Each floppy disk used in Nick Gentry’s paintings has a its own story. It represents the increasing pace of the modern life cycle, where objects are created, used and disposed quicker than ever.

> nickgentry.co.uk

Visual Inspiration from China brings Koi Koi Koi readers examples of fresh creative content from five emerging Chinese creatives. The series is courtesy of K3 guest contributor NeochaEDGE, a daily-curated, bilingual website and discovery engine dedicated to showcasing leading-edge creative content and emerging youth culture in China.

#1 Madi Ju – Photographer

#2 Li Chao - Animator

Click here to view the embedded video.

#3 Zhuang Peixin – Painter

#4  FIRExRD – Street Art Collective

#5 Queenio – Illustrator

We selected for you 15 fresh free fonts, that will surely help you to improve your typography work.

Amable Typeface – Download Here

Coldi – Download Here

Pico Super Bold – Download Here

PincoyaBlack – Download Here

Cow.Cow – Download Here

Exus Pilot – Download Here

Portal – Download Here

File – Download Here

Digitica – Download Here

Layered – Download Here

Nadia Serif – Download Here

Sketchetica – Download Here

Mamma Gamma – Download Here

Ripe – Download Here

Pac Font – Download Here

Alex Solis aka Alexmdc is a illustrator living in Milwaukee, WI. All of his works start in a traditional way and then are finalized in Photoshop. Alex has won a number of challenges on Threadless in a few months, sign of some serious talent!

To know more about Alex read his interview on Threadless > threadless interview

> cargocollective.com/oddworx

> threadless profile

The Director/ VFX artist Sam O’Hare has finished this amazing time-lapse tilt shift  short entitled The Sandpit, a day in the life of New York City, in miniature.  He used a Nikon D3 with Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 lenses. Over 35,000 photos, 5 days and two evenings.

Original Music: composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong.

For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and workflow, please see here: bit.ly/aFmaPZ

Nikki Farquharson is a 24 year old freelancer based in London, England. Her work includes a unique mixture of collage, photography, typography and bold color combinations and patterns.

Farquharson has a passion for communication. Apart from her visual work, she also has other projects like creating books about language and playing with the meaning of words and proverbs. She also runs an online public participatory site at: www.randomgotbeautiful.com that she started while she was still at university and that is open for anyone to submit images focused on a specific colour.

Farquharson usually draws and colours intricate patterns by hand using pencils, fine liner pens and felt tips. Some times she integrates photographs in her compositions. Most of the time she uses the collage technique to copy and paste the imagery (like the Mixed Media Girls project), but other times she adds them using a computer program (like the Baby Girl project for Missbehave Magazine). See below for some of her artwork:

via The Cool Hunter

After Europe and South America, here we have selected 30 examples of street art & graffiti From North America!

> Europe

> South America

Usa – California (San Diego)

author: Spenser-Little, 3-d

Usa – California (Venice)

author: Roa

Usa – California (Venice)

author: Roa, Chase

Usa – California (Los Angeles)

author: Mbw

Usa – California (Hollywood)

author: Chase, Bue, Zenith

Usa – California (San Francisco)

author: Bue

Usa – New York

author: Rsn, Pastime, Rome, Tyboe, Chez, apex, King157, Ryno, Begr, Natrl

Usa – New York

author: Robotinc2501

Usa – New York

author: Ripo, Roa

Usa – New York (Coney Island)

author: OsGemeos

Usa – New York

author: obey, j-r

Usa – New York

author: M-City

Usa – New York

author: Koralie, Fafi

Usa – New York (Williamsburg)

author: KidAcne

Usa – New York

author: Elbow, Toe

Usa – New York

author: Dugan, Fresno

Usa – New York

author: Brokencrow, Overunder

Usa – New York

author: Banksy

Usa – Houston

author: Uneone

Usa – Houston

author: Deon-Rick, Duke-Rick, Yar

Usa – Philadelphia

author: Swoon

Usa – Atlanta

author: Omer, Frisk, Dysh, Wash

Usa – Miami

author: Claudio Ethos

Usa – Montana

author: Christ

Usa – Nevada

author: Bue, Reno

Canada – Montreal

author: Quermit, Cheeb, Scor, Damo

Canada – Montreal

author: Bruce, Bfor

Laura Laine is an amazingly talented fashion illustrator. She has studied fashion design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, with a focus on fashion illustration. After completing her studies she has been working full-time as a freelace illustrator. Her clients include Zara, Tommy Hilfiger, H&M, Iben Hoej, Daniel Palillo, The New York Times Magazine, Elle Girl, The Guardian, and Páp Magazine.

Her predominantly black and white illustrations are hauntingly beautiful and delicate, but they sometimes have a rather dark or even eccentric, burtonesque feel to them. One of the main characteristics of her drawings is the incredibly fine and detailed line work, which manages to suggest a great variety of textures (fur, silk, wool, leather etc.). Further, there is a certain motion quality to her illustrations which is conveyed by the gracefully twisted body postures and the splendidly flowing long hair of her characters.

The above (apparently mirrored) illustration featuring two young women each holding a fox is entitled “kitsune” (Japanese for “fox”) and was created for Kitsune Noir’s desktop wallpaper project. You can download it there in different sizes and admire it in high quality. See below for several other pieces by this talented Finnish illustrator.

Cheeming Boey aka Boy Obsolete, is an artist from Malaysia, but he lives in Newport Beach, USA. We do not know much about him, surely he has a passion for drawing on coffee cups with his Sharpie pen.

> flickr.com

> iamboey.com

20 stunning examples of illustrated typography from various artists from all over the world.

Thea Hamrèn

Jarr Geerligs

Roel Van Eekelen

BiGds

Fredrik Oscarsson

OcularVision

Luke Lucas

Giga Kobidze

Marta Cerdà

Alex Trochut

David Nathan Cohen

Adolfo Correa

AOYTHERE

Serge Seidlitz, Diego Medina, Open the Door for BBDO

Aida Novoa

Marco Van Zomeren