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5 Tips Abstract Painting Tips from a Professional Artist

Get advice about how to create abstract paintings from artist Megan Elizabeth, who also teaches a course online.

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A hidden self-portrait of Van Gogh has been discovered. Here's what you can see so far

As it prepared for an exhibit, the National Galleries of Scotland found a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, covered by glue and cardboard, on the back of another of his paintings.

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What is the Difference Between Photorealism and Hyperrealism?

Photorealism and Hyperrealism were similar art styles that emerged out of 1970s New York, but each had their own very distinctive traits.

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Self-Taught Artist Draws the Most Amazing Optical Illusions

Aria, a 25-year-old self-taught artist from Japan, specializes in 3D color pencil drawings that look ready to jump off of the sheet of paper they are drawn on

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Explore Rembrandt’s Famous Painting “The Night Watch” in New 717-Gigapixel Photo

Explore Rembrandt’s famous painting “The Night Watch” in a new 717-gigapixel photograph from the Rijksmuseum.

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Abstract Art Ideas, Techniques and Tips for Every Medium

There's nothing like the expressive freedom of abstract painting. Dig in to our roundup of abstract art ideas and techniques from the pros!

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The best online art history courses from Harvard, MIT, and more

Whether you're interested in surrealism, ancient art, or photography, these free (or affordable) online classes bring the museum right to your couch.

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10-Billion-Pixel Scan of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' Reveals Incredible Details the Naked Eye Couldn't See on Its Own

You can view every crack and blob of paint used in "Girl with a Pearl Earring" like never before.

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Five Experts Discuss Monet’s Most Beguiling Paintings

Curators discuss and analyze their favorite paintings by Claude Monet.

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Here's a Simple Optical Illusion You Can Use to Make Any Painting Come Alive | artnet News

Artnet News critic Ben Davis talks about the "Haunted Painting Effect," aka Motion Aftereffect (MAE), and how it can bring art to life.

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Artist Spends 113 Days Chronicling Her Time in COVID-19 Quarantine

When COVID-19 lockdowns began, artistVik started a massive daily art project in which she completely filled a wall in her home with doodles.

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MoMA Launches Free Online Classes to Study Fashion, Design, and Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art's catalog of online classes about art history, fashion, design, and pedagogy are now free through Coursera. Find out more...

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The Getty Museum called for people to recreate works of art while in quarantine — and they did not disappoint

The world famous museum may be temporarily closed due to the coronavirus crisis — but that doesn't mean its stopped inspiring people to love art.

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Smartify makes all museum audio tours free for rest of 2020 | Culture

Exhibitions that have been closed because of coronavirus will also launch on the app

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20 Ways to Enjoy World-Class Art for Free Online

With just one click, you can be transported to thousands of museums around the world.

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A Signed Salvador Dalí Watercolor Print Was Just Discovered in a Thrift Store

The Spanish surrealist's work has materialized in a North Carolina thift shop, where it was waiting to be priced for less than $50.

This is incredible.

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Van Gogh Self-Portrait Painted While the Artist Experienced Psychosis Is Authenticated by Experts

Vincent van Gogh's 'Self-Portrait,' which is part of the collection of the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, has been authenticated.

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11 Emerging Artists Redefining Abstract Painting

A new generation of painters, all 40 years old or younger, are rethinking what we might call, for lack of a better term, abstraction.

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16 Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology

Several famous paintings are known to cover older works by the artist that can now be detected by scientific techniques like X-ray fluoroscopy, revealing the original paintings and drawings that…

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Leonardo da Vinci may have painted another 'Mona Lisa.' Now, there's a legal battle over who owns it - CNN Style

Kept hidden for decades in a Swiss vault, the so-called "Isleworth Mona Lisa" is at the center of a mysterious ownership dispute.

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Your guide to acrylic paints

Artists & Illustrators is the UK’s number 1 magazine for original art. Buy original artwork direct from the artists.

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The Mona Lisa Does Not Actually Cause the ‘Mona Lisa Effect’

Leonardo's lady is not really looking at you.

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Will the new ‘Shazam for art' app change the gallery experience forever?

Smartify gives users instant information about artworks on show in public galleries across the world

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Multi-Million Dollar Willem de Kooning Paintings Discovered in a New Jersey Storage Locker

New York City art dealer David Killen purchased the contents of the locker, consisting of 200 paintings from a late art conservator's studio, for $15,000 in 2017.

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: 'He was doing art deco before it existed'

From sci-fi libraries to steampunk tearooms, his dazzling creations made Glasgow a design paradise – and even crop up in Blade Runner, Doctor Who and Madonna videos. We join in the 150th anniversary celebrations

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What the Mona Lisa Tells Us About Art in the Instagram Era

The photo-taking crowds that surround Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece at the Louvre exemplify how the digital generation experiences artworks.

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Scientists Study ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in Hopes of Finding How Vermeer Painted His Masterpiece | Smart News |

The enigmatic work was last examined—and restored—in 1994

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Want to experiment with painting knives? Here are five pointers to get you started

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Modern Interpretations of Old Hollywood

The Galerie Sakura in Paris presents a collection of images strongly inspired by Lynch, Hitchcock and Hopper. Titled « American Dream – L’esthetique Ol

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Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art

Mr. Johns, who is now 87 and widely regarded as America’s foremost living artist, has a new retrospective at the Broad called “Something Resembling Truth.”

I can’t wait to see this exhibit at The Broad!

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Creative Career Advice: Knowing Your Market and Setting Prices

We look at factors to consider when setting your prices as a creative freelancer. This includes freelance pricing calculators, a look at how to price a product, as well as market research to understand if you are setting your rates competitively for your

Great advice for future and present working artists!

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10+ YouTube Channels to Learn How to Draw for Free

Did you know you can learn to draw for free? These drawing tutorials show you how to draw, step-by-step with video lessons on YouTube.

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10 Thrilling Reasons to Love Van Gogh

These ten favorite paintings by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) reveal fascinating details about the artist's short and passionate life.

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Surreal Collages Revealing the Absurdity of Popular Culture | AnOther

A new exhibition by Belgian artist Sammy Slabbinck turns clippings from vintage magazines into witty compositions

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3 creatives reveal the inspiration behind their extraordinary creations

‘The great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, but is a succession of little things that are brought together,’ Vincent van Gogh wrote in 1882.

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How Rejection Will Make You a Better Artist

Trying to sell your art frequently comes with a lot of rejection. Yet, persistence and lessons learned can lead you down the road to success. Here's why.

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Watch an Artist Build a Secret Studio Beneath an Overpass | Mental Floss

Artists can be very particular about the spaces where they choose to do their work. Furniture designer Fernando Abellanas’s desk may not boast the quietest or most convenient location on Earth, but it definitely wins points for seclusion.

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One Art Lover’s Crusade To Catalog The World | FiveThirtyEight

Or, how to make big data in your living room.

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14 Abstract Painters to Follow on Instagram – Design*Sponge

Lately I’ve found myself drawn to abstract art, as it feels like such a boundless territory. The painter Arshile Gorky once said “Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.”

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Yayoi Kusama’s Art for the Instagram Age - The Atlantic

Is Yayoi Kusama’s new participatory-art exhibit about seeking profound experiences—or posting selfies?

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Art that grows backwards: The abstract paintings of Erica Beck | Creative Boom

Having spent 12 years dependent upon technology, graphic designer [Erica Beck](www.eboriginalart.com) began to crave art that was meant to be cherishe...

I love Erica Beck's work!

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This incredible artist can paint songs using colors she sees in her head due to a neurological quirk - News - Alternative Press

Human beings are remarkable in so many different ways. Melissa McCracken, for instance, is a synesthetic artist, and you've got to see her beautiful creations.

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There’s a Cadmium-Free Paint Alternative for Artists Now

Artists will now be able to choose a more eco-friendly and health conscious paint option for yellows, reds, and oranges.

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Alternative Painting Techniques Artists Love

These painting techniques have helped to redefine the face of art’s story and have helped to create the amazing arena which is present contemporary art

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2017 SXSW Art Program Installations Announced

Announcing the inaugural SXSW Art Program, which includes a curated lineup of five installations. Learn more about this year's lineup...

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20 Pieces of Ballpoint Pen Art and Photorealistic Portraits

Explore over 20 examples of astounding photorealistic portraits that are examples of incredible ballpoint pen art from masters of pen drawing.

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The 10 Technologies That Defined Art This Year - artnwet News

Looking back at the year in art, we recall the technologies, both new and old, that have defined the look and feel of art in 2016.

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BBC - Culture - The moment that changed Picasso

A short trip to an ancient village was the catalyst for a profound shift in Picasso’s work – but it is often overlooked. Alastair Sooke finds out more.

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15 Things You Might Not Know About Monet's 'Water Lilies' | Mental Floss

Claude Monet's 'Water Lilies' is beloved around the world, a radiant example of French Impressionism and the glory found in nature. But their path from the artist’s yard to museum walls was one paved with obstacles, perfectionism—and a lot of gardenin

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The Heir to Matisse With a Dose of California Cool - The Daily Beast

There’s nothing like seeing one of Richard Diebenkorn’s joyful Ocean Park paintings in real life—but a new catalogue of his work comes close.

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Twitter highlights female artists and their awesome illustrations · Great Job, Internet! · The A.V. Club

#visiblewomen is a Twitter tag dedicated to bringing attention to the massive number of female artists in the field of comics, character design, and concept art.

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The best iPhone photographs of 2016 – in pictures

The winners of the 9th annual iPhone photography awards have been announced, chosen from thousands of entries from 139 countries

The technology for the iPhone camera has gotten better so iPhone photos have become more and more artistic.

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Clever Art Installation Makes the Louvre's Pyramid Disappear | Mental Floss

For the next month, the Louvre's iconic pyramid will be harder to spot.

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Downtown L.A.'s hot art scene? It was just as happening in the '70s - LA Times

Jean Milant could have headed west when he moved his gallery and print shop from a Hollywood storefront. Instead, he decided to go east, away from the art world establishment, to set up his Cirrus Gallery and Cirrus Editions , the esteemed artist prints

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An Art Show Explores How Jackson Pollock Learned To Drip

MoMA's survey exhibition features large-scale paintings alongside his lesser-known lithographs and drawings.

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Does ‘American Art’ Exist Anymore?

Every other year since 1895, the Venice Biennale has served as an international stage for some of the most interesting, daring artists working today. You might expect the Biennale to be a place where signs of nationalism abound in some form or another: After all, artists undergo a rigorous selection process by their respective countries before they’re sent to essentially compete against their foreign counterparts. (A jury awards a gold medal, the Golden Lion, to the best artist at the fair.)

I think it does! I also think that American artists need to do a better job of separating art from political statements. I know that will make me unpopular with some people, but it is true.

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First look inside LACMA's Rain Room: an indoor storm where you won't get wet...honest - LA Times

On Sunday, the rains will arrive — slicing the air in great, silvery sheets, hitting the ground with a splash and a deafening whoosh .

I can't wait to see this!

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Gustave Caillebotte's role in Impressionist history illuminated in 'Painter's Eye' - LA Times

In the late 19th century, everyone looked on Gustave Caillebotte as a leading painter of the Impressionists. He took part in five of the eight exhibitions that the Impressionists mounted. In fact, he organized and helped finance several of the shows. One

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25 Fantastic and Funny Photos Celebrate Photoshop's 25th Birthday - My Modern Met

Happy Birthday, Photoshop! Twenty-five years ago, this week, a little graphics editing program named Photoshop was born. Fast forward a few decades and now we…

This is so neat. I have been using Photoshop for almost as long as it has existed! I hope that some of my work is this good!

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Highlights From A Never-Before-Published Interview With Henri Matisse | Co.Design | business + design

Design Observer has published an illuminating, long-lost interview with French artist Henri Matisse. Read some highlights here.

This is, of course, completely fascinating to me. Matisse was one of the first artists that really got me interested in painting as a kid.

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Incredible street art tours - Telegraph

Street art is now a tourism force. Here are some of the best tours on offer.

I wish I could see all of these!

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$650m sales make Warhol top of the pop artists - News - Art - The Independent

“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art,” Andy Warhol once said. By his own measure, the poster boy of pop art was the best artist of last year, topping international sales in 2014. A total of 1,295 works by Warhol fe

This is amazing! I think Warhol would be happy about this.

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How we restored Harvard’s Rothko murals without touching them

In 1989, I was a conservation student at the Courtauld Institute in London. During a class on varnish removal, my professor, Gerry Hedley, demonstrated how shining blue light on a picture with yellowed varnish made it seem as if the varnish had been cleaned away—returning the painting to how it originally had appeared.

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Using Levels in Photoshop to Image Correct Color and Contrast

You will learn how to colour correct your images and enhance contrast using the Levels Tool in Photoshop

These are some really useful tips!

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Four Smartphone Films That Are Actually Good | Magazine | WIRED

Elsa Jenna While you were using your iPhone to record your cat riding a Roomba, Hollywood types (and would-be Hollywood types) have used smartphones to create everything from heart-wrenching shorts to feature-length thrillers. There are a zillion smartpho

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Artist Recreates His Childhood Drawings As Digital Illustrations - The Poke

Netherlands-based artist Telmo Pieper that recreate a selection of his childhood drawings. See more on his Kiddie Arts page. (h/t laughin

This is why digital stuff can be so neat...how else could this happen?

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The World of Mad Men Through a 21st-Century Lens

Mad Men fans will just love this graphic series created by the designers at Shutterstock. Entitled Mod Men: The World of Mad Men Through a 21st-Century Lens, t…

I don't watch a lot of TV, but I think that these are really cool!

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How Producing Art Can Keep Our Brains Functioning

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life," so Pablo Picasso once famously proclaimed. Though we expect the pompous Cubist was being his usual haughty self when he uttered the well known quote, his belief in art's transcendent qualities might not be too far from the scientific mark.

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Here's a wonderful new animation from a Disney animation legend

Even though I love today's 3D animation movies made with CG, there's something about seeing old fashioned hand-drawn animation that makes me feel like I'm peering into another world of breathtakingly fluid characters dancing on paper. Former D

Traditional animation has such a warmer feeling. I love it!

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27 Musicians And Their Hits Reimagined As Buildings

What if you could live inside your favorite songs, from

Music and illustration! Awesome!

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Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in the art world: 
How did Dutch master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Here's how he conduc

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Incredible street art from around the globe

If the walls of a city could talk, they'd have a lot to say.

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Injecting Paint in Bubble Wrap to Recreate Iconic Paintings

Who says bubble wrap is just for packaging or stress relief? New York-based artist Bradley Hart, known for creating amazingly realistic pixelated portraits, h…

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The 'Mona Lisa' Just Might Be History's First 3D Image, Researchers Claim

Leonard da Vinci was the original Renaissance man, dabbling in not just art, but anatomy, geology, botany, cartography, mathematics, literature and much, much more. Not only do we give him credit for masterpieces like

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Amazingly Realistic Drawings Created with Ballpoint Pens

When we first saw Portugal-based artist Samuel Silva's portrait, Redhead Girl, most of us were completely in awe of how Silva (aka VianaArts) could achieve su…

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Dozens of lost Warhol artworks discovered on 80s floppy disks

The artworks were commissioned in 1985 by Commodore, who wanted Warhol to demonstrate the graphic capabilities of its new Amiga 1000 computer.

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These Intergalactic Travel Posters Look Like They Were Designed By Don Draper

If you could fly to Pluto on a 1950s-era Pan Am flight, this is what the advertisements would look like.

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Sixteen-Year-Old Artist Wins National Art Competition with Masterful Hyper-Realistic Pencil Portrait

For the past four years, 16-year-old artist Shania McDonagh has participated in the Texaco Children’s Art Competition, an art contest for children in Ireland held every year since 1955. Just looking at the astounding portrait above, it may come as no su

I am definitely a little jealous.

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These aren’t colored pencils. They are actually a digital drawing!

Every artist has their tool of choice. Some choose the subtle opaque of watercolors, others the bold burst of pastels. Many go old school and create with colored pencils; the humble pencil and its colored cousin are widely used all over the world and are

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Venice frozen solid looks like a fun place to be

Imagine Venice with all its channels frozen solid. That's what art director Robert Jahns did, using Photoshop with pretty neat results. I'd like to explore the city skating.

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19-Year-Old Artist Draws Unbelievably Realistic Eyes Using Just Colored Pencils | Bored Panda

Jose Vergara (a.k.a. Redosking), a 19-year-old artist from Texas, is drawing close-ups of the human eye with the sort of hyper-realistic level of detail that one would ordinarily expect from experienced masters. Vergara draws using only colored pencils, w

This is crazy!

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100 Years of Typewriters on One Giant Poster!

With over 60 models featured, the poster highlights the varied, and sometimes colorful, evolution of the nostalgia icon.

This is really cool!

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These Gorgeous Screenprints Showcase a City's Most Famous Structures

As part of a project called "Shapes of Cities," London-based designer Yoni Alter takes a handful of iconic buildings from various metropolitan areas and silhouettes their shapes in a range of colors, overlapping the forms to create a single abstracted, impossible skyline.

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Gorgeous Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Skiing

A rare marriage of sports and fashion through mid-century graphic design.

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Classic paintings of world cities meet Google Street View – in pictures

See these amazing collages of well known paintings of cities around the world – Istanbul to Saint Petersburg, Tokyo to New York – superimposed on to Google Street View

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Sublime mashups of present-day London with old paintings - Lost At E Minor: For creative people

Redditer shystone took some old paintings of London and placed them in context against the modern cityscape of London to impressive effect. All the ten mas

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40 Stunning & Eye-Catching Band Posters You'll Love

Whilst tour posters are designed to promote and encourage ticket sales, they're also highly collectable - especially if they have been created for a specific gig, as opposed to a general tour. As a...