I just found these beautiful Hindu God silkscreen prints created by Poonam Mistry via Creative Review. Poonam is currently a third year student at the University of Hertfordshire’s Graphic Design and Illustration course and has managed to exhibit her work at the D&AD’s New Blood show.
The high heeled Delftware clog is handpainted at ‘De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles’ in the old traditional craftwork pattern. The wooden clog was manufactured by Jos Hogenkamp.
The high heeled Staphorster clog is handpainted in an old traditional dotted craftwork pattern by an elderly woman from Staphorst. The wooden clog was manufactured by Jos Hogenkamp.
Clogs have been a popular footwear in the Netherlands since Dr. Scholl successfully branded them in 1882. In 2007 Viktor & Rolf came up with their own collection to honor this traditional footwear. Images via thehub.c-hab, virtualshoemuseum
Here are a few of the 16 vintage beer bottle posters of the qualifying teams for the 2010 World Cup created by Moxy Creative you can get one for $25 via designyoutrust
These paintings are the North Korean point of view of the Korean war which are displayed at the Sinchon-Ri Museum in North Korea. More pictures can be seen here. via BoingBoing
Love this maple leaf illustration called Super Natural created by Jeff Hamada for Oakley. via canadiandesignresource
LACOSTE challenged Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng to create two different polos for the 2010 Holiday Collector’s Series. For both, he had to adapt his work methods slightly. For the limited edition printed polo, he chose blue and white shards with lotus and children designs from the Kangxi Period (1662 – 1772 AD) of the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911 AD). The lotus grows from mud underwater to emerge as a flower, symbolising purity and rebirth. Images of babies represent fertility, as during that period the high infant mortality rate meant that people decorated ceramics with babies hoping they would be blessed with children. This particular type of folk ceramics reflected the Imperial taste at that time and was only used by the upper classes, as techinically the painted blue background on a white base that delineated the figures was more complex to produce. Xiaofeng shaped and polished the shards as usual, but instead of drilling holes and linking them with wire he photographed each (251 for the men’s polo and 304 for the women’s) and placed them one by one in a life-size digital pattern of the polo’s front, back and sleeves. He chose a dark blue ribbing for the collar and sleeves on the men’s polo and a light blue for women. The final touch was the addition of a white LACOSTE crocodile logo, the rarest breed in the brand’s collection. The printed Porcelain Polo is limited to 20,000 pieces for both men and women and comes packaged in a silk pouch stamped with the red seal LI XIAOFENG LACOSTE logo above. via yatzer
The iconic World War II, V-Day Time Square kiss picture was shot in August 1945 by photographer Alfred Eisenstead for the Life Magazine. The nurse (Edith Shain) in the picture unfortunately passed away on June 20, 2010. May all World War II veterans and victims rest in peace. via worldculturepictorial
Sarah Markes created a series of illustrations of the street life of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Thanks for getting in-touch.
A little collection of Mongolian Musicians. I love their costumes and the Morin Khuur Mongolian horse-head fiddle. Images via wikimedia, gazetteonline, unesco, koreatimes, nmgnews
Stockholm Designer Cesar Gomez created a Atztec inspired Jose Cuervo label for the 200th anniversary of the Mexican independence.
