art design ideas

HELMO is a creative collective made up of Thomas Couderc and Clement Vauchez and these coloured smoke photographs by the French duo are just breathtaking.

They also make me appreciate a bit more of the beauty found in winter and it being fucking freezing every morning when I have to get up for work.

Two beautiful videos, both equally inspiring in different ways. What they do have in common is a weeny bit of murdering :S

Black Bones from Rhett Dashwood on Vimeo.

Stina Persson is an illustrator based in Stockholm, Sweden whose clients include Coca Cola, Absolut Vodka, Sony and DKNY.

I love how her use of colour and tone work uniquely to create quite a striking graphic feel, something which is softened gorgeously with the use of varied brush strokes.

She has also worked for some of my favourite magazines Vogue Nippon, Harper's Bazaar, Flaunt, Elle UK and Nylon amongst others.

This is a cool concept for a skate video and features some epic tunes, the last few minutes in particular (before the credits) are beautifully shot.

Wizard Smoke from Salazar on Vimeo.

Gig posters are nearly always brilliant, here are some great ones for Sonic Youth I found here.

3rd and last day in Hong Kong...I have enjoyed just wandering around because I am saving my $$$ for London and Paris!!! But I do want to check out the fabric markets because in 3rd year, the head teacher takes all the students to HK to buy supplies for their final collections and I want to get an idea of what kind of stuff they stock here. Lol, I'm so optimistic to be thinking that far ahead.

Photo credits: http://etc-alltherest.blogspot.com/2009/08/38.html