And you thought the Rubik’s Cube was boring?

Another example of pushing the boundaries of real-life design is the work of the Cube Works studio, a design agency based in Toronto, Canada. When you hear about a portrait, what first pops up in your mind is a regular picture frame or maybe a painting. But the people at Cube Works might have thought that it wasn’t challenging enough, so they decided to start creating 3D portraits using Rubik’s cubes… To be fairly honest, solving one is already quite challenging to me, but assembling hundreds of them following a specific pattern? They must be pretty patient.

Anyway, enjoy their outstanding work (website: http://www.cubeworks.ca/)

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If you need some free awesome resources for your graphic design project, check this out (it’s free):

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Nico Di Mattia

If you’ve never heard about the words speed painting, just know that this is an oddly satisfying concept. In fact, this is basically just seeing a man painting, but speed up.

Nico Di Mattia is an Argentinian artist who reproduces photos realistically. But where it gets interesting is that the whole concept of his art is to see him painting on his computer from scratch. Each video is speed up so hours of work fit in just a few minutes. The result is pretty outstanding and here is one of my favorite:

INSA – The street graphic designer

British-born artist, INSA is what I like to call a street graphic designer. His art combines the worlds of digital graphic design and street art in a very unique way.

His concept is pretty simple: he paints something on a real life surface, photographs it, paints something else over it and repeats this process over and over again. He then combines all these pictures into one animated image which brings life to his creation.

 

Recently he took his concept to a whole new level by painting a massive fresco and got it photographed by a satellite. This project took him no less than 576 hours and 57,515m² of painted surface. The result is visible below:

What’s interesting is that he managed to combined two different worlds of design and to be honest, the result is far from being bad.

Felice Varini

In my series of “real-life designers”, I really appreciate the work of a Swiss artist called Felice Varini. His art is literally tri-dimensional. Some artists like to paint on a frame, other on a wall, but Varini takes it to the next level by painting on several walls. Here’s the thing:

When you see it, it indeed looks like just a bunch of randomly painted walls, nothing really fancy, but what’s interesting with Varini’s art is that you have to look at it at a very specific angle to see his work becoming art.

Better uh?

For more, check out his website there: http://www.varini.org/