Febrero 2012
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BEARDO BEANIE BY BEARDO WEAR
Since is freezing pretty much on the entire northern hemisphere and a beanie or a hat comes handy perfectly to keep warm and look cool at the same time, and even more if you put together a nice beanie and a rad trend of nowdays: beards. As a bearded man the future of my beard has become a center of multiple conversations over the last couple of days whether I should keep it or nor but with...
Enero 2012
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I'M GONNA MAKE IT BETTER. A BEING ECLECTIC MIXTAPE
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D O W N L O A D I’m gonna make it better. A Being Eclectic mixtape
It’s mid January and I haven’t done any new year’s resolutions mostly because they’re usually unreal of too far away from our real possibilities so this year I’m thinking about make a list of some fun resolutions like study a new language, learn how to make...
Diciembre 2011
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TELENOR 2012 CALENDAR BY BECHA, MONICA LANG &...
Even when I’m not a man of calendars on the wall it always comes handy to have one especially when it’s awesomely illustrated as this one. The Telenor 2012 calendar was made by three amazing Serbian illustrators named Becha, Monika Lang and Nebojsa Cvetkovic who did such a terrific job with this one. The premise is simple, to illustrate the twelve months but with their unique...
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'CHRISTMAS IS COMING' CALENDAR BY DAVID WALKER
Hi there, it’s me again after almost two months since I started at this new job and I completely forgot to update the blog every once in a while but I’m coming back mostly because it’s Christmas and I want to share a lot of thing that I love xmas related, some of them are things I remember from my chilhood and some are new like this illustrations for a december calendar...
Noviembre 2011
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Día de los Muertos! by Mark Malazarte
Although Halloween is a very rad holiday because the make up, the candies and the costume parties I had to say as Mexican I do love Día de Muertos or Day of the dead because of the colors, the smells and the flavors not to mention the hope to see those beloved ones who passed away. To celebrate the occassion I found a terrific illustration you see above made by a Tampa-based illustrator and...
Octubre 2011
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IN THE ROOM WHERE YOU SLEEP. A BEING ECLECTIC...
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D O W N L O A D In the Room Where You Sleep. A Being Eclectic Mixtape
First lemme start apologizing for not posting for the last couple of weeks now but with my new job my life is changing, hopefully for good. That being said now it’s time for a new mixtape now inspired by the season. Is that time of the year where people invite you to costume parties and see...
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YOU HAD ME AT QWERTY. A BEING ECLECTIC MIXTAPE
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D O W N L O A D You had me at Qwerty. A Being Eclectic novel mixtape
In music as in literature the opening sentence is really important to cautivate the listener although finding great opening lyrics is not that easy even for bands like The Beatles or The Smiths. Even when starting with a great line is not necessarily basic for a song to succeed or became and...
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SOMEONE IS PRINTING UP SOULS! BY ANDREA AUSTONI
The simple idea of printing souls is as interesting as the graphic proposal of Andrea Austoni, an Italian designer and illustrator currently based somewhere on Poland whose work is really good, especially his Someone is Printing Souls! illustration. According to Andrea the idea of printing souls was inspired by George Carlin joke that you can see on the illustration although it is too small and...
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SLEEP EDUCATION BY JEWELLERS
There are some music perfect for certain moments or seasons, and Jewellers was perfect for the summer and somehow their amazing album Sleep Education it also works during the autumn. Jewellers is a Newport, Wales band whose music is just beautiful, full of ethereal beats that probably fit the most under the chillwave level although it totally could fit under sublime...
Septiembre 2011
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SHADOW BY ROOK FLORO
I just found this art instalation by the Bangkok born now based on Birmingham, UK artist and illustrator Rook Floro -love his name btw- and my jaw still is on the floor. The sculture is titled Shadow and I don’t have words to describe it, I just know I’d love to have it as a central piece on my dream house. According to Rook the concept behind this incredible...
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ZAZ WATCH BY NOOKA
Lemme start saying that I’m not a fan of wrist watches, in fact I don’t even have one, I don’t see the point of wearing one when you can easily check the time with your cell phone not to mention that when you waer one you’re constantly checking the time and worrying about it so no thanks, but every once in a while a rad watch came out on the market and I start drooling,...
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UNTITLED BY IAN ADDISON
The other day I found the Untitled series by Ian Addison and immediately thought on the Sky Series of Eric Cahan mostly for its conceptual and colorful approach. Ian is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose particular vision made me drool a lot, especially this series. For some reason the last couple of post related to photography were about conceptual images and not more define photo series...
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TYPEWRITER HELVETICA BY JOHANNES KLEIN-REESINK
Last friday I posted an amazing preview of The Typewrite (On the 21st Century) and last night I found this typography quite randomly that continues with the typewriter theme now through a very rad typography. The Typewriter Helvetica is an amazing font made by Johannes Klein-Reesink, a 22 years old Münster, Germany based designer student whose idea of using actual parts of a typewriter is...
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GUERRERO HOUSE BY ALBERTO CAMPOS BAEZA
Minimalism on architecture is not an exclusive of Japanese architecture, and even when I love the architecture made on the island there are some other countries that adopted this way of life whether as a trend or as an actual philosophy, and one of those countries is Spain where architects are doing it really great, just take a look at this gorgeous house. The Guerrero House, located on...
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THE WATERCOLORS OF LUIS TEIXEIRA
One of my favorite art techniques if not my favorite is the watercolor basically because it’s very simple and anyone can do it even me, I’m very good at it especially painting skies, sunrises and sunsets, maybe one day I’ll show you some of what I’ve done. Aside from the technique, the other thing that I like in art is the occasional weird and creepy piece, and even...
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NAPULITALIAN. NAPLES NARRATED BY POP ICON BY FABIO...
Earlier this morning I found a fantastic print series about the pop icons of Naples, one of the coolest Italian cities well known for its architecture, culture and cuisine, and football mostly because Maradona played for the Naples during big part of the 80s, and those icons are precisely represented on the illustrations made by Fabio Catapano, an Italian London-based designer, illustrator...
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DOUBLE TUBE HOUSE BY OZAWA DESIGN
I said it many times before and I’ll say it even more: I truly believe that the best architecture of the world is made on Japan, and a perfect example of that is the Double Cube House designed by Ozawa Design, a Yokohama-based studio founded by Shun’ich and Atsuko Ozawa. The Double Cube House is a two and a half storey project that I find it interesting basically for three...
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MEXICO BY JEFF MARTIN
As today is Mexico’s 201th Independence Day I decided to post some photos of my beautiful country but seen through the eyes of a foreigner, and those are Jeff Martin’s eyes. The Denver-based photographer did such a terrific work shooting people from rural Mexico going a little bit too far away from major cities and urban enviroments which is where most of the foreigners go...
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'UZUME' BY RUMI MATSUMOTO
If you’re a constant visitor of this blog you might know by now how fan am I of handmade drawings and illustrations mostly because nowdays pretty much all the designers and artists went digital so going back to the basics turns out to be quite refreshing and that’s how I could describe Rumi Matsumoto’s work among many other adjectives. Rumi is a Kyoto-based illustrator...
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AT LAST BUT NOT AT LEAST. A BEING ECLECTIC MIXTAPE
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It’s being a while since the last mixtape so I decided to do one with probably my favorite theme so far: closing album songs. The other day I was listening to Radiohead’s In Rainbows when I noticed how great are they to close albums with songs like Street Spirit (fade out), The...
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'LEFT BEHIND' BY CLIFTON HARVEY
After the previous post about photographs transformed into a new image I found the work of Clifton Harvey, a Toledo. Ohio based illustrator and digital artist whose Left Behind series is nothing but astonnishing. Just like Øysteing Halvorsen did, Clifton took a very normal photographies an added some characters and effects here and there creating a whole image to narrate a history.
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'iPHONE WORKS' BY ØYSTEIN HALVORSEN
Since the iPhone application Instagram came up it became one of the most popular -free- apps out there, it is used by over 7 million people all over the world, flowing the Internet with thousands of daily photos and somehow it affected the blogosphere as well with the creation of endless blogs about shering life through a daily pic. What I admire the most about this app is the fact that...
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'HISTORICAL & POP CULTURE CHARACTERS ON MODIFIED...
Last night I came across with this funny illustration series made by Mike Joos, a Frederick, Maryland based illustrator whose series Historical and Pop Culture Characters On Bike is exactly that, characters like George Washigton or Dath Vader on a bike. What Mike did was to put some historical and pop culture characters over a bicycles customized according to those personages...
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'INKLING SKETCH PEN' BY WACOM
Since the appearence of tablets the work of some professions became a lot easier like designers, illustrators and even architects that I’m sure they’re so greatful because now they can hand-draw directly over the gadget and export to a JPEG or other extension of file than doing it on a notebook and then scanning to finally start tracing over the scanned image. Well, if...
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THE GEOMETRIC AND COLORFUL PAINTINGS OF SAM...
It’s been a while since the last time a painting caught my attention but it’s always nice when that happend, and the rad paintings of Sam Songailo totally did. Sam is an Australian artist based on Melbourne whose work is bold, colorful and geometric, everything I love in life, and even had a 3D efect on them working misteriously among all those lines and aparent chaos that is...
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'HISTORIC PICTOGRAMS' BY H-57 STUDIO
After their magnificent May The Force (of) Typography Be With You prints I talked you about a few days ago the awesome Italian H-57 Studio did it again, this time with a series of illustrations that hopefully became prints also available for our pleasure soon named Historic Pictograms, a series that is been around on the blogosphere since its release.
The premise of this series is very...
Agosto 2011
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MARTIN LUTHER CHURCH' BY COOP HIMMELB(L)AU
Have you seen those comics whit alternate universes and new characters created out of mixing others like an hybrid or something? Well, that’s what I though the very first time I saw this project, it was like a mix of Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando all in one, but after a second view what caught my attention was the actual concept behind that swirling steel roof.
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'AUTUMN 2011 SCARVES' BY PONDER KNITWEAR
Autumn is near by and with it comes the strong airs and changes, so a nice clothes to go with it are in order, and why not start with a nice scarf. The ones you see above are the new autumn 2011 scarves collection by Ponder Knitwear and as you can see are absolutely sick, full of colors, details and textures not to mention some sort of 8bit style that is so trendy nowdays. Now, I’m more...
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'NANO ORIGAMI' BY ANJA MARKIEWICZ
A few years ago I decided to do something fun for the summer and I spendt a couple of weeks doing origami at some crappy curse someone told me but I was so bad at it that I never tried again, although once in a while it cross my mind to give it a second chance to it, especially when I see things like this. Nano Origami is the name of a series of self-explanatory tiny pieces made by Anja...
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'MOUNTAINS' BY MIKE LEVOS
Yesterday was such a hot and sweaty day so I decided to use a winterish image as a desktop wallpaper hoping it’d help me to refresh a bit the weather psychologically at least -which BTW it kinda worked- when I found this astonishing photo series titled Mountains which is so rad that I had to post them even when it’s summer still. Mike Levos, a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based...
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'NEW WORLD ORDER' BY DAWID MARKOFF
I love conspiracy theories, now I don’t believe -most of- them but I do like to read about them, I think they’re interesting and intriguing although not too believables -or are they?-. If you like them as much as I do then these illustrations you see above are your thing. New World Order, which resembles the well known Freemasons/Illuminatis motto and the idea of having just...
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'BAMBU PET HAMMOCK' BY PET LOUNGE STUDIO
Pets in our lives became more than just that, they took a place as one of the family, like the family dog or cat, and when you love yours all the cares and attentions requiered for their well being are in order, and sometimes is ok to spoiled them, not like Paris Hilton an her annoying little Chihuahua, but something like an ocassional treat or toy, or like in this case, a beautiful Bambu...
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'ENTER NIGHT: A BIOGRAPHY OF METALLICA' BY MICK...
Let me say first that I’m one of those people who doesn’t know nothing about my favourite artists and bands beyond their music, I basically don’t like to read/hear gossips and scandals, I just pay attention of what they do on stage and on the record, the other is just a big blur to me. For instance, Radiohead and Metallica are by far my two favourite bands of all times and I...
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'KERET HOUSE' BY CENTRALA
The optimization of space has become more and more important now days in urban enviroments, mostly because the cities are running out of land consuming rural soil and the fact that real estate especulation rises to the square feet prices to the sky. Ad to that the fact humans consums a lot of things we don’t really need and there you go, a huge need of space when other cultures...
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'MAY THE FORCE (OF) TYPOGRAPHY BE WITH YOU'...
Do you remember last november when I talked about these amazing illustrations you see above? They’re made entirely with typography symbols resembling to some Star Wars™ characters and designed by the Italian H-57 Creative Studio. Well, today I received an email from Sabrina Di Gregorio from Studio H-57 letting me know that finally, after almost a year they finally get an agreement with...
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'MUGTAIL ANIMAL MUG' BY CONNECT DESIGN
I’m one of those who need a cup of coffee every morning to start functioning otherwise am a mess all day long, so of course I have a favourite mug for that purpose but nothing quite like this awesome-must-have mugs inspired by animals. Design by Connect Design, a Seoul, Korea company focused on design awesome items like these mugs inspried by some cute animals like a bunny and a...
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'FABRICATED REALISM' BY ALEX ROULETTE
I’ve always wanted to do some oil paintings although I’m kinda afraid of failing or being just bad at it, and looking at these amazingly realistic ones painted by Alex Roulette my fear increased a lot. The work of this Brooklyn-based artist is pretty rad, especially because its realistic style and color selection not to mention the actual composition of his paintings which is...
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'8 BIT FASHIONARY' BY FASHIONARY
The 8-bit trend it’s been around for quite some time now, some of the work made with this particular retro style is very outstanding like the aesthetic of Scott Pilgrim movie or some music videos, and among the illustrations following that trend now we can see the work of Fashionary, a project created on 2009 by Penter Yip focused on create sketchbooks for fashion designers...
