Ouff, stunning set by Mauro Marzo featured on Behance today. I must say this is by far his best work. Hopefully he produces more like it in the future.

Amazing piece of architecture by William O’Brien Jr. Must be a pain to heat the place, though. But yes, I would most definitely buy a house like this. Planning on robbing a bank soon…

via Wanken

Loving these shots from the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico (how about that wicked logo?!) found via the Google source:life Search option. That grain and color makes these athletes seem heroic already for some reason (no idea who they are). Reminds me I have to sort through my shots of the Olympic town in Barcelona. Will do shortly.

We recently bought a house (surely there will be some more info about that soon) and thus the hunt for decoration inspiration has started. Even though there is still a lot (!) of work to do, we’ve so far been unable to resist browsing the web for great interior designs. Design*Sponge has proven a fantastic source for funny and quirky designs. The pictures above especially spoke to us seeing we’ll be working with the same kind of crude walls throughout the house. find the full post and info here.

Great set of images by Ramsus Norlander. More (even greater) pictures to be found on his portfolio site but he has cleverly decided to block all saving of images. Good for the copyright, but not so good for the sharing.

Via But Does It Float

Parcours d’Artistes in Brussels (Saint-Gilles) is an initiative where local artists open their homes for the public. I’ve been on similar tours elsewhere in Belgium and it’s always great fun to get the complete context of artworks and their creators. This time I was mostly struck by the great cover of their tour manual which was done by Tenfinger.

“The biennial artistic event happening in St-Gillis, Parcours d’Artistes, entrusted the design office Tenfinger with the visual campaign for its 2010 edition. The typographic work for this project was developed using both craft and play technics such as embroidery and pyrography.”

I’ve always been impressed by Fabien Barral‘s work (I covered his Manouchian posters here). The organic feel he incorporates into all his creations makes me want to go into my garden and hug plants or something. Although everything is digital, you do get the impression he got his hands dirty picking leaves, branches and other tree stuff from his garden and pasting it onto the paper. His hands must be ink-stained because of all the swashes and paint stripes he uses. In other words, he makes paper come alive by creating this jungle of shapes and colors in which I can smell the the forest after the rain.

Well, I guess that’s enough lyrical praise for today. Make sure you also check his blog at Graphic Exchange.

I’m a huge fan of windmills and wind turbines. They beautify the skyline like nothing else. Windmills of this size must be breathtaking and I most definitely would visit them as if it were the Eiffel Tower (what’s the Eiffel Tower next to something this beautiful, right?).

These stunning images were created by On Office, an architecture collective who have clearly found an appealing way to communicate their work and ideas. Pitching projects to people who want to see results immediately can be a frustrating process. Before facing a technical implementation team who will want to know how your masterpiece idea can become reality, you’ll probably have to face an enthusiastic board of directors who only think of the end product and how their immediate peer group will associate their names with wow, that’s awesome the things you guys are doing over at …. That’s why in a first phase you really have to be able to trigger the emotional layer and get your audience jumping up and down because they are going to be owners of something fantastic. What better way to do this than present images like these which get the imagination flowing.

And also, did I mention wind turbines are awesome?!

At crosshatchling.co.uk Anna Garforth showcases some incredible ‘green’ typography. Great use of nature and anti-nature to bring across a point. Make sure you also check her illustration work. On a side note, here is an overview of other ‘moss‘ graffiti artists.

Do Plu Do is a collective who’s made it to the Behance project list a few times in the last few months. I was mostly struck by their fun vector work and great use of colours. No big innovations in their themes but their huge murals are stunning. How I would love to have a wall like this in my house!