I’ve decided to move this blog over to Tumblr, you can find it at http://gentlepurespace.tumblr.com/ Please update your bookmarks and rss feeds. This site will continue to exist for a while for it’s archives, but all new posts will be made on the tumblr site. Hope to see you all there!
The people at Dentsu London came up with this brilliant method for using cross sections of 3D type on a iPad along with long camera exposures to create an interesting new way of making still frame animations with painted light. The video explains the process and then gets into the actual animation.
Karen Horton’s stamp collection is always intriguing, but I found this recently added Nigerian Peaceful Use of Outer Space stamp to be so amazing that I just had to spotlight it here. The colors, the type, and the illustrations are amazing, and I would marry that gritty background gradient if I could.
Scrapertown is a short documentary about a movement started in Oakland that keeps kids out of trouble by getting them into decorating their bikes. It’s a breath of fresh air, and will boost your faith in humanity for sure. The beautiful video was created by California is a Place.
I love the vintage style matchbook designs created for the music video for the Navigator’s song “My Place”. The amazing designs were created by Pavel Fuksa. Via Draplin
A lot of artists have done the whole “create something everyday” thing, buy what grabbed my attention about Casey Britt‘s attempt is his website cataloging it, entitled, IAMYOURFAVORITE. Go ahead, click on a thumbnail, or click “about”, it’s exciting yet functional and not annoying. It is a very nice usage of what I’m guessing is [...]
Here are some things I’ve recently like enjoyed. Be sure to click on the images if you want to see where they came from! This made me laugh, I don’t think I ever seen anything else brag that the product was so new that the package design wasn’t completed yet. This photo by Heather Raye [...]
Caleb Charland creates intriguing photos based on his love of scientific experiments. If you ever enjoyed playing with fire, water, light, and magnets; you’ll enjoy his collection! Via PetaPixel
I thought Gone Goodbye was beautiful and incredibly well produced, especially since it was made in under 100 hours. There’s a little surprise twist in the plot that is hard to pick up on, but I didn’t even care as I watched it the first time, I was just soaking up the amazing cinematography. If [...]