From the distant land of Japan, our friend Živko Kondic bring us Puderu-San, the insanely true Japanese warrior poodle. Živko has made these awesome wallpapers of his character Puderu-San, and wants to share them with pixelelement’s readers. (more…)

Here is a pretty cool art alphabet by deviantart user Peagabassi, a 22 year old artist from Estonia. Each letter has a special design and an illustration that symbolizes that letter. Also, each letter has a sentence, phrase, or group of words where the letter is used. (more…)

Back in December of 2009 I posted an article titled “Bonnier Mag+ Prototype - The Magazine of the Near Future.” This near future is now a reality, Bonnier just informed me of the release of their first digital magazine. They have taken the first step towards their Mag+ vision by building a Popular Science digital magazine for the iPad.

Popular Science+ is available for download today in the iTunes store for the lucky iPad owners. Here is a first preview video of the magazine. (more…)

Check out these pretty cool illustration poster ads for the Micro 16 GB USB Flash Drive from Sandisk. I really like the colors and the simplicity of the illustrations. (more…)

Check out this awesome preview of Colleen Ellis’ newest book. The book is titled “ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently” and is available at Mark Batty Publisher’s website. (more…)

Berk Cankat is a graphic designer from Ankara, Turkey. He graduated from the Bilkent University Graphic Design Department. Here are some charming character designs from his portfolio. His little Japanese illustrations are really nice. (more…)

The Bonnier Mag+ Prototype is a digital magazine concept that aims to capture the essence of magazine reading, which people have been enjoying for decades.

This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future. (more…)

Josh Brill is a graduate from Maine College of Art with a degree in New Media Design. These excellent designs are from his print collection “Flora Fauna: Birds Editions.” The “Flora Fauna” is a collection of designs of plants and animals from around the world. I really like the shapes and the colors of these designs. (more…)

These awesome illustrations are some of Yiorgos Yiacos personal and commercial work. He is a 30 year old designer and illustrator from Athens, Greece. I like the colors and the style he employed on “The Wolf”, “The Crow”, and “Frau Trude” illustrations. (more…)

All modeling, animation, and rendering in this amazing showreel was done by Pantural. The tools he used were 3DS Max 2008, Mudbox, After Effects, Photoshop, Sound Forge, and Vegas. The cars and helicopter look very real, excellent work. (more…)