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we love - playing with food.

Artist Hong Yi, nicknamed 'Red' is an artist who loves to play with her food. She creates inventive art pieces by slicing, dicing and arranging pieces of food on plates to make simplified artworks made entirely of edible ingredients. She has recently created a series entitled '31 days of creativity with food' where she has challenged herself to make a food-art scene every day with a white plate as her canvas. Some of her creations include rearranging the seeds of a dragon fruit to p...

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we love - stitched typography.

Graphic Designer Aries Wan has come up with this beautiful experiment combining traditional hand embroidery with CMYK colours to produce her own unique typography. It's an exciting combination of modern design and traditional techniques which urges people to appreciate type for more than something that is simply computer-generated. She says that "The idea of this is to tell non-design people that type is not cold but also contains feeling". Each letter uses two slightly offset prim...

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we love - old school photo manipulations.

If you thought that these artworks were created in Photoshop then think again! These intriguing images by Thomas Barbéy are the work of many hours tucked away in a darkroom with film based photographs, sandwiched negatives, the double exposure of a camera and sometimes a touch of airbrushing. The result is a unique collection of surrealist style images that really play on your imagination and leave you feeling totally immersed in the black and white world before your eyes. We love t..

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we love - old school photo manipulations.

we love - geometric sandcastles.

In the spirit of the summer holidays we thought we'd bring you something that takes us back to the good old imaginative childhood days. These intricate sandcastles by Calvin Seibert are perfectly constructed into ornate pyramids of intertwining geometric shapes.

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we love - gravity defying snowballs!

These beautiful gravity defying pieces are the work of German artist Cornelia Konrads and it's not just for Christmas snowballs! Using natural and found objects in open spaces she creates pieces that are whimsical and almost supernatural. You can't help but become awestruck at how these weightless sculptures seem to disintegrate right before your eyes.

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We love - great advertising.

Thanks to The Gruen Planet, a great TV show on the ABC channel here in Australia, I got to see the 'Three Little Pigs' ad for The Guardian newspaper in the UK. It is a great example of how there is a future for newspapers if they understand that they are there to begin, continue, facilitate and/or aid discussion, rather than act as an isolated printed entity. Take a watch...

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philter turns ten years old.

Happy Birthday to us! Philter Group is turning 10 whole years old and we are throwing a big ol' party to celebrate. We wanted to give you a sneaky peak of the invitation. Being your own client is always so much harder than you think it will be but we are really excited about the outcome.

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We love - paper art.

Beautiful, intricate paper creations by Helen Musselwhite.

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We love - Green graffiti.

Another great find from our developer Adrian, Green Grafiti! We love it when a little outside-the-box thinking, produces something pretty darn noticeable! Have you seen any brands doing this?

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We love - The cardboard revival.

Cardboard, so humble, so...brown. So imagine our delight (and impressed-ness) when a former colleague of ours launched her new company Flat Out Frankie. Flat packed cardboard toys designed to inspire creative and active play! Dutch stroller manufacturer Joolz, has also printed instructions on the packaging of its products to encourage customers to tturn the boxes into something new and useful.

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