Transfer traditional freehand drawings to your computer with Inkling by Wacom

For illustrators, the Inkling by Wacom is the missing puzzle piece. You can now draw on paper and transfer all of your drawings to the computer and they will be editable as vector drawings in Adobe Illustrator. Amazing!

It will retail for $199.00.

See you later alligator, in a while crocodile …

Several years ago, anytime I left the house, my daughter would say “See you later alligator” to which I would reply “In a while crocodile.” Who knew there were so many other ways to say goodbye with animals. The “Goodbye Shirt” at Threadless captures many of these sayings, most of which I’ve never heard before. I’m sure there are a couple that may have been missed.

All of the sayings featured on the Goodbye shirt:
See you later alligator – Keep it real, Spotted Seal – In few Cockatoo – Adieu Caribou – Take care Black Bear – Bye bye Fruit Fly – Good luck, silly Duck – See you soon, big Baboon – Another time, Porcupine – Best wishes, little Fishes – Peace out, river Trout – Gotta go, Buffalo – Have a good day, Sting Ray.

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

A fantastic ever changing infographic by The RSA.

Box art

Box doodle has a simple premise. Send in a jpeg of original art you made out of a box.

Check out the rest of the amazing box art at boxdoodle.com.

The brilliant art of Marc Johns

Marc Johns simple art is funny, witty, and brilliant!

See more at marcjohns.com.

Anti-alcohol posters from Soviet propaganda era

These brilliant anti-alcohol posters are incredibly simple yet effective in the way they communicate a powerful message.

Alcohol enemy of production

Alcohol

Without words

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The top ten Google logos of 2009

So here are the top ten Google logos of 2009 in random order (According to me!)

01 – Mar 02, 2009
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Courtesy of Dr. Seuss Enterprises

02 – Feb 10, 2009
Israeli Election Day – (Israel)

03 – May 22, 2009
Mary Cassatt’s Birthday – (Global)

04 – May 07, 2009
Alexander Popov’s Invention of the Radio – (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)

05 – Apr 27, 2009
Samuel Morse’s Birthday – (Global)

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The Periodic Table Printmaking Project

The first periodic table was published in 1869. One hundred and forty years later, the Periodic Table Printmaking Project was born. The idea is to promote both science and the arts by creating 118 prints in any medium; woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or any combination. Each of the participating artists retain the rights to their images.

Periodic Table Printmaking ProjectBasic Rules & Guidelines
Contributing Artists
Project Blog
Official Flickr Group

Thought provoking UK graffiti artist Banksy

Banksy is a anonymous graffiti artist from the UK. His work is quite extraordinary and has a social commentary angle. According to Wikipedia:

He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol^[2] and to have been born in 1974,^[5] but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details.^[6] According to Tristan Manco, Banksy “was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.”^[7] His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His art has appeared in cities around the world.^[8] Banksy’s work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

One of the most impressive things about Banksy is that he doesn’t sell photos or merchandising of his work. Instead, he posts high resolution images on his Web site and encourages people to make their own stuff. He only asks that it is for non-commercial use. Very generous and true to the intention of the art work.