Folded Book Pages Create Text Sculptures

Over on My Modern Metropolis, I found this incredible work by Luciana Frigerio. Folding the pages to  create open books with text either in Times or Helvetica.

CMYK Playing Cards

Forget Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds. Play instead with your color separations- Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Each numerical card is shown as a percentage of opacity using the color, for example 8 Cyan is 80%.

Kudos to Hundred Million in the United Kingdom for coming up with this idea I spotted at Design-Milk.com.

Body Scripture II

Over at MyModernMet.com, I spotted this beautiful photo series entitled Body Scriptures II by Israeli Artist Ronit Bigal. After writing biblical texts on be bodies of models, she takes incredible pictures of the text and body intertwined.

Pantone Pairings by David Schwen

David Schwen, a Minneapolis-based artist came up with a slam-dunk series of Pantone color swatches based on food pairings: bacon & eggs, macaroni & cheese, chips & salsa, peas & carrots, peanut  butter & jelly, wasabi & soy sauce, ham & cheese, bread & butter, salt & pepper, strawberries & chocolate, ketchup & mustard, and cookies & milk. Here's the link to them all at MyModernMet.com.

Variety is the spice of life, and I hope more clever pairings will surface soon!

9 Ways to Boost Creative Thinking

Lifehacker.com put out a great article here about how to stay creative. In a nutshell:

1. Restrict Yourself
2. Re-Conceptualize the Problem
3. Create Psychological Distance
4. Daydream... and Then Get Back to Work
5. Embrace Something Absurd
6. Separate Work from Consumption
7. Create During a Powerful Mood
8. Get Moving
9. Ask, "What Might Have Been?"