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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.

This clear acrylic dome opens a window to the world that helps satisfy a pets natural curiosity while maintaining safety and security.

Love!

How brand affects our daily lives, wonderfully created by Jane.

가수가 되고 싶어요. I Want to Be a Singer.
c-print - 2004

Yeondoo Jung’s Wonderland series transforms children’s crayon drawings into photographs that are part make-believe, part reality.

For four months, Jung oversaw art classes in four kindergartens in Seoul and collected 1,200 drawings by children between the ages of five and seven. After pouring through them, he carefully selected 17 drawings and interpreted their meanings. Then he recruited 60 high school students by passing out handbills at their schools in which he invited them to act out the scenarios in the children’s drawings. In order to recreate faithfully drawing details such as dresses with uneven sleeves or buttons of different sizes, he convinced five fashion designers to custom make the clothing for the photo shoot. He also made props unlike any scale found in reality but similar to those in the drawings.

As we grow older, the imaginative worlds of our childhood are left behind. We realize that Santa is not real and that our parents work part-time as tooth fairies. It’s beautiful that we are given this wonderful opportunity to revisit these forgotten places. I remember spending long hours doodling as a kid, often conjuring up situations and people that forever live in the recesses of my brain.

See more of Yeondoo Jung’s work on his website.

Seriously. How cute are these little critters? Every Travel Kitty is a unique work of art. They are handsewn poseable kitties, numbered and named in order to keep track of their adventures in the TRAVEL KITTY PROJECT, an interactive art project. The kitties are packaged with a postcard style note from the artist that is date stamped with the date of purchase. Every Travel Kitty also has a different tail, because every kitty has a different tale to tell. So, get travelin’ and tell us your tale!

Check the Travel Kitty Project for more fun.