This ambitious public art project is presented by Scan Design Foundation, whose mission is to support Danish-American relations with a focus on environmental sustainability. NWTrolls: Way of the Bird King features six giant hand-built troll sculptures by Danish environmental artist, Thomas Dambo. The publicly-accessible sculptures are located around the Pacific Northwest where each whimsical troll sculpture is part of an underlying environmental story. The project celebrates the human experience of art by amplifying the connections of cultural heritage between Coast Salish tribal communities and Scandinavian traditions. Thanks to our funding partners and host site partners, there is no admission fee to visit any of the trolls.
Amazing art here!
300 beautiful, high res photos of the ocean for you to use as art reference, desktop wallpapers, or to just browse through and enjoy! Some are only waves, some are waves crashing on rocks, some have buildings, some have natural scenery - there's a variety, and a variety of weather conditions and lighting.
Japanese pixel art website; click "icon" to get to the stuff you can download.
This is a fun digital versionof the classic design book, A Dictionary of Color Combinations. If you're a designer then you might also want to grab these Figma/Sketch files with the color combos, too: https://hexpot.com/blog/sanzo-wada-color-combinations
A donation of scans from the brilliant instagram account Transit Tickets (go follow!). Tony found these in Tokyo, dug out of piles of paper and added to his collection. They were issued in the early 1980s, Showa Era 56/57. These were used to get entry into a train station.
Vintage Japanese train tickets!
Some fun (for a variety of fun) Microsoft Windows horror graphics (not graphic-graphic, no worries).
omg these cookies are amazing! I love the ones that look like Greek pottery shards, and the medieval tile ones!
via @colossal@mastodon.art
Companion video from cookie creator: https://youtu.be/XDmaO-Ptvss?si=nUkfAzt7uX_EJMNk
Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750)[1] was a Dutch still-life painter from the Dutch Republic. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented female painter of the Dutch Golden Age.[2]
Might be fun to use for icons later!