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Chineasy illustrated characters designed to make learning Chinese easy
This system of illustrated characters and animations was developed to help people learn to read Chinese, and is one of the 76 projects nominated for Designs of the Year 2014 (+ slideshow). Tree...
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TAF imagines an impossible house with posters for Paper Collective
Swedish design studio TAF has imagined a fictional house atop a platform balanced on huge rocks, which features on two prints for Danish poster brand Paper Collective. Mattias Stahlbom and Gabriella...
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Federico Babina's Archizoom transforms iconic buildings into movie posters
Iconic buildings, from Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre to Zaha Hadid's Glasgow Riverside Museum, have been transformed into classic movie posters in the latest series by Italian illustrator Federico...
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Zhan Wang's animation imagines China as a trade leader in extra-terrestrial...
Architectural Association graduate Zhan Wang has produced an animation depicting a fictional technotopian future in which China has built a giant port to distribute minerals mined from the moon (+...
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Federico Babina inserts 20th century architecture into famous artworks
Italian illustrator Federico Babina has spliced 25 world-famous paintings, from artists including Picasso, Mondrian and Dalí, with buildings by the 20th century's most prolific architects. Federico...
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Architect silhouettes pose inside iconic windows for Federico Babina's...
The silhouettes of architects including Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Zaha Hadid are each depicted within a window from one of their buildings in these new illustrations by Federico...
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Federico Babina imagines film stars living inside famous architect-designed...
Movie stars including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Marlon Brando make themselves at home in Modernist masterpieces by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and more, in this illustration...
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Federico Babina creates "a Las Vegas of architecture" with famous quotes
"Less is more" and "form follows beauty" are some of the famous architect quotes reimagined as roadside advertisements in this set of illustrations by Italian graphic designer Federico Babina. Federico...
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Illustrators respond to Charlie Hebdo magazine attack
Cartoonists and graphic designers from around the world have responded to yesterday's attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Twelve staff members at Charlie Hebdo were killed and eleven...
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Famous buildings become abstract blocks of colour in Federico Babina's...
Italian illustrator Federico Babina honed in on details of buildings by architects including Le Corbusier, MVRDV, Zaha Hadid and Mies van der Rohe to create the abstract graphics of this poster...
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Pablo Benito illustrates international clubbing meccas
World-famous nightclubs including Berlin's Berghain and London's Fabric are illustrated in this series by Barcelona-based graphic designer Pablo Benito (+ slideshow). Berghain, Berlin Pablo Benito...
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George Wheeler inverts oil-pastel sketches for Meanwhile in Rio music video
Music: London animator George Wheeler sketched a Brazilian love story and inverted his drawings to create the colourful animation that accompanies this track called Meanwhile in Rio. For the title...
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Camilla Barnard creates life-sized and hand-painted Wooden Tube Station
London Design Festival 2015: artist Camilla Barnard has created a wooden and hand-painted replica of a London Underground station inside the former campus of art school Central St Martins (+...
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Studio Job creates "travelling circus" stage set for Mika tour using giant...
For its first music project, Studio Job designed a stage set featuring oversized illustrations and a giant disco ball for British musician Mika's No Place In Heaven tour (+ slideshow). The set's huge...
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Danny Madden animates a vintage jazz club for David Gilmour's music video
Music: animator and director Danny Madden of Ornana Films referred to the design of old French lithograph posters to create this multi-layered illustrated video for Pink Floyd vocalist and musician...
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Kama Sutra reimagined as architecture by illustrator Federico Babina
Architectural illustrator Federico Babina has created his own version of the Kama Sutra, where buildings rather than people demonstrate sexual positions. Named Archisutra, Babina's latest project is a...
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Dezeen has reached 250,000 Instagram followers!
London-based illustrator Daniel Clarke created this image for us to celebrate our 250,000th follower on Instagram. Follow us here for the best architecture, interiors and design images. The post...
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Illustrated tributes to David Bowie carry the news of musician's death
Following the death of legendary musician David Bowie, illustrators and graphic designers are posting their images interpreting his iconic style and flamboyant fashion. Bowie died yesterday aged 69...
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Illustrated animal-skin costumes created for Le Bestiaire exhibition in Paris
Giant illustrated boards depicting parrots, bears and leopards are among the oversized animal costumes that children can try on at a Paris exhibition. The animals, both real and imaginary, were created...
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Eerie sci-fi story by Olson Kundig wins architecture fairytale competition
Seattle firm Olson Kundig Architects has won first place in a competition to create an architectural fairytale, with its story about a dead architect who is resurrected and dropped into a futuristic...
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