Three Stages in Life Charcoal Drawings

Three stages in life, symbolised by charcoal drawings.

RSPCA Human Eyes Animals Advertising Illustrations

Cool piece of art, but the reason for having to do it, really saddens me.

Clever Advertising for Animal Adoption - World For All - Optical Illusions

Imaginative Optical Illusions, designed to attract our attention and do something about this problem.

Surreal and Satirical Photo Manipulation

If you like a bit of Satire, mixed in with a few Surreal themes, then press the image.

Marrying Typography and Food Art

Becca Clason is an American freelance lettering artist and this is how she is described on her website "Becca is a one-stop shop: she does her own food and prop styling, art direction, photography, stop-motion animation, and post-production from her home studio in the mountains of Utah".  Her lovely art manages to marry typography with beautiful and wonderfully good food.

Typography Illustrations using Stippling

Incredible Patience and precision, demonstrated by French artist and Illustrator Xavier Casalta.  The Stippling technique, is achieved by adding tiny dots to create dark and light to your illustrations.  The more dots added in a given area, the darker that part will be.  These drawings require a lot of time to complete, it is not an easy or quick process.  It can involve millions of dots and tens of hours of laborious concentration.  We have added animations to illustrate details of these amazing drawings and at the end, the Lettering A to Z.  This is a link to Xavier's previous post, here on DesignStack "Illustrations and Typography".

Drawing Combination of Animations, Typography and Architecture

Omar Shammah is a Freelance Designer and Artist that was born in Damascus Syria.  In this post we are going to showcase his letters of the alphabet, this page consists of a coming together of Animations, Typography and Architecture.  The animations, A through to Z are shown below.  All the drawings were created using Charcoal and Ink on Drawing Paper and then refined and animated with Adobe Photoshop.

Writing in 3D Typography Animations

German Graphic Designer and Co-Founder of Kollektiv Kjosk, Florian Schommer, brings us these brilliant examples of animated Typography.  His newly formed company is trying to bring something new and fresh to the illustration market.  They specialise in fields like music, fashion and art. Their slogan is "Let’s stop monotony!".  Please give the animations some time to get started.  The top image is the only one that does not animate.

Architecture and what Lies Beneath

This advertising campaign is the brainchild of Saatchi & Saatchi Russia and produced by Carioca Studio.  The idea behind the campaign, called “Discover the full story”, was to get Muscovites curious enough to visit the Schusev State Museum of Architecture.  Three of the city's best known buildings were chosen as symbols and compared to icebergs, where the facade is jut the tip, leaving so much more hidden from view and ready to explore.  The three Architectural icons were St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, the Postnik and Bolshoi Theatre and the main building of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.  As well as the finish image we have included GIF Animations to show the various stages of construction of the picture.

Hidden Animals in the Rainforest

This was an Ad campaign setup for WWF to raise money for the Rainforest.  French Art Director, at Marcel, Anaïs Boileau handled this campaign. The picture initially looks like a typical mossy forest in the Amazon, until you look closer and you see all the animals hidden in the vegetation.  We have added enlarged pictures so that you can see them all. Press the images to enlarge them (not the first one).

Retro - Vintage Ads For Social Media

On our travels through the web, we found this gem of an advertising campaign, that came out in 2010.  The creators, Brazilian ad Company Moma Propaganda launched ads for Social Media and the Internet, pretending they were available in the 1960s.  Imagine if that were true and we had over 50 years of Internet and Social Media, how different things would be now...
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Vintage Typography

We have tendency to think that typography (drawing letters in an artistic form) is a modern invention.  These images were Printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel a lithographer (early form of printing that used stone or metal on which images or letters or a combination of the two were reproduced using ink and paper) sometime between 1819 and 1850.  It looks like the artist that created at least some, if not all of the letters, was L.E.M. Jones, have a look at the inscriptions under the letters A, C, D, I, K and Z.  These wonderfully detailed imaged are now kept at the British Museum. You can enlarge them by pressing the images, not the first one.  How do you think these compare with their modern equivalent?  Let us know in the comment section at the end of the article.

Coffee Travel Guide

British Budget Travel Company, Cheap Flights, sponsored this Infographic for all Coffee lovers, showing the incredible number of variations in which, this one drink, is prepared.  To increase the size of the writing, once in the article, you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).  Which is your favourite one?  If one of the coffees below inspires you to try making it yourself, let us know how it turns out at the bottom in the comment section.  Enjoy...

If you like this have a look at Dining Etiquette Around the World.

Illustrations and Typography

19 year old French Illustrator and Typography Artist Xavier Casalta creates amazing pictures using a technique called Stippling, where images are made up by an enormous amount of tiny dots instead of a thick layer of paint or colour (have a look at the last image it is a negative of the definition we have just given).  Casalta uses this drawing method to create images like the Tiger above, lettering and logos.  To get the best effect, once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).  Which do you prefer the lettering or the Tiger?  Let us know in the comment box at the end.

Dining Etiquette Around the World

This infographic was created for The Restaurant Choice, a British company that provides gift vouchers for hundreds of independent restaurants around the UK.  If you are planning to travel to one of the Countries featured, you might want to read the Do and Don't of that Region.  Please let us know of any other customs, of countries not featured in the article, at the end in the Comment section.  Once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).

Anatomy of Artists Photography

Brazilian Advertising Agency DDB, creates an advertising campaign for MASP Art School in Sao Paolo.  Three Famous Artist Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh are Illustrated whilst being dissected and the twist is that their internal organs are are depicted in the style of the artist.  Have a look in the article for detailed Images.  Which anatomical depiction if your favourite?  Let us know at the bottom.

Architectural City Alphabet Typography

World traveller, French-Japanese Illustrator Hugo Yoshikawa has created these lovely and imaginative learning aids.  In these drawing from European cities, Yoshikawa depicts the main Architectural buildings in each City, for each letter of the alphabet.  See if you can identify them before looking a the name below it.  Which City would you like to live in? Which is your favourite Drawing?  You can use the comment box, at the end of the article, to tell us.

Human Typography

Fantastically weird Typography by French Creative Director Jean-Charles Debroize.  He deserves the title of Creative Director, as he found a very imaginative way to advertise his business.  The name spelled out by the letters is Kerozen, which is the name of his company, that is constituted by 7 members of the design team and every letter stands for the initial of one of the members.  It gets better, the letters were fist formed in clay and then Photoshop was used to texture the design member's features on their initial.  People like you and us will help get their design ingenuity out there at no extra cost.  Well done. To get the best effect, once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).

Beautiful Piercing Eyes

These Piercing Eye Images were created for Wrigley's - 5 Gum.  Every Image has its own zoomed in view to showcase just how colourful and intense these eyes really are.  Have a look at the zoomed in images and you can just about see the images that constitute the Iris (portion of the eye that provides the colour).  We have always been fascinated with people's eyes, it was believed that they are the window to the Soul.  More recently eyes have been used as one of the tells in the understanding of microexpressions in the face.  The study seeks to unmask lying, disgust, anger, fear, sadness, happiness, and surprise from people trying to hide or suppress those emotions.  The  creative production agency Saddington Baynes bring to life these beautiful eyes.

Scientific Billboards

Advertising billboard campaign utilised to advertise science in Vancouver by Science World Museum with Rethink Canada.  Facts that you probably would have never guessed.