Inspirations.  

Permanent Objects

Simon Freund of Simon&Me is a young German artist working in the field of consumable goods. Each obj...

Müller-Brockmann

Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914 – 1996) was one of the main exponents of the Swiss International Sty...

Hans Poelzig: Architecture as Gesamtkunstwerk

Architect Hans Poelzig (1869 – 1936) was an eclectic visionary. He worked with sculptural effects,...

Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels

Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (Strasbourg, July 13, 1597 – Idstein February 10, 1657) was an...

Object

Karolis Strautniekas is a freelance illustrator living and working in Vilnius, Lithuania. He studied...

Material zur elementaren Gestaltung

1G Material zur Elementaren Gestaltung. Published by Graeff, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter. Contributio...

Time Bandits

Visual communication artist Sabine Marx-Nieder is based in Munich, Germany.

Nelson Mandela Blvd

Wasteland is an on-going collection of self-initiated works by Hanno van Zyl, hand drawn using brush...

The fairytales of H. C. Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen was born 1805 in Odense, Denmark as the son of a poor shoemaker. He undertoo...

Schlör car

The Schlörwagen, named for it’s developer, German engineer Karl Schlör, was an experimental car ...

The medium is the message

World records: a tribute to ana­log acoustic art by Kai Schäfer. The great albums in music history...

Eisenschokolade

Sculptures by Thomas Rentmeister. 1964 born in Reken / Westphalia, lives in Berlin ...

Deutschland

Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...

Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Raederscheidt

Paintings by Heinrich Hoerle, born 1895, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, born 1894, and Anton Räderscheidt, ...

Visual

a collection on the making of images.

Peak Oil

"I create sculptures based on sublime moments. These are moments that fill a person with amazement, ...

Siggi Eggertson: Ich Bin Ein Kugelschreiber

Hello, I´m Siggi Eggertsson. Born in Akureyri, a small town on the north coast of Iceland. Grew up ...

Klas Ernflo: Ink On Board

After his education at Beckmans College of Design, Klas moved to Barcelona where he started working ...

Numerical Digits 1 — 9

1 — 9 for 36 Days of Type — instagram.com/maandesign

Neighborhood

A bi-annual competition organised by architekturbild e.v. and Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfu...

Daniel Lorch

Daniel Lorch, born 1980 in Baden-Baden, Germany, studied Communication Design at HTWG Konstanz. Dani...

Ed Fella Documents

“I was an illustrator, so you see endless styles popping in and out of the books. The drawings are...

Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel

WertelOberfell was founded in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel. Both studied Industrial Design...

The New Social

From April 1st to Mary 31st 2015, twelve outstanding young European photographers will be presenting...

Structure and Movement: Gerhard von Graevenitz

Gerhard von Graevenitz (1934 - 1983 ) was a German kinetic artist, representative of Op-Art and earl...

Invisible Cities

Gérard Trignac was born in 1955 in Bordeaux, where he attended the Bordeaux School of Architecture....

Stars in your eyes

Tim Lahan is an artist and illustrator living and working in New York. He’s the author of The Nosy...

Anne-Margot Ramstein

Anne-Margot Ramstein was born in Réunion. She studied art in Paris and at the School of Decorative ...

Baptiste Alchourroun

Baptiste Alchourroun makes visuals for magazines (covers, illustrations for articles) and record lab...

Public Paper

Paper craft by art director Bartek Elsner, Berlin.

Pedro Bellido Barquero

Pedro Bellido Barquero: Así podríamos resumir mi infancia, adolescencia, postadolescencia y como q...

Voyager avec un crayon: Jacques de Loustal

À la fin des années 70, alors étudiant en architecture, il commence à publier des illustrations ...

Imminent Reality

Maiko Gubler is a visual artist working with digital modeling tools in imagery and sculpture. After ...

Paintings On Books

Russell Cobb is an illustrator based in the UK. Russell has received many industry awards including ...

And never again I'll go sailin'

Illustration by Paul X Johnson.

Anthony Peters

Anthony Peters is an illustrator and printmaker based in the UK.

Sami Viljanto: Grande Deluxe

Illustrations by Sami Viljanto. He lives and works in Helsinki.

Welcome to Wonderland

Born in Hamburg, TOMAAS has lived in NYC for 18 years and is now based in Paris. His images have bee...

Klas & Schenk-Mischke

Klas & Schenk-Mischke is Matthias Klas and Philipp Schenk-Mischke, both graduates from the Universit...

Maria Makeeva

Maria Makeeva is a young freelance illustrator and a recent graduate from the Academy of Arts, Archi...

Terraform

Josef Schulz studied at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie where he encountered both Bernd and Hilla Bech...

时晓凡: Hong Kong Moment

时晓凡 / QUENTIN SHIH (a.k.a. SHI XIAOFAN), born in Tianjin, China in 1975, lives and works as a ...

Master of Fantastic Illustration: Daniel Mróz

Daniel Mróz (1917-1993) was a Polish illustrator whose unique style influenced several generations ...

Borgward: The Steve Jobs of German cars

The Borgward Group was founded in 1919 by Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward. Borgward produced a wide ...

This damned city is a big mirror

Ruine is Neven Allgeier and Benedikt Fischer, German photographers working between Frankfurt and Ber...

Geckeler Michels

GECKELER MICHELS is an industrial design studio founded in 2013 by David Geckeler and Frank Michels....

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Since 2001 The artist duo //////////fur//// (Voker Morawe/TilmanReiff) creates multi-sensory artefac...

Thomas Lohr

Thomas Lohr was born in the south of Germany in the early 80s. After his photo design studies in Ber...

MA/U

Studio MA/U is Mikal Harrsen and Adam Hall. With more than a decade of experience in the design indu...

Best Highrises 2014/15

DAM - Deutsches Architektur Zentrum in Frankfurt, Germany has selected the winners of best best desi...

Quentin Jones

Quentin Jones is an all-media person - illustrator, model and filmmaker. She studied philosophy at C...

18 classic chairs

The chair is one of the most fascinating design objects of all time. An exhibition at the Gorcums Mu...

Where Do I End And The World Begins: Hubert & Fischer

Founded by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer, Hubert & Fischer is a design studio with offices in...

20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Bauhaus, Blok, Mecano

Selected pages and illustrations from 20th century avant-garde magazines: Bauhaus No. 2, Germany 192...

Studio FIELD: Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn

Studio FIELD is Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn, both of which studied at the School of Arts and D...

A Feast Of Colours

Expressionism, an artistic movement in which pictorial imagery is depicted through dramatically expr...

Room Portraits

Through challenging camera angles Menno Aden abstracts most familiar actual living environments and ...

Illustrations by Victo Ngai

Victo Ngai is a New York based illustrator from Hong Kong. She graduated from Rhode Island School of...

Gegenwartskunst

Lamm & Kirch is a graphic design studio in Leipzig, Germany, focusing on the creation of books, visu...

Haubitz+Zoche: Movie Theatres

"In three journeys between 2010 and 2013 we have photographed movie theatres from the ‘Thirties to...

Melanie Homann

Melanie Homann 2004–09 studies in communication design at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Ki...

Posters from Germany, Austria, Switzerland

In the spirit of media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s widely known book The Medium is the Massage: An...

Don't pay the ferryman

Series "La Gondola" by German photographer Dirk Broemmel. Dirk was born 1968 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. ...

350 Album Covers

A collection of remarkable album cover art from the nineteen-fifties to the nineteen-seventies.

Kazumasa Nagai

The Japanese graphic designer Kazumasa Nagai was born in Osaka in 1929. He studied sculpture at the ...

German Pop

Was there Pop Art in Germany? Pop, which began in Great Britain and the USA and was quickly establis...

Soviet DIY

1930 Soviet cut-out books: A. Laptev: Stroim iz kartona (We Build from Cardboard) F. Kobrinet: Knizh...

Timo Meyer

Timo Meyer is a graphic artist and illustrator, currently living and working in Bonn, Germany. Clien...

The Dubai

Tor Seidel lives in Berlin and Dubai. Tor specialises in photography, but works also with installati...

Studio Tonique

The activities of Studio Tonique include graphic design, publishing, editing, research and curatoria...