South Korean artist JeeYoung Lee creates extraordinary surreal scenes (Non-Digital) in her small 3 x 6 m studio. That’s right! She turns her small studio room into dreamscapes without using Photoshop. She adds plastic creativity and theatrical performance to it, in order to blow life into her immense needs of expression, and interrogation.
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Ceramic Art by Katharine Morling
Katharine Morling is an award-winning artist working in the medium of ceramics. She set up her studio in 2003 and has since gained international acclaim for her work. Katharine says, “My work can be described as 3 dimensional drawings, in the medium of ceramics. Each piece, on the surface, an inanimate object, has been given layers of emotion and embedded with stories, which are open for interpretation in the viewer’s mind. When put together, the pieces combine to make a tableau staging the still lives of everyday objects. The life size pieces and the unexpectedness of the scale create a slightly surreal experience as you walk through this strange environment. I work very instinctively, one piece leads to the next, I try not to pin down what I am doing or even why. I have to trust and believe that I can communicate through this medium. My searching is never complete; each piece is a journey for answers that are only hinted at, with more questions.”
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Creative Food Art by Daryna Kossar
Visual artist and photographer Daryna Kossar based in Kiev, Ukraine, has some amazing food art for you to check out. Make sure to watch the video below to see how she creates them.
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Creative Billboards From All Over The World
Outdoor advertising is effective and very popular in many countries. Advertising agencies are trying to do something new, creative, to make their a billboard stand out among other boards. Soeme of these billboards are very very good and as a result effective.
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40 Cool Inventions
Some inventions are so ubiquitous that it’s difficult to imagine they started as an idea scribbled on paper and then a patent application. Aluminum foil, adhesive bandages, the ballpoint pen, the computer mouse, the microwave oven — these are just a few examples of great ideas that became indispensable products we now take for granted.
In that spirit, here are few inventions that push the boundaries of innovation. Enjoy them with a caveat: There were people who scoffed at the notion that the motorized carriage would ever replace the convenience of having a horse, and others who figured that nobody would ever need or want to carry a telephone around in their pocket. Enjoy!
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Great Free Handwriting Fonts
Handwriting fonts have been gaining more popularity over the past few months, so we decided to pick 35 of the best free ones from across the web.
If you need a handwriting font for your project, look no further. When we talk about free handwriting fonts, we’re not just referring to one style of typography; they can come in a number of various executions. They are in the same area as cursive fonts but with even fewer constraints and often based of free-form illustrations.
More recently, this style of typography has been making more appearances than ever before, with print and digital alike favoring it over more traditional offerings. Here, we plucked some awesome free fonts in a handwritten style for you to download and enjoy.
01. Housegrind
This cool script font was created by graphic designer Måns Grebäck, who specialises in logotypes and typography. Free for personal use only, a commercial licence for Housegrind can be purchased via the Aring Typeface website.
02. Dickie
Freelance designer David Ellis created handwritten font Dickie using MyScriptFont, an online tool that allows you to create a vector font from your own handwriting. “It’s a great starting point as there aren’t that many great handwriting style fonts out there and it’s a pretty quick process,” Ellis comments.
03. Mink Type
Mink Type was created by New York-based art director Filiz Sahin. “Mink Type is a cool, handpainted display typeface that was developed using brush tools in Illustrator,” she comments. “Each letter has three variations including upper and lower cases so you can create a custom feel for your designs.”
04. VersionType
A condensed sans-serif font, VersionType was created by senior designer Victor Coreas. “It is meant to be playful and very loose,” he comments. The typeface includes a full set of upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters, and it’s free for personal and non-profit use.
05. Billy
Created by student and freelancer Claire Joines, Billy is a font made from her own handwriting. “Because it’s my own handwriting it didn’t take me long to make,” says Claire, “So I decided to put it online for other people to use freely!”
It’s free for personal and non-profit use (although attribution or a thank you would be nice); if you want to use it commercially, get in touch with Claire. She’ll normally ask for attribution and a small donation.
06. Happy Fox
This Happy Fox font design was a collaborative effort between illustrator Laura Caldentey and Fran Llull. Wanting a thin font to use in their projects, Caldentey drew an alphabet and a selection of glyphs, and worked closely with Llull to refine into this final design.
07. Skinny
This handwriting font is, by far, the most popular of the type designs offered online by the artist known as notfon1234. The last update to the design saw a clean up to the spacing and characters, and the font is now completely free for commercial use.
08. Gunny Rewritten
Based on his older font Gunny Handwriting, type designer Vit Condak recently released this new typeface Gunny Rewritten. Unhappy with his original version, Condak completety remade the design and now offers it as a free download for all to enjoy.
09. Halo Handletter
This elegant hand writing font was developed by graphic designer Mario Arturo. One of over 20 fonts created by Arturo, who specialises in fancy and script designs, Halo Handletter is perfect example of the latter. Free for non-commerical use only.
10. LeHand
LeHand is the first font created by indieferdie. The LeHand font reflects a playful handwriting style that will be great for experimenting with on your new design projects. As a web designer and branding designer, we think there’s much more inspirational work ahead for indieferdie.
11. Yore
Created by Vietnamese designer Poem haiku, the Yore script is a fun take on the more traditional script offerings. Pulling in his influences from illustration, Yore will be perfect for content experimentation and might even work well on a branding project or two.
12. Whatever it takes
The ‘Whatever it takes’ font harks back to those school boards and chalk typography. It’s free for personal and non-profit use. The designer does however, ask for a $5 donation for any commercial use, which we think is still a bargain!
13. Before Breakfast
Recently, designer Simon Stratford discover iPad app iFontMaker and shortly after challenged to create a font with it in under 10 minutes. The result? This hand drawn typeface Before Breakfast. It may not be one of the most considered entries in our free fonts list, but, as Stratford comments: “It’s a fun, handwritten typeface that probably breaks every rule in typography.”
14. Engine
One of our favourite free handwriting fonts, this design by Ferdie Balderas comes in regular and italic as well as capital and lower-case letters. He’s even made it supportive of a number of different languages including French, Spanish and Polish.
15. Chomp
We just had to include this download in our list of free handwriting fonts. Chomp is a playful design created by Camberwell based designer William Bayley Suckling. As a student at The London College of Communication, Suckling regularly experiments with fonts and is happy for you to use it with any personal or commercial work.
16. LSTK Bembo
One of the loveliest free handwriting fonts we’ve seen in a long time, LSTK Bembo is an ode to one of the real daddies of book typefaces, Bembo. This handdrawn version of this classic typeface can be used whenever you want to combine personality, tradition and a pinch of attitude. The important glyphs are included in this postscript font except the lowercase x.
17. Haiku’s Script
Haiku’s Script is Poem Haiku’s first attempt at creating a font. Beginning in 2011, it took three months to finish, from July to September. It’s free for personal use and Poem Haiku would love to hear any thoughts and comments about this free handwriting font.
18. Pops
New York based designer Sune Matras tasked himself to create a font based on one of his father’s handwriting styles – a very personal and specific one – normally used for short messages and headlines. We’re pleased as punch to include this gorgeous design in our list of free handwriting fonts.
19. Sketch Block
This hand-sketched headline font was designed by artist Lukas Bischoff. He comments: “Created solely by me from sketch by hand and then digitized, Sketch Block makes a perfect font to create the hand-made character look, or to supplement illustrations with typography.” Free for personal use only, it’s one of the nicest free handwriting fonts we’ve seen in a long time.
20. GoodDog
A contemporary and decorative font, GoodDog was created by Fonthead Design. The curly typeface is a popular choice, having been download almost a million times since its release. This free handwriting font comes complete with a full set of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and characters.
21. J.D Handcrafted
J.D Handcrafted is one of 16 fonts created by Emerald City Fontwerks, the stylish design being one of the studio’s most popular. The brush, script-style typeface is free for personal use, with a full set of characters at your disposal.
22. Amatic
A quirky, narrow and condensed design by typographer Vernon Adams this free handwriting font is perfectly suited to designs on the funny side, such as comedy strips. Amatic only includes uppercase letters but comes in both regular and bold styles.
23. Journal
Created by Hans Gerhard Meier aka Fontourist, this beautiful script-style font’s name explains exactly the type of design its suited to. This is one of three fonts designed by Meier and his most popular download by far.
24. Mari & David
The charming free handwriting font was designed by Chilean designer and typographer Rodrigo German. The Mari & David font comes in regular, bold and extrabold, which means there’s plenty to play around with. You can also receive numbers and symbols in this style when you download the font.
25. Daniel
Daniel is one of many fonts created by designer Daniel Midgley. Free for both personal and commercial use, Daniel includes a full set of upper and lowercase characters, numbers and various special characters.
26. Sumitra
This gorgeous, calligraphy based handwriting font was created by Nepal-based graphic designer and typographer Ananda Maharjan. Placing the font on a base of watercolours as well as a white canvas ensure that its versatility shines.
27. LSTK Clarendon
Created by Austrian mobile studio Studio Elastik, this is their second free font to be released into the wild. They describe it as their “handlettered badass version of the English slab serif typeface, Clarendon”, which explains the name! It comes in bold and outline.
28. Mawn’s Handwriting
This free handwriting font – Mawn’s Handwriting – is another created by Måns Grebäck; a graphic designer specialising in font, logotype, and typography design. It is to be downloaded for personal use and as always, donations to the designer are always welcome!
29. Bispo Nova
Bispo is a script typeface made inspiring on italic chancery calligraphy, with a flat nib pen and a module of 10 pen widths. Designed by Brazilian typographer Jackson Alves, he decided to make this typeface to allow everyone to be able to create pieces with a charm of calligraphy and taking advantage of the Opentype features.
30. Scribulous Scrawlin’
We had to pop a chalk-styled free handwriting font in the list and this one which was designed Alphabeta85 is a perfect addition. It comes in both capitalised and non, as well as numbers, punctuation, and symbols. As always, make sure you only use it for personal work!
31. Linny
This cutesy font was designed by Maya aka Linny. This handwriting type is actually Maya’s handwriting and after being asked to develop the font for personal use, she finally did! It comes in upper and lower case, as well as numbers and punctuation.
32. Fatstack
We love this heavy duty, scribble-friendly font designed by Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering. Consisting purely of capital letters, this is a free handwriting font that would be perfect for some seriously bold design work. You can also grab some punctuation and numbers in the free package.
33. Soft Sugar
This fun handwriting font can only be downloaded for free in the regular format but we think it’s a great one to play around with. Evoking a sense of the old-school comic book style fonts, we’re sure you’ll be able to create something special with this one!
34. Architect’s Daughter
Inspired by architectural grids, this neat, blocky handwriting font Architect’s Daughter was created by Kimberly Geswein. Author of over 200 fonts, Geswein offers many of her designs, including this one, free for personal use.
35. Worstveld Sling Extra
One of 82 typefaces developed by Gem Fonts, Worstveld Sling Extra is one of it’s most popular hand writing designs, receiving over 400,000 downloads since its release. Free for personal use, this font family includes a full set of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and various special characters.
Let us know in the comments box if you create any work using these handwriting fonts!
Words: Sammy Maine
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Stunning Tree House Restaurant
These days, a tree house design is much more than just a playhouse in the backyard. We’ve seen creative concepts from HemLoft, an egg-shaped tree house, to TreeHouse Point, a charming bed and breakfast nestled in the trees. Another incredibly unique construction is this Yellow Treehouse Restaurant, developed by New Zealand based Pacific Environment Architects in collaboration with Yellow Pages.
Located north of Auckland, the unique concept is an eighteen seat cafe suspended around a large redwood tree and approximately 130 feet above the ground. The entire structure spans more than 30 feet wide and almost 40 feet high, with kitchen and bathrooms located on the ground below.
Timber trusses form the main structure, the curved fins are glue-laminated pine, and redwood milled from the site are used in the walkway balustrading. Plantation poplar slats wrap around the tree and create interesting textured spaces that allow natural light to radiate throughout the interior. The circular concept is also designed to be weather resistant, with acrylic sheeting fixed to the roof and vertical roll-down blinds on the interior. Visitors are welcome to come and venture high up in the trees to enjoy a delicious meal.
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Incredible Lead Pencil Sculptures
Since a young age, São Paulo-born artist Dalton Ghetti had a knack for tools. For his 9th Birthday, Ghetti received a set of metal tools for children. This is what he believes began his love of carving and hobby for carpentry. At 24, he moved to the USA where he earned an associate of arts degree in architecture, while working as a cabinet maker. upon graduation he became employed as a home remodeller, a job which he continues doing today.
During his spare time, Ghetti enjoys carving small intricate objects our for lead pencils. His technique requires him to hold the pencil in his hand under a strong light source, carving with either a sewing needle or sharp triangular metal blade, gradually removing specks of graphite at a time. This process usually sees Ghetti working for one or two hour intervals at a time, which results in the pieces taking months, or sometimes years to complete.
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Design: Time-Killing ‘Chrono Shredder’
Created by Susanna Hetrich, the simple red box shreds each day’s calendar page as it passes, and leaves the tangled paper strands to curl, bunch and pile up on the floor in a messy heap. Chrono-Shredder (2007-2012, various iterations) celebrates remorse for the lost moment. It is a poetic machine with functions similar to those of a calendar and a clock: The device continuously shreds every single day, minute after minute, hour after hour. A pulse is given every 3 minutes, after 24 hours a complete day has been destroyed. Continuously, the tattered remains of the past pile up under the device as time passes by.
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Intriguing Finger Celebrities (Art)
If you’re willing, even your fingers can be transformed into famous people of your choice, and that’s what the Italian artist Dito Von Tease did for his Ditology project. He photographed his own index ‘dito’, (aka finger) and magically manipulates it into public figures like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg with astounding accuracy.
Von Tease, who also goes by the name “Il Dito” (The Finger), started the project three years ago, when he first subscribed to Facebook. He decided to design an avatar using a photo of his own index finger and some digital retouching. He says, “I wanted to be free from my role, my oppressive relatives, and my not-very-friends.” The burlesque performer Dita Von Teese, whom he calls “an expert in disguises,” inspired his alias. He also wanted to explore the idea that we all hide ourselves behind an image we create. Which is your favorite? Please let us know in the comments below.
(Image Source: Ditology)
Dito Avatar. With this level of accuracy and detail, it’s hard to tell if this really comes from a regular index finger. Dito Von Tease is not (just) another photo manipulator.
Dito Mario Bros. I love how vector designs are created to suit this Mario character. The artist truly cares about every single element that adds to the accuracy.
Dito Mona Lisa. Masterpiece remastered, but how the heck did he re-create the cloth in renaissance style?
Dito Mozart. If you haven’t noticed the similarity yet, here is the photo for you to compare with.
Dito Ronald McDonald. Ronald McDonald’s look always freaks me out, but this one scared me with its seamless, realistic combination between background and portrait.
Dito Mark Zuckerberg. If you use Facebook every day, will your finger start looking like Mark Zuckerberg? Nailed the hair.
Dito Obama. Love him or hate him, you can’t hate Dito Obama.
Steve Jobs. Forget Kutcher, put Dito Steve Jobs in the biography instead.
Dito Tattoo. Quick note: every master work like this takes between 8 and 16 hours.
Dito Wrestling. All these convincing designs and textures makes me wonder if finger people actually exists in real life!
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