Really Cool Advertisements and Photomanipulations

Advertisements and photomanipulations can yield some really cool and inspirational results that defy reality and push your imagination to the limits.  They can allow visualization of otherwise impossible scenarios, or just capture reality in an impressive way. In this post, we’ve gathered up some really cool advertisements and photomanipulations that are based on photographs and altered to be even more eye-catching. Enjoy! Don’t forget to like it on Facebook!

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20 Incredibly Cool 3D Graffiti Artworks by Graffiti Technica

Brad is a 3D artist and motion graphics designer from Australia who creates incredible 3D graffiti artworks under his brand, Graffiti Technica.  By combining Adobe Illustrator and 3D Studio Max, along with some clever design techniques, he achieves awesome results that have been used in a variety of advertisements and visual effects. We’ve gathered up 20 incredibly cool 3d graffiti artworks from Brad, selected from his gallery located here: http://www.graffititechnica.com/index.html You can also find him on Flickr where he posts many sketches and concepts: http://www.flickr.com/photos/19122318@N07/

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Best | Ever: Inspiring and Realistic Artworks

Browsing around Vandalog – a website that I really like – I bumped into the work of Best Ever and decided to get in touch with them to show a bit more of their work here to you. Their website is filled with really interesting artworks, so make sure to visit it. In their short working partnership, British duo BEST | EVER have gained worldwide recognition for their unique interpretive depictions of the human form. Individually they began their careers as graffiti writers but since meeting in late 2008, have developed a more classical style together that combines intricate aerosol photorealism with traditional painterly techniques.

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Graffiti Brazil: Zito

Raul Zito is a photographer and muralist. His urban plastic work started in 1997, but only in 2007 he joined the graffiti with photography, which resulted in a single proposal of urban art. His murals depict life cosmopolitan, condemn unbridled consumerism and the lack of criteria of everyday. His line of work adds to the rationality of photography to sensitivity gestural of painting on large walls, creating direct and transitive speeches for their own society portrayed.

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Graffiti Brazil: Nomies

In this Graffiti Brazil we are featuring another great street artist from Sao Paulo. Known as Nomies, he carries an awesome style composed by fat characters, white space eaters, happy, sad, mad (the reflection of the social facts) . Inspired by cartoons and lowbrow art, Nomies work usually follows themes like automatism, consumption and freedom. <!–break–> For more from nomies visit www.flickr.com/photos/nomies Click here to check out the previews Graffiti Brazil posts About the author Hi! I’m Paulo Canabarro and I’m here to post some really cool stuff for you, if you have any ideas or any requests please get @ me – pvpcanabarro@gmail.com you can also Follow me on twitter! Sponsored Links:

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Unusual Sources Of Inspiration- 50 Killer Graffiti Characters To Inspire You

The usual places for inspiration simply don’t cut it at times, so lets explore a somewhat unusual place to find design inspiration – Graffiti Characters I’m an avid fan of the art and feel that you can definitely find inspiration in graffiti. From colors used to the style and detail in the elements of the characters (strokes, blending and so on). Today, we’re going to check out 50 killer graffiti characters from around the world. I hope you enjoy it :) Sibler Character ↓ Evolution of graffiti ↓ Grazy graffiti character, Pispala ↓ Graffiti @ fondation cartier ↓ Graffiti @ Digbeth, Birmingham ↓ King157 Oakland California Graffiti Art ↓ Hyde ↓ Oakland Graffiti Art King157 ↓ Revok SeventhLetter 7th MSK AWR LosAngeles Graffiti Art ↓ King157 Character Close-up SF Graffiti Art ↓ Turbo Character ↓ Kode character dissed ↓ City of faces ↓ AS Character ↓ Japes – North Ryde2 ↓ Graffiti Girl on Defenestration Building ↓ Piratas del Graffiti ↓ Tats Cru 2006 Hall Of Fame ↓ We Be Kings and We Be Bad ↓ Kode Character ↓ Chubs ↓ Crafty Green Ram ↓ Gangsta 1 ↓ Gangsta 2 ↓ Elephant graffiti character ↓ “The” Bee ↓ Character alleyway of northbridge ↓ Paste Up Character ↓ Left side of wall ↓ Duck character ↓ Unnamed ↓ Unnamed ↓ Pimpin’ in Paris ↓ Emt ↓ Smut AE LosAngeles Graffiti Art ↓ Persue “L.A.

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Remember Sigi von Koeding aka DARE

Last week the graffiti artist Sigi von Koeding died because of cancer. In 1986 the swiss started to spray under the moniker “DARE” and has marked his name – in lots of typographic variations – on walls from Europe to the rest of the world. In 1990 he achieved to be the first swiss sprayer who started freelancing. The brand “Belton Molotow” honored him with a very own spray can called “dare orange”.

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Street Art in Hamburg Altona

I am a huge fan & user of grafitti style, as well as the more legal version street art. Im living in a safe city (lots of cameras) but it’s still a place for people who express theirselve by painting the walls of out town. These are images taken by me and a friend around Hamburg, Altona. The place we live.

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Wallpaper of the Week #81 – ElenaSham

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Elena Savitskaya a Graphic and Web Designer, based in London. She comes from a Marketing Management background and when it comes to Graphic Design she has her own definitions of goals that designers need to achieve. In her opinion, it’s not all about “pretty graphics”. My yearly project.

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Awesome 2010 New Year’s Wallpapers

To start up this new year of 2010 fresh I selected 10 awesome 2010 Wallpapers that will put up the new years look on your desktop. Check them out, get the ones you like and have a happy new year! <!–break–> Click on the wallpaper you like—in order to download it from the author’s page. Wallpaper by zakzak008 Wallpaper by Kaleb Giegiel Wallpaper by Shiham Abu Ayoub Wallpaper by Bram Vanhaeren Wallpaper by Dimitris Kanellopoulos Wallpaper by Ralph Marion Baleña Wallpaper by Thomas Dufranne Wallpaper by Juliano Vieira Wallpaper by Thrasos Varnava Wallpaper by bryanbarry About the author Hi! I’m Paulo Canabarro and I’m here to post some really cool stuff for you, if you have any ideas or any requests please get @ me – pvpcanabarro@gmail.com you can also Follow me on twitter! Sponsored Links:

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