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Here’s a motley little crew of inspiration images. They scrolled across my screen on Pinterest, and each made me stop and look longer than average. Maybe you’ll find surprising new ways of seeing things here too … I’ve written a few business plans the conventional conforming way, but I really wish to write one that … Continue reading "See Things Differently"

Originally mainly a painter, artist Patrick Bremer has recently started making quite extraordinary collage work as well. He creates his pieces with layers

Barry Rosenthal's still life photographic series "Found in Nature" of ocean borne trash highlights the global problem of marine pollution

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John Schieffer Contemporary Still-Life Painting: Mini Dino Jumble 2013

One of my oldest sources of visual inspiration on the internet (and one of a handful of early art/design blogs that inspired me to start Colossal in 2010) was Things Organized Neatly, an exhaustive catalogue of objects compulsively organized just so. From toy collections, to artworks and editorial photography, the site collects thousands of images of neatly arranged things that have a near Zen-like impact on your brain as you scroll through the site. More

Stamp inspired paper goods (and pretty Italian cloth ribbon) at the booth for Albertine Press and Angela Liguori. www.theobsessiveimagist.com

Weird and Wonderful Collections featuring a collection of plastic bread tags in a jar. Turn junk into an art display by grouping it together in a jar.

Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 — December 29, 1972) was an American artist and film maker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated…