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James Jean is an amazing painter based out of Los Angeles, California. His style blends the paint strokes of ancient Asian artwork (typically found on scrolls) with ghost–like detail, giving an end result that can best be described as “hauntingly beautiful”.

Find More Information: Portfolio of James Jean, Blog of James Jean

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Aaron Scamihorn is an artist that’s also an iconographer, typographer, and photographer. That’s a lot of [–ographer]’s, whew!

Find More Information: RONLEWHORN : Portfolio of Aaron Scamihorn, Layer Tennis Playoff Match Against Shaun Inman, Layer Tennis Qualifying Match

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This has to be one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. While I’ve always been a big fan of the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, this is just really, really awesome. While there have been similar public acts by Improv Everywhere (the Grand Central Station Mission), Op Zoek Naar Maria’s (In Search of Maria) execution for puts them to shame. The site is in Dutch, but the video really shows you everything. Het Verbazen.

Find More Information: Op Zoen Naar Maria Site (in Dutch)

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Women’s Aid is an organization in the U.K. aimed at ending domestic abuse and violence against women and children.  In their latest campaign, cutmovie.co.uk, actor Keira Knightley “stars” in the very effective short.

Find More Information: cutmovie.co.uk, Cut Movie FAQ, Women’s Aid

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Trent Reznor is nothing short of brilliant.  Whether or not you like NIN, you have to give its creator credit.  He’s extremely intelligent and passionate about his work, and always trying to do the best thing for music itself rather than the music industry.

Find More Information: Dialogg: Trent Reznor

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Portfolio site for Istanbul designer Due3

Find More Information: Due3 Portfolio

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Khoi Vinh, former founder of the design agency Behavior, currently Design Director for The New York Times.

Find More Information: Subtraction Blog

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Swedish studio started by designer Rob Lindström

Find More Information: North Kingdom Agency Site

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Portfolio of designer Rob Lindström

Find More Information: The Design Chapel, DCHPL-2 Blog

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