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Baginski has been behind other projects such as “The Cathedral”, and is regarded as one of the greatest independent CG artists that this world has to offer. Honestly, this is stuff you would not normally find on any given day, as his work is some of the greatest I have ever seen. This plot involves a volunteer soldier that plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection.

Some of his other work can be found here.

From metafilter.com

Arthur Mebius’ personal web-site

Some his photos hosted on a Russian web-site

Another great Dutch photographer. Check his portrait section.

Go to Jan’s website

A very low-fi old skool site with great ideas nicely executed.

http://www.friendchip.com/

Courtesy of David.

The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. By remixing corporate slogans, I intend to show how the language of advertising is both deeply meaningful, in that it represents real cultural values and desires, and yet utterly meaningless in that these ideas have no relationship to the products being sold. In using the Flickr images, the piece explores the relationship between language and image, and how meaning is constructed by the juxtaposition of the two.

http://www.theadgenerator.org/

Cool Hunting is a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them.

http://www.coolhunting.com/

Consider Design You Trust™ in Russia, NiceFuckingGraphics in Mexico, Etienne Mineur archives in France, the borderless ffffound, and a large constituency of U.S.-based blogs as well.

Together, these web sites paint a clearer and more current picture of the state of graphic design around the world than any magazine or single web site would ever hope. They are also highly reflective and representative of whatever trend may be sweeping the world, as it’s common to see the same project linked again and again in a variety of languages — a great .jpg or .gif knows no boundaries.

As my feed count increased it became increasingly clear that this year’s trend was a new typography: Devoid of counters, generous in girth, and joyous in application. As 2007 comes to a close, here is a partial, yet global, celebration of The New(er) Typography — plenty remains out there and unnoticed here, but you’ve probably seen it on your own.

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Hāfez was a Persian mystic and poet. He was born sometime between the years 1310 and 1337 in Shiraz, Medieval Persia. John Payne, who has translated the Diwan Hafez, regards Hafez as one of the three greatest poets of the world.

His lyrical poems, known as ghazals, are noted for their beauty and bring to fruition the love, mysticism, and early Sufi themes that had long pervaded Persian poetry. Moreover, his poetry possessed elements of modern surrealism.

This picture was sent by a friend of mine in Iran – quite unusual to see one of Hafez’s poems on a wall somewhere in the west.

Courtesy of Paul Downey

Fun: http://producten.hema.nl/