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Paradoxymoron by Patrick Hughes – video

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This book started as a personal project in summer 2007, and was soon published from a Japanese bookstore “Utrecht”. It’s a flipbook, but rather than seeing animation, it creates a 3D rainbow in your hand. Since being published it has been featured on Japanese TV, Newspapers, major news & blogsites like yahoo news, coolhunting and fffffound. This book won this years NY ADC silver cube.

Great bottle design by Samurai Vodka helps create buzz by the shear uniqueness of it.

Artsy Shelf

This Copenhagen Zoo bus ad is bound to increase awareness

Here is an elevator ad for Dr Kim’s plastic surgery.  It shows Michelangelo and the Finger of God where the elevator button is with the caption “Be Born Again”

The subject of many pieces of art often centers towards the heart as the heart is a universal symbol transcending across all cultures and races Here is an interesting piece of art geared towards the heart from a 2005 art competition.

Erwin Olaf is an art photographer from the Netherlands whose work gets noticed because it intrigues, provokes and can offend.  But the bottom line is that it gets attention because it stirs the human emotion to react one way or another.

This series is called “Royal Blood”

Alyssa Monks is a painter in New York that can paint so realistically that you think they were photographs.

“You’ve Got a Friend” 2009 – SandFantasy – video

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