar Aalto furniture

a collection of classic furniture by Alvar Aaalto.

A new way of seeing

Not many designs are able to achieve classic status while still being unmistakably unique. These are...

Freestyle

drawings by Micael Reynaud.

Electric Geometric

work by Melbourne based visual artist Ollie Lucas. www.ollielucas.tumblr.com

Slalom Skiing

To slalom is to zigzag.

King of Ubu

illustrations by Archie Fitzgerald. Originally from Canterbury, Kent, Archie graduated from UWE Bri...

A creature of habit

and other works of graphic design, static and animated, by Skip Dolphin Hursh. www.skiphursh.com

Mountains

Photography by Maximilian Haidacher. His series Vallées du Soleil and Alpenrose deal with the arti...

Furniture by Donald Judd

As "small is beautiful," so is simple. Photos courtesy: Pinakothek Moderne - Die Neue Sammlung, Muni...

Playbills

Playbills and covers of the legendary New York theater magazine Playbill.

Lisette Model

a master of character photography

Everyday Design Classics

A collection of timeless designs.

Balance Sheets

Artwork made of finely cut ledger paper by Jill Sylvia, www.jillsylvia.com

Object Rotterdam 2013

OBJECT Rotterdam is a special contemporary design fair presenting limited editions and one-offs at t...

Graphic Inspiration

A collection of amazing, surprising and beautiful 20th century artwork to inspire your next graphic ...

Tomas Saraceno

Tomas Saraceno´s installation in Milan!

The Krazyhouse

Rineke Dijkstra is one of the world´s best-known photo and video artists. ´The Krazyhouse´ shows ...

The divided Self

and other collected classic paperback book covers

The Beauty of the Moment

Honululu, Hawaii: The main focus of "bijinga" prints, or pictures of beautiful women was to capture ...

Small is Beautiful

Museum-sized sculptures are hard to collect for the average art lover with the average apartment. Bu...

INSPIRING TYPE

inspiring contemporary type specimens from hellotype, groovewear, hyperkit, sebasandclim, Penguin ...

Mazinger dreams of Robots

Robots by Morishita, spaceships by Joao Ribeiro, Tyler West, Tuomas Korpi, David Kang and others, ci...

1913: What To Draw

Illustrations by E.G. Lutz from 1913. From the cover: "this is really a remarkable book in which lin...

It´s Ski Time!

Now one of the most popular winter sports, skiing once was an old mode of transport with a history o...

Switch Off!

The setsuden campaign to save energy in Japan, at setsuden.tumblr.com

Streamlining

In the mid-20th century, streamlining was the optimistic promise of modernity, speed and progress. T...

Unknown Classics of the 20th century

We asked legendary designer Mario Gagliardi to tell us some of his choices for lesser known archite...

Hiroshi Kawano: Pioneer of Computer Art

In 1964, Hiroshi Kawano, a Japanese philosopher teaching aesthetics, published the world´s first co...

Renaissance Perspectives

Venetian Palazzo interiors by Mattias Schaller, Palladio modeled by Eisenman, and Leonardo´s Adorat...