The Christian Louboutin Fall 2011 Lookbook

The Christian Louboutin Fall 2011 Lookbook contains seven images that are reenactments of iconic 15th century Renaissance portraits with the incorporation of Christian Louboutin shoes from the Fall 2011 collection. Photographed by Peter Lippmann and styled by Catherine Gorne each shot from this series celebrate “;the power of femininity”, embodying the spirit of the Christian Louboutin woman through various historic figures. Enjoy!

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13,138 Dice

Frederick McSwain used 13,138 dice to create this portrait of his friend artist Tobias Wong called Die who died at the age of 13,138 days (35 years-old). It was part of the BrokenOff BrokenOff exhibition at Gallery R’Pure in New York City, which was a memoriam to the artist during New York Design Week.

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Minimalist Portraits by Ali Jabbar

Dubai-based graphic designer Ali Jabbar made these stunning minimalist illustrations of famous people.

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Van Gogh Make Up

Manchester-based artist James Birkbeck applied makeup to himself to look like one of Vincent Van Gogh’s self portraits and photographed the result. Awesome…

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Junk Portraits

Zac Freeman collects junk, found objects and trash which he combines to create portraits. Up close, the pieces look like crap cobbled together; when viewed from afar, the work is quite compelling.

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Seed Media Group Branding

Designed by Sagmeister Inc. I just love the way the logo was used on the business cards to create the portraits of the bearers.

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Pushpin Portraits

Born in California and now residing in Northern Michigan, 33 year old husband, father and artist Eric Daigh creates portraits by putting ordinary pushpins in posterboard. Daigh uses blue, red, white, yellow and black push pins (he sprays green pushpins black since there are no black pushpins) to create his masterpieces. Each portrait requires about 11,000 pushpins which Daigh applies by one at a time.
More pics here.

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Real Life Into Paintings

If you're first thought when looking at paintings by Alexa Meade is "What's so incredible about this?" then you probably think they were done on canvas. But thery're not! What makes Alexa Meade's technique so interesting is that rather than painting on a flat surface to make it look 3 dimensional, she paints on 3D surfaces to make them look flat. Each portrait is an actual person that looks like a painting.

Check out more of Meade's paintings here.

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Nathan Sawaya: Brick By Brick

LEGO brick artist Nathan Sawaya's 'Brick by Brick' is the first solo exhibition of his art works, comprised entirely of LEGO bricks, in New York.

Sawaya quit his job as a corporate lawyer back in 2001 to pursue his childhood fascination with the ubiquitous building blocks, transforming them into an artistic medium.

He has used LEGO's shapes and bright colors to develop a range of sculptures including pop culture icons, the human form, planets.He's even created a life-sized self-portrait, expressing the limitless possibilities of this medium.

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Personas Online Data Portraits

Aaron Zinman’s Personas searches the internet to create a "data portrait" of your online identity. It basically shows you how the internet sees you. Really cool! Try it out.

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Steve Jobs Portrait

This just in from Eby at the office. Its a portrait of Steve Jobs, made with all the typefaces ever used by Apple and slogans from their ad campaigns.

Showcasing A Friend's Work: Wael Morcos

Wherever you spot him, he's always got that camera of his, taking pictures of absolutely everything. He's definitley got an eye for capturing what most of us don't really notice. Amazingly talented!..and he's only been doing this for 6 months. Check out more of his amazing photographs on his flickr account. Keep it up Wa2oula!