
Artist Nick Gentry uses discarded floppy disks as a basis for his portraits. Each disk represents the increasing pace of the modern life cycle, where objects are quickly created, used, and discarded, and by using them to create art, he gives them a new life.

Photographer Jan von Holleben and painter Michelle Jezierski teamed up to blend the mediums into a series of works that depict the blindingly white yet colorful landscapes of Norway.

Poccuo-ers Phil and Kim started another side project called Your Favorite Letter through which visitors can build a word together by voting for their favorite letter of the round.

St. Louis-based photography studio Bruton Stroube has an interesting side project: a collection of portraits taken upside down but presented as right-side up. Some people’s features give away the secret more than others’.

Benoit Paille, a 24-year-old Canadian photographer, has a great eye for composition and lighting. Through his Stranger project on Flickr, he approaches random people on the street with the intent “to question the modern world and to try to break the individualism and the anonymity of the big city.”

Poccuo founders Phil and Kim started a side project called Notologist where they leave notes around and see who responds. Check out some of the responses they’ve gotten so far.

Novelist and essayist Steve Almond explains why he dove into the world of self-publishing and goes on a rant about what a boon this is to the world of writers (and readers).

Artist Richard Ankrom was fed up with the signage on Highway 5 in Los Angeles, so he took matters into his own hands by installing the necessary signage. Guess what—it worked.

Hvass&Hannibal is a multi-disciplinary arts and design studio based in Copenhagen. Its founders, Nan Na Hvass and Sofie Hannibal, try to maintain a balance between non-commercial and commercial projects, and keep their minds and hands challenged.

This is a great analysis (and chart) of how Crayola’s colors have evolved over the past 100 years.

If You Could Collaborate is the fourth annual “If You Could” exhibition, which is a self-initiated project of London art directors Will Hudson and Alex Bec. Their aim is to provide a platform for the finest creatives from all over the world to question their conventional working methods and outcomes.

Need some ampersand inspiration? Well, your search is over.

Amsterdam-based artist Peter Schuyff’s work ranges from drawing to painting to sculpture. Don’t miss his elaborately carved pencil sculptures!

Designer Ken Lo’s work for the 2008 English & Communication Festival caught our eye. The large letters and color coding make the identity system quite attractive

London-based artist and designer Evelin Kasikov developed a process of creating the look of CMYK printing through embroidery in her thesis project. Based on the conventional dot screen angles, she marked the spots where she would sew using cotton threads in CMYK colors. The final outcome is a printed page created by hand.
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