Alana McCarthy is an amazing, award-winning illustrator. Her commercial clients have included The Wall Street Journal, Cadbury, Coca-Cola, Scholastic, Penguin Books, and Absolut Vodka. She also created the adorably fresh logo for our sister site Freak4MyPet.com.
Alana is best known for her Geeky Pet art, which depicts cats, and the...
Pantone Guides are books of thin cardboard color swatches that artists, designers, printers and manufacturers use to “color match” when a design enters its production stage... i.e. they ensure that you are painting lavender instead of eggplant by accident. Different printing equipment and computers can have different ideas of what a...
Peddy Mergui is a top branding expert, artist, and designer. He is known for his prowess at making “rule-breaking” designs and concepts. His recent project, Wheat is Wheat is Wheat, pairs basic commodities like eggs, rice, and milk with luxury packaging. This work illuminates the struggle Mergui faces as a...
For the most part the fashion world likes its models and spokespeople as young as they can get them. Teenagers crowd the pages of fashion magazines and the runways in New York, Paris, and Milan. That is why we’ve been thrilled recently that women over fifty have been popping up...
Sometimes the littlest things in every day life are just what you need to give your creativity a jolt (along with your morning coffee). You won’t believe what these five artists did with just a little sweet inspiration!
Andy Magee’s piece, Artificial Sweetener, pays homage to Andy Warhol and his iconic Marilyn...
Coco Chanel once said “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” Chinese artist Mu Chen’s take on Chanel’s iconic logo for her “Color” series certainly stands out from the crowd.
Using five different types of earth collected specifically from China and using an ancient method of tamping earth,...