Bent Objects by Terry Border

Terry Border, a photographer and artist from Indianapolis, creates works of art from everyday objects, some wire and a lot of imagination. Bent Objects has become an international phenomenon, featuring on TV shows, newspapers, blogs and major international news sites around the world.

In an interview with OWNI, the artist shared his creative process:
(a) Look at an object.
(b) What does the object remind me of? What kind of character does it have?
(c) Add a bit of wire to bring it to life.
(d) Photograph it in a way that communicates my idea to the viewer.

 

To read more about the artist and his work, visit his blog.

Twister - A Fork With A Twist

Serbian designer, Damjan Stanković has come up with an unusual design of a spaghetti fork. Wavy tines keep the pasta in place so you can focus on the taste. You don't have to face the frustration of trying, unsuccessfully, to perfectly twist the spaghetti onto your fork anymore. This clever, simple design, is the solution!

Character Portrait

One of the first things I learned in Photoshop was how to merge images together, how to create new textures and scenes.

I haven't had the chance to play with photomanipulation in a few years, so when this school project came along, I was really excited. The project required to combine both photography with illustration - a scene with two characters interacting. One of the characters, the person, had to be photographed in the studio, while the illustrative character could have been created using any media.   

A lot of people asked me how I created the scene, especially the ice owl. To be honest, it's not that hard to achieve this effect. Yes, it does require a lot of work (it took me around 14 hrs to be pleased with my owl), a lot of image warping, creating light, and knowing when to stop adding.

I do not have a detailed tutorial for this, but to get an idea of how the owl is constructed, I can give a few tips. I started drawing the shape of the owl, then, I introduced the water effect, which are photographs of water. I warped them around the owl shape and used the liquify tool to give the "wavy" effect. The light and the movement effect are just the effects of Gausian Blur and Motion Blur.

I know it may seem vague and it could be hard to imagine it is so simple, but the truth is, it is simple. You can create anything in Photoshop. There are hundreds of amazing tutorials out there; you just have to look and start playing!

A big Thank You to my friend Kate for being an amazing model for this project!

Liam Brazier

Liam Brazier is a freelance illustrator and animator, and his work is beginning to catch the eye of many. The artist's style, similar to origami shapes, is very modern and unique. From superheroes to sci-fi characters, each piece is full of action and intention, and the colour palette gives the characters a fresh feel.

Man Up

The illustrator draws each shape with Photoshop's polygonal selection tool and then fills them in with color. "It is merely a process of building coloured shapes to define a form, and me telling people that red triangle is Spider-man and people believing it," says the artist.

Cave Man

Bounty Hunter

Dark Lord

Golden One

Guard

Raider

Scum

Trooper

Brazier's work has been featured on My Modern Met and in Juxtapoz Magazine.
If you would like to read more about the artist and his work, please visit his website. You can also purchase his designs as art prints, iphone cases, on hoodies or t-shirts. I know I would love one of the tshirts. Visit the shop!

Keep Thinking Different.

Cave Man

Cocktail Typewriter by Morskoiboy

“Now I can literally taste the flavor of my words!,” says Morskoiboy, who just introduced his latest invention: a typewriter that converts words into cocktails.

The machine has buttons working as pumps and has pipes instead of wires. It also has a display like any other electronic panel board, but as opposed to using liquid crystals as in electronic displays, the machine’s display functions via multicoloured syrups.

Below you can see a video of how the typewriter machine works:

The design is very unique and even though I'm not a fan of cocktails, I would definitely like to know how my name tastes like!
If you would like to learn more about how the cocktail typewriter works, please visit http://www.morskoiboy.com/

The 1953 Keaton Music Typewriter

I've never heard of a music typewriter, or thought someone would use something like this. I always imagined composers writing their music by hand...using ink and feathers on old parchment paper at the light of a candle.

Short history from musicprintinghistory.org:

The Keaton Music Typewriter was first patented in 1936 (14 keys) by Robert H. Keaton from San Francisco, California. Another patent was taken out in 1953 (33 keys) which included improvements to the machine. The machine types on a sheet of paper lying flat under the typing mechanism. There are several Keaton music typewriters thought to be in existence in museums and private collections. It was marketed in the 1950s and sold for around $225. The typewriter made it easier for publishers, educators, and other musicians to produce music copies in quantity. Composers, however, preferred to write the music out by hand.

For more information, or if you would like to purchase your own music typewriter, please visit "SALE... RARE Keaton Music Typewriter"

Shadow Art by Rashad Alakbarov

Rashad Alakbarov creates wonderful shadow art by using various everyday objects and reflecting their shadows. The artist’s mixed-media installations include pieces entitled “Looking at two cities from one point of view”, “Plastik portret” and “Crisis haha”.

Rashad Babayev’s work is currently showing at the “Fly to Baku: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan” exhibition in central London’s Phillips de Pury & Company, so if you are in “The Big Smoke” don’t miss out on it!

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