The personal 3D printer!

This is amazing. Now, for your home, you can buy a 3-dimensional printer called the Cube. For $1,300 at Staples, you can get it with your own choices of colored plastic. With the program on your computer, you can design your own...anything! Hit print, and the arm begins to move around, molding the creation. From toys, tools, or replacement parts of something that broke around the house, you can make it. Incredible.

Amazing Sidewalk Chalk Art!

This guy is amazing. He does 3D art on the sidewalks of major cities across the country and the world. And he uses sidewalk chalk! Incredible!

(Remember: These images are actually flat) 

Art is Everywhere!

Here is proof that anything in the world can be your canvas. These are plastic bags made by companies in Europe. They have put a clever twists on things we forget about or don't even think about in our everyday lives.  Just these little things make these brands (and the people holding the bags) stand out among everyone else.

Typewriter Art

Paul Smith was born with cerebral palsy. He used his left hand to steady his right one. Since he couldn't press two keys at the same time, he almost always locked the shift  key down and made his pictures using the symbols  at the top of the number keys. In other words, his pictures were based on these characters    "@ # $ % ^ & * ( )_ " etc. As his mastery of the typewriter grew, he developed techniques to create shadings, colors, and textures that made his work resemble pencil or charcoal  drawings. 

Amazing drawings!!

These drawings were done by a man named Doug Landis. Every picture is sketched in pencil. Oh, and just a side note, he was paralyzed from the neck down from a wrestling accident in high school, and all these drawings were done with his mouth. True story. Truly amazing! Have a look...

Visit his website to see more of his work.

Amazing Ads!

Here are some pretty amazing ads for AT&T. These are done by hand with only hands, if that makes any sense. Take a look at the pictures, they speak for themselves. Someone really spent a lot of time on these!

Funny garage door covers

Here's a little fun you can have with your neighbors. People have designed garage door covers made of plastic to hang on your garage. There are a lot to choose from, and they all look very real. These would be really fun to design and make, let alone prank your friends. They go for $200-$500....... in case you want to get one.  Enjoy!

Just one line...

This is a picture of Jesus drawn with just one line. At certain parts the line gets thicker and thinner, but it begins in the middle and spirals outward. It is copyrighted in the year 1884. It is pretty amazing that someone spent all this time, and it came out so well!

Graphic design from the skies in the 20's...and a bit of trivia.

Here's an example of graphic design from the 1920's.  Postal planes flew across the country from San Francisco to New York, but had no way of knowing where they were going.  Because of this, congress funded these giant 70ft long yellow painted arrows made of concrete. They were placed about 10-20 miles apart across the country, and each was accompanied by a 50ft tall tower equipped with a bright light to shine down on the arrow.  These could be seen from up to 40 miles away, and each arrow pointed to the next.  The towers are now gone because of the need of the steel in WWII, but the arrows remain, laid out across the midwest.

An airline with a sense of humor...

We just learned that it is super-important to be fresh and new when designing things.  It is a good thing to stand out from the rest, and that is what I strive for when I brainstorm ideas. Here are some pictures of an airline company that had the same idea.  They wanted customers to know they had a sense of humor and that customers were special to them, not just another set of passengers. I thought this was hilarious, and a great example of the modernist ideas we just learned about, too!

A rare concept car and a great design achievement.

This is a really interesting design achievement.  Someone at Chevrolet designed a car with car body parts spanning across three vehicles of the late 50's.  It is called the Chevrolet 789.  It has the front of a 1957 Chevy, the side of a '58, and the back of a '59.  I don't think they released this car to the public, and if they did, not very many were made.  I thought it was a pretty cool idea and that it turned out awesome.