Swans on Tea

… and ships, weapons and sci-fi contraptions and more. The Blueprints Database

design*sponge: how to make a repeat pattern
How to make a tile-able pattern.

Creative Soap Designs

Broccoli by another name…
3-D Mandelbrot renderings

Name That Movie
I started a series of drawings in my sketchbook, it’s a kind of visual quiz of great movies. Each series is a sequence of six drawings of shots from classic films (in the order they appear on screen.) No portraits of movie stars, just iconic images from the film. When I finish [...]

Penalty! Unnecessary Blandness! Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics
The author redesigns the helmets of the Redskins, Buccaneers and Patriots.

What Kind of Artist are You?

sevensixfive: Circles
This is an open question: What is this fractal? It’s a method for filling a 2D plane with circles in an orderly way – circles made of circles, all the way down. There are published examples of similar systems, like the Apollonian Gasket, the Kleinian Groups, Indra’s Pearls, but I’ve never seen this [...]

Amazing Paper Airplanes: ALCM-Straw Cruise Missile

AT Europe: London Close-up – The Amazing Staircase
Limited by space, we melded the idea of a staircase with our client’s desire for a library to form a ‘library staircase’ in which English oak stair treads and shelves are both completely lined with books. With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place [...]

Sculptures in Motion by Peter Jansen
Peter Jansen must have watched the slow motion parts in The Matrix thousands of times. A student of physics and philosophy, the Dutch artist captures sequences of human movements within a single frame of space and time.

flickr: Tapecraft
Crafts constructed from simple invisible tape and colored with permanent markers.