These mesmerizing letters are part of theongoing 36 Days of Type project, and the work of designer Syddharth Mate.
It’s a great use of negative space and movement in this series, very impressive work. Via Inspiration Grid:
Images Β© Copyright Syddharth Mate.
Brooklyn-based illustrator Libby Vanderploeg has a charming sensibility. And we found this collection of great holiday-themed animated GIFs while perusing her impressive portfolio. Featuring fun, empowering characters, and a subtle yet charming animation style, her simple illustrations come alive for the holiday season. Via DMVV:
Halloween is here, and that means all the spooky and fun traditions that come along with the holiday. A group of designers from Bulgaria and Italy have a collection of cute and quirky animated GIFs that all bring the Halloween spirit to life. Full of dripping blood, skeletons and ghosts, you’re sure to get a chuckle out of the dare we say adorably themed design.Β Via Behance:
We love a good optical illusion, and this one is a beauty.
Using a flashing color effect, you can swear the little characters in this image ride the moving stairs and leap off the top. But look closer. There’s almost no motion in the scene at all.
Created by Twitter user Jagarikin, the effect is called aΒ reverse-phi illusion. Pretty neat, huh? Via MyModernMet:
There’s something unexpected and lovely about this series of Gifs by Sydney-based artist Nancy Liang. The charcoal color palette perhaps, but more likely the playful and charming scenes of nighttime, with subtle movements and gentle swaying. It’s an agreeable collection, one we could see being expanded into a short film or show, with a host of plant and animal characters. Β Β Via Colossal:
βWhile most people are asleep, I find something very exciting about being awake. The night is quiet and still, and much like my thoughts, this inspires curious and mysterious urban stories out thereβ
–Nancy Liang
Brooklyn-based illustrator Libby Vanderploeg has a charming sensibility. And we found this collection of great holiday-themed animated GIFs while perusing her impressive portfolio. Featuring fun, empowering characters, and a subtle yet charming animation style, her simple illustrations come alive for the holiday season. Via DMVV:
Happy Halloween! Here are a plethora of fun, festive animated GIFs to get you in the mood. Via IG:
Paper art comes in all forms and styles, as flexible as your imagination is. Estonian artist Eiko Ojala helps to push the medium further, thanks to his dynamic, intricate, and impactful cut paper artwork.
Published in The New York Times and the Washington Post among many others, his artwork is a great accompaniment to editorial articles, ranging from healthcare to science to urban living. Β The layered style, along with a shrewd sense of human form and silhouette, breathe life into his art, especially when some movement is added, like in the heart attack illustration below. See more of his beautiful art on Behance.
These mesmerizing letters are part of the 36 Days of Type project, and the work of designer Syddharth Mate. Great use of negative space and movement in this series, very impressive work. Via Inspiration Grid:
Designer Tyler Haywood strives to create daily animated GIFs in a series called Angular Geometry. Here are just a tiny sampling of his impressively fluid and diverse animations. Via Colossal:
βI have always thought of Angular Geometry as a sketchbook,β Haywood shares with Colossal. βJust open it up and see what happens. Every day is a fresh start, so there is no need to worry all that much. Sometimes I will scroll through my archive of over 1500 GIFs and see patterns or ideas that come through in my art that I didnβt realize were there in the moment of creation. It is an interesting catalog of my subconscious in some ways.β
Spring is here, whether it feels like it or not. Sometimes we wonder…. However,Β Anna TaberkoΒ has a collection of amazing kaleidoscope GIFs that should help it feel like spring. Her effervescent style showcases patterns of flowers and frogs and bees pulsing and spinning in hypnotizing circles. There’s some really fascinating motion in her animations, great work. Via Colossal:
London-based illustrator Alexandra DvornikovaΒ has a knack for creating warm and enchanting moments through her forest scenes that show peaceful creatures and nature pulsing and gently swaying in the night. Through animated GIFs, the subtle movements bring these scenes alive, but with a great sense of restraint. You can purchase her prints onΒ Society6. Via Colossal:
Vladimir Stankovic’s work is hard to quantify, other than labeling it ‘illustration’. But his scenes possess a rare ability to transmit emotion and mood, especially with this collection from his recent projects. The color palette is soft and desaturated, yet full of warmth, despite some of the mind-bending subject matter. What would be considered doodles to some, are painstakingly realized in watercolor and colored pencils. A rare treat. Via Behance:
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In a beautifully imagined and creative manner, the animated GIF illustrations by the artist known as Sparrows are a joy to behold. Thoughtfully created, the illustrations have a rhythmic feel, without being repetitive or tiring. Via Colossal:
A cinemagraph is basically a fancy term for an animated GIF, but the subject matter is usually ‘cinematic’ in nature, and the word just sounds nicer. Here are some perpetual motion glimpses of food preparation, by a group called Kitchen Ghosts. Created by Daria Khoroshavina and food stylist Olga Kolesnikov, they put you in a state of suspended animation… Via Colossal:
