Brilliant Photographer Chenman is among the leading figures of ’80hou’ (‘balinghou’), the word for chinese born in the 1980′s, during the country’s one-child policy. The ’80hou’ are considered to be instrumental in changing the industrial structure and culture of the country. Calling photography ‘the extended function of painting’, Chenman became established for her series of covers for shanghai’s ‘vision’ fashion magazine, which combined 3D rendering and post-production effects with photography.

The fashion graphics of Chinese photographer Chenman are on exhibition in the show ‘Glamorous Futurist‘, curated by Ashu at the Diesel Art Gallery in Toyko. – February 17Th – May 11Th, 2012

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John Rankin applied his focus on eyes to a collaboration with Swatch to create eight timepieces for the ‘Swatch X art’ collection. His photographs of irises have been put on the face of the gent originals wrist watches.

images © John Rankin

image © Swatch

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Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway renders iconic black-and-white photographs in color with Photoshop CS5.

Original Photo: ‘V-J Day In Times Square’ by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Original Photo: ‘Migrant Mother’ by Dorothea Lange

Original Photo: ‘The American Dream’ by Margaret Bourke-White

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1. Stare at the red star on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds
2. Turn your eyes towards the wall/roof or somewhere else on a plane surface
3. Keep blinking your eyes!

‘Louis Van Gala’ – ‘Written Portraits’ is a series of books which shows the different faces, literally, behind the selected autobiographies of Anne Frank, Vincent Van Gogh, Louis Van Gaal and Kader Abdolah. The campaign, created by dutch agency Van Wanten Etctera, was conceived by Markus Ravenhorst and Maarten Reynen as part of dutch book week under the theme of (auto) biography.

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Swedish graphic designer Viktor Hertz ‘honest logos’ project really tells it like it is. Revealing the actual content and truth behind the company at hand and its products. The logos give us a chance to reflect on our own personal habits of consumption. All images courtesy of Viktor Hertz.

‘Cinema-flash Showdown’ scribbled line digital portraits by Ayaka Ito and Randall Church

Blending programming, design, and photography the ‘Cinema-flash Showdown‘ is a series of digital photographic works created by american designers Ayaka Ito and Randall Church while students at the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology.

‘the curiosity project’ and handmade QR codes by lauren manning

The work of recent pratt master’s graduate lauren manning in collaboration with camile wei-hsin lin, ‘the curiosity project’ bridges the fields of print and digital media with a series of handcrafted QR codes. Crafted into posters hung around new york city, each QR code linked to a blog post on the ‘curiosity project’ site

Amazing Lady GAGA Cover for Vanity Fair. One of the best. Beautiful, strong and glamourous.