taking a creative break right now

Topshop paired up with legendary fashion photographer Helmut Newton to recreate his ingenious ‘Newton Machine‘ - Newton’s self-styled, self-shot photography.

Sylvia Ji was born in 1982 in San Francisco to artistic parents. Ji’s interest in art was implanted at a very young age when she would look through her mother’s sketchbooks and watch her father paint. In her art, she explores themes of beauty, sexual provocation, and social notions of femininity juxtaposed against the dystopian reality of modern cities to create highly charged paintings of women. Some of her paintings are symbolic reflections of herself, portraits of people she knows or just nameless faces set in a landscape of fleeting beauty. She graduated with distinction in 2005 from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco with a Bachelors in illustration and already had her first ambitious and successful solo show while still in her last year of school. Since then she has been in high demand, keeping continuously engaged in an onslought of numerous shows on the West Coast. Currently, she has works on display in both San Francisco and Los Angeles galleries. Visit frequently to stay updated on future shows for this emerging and promising artist.

I love bras. I love Uniqlo. And I definitely love good design.

The designers behind Uniqlo.com has created another awesome Flash.  It is entirely devoted to the bra.

The Little Woodbot (created by Alexander Shen) is Mother Nature’s robot soldier and they are currently surveying your world right now! You may not see them around, but they’re not meant to be seen. They are gathering data to determine whether the world is due for another Big Reset, aka Natural Disaster to wipe the world clean. You know, to start a clean slate.

A blog entirely devoted to the ampersand.

Jinyoung Shin is a young illustrator living in New York. Check her amazing work in dadaly.net

Pantone Universe® Bag - Pink 18-2043 TPX (PA32)

Beautiful generous messenger bag made of thick canvas, lots of useful interior pockets and purple lining. Sling it over your shoulder, great for carrying laptops.

I really need this.

This is a great slide from an presentation given by Cameron Moll in 2006 titled, “Nine skills that separate good and great designers.”

Free Idea Factory is a repository of free ideas. Some people have too many ideas, some people like to work from a prompt. Here is a place where the two can attempt to equalize the uneven pressures in the fluids of their creative minds. These ideas really are free, you are invited to use them, abuse them, twist them, turn them, shake them, bake them, make them your own.

I could play with this for another hour or so.