Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Above: a pair of Scaly Sided Mergansers, the Great Indian Bustard, the Spatuletail from Peru, and the preternaturally charming Kakapo from New Zealand, of which only 124 remain in the wild.

Best Rare Bird Pictures Of 2010 Named (National Geographic)

Conan O’Brien’s farewell speech on his last night as the fleeting host of NBC’s The Tonight Show, recreated as an extremely slick kinetic typography short by Jason Gilbreath – a graphic design student at Oklahoma State university

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The latest in Fabian Gzlez’s collection of minimalist characters. Name the video-game characters, objects and icons. Hot off the Flickr machine, so there’s no cheat sheet available, as yet.

Previously: Robo-Minimalism

Fabian Gzlez’s Flickr Stream

Sculptor, Kate McDowell, who exhibits in the US and UK,  creates incredible porcelain pieces designed to explore the impact of human activity on the environment. Sez she:

I hand sculpt each piece out of porcelain, often building a solid form and then hollowing it out.  Smaller forms are built petal by petal, branch by branch and allow me the chance to get immersed in close study of the structure of a blossom or a bee.  I chose porcelain for its luminous and ghostly qualities as well as its strength and ability to show fine texture.

More from Kate’s portfolio here.