You The Designer | Blog Update #0050

You! Be Inspired! – White House Monsters

The concept of portraying prominent people into characters that are far from their usual description isn't something new. One such project was the action figure collection created by the toy company Heroes in Action. The collection is entitled Presidential Monsters which features 7 of America's Presidents (both past and present) depicted as Universal Studios action figures...




Detailed Ink Works of Nicolas Delort

Currently living in the grey suburbs of Paris, Nicolas Delort creates amazingly detailed drawings mostly with the aim of telling stories, big or small, using ink on scratch boards. His black and white compositions are well applauded for it's strong, evocative and intricate details making his art so unique in terms of style and creativity...




You! Be Inspired! — 35 Amazing Fashion Illustrations

Other than seeing fashion illustrations in magazines it is also used in advertising, fashion boutiques, shows and even in event flyers. The rich fluid lines, bold colors and sometimes the painterly like quality of an illustration brings a whole different sense and meaning in translating clothes that captures and entertains the viewer. While photography does a great job in showing the beauty of fashion, there are times that a good old hand made work brings out a more intimate and sincere approach...




Art in Science: Unellenu's Fractal Art

Janelle Wilson who goes by the artistic name of Unellenu is a jewelry designer based in Sydney, Australia who creates unique jewelry pieces inspired by fractals. For those who are not familiar with fractals, a fractal is a never ending pattern that repeats itself in different scales. These designs are usually a representation of a mathematical function that is repeated over and over again as in the case of Mandelbrot and Julia sets in geometry...




You! Be Inspired! – The Sinking World of Andreas Franke

In his most notable project called "The Sinking World", Andreas Franke brings a strange, forgotten underwater world back to life by capturing some stills of sunken ships, then recreated what life could have been like aboard the ship with real actors. The amazing images are displayed on the deck of the shipwrecks where divers and art lovers can see his underwater gallery...




Favianna Rodriguez: Migration is Beautiful

Favianna  Rodriguez is an American interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer who is also the current artist featured in Voice of Art (VOA) – a video documentary series produced by Pharell Williams and created by John Carr and Z.S. Grand that follows the work of artists who work towards the transformation and social justice in their communities...