year 2008
gradients: good
usage: a lot

ever wonderd how lego artists do have so many bricks from the same color? well thats why because you now can order every brick individually online:

http://us.factory.lego.com/pab/?

to make something like this:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/arvo/Legodreams/Alien/alien_01.jpg

software for your custom lego models:

http://factory.lego.com/getstarted/default.aspx

http://www.animationmentor.com

*thanks peter*

DrawerGeeks!

very many illustrations on fishes and other creatures of the sea, detailed and stunning!

http://www.trans-technical.com/

via notcot

a very broad portfolio of the comic artist joshua middleton
http://joshuamiddleton.com/

*thanks rainer*

a very interesting video, showing an artist painting a sifi backdrop in photoshop

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/videos/pp_Painting_BR1000.zip

you can find an low res version here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tQDR58CL8 

a huge collection of very different types of maps

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

ted is a site dedicated to speeches, based on sopnsoring

“Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers”

Here is one by stefan sagmeister:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/50

and here a very interesting one from jonathan harris:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/144

although i am no programmer, perheps those who are can do something pretty with this one:

http://code.google.com/p/independence/

an interesting idea from david fiedman, he had the idea to hide images within the histogram, josh millard took the idea even further!

http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/10/reader_takes_histogram_idea_ev.html

http://www.joshmillard.com/2007/10/04/retro-histo-making-an-image-fit-your-histogram/

*thanks manuel*

a very interesting series of pictograms from a chinese designer named Yang Liu. She was born in china and studied design in germany. the pictograms compare the german and chinese way of life with each other

http://hellishhumor.com/hellish-pictures/
german-vs-chinesse-culture.php

here is the website of the lady:

http://www.yangliudesign.com

via ffffound.com

Definition of Beauty

and yes, its play doh (at least partly)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvbuUDUDEmU

if you did´t see the ad, watch it first:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUAbkRUvVQ

edit:

here is another one with a pyramid covering with color

http://adsoftheworld.com/media/tv/sony_bravia_pyramid

http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html

impressive reel here:
http://adamgault.com/reel_solo/adamgault.com_reelsolo_01.html

via motionographer

chema mandoz has a very interesting way of finding objects, his photos are striking and ironic, so be sure to click by:

http://www.chemamadoz.com/ingles/gallery1.htm

via notcot

a little flash game to play with colors and space

http://io-noi-aldo.sonance.net/ploop/ploop.html 

the impossible staircase from escher built with lego

http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/relativity.html

http://bergoiata.org/fe/Escher-lego/10.htm

some works of escher on the net

http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/M.C.Escher/

“Serial Cut™ is a Madrid based studio, established in 1999 by Sergio del Puerto”

they have a very arty and nice portfolio

http://www.serialcut.com/

http://www.wopc.co.uk/

http://www.mcfaul.biz/main2.html   /seems to be offline;(

http://www.richard-may.com/

http://www.danielegneus.com/

http://www.davidfoldvari.co.uk/

http://www.taplabs.com/

http://www.4wall.co.uk/artists/container/

http://www.milesdonovan.co.uk/

http://www.mario-wagner.com/

http://www.timmarrs.co.uk/

http://www.paulwilloughby.com/

http://www.ricstultz.com/

http://www.cgchannel.com/

for example game inspired pillows;)

http://www.etsy.com/view_item_sold_anon.php?
listing_id=567918&transaction_id=188258

drawings get physics! wowie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNTgglPbUA&eurl=

via http://blog.lessrain.com/

check out the winners:

http://justincone.com/tween/2005awards/

motiondesign at its best

image taken from showreel from stardust.tv

amazingly simpe!

http://google.com/coop/cse

via http://www.superdeluxe.ch/

discover books:

http://www.buchpfade.de/web/Home

via http://www.chrishartmann.com/blog/

edit: buchpfade becomes http://www.lovelybooks.de 

an installation with candles and cans, simple, but very effective

http://mekkablue.com/blog/?p=12

*thank you very much rainer!*

a must see tutorial! thank you so much for doing this!

drawing a character in 70 minutes:

http://www.digitaldecoy.de/forum_digitaldecoy/ib3/cgi-bin/
ikonboard.cgi?s=d2e76bfe5e430a621
b50c95a4bde8d86;act=ST;f=2;t=1080

speedpainting, 30 minutes video:

http://www.duracel.de/stuff/art/tutorials/Daniel_und_Goetze.zip

brushes in photoshop for watercolor-effect

http://www.digitaldecoy.de/forum_digitaldecoy/
ib3/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=1d153e4ee8d02e
8561aa38792a2a83b3;act=ST;f=13;t=9

you can download this amazing set of photoshop brushes here:

http://www.ossio.de/trash/Digitaldecoy_PS7_Brushes.zip

“thanks dave!”

edit: you can find a interesting tutorial using the pen tool with tablet pressure here:

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-comicbook.html

other nice tuts on digital illustration here too:

http://www.imaginefx.com/02287754330326480692/workshops.html

edit:

if you work with your tablet frequently be sure  to get a turntablet, this makes it possbible to spin it 360°, great!

 http://turntablet.com/

one week of japanese design, many people painting a wall over and over again, for one week, the video is played fast forward, total 5 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wuruTIhV8tM

*thanks david*

huuiiii!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa_T4AShVC8

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=
purple+and+brown&search=Search

also check out:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/

excellent link lists, beatuiful collection of motiondesign like this one

http://motionographer.com/media/audi.mov

http://motionographer.com/

check out the astonishing different portfolios on this site, like this one:

http://www.xplsv.tv/movie.php?id=984

made with processing, beautiful results

http://www.esono.com/boris/projects/poetry06/

image display from fireballs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp6vIaIiLQc&eurl=

images from waterfalls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwoVPkJIUr8&eurl=

via http://www.hi-res.net/blog/

the net can do more, search by a sketch or a theme

http://www.tiltomo.com

http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/

http://www.bravia-advert.com/paint/thead/

you can zoom in and out, too

http://www.barcodeart.com/art/portrait/
jesus_frames.html

via http://www.hi-res.net/blog/

http://www.oiofilm.com/video_eng.html

compare to the new sony bravia ad!

via hi-res.net

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=
-5434905168094928663&q=mclaren

via drawn

ok, it´s an ad, but anyway:

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/
home_films_evolution_v2.swf

this is a spoof of the ad, which presents us with backstep in beauty terms:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I0u0wWOMIsE 

*thanks slob*

http://tweekhed.com/

via http://www.drawn.ca/

simple and cheap:

http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/
2006/10/invader_does_sk.html

via wonderland

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/irina_the_russi.html

via make

http://www.peterpopken.com/

via linesandcolors

color themes consequently realized in real space:

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/hot-pick/
COLORED-THEMES-SPACES/

aircondition is a video by oliverlaric:

http://oliverlaric.com/airconditionvideo.htm

via vvork

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/

it´s a fedex commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGuSqB-lOTg