watercolor texture

I love the use of watercolor texture in print, in textiles, in almost everything. This poster for Tyler Perry's movie is completely gorgeous:

I saw this and it blew my mind. I knew I wanted to incorporate watercolor texture for my texture assignment in digital illustration, I would show my final piece, if I had it :(

package design

I usually browse through thedieline or lovely package quite often and usually the ones that capture my attention are either the designs that are so minimal, that it's genius or are so detailed that it's beyond beautiful. These are some that are sitting in my "Packaging Inspiration" folder on my desktop:

so beautiful

I love the logo and the way the fruit and yogurt is packaged. Especially since usually its "fruit on the bottom!" And I also love the way the vibrancy of the colors really shows through.

I love the different textures on the milk packaging. And the use of only white and black and all the greys in between. I think the concept is very cool and modern.

album cover art

For a band or a singer, they know how important album cover art is. The message that is communicated is one that sums up the entire album. There are quite a few covers that are really beautiful. Or ones that just totally rock. Examples below:

Florence + the Machine

Lykke Li

Santogold (now Santigold)

I can't wait to see Florence and Lykke Li this summer!

icons now&then

left: Golden's CBS logo; top right: Airtistic; bottom right: Gentlemen's Writers Club

With chapter 20 all about corporate identity and visual systems, we see William Golden's CBS logo. A good logo is distinctive, appropriate, practical, graphic, simple in form and conveys the intended message of the group.

The two logos on the right side are two logos that I personally really liked. They are not only simple and versatile, they definitely convey their intended message.

papercuts

For my first project in 3D design, we had to work with paper, I ended up doing a whole installation based around these organic and geometric shapes that I describe as collapsing.

My 3D paper installation on the 4th fl of SJH

Here are some other paper artists who have done some really cool stuff:

Emma Van Leest

Both above are Aoyama Hina

Elodole

bauhaus now&then

One area that the Bauhaus has influenced is furniture. My favorite type of furniture has to be book shelves and cases. The Bauhaus had a very sleek, modern look that was definitely ahead of its time. This can be found in the structure and form and overall aesthetic of book shelves #2-7.

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kandinsky

I am actually quite a big fan of Kandinsky's work. I like how he names his pieces compositions and how he believes that art and music can work hand in hand. How his paintings visually express music to your eyes. His abstraction is really beautiful.

Composition VII

Honestly? This totally blows my mind.