Having a personal interest in hand-lettering, I flip through a whole lot of stuff on a daily basis. This particular one caught my attention today - Turkish graphic designer and electrical engineer Tolga Girgin experiments with calligraphy, making the letters seem to pop off the page. Through shading, shadows and different forms of perspective, they're given a new kind of life on the page. Really . . .
Miniature Works
Istanbul-based Microartist, Hasan Kale, uses extreme precision and a steady hand to create a series of impossibly small paintings using everyday objects as his canvas. According to Kale, “things we usually see can turn into something invisible” - this thought inspired his new direction and his work calls attention to the things that we see yet often ignore in daily life. Anything from a butterfly . . .
It’s Here
MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=isPm79xTzM4 A Christmas wish from the true ballers... Christmas was a little unconventional. We made our way to work, spotted some skinny santas, and had roast chicken instead of turkey. A wonderful one nonetheless. I hope that you all enjoyed yours too! . . .
Christmas in a Can
You know how most people have this perception that they do not want to end up being that lonely old woman (or man) with the cats? Well, I've thought of a new benchmark. This. I do not ever want to be that lonely old woman who eats Christmas dinners out of a can. I understand that we are in an incredibly fast-food, fast-everything society these days but Christmas and Thanksgiving is the one . . .