As we gear up for the 4th season of Mad Men on AMC let’s revisit the previous 3 seasons through an illustrated flicker album by the truly artistic and comedic Dyna Moe. Check out her website no body’s sweetheart (you’re our sweetheart, love) and check out her Flicker Mad Men Illustrated photo-stream.
Plethora is a great source of personally curated design and art work spanning a series of disciplines. Although the best inspiration comes from the real world, this iPhone app is a great free place to see aggregated work for: web & interactive, graphic design, branding, art, illustration, photography, product and industrial design, interior design, and architecture.
Learn more from the Plethora website or download from itunes.
James Chudley of Smashing Magazine posted a great article on How to Use Photos to Sell More Online. Its a lengthy article with great photo examples. The article was written for products, but I believe these can be put to use no matter what you are doing online. Most importantly, we don’t want to put up a photo just to put up a photo… make it do something for you like:
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We curate quite a few websites where we manage the use of photography. We work hard not to “slap on a photo”, but make it have some meaning and usefulness in the grand scheme of the website. Read the full article.
Pixels are very dear to us at Local Wisdom.
This documentary is a great tribute to the history, and artistic value of those tiny things that make our work possible.
Creative fan just posted 50 absolutely brilliant digital and computer generated artworks.
Amazing detail and expression.
I couldn’t believe this when I saw it in the store today…. they must have been saving these for a while 
I put this up there with the Alex Rodriguez “Man in the Mirror” photos…. Don’t these guys have handlers to help them from taking photos like this??? They’re in need of some LW Curators to get them out of these messes!!!
Got this originally off of digg.com Have to say, awesome pic and the rest on the Cary Conover site are great too, check them out! The economy is turning around Grover, just wait it out man, put the bottle down
Found this on one of my off tangent days on the internet, there are some great pieces there that I can’t show, but check out his site here where they were originally posted
These are amazing!
This is from InformationisBeutiful.net a gem blog that I happened to come across not too long ago.
Its by the very talented David McCandless visual & data journalist from London.
Great place for data junkies and data geeks like me.
If you like the the Twitter one, you’ll love everything else on the blog.
Scott Dadich who is Wired’s Creative Director talks about 3 of the magazine covers that have come out recently. We love hearing about the design process and how the concepts and thoughts turn into great design.