Ponies and Unicorns! » Art

Unicorn Being a Jerk

Mandi — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:31:20 +0000

Unicorn stalks you. He also abuses his wife, hopes his son isn’t gay and writes his own Wikipedia page.

A Strange Walk

Mandi — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:07:44 +0000

Illustrated Missed Connections

Mandi — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:30:25 +0000

I LOVE reading missed connections. I never could have imagined how infinitely cooler they would become once illustrated.

Monday, November 2nd, 2009
You left your coat here last winter – w4w
… or rather, you let me wear it home.
I found fun dip in one pocket and your NYPL card in the other.
It’s going to keep me deliciously warm this winter as I rack up mountains of overdue fines

Saturday, October 17, 2009
- m4w
We shared a bear suit at an apartment party on Saturday night.
I asked for your number and you gave it to me, but somehow I don’t have an area code written down. I had a great time talking with you, and I don’t trust Chance enough to wait until I see you in the elevators…

See lots more here.

On a completely unrelated note: Jellyfish are dumb.

Happy Halloween! 2009 Pumpkin Art

Mandi — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:03:19 +0000

Pumpkin carving is one of my favorite holiday traditions. Here are some interesting carvings from this year’s contest at agoodson.com.

See more at agoodson.com.

The Best Places for Creative Inspiration (or to Waste Time)

Mandi — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:23:19 +0000

I was going to list these in categories relating to the type of inspiration they provide (web design, photography, graphic design, etc..) but then I realized that the best designs are inspired by completely irrelevant things. So here is a list of great websites that can inspire you to create even greater things. I’ve tried to make this a bit different than the typical “inspirational site” post. If you know of any other noteworthy sites that should be added, leave it in the comments.

Regrouped is a gallery of web design galleries. Its like a matryoshka doll for CSS-philes.

Muse takes lovely pieces of art and reveals the story behind its creation straight from the artist’s mouth.

Cool Showcase features mostly fantasy illustrations.

Behance showcases the portfolios, and collaborative projects from the most creative people in the world.

DIY everything!!

Go to Tumblr, type in a keyword.. get tons of great images, words and thoughts on the topic.

FFFFound features random found images.

Wallpaper is a high class look at the design of everything.

DesignFlavr is heaven for any type of digital designer.

Springwise is an interesting site that is chock full of business ideas.

Digital Design Magazine stays on the cutting edge of… you guessed it, digital design.

Graphic Exchange is a beautiful and comprehensive collection of designs from all over.

If you are a designer and have never heard of Smashing Magazine, you are way behind, my friend.

Web Urbanist always has wonderfully unique posts.

Good old reliable (when it doesn’t take 27 years to load) DeviantArt

Yummy Flashy goodness over at FWA.

Mojizu is a gallery of super cute character designs.

Share Some Candy has some great illustrations but I really want to point out the Workspaces series. As you may have already guessed, it gives you a sneak peak into different artist’s workspaces.

Colourlovers and Kuler… oh the colors!!!

Threadless = beautiful and thought provoking t-shirt designs by up and coming artists.

Soul Pancake is a truly unique community site (created by Dwight from The Office) that asks thought-provoking questions that often get many insightful and creative answers.

We Heart It is a lovely visual bookmarking site.

StumbleUpon is a cornucopia of information and ideas. Sign up, download the Firefox plugin, whenever you need inspiration just click the little icon and Viola!

Make and Craft are great for creatives who like to get their hands dirty.

Vimeo is a great place for nicely produced, inventive video. It’s like Youtube, but with class.

Carbonmade is a fun little portfolio community. The best part is the head-icorn logo.

Other places to seek inspiration

The top 50 inspirational websites for designers. (some already listed, some not)

Top 100 creative writing blogs.

Macro Bug Portraits

Mandi — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:28:12 +0000

Whoever knew creepy crawlies would be so beautiful at a macro level?

Check out this dudes sweet aviators.

He’s fuzzy! I want to pet him, and love him, and call him George!

Check out more of The Incredible Macro Bug Portraiture of Thomas Shahan -courtesy of Lightstalking.com.

Driftwood Ponies!

Mandi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:03:20 +0000

Driftwood Horses by Heather Jansch