I haven’t visited the Concept Ships blog in awhile and wow, a re-visit there never fails to inspire me. Studying images like these teaches me a lot about composition, mood, and color. Lovely, lovely stuff!

Last week a coworker of mine put me on to Super Furry’s work. These examples are just a tiny sliver of his portfolio, but it gives you a glimpse at how capable he is as a designer. I’ve been doing more logo work recently and have established a greater appreciation for artists who are so good at that line of work that they make it look effortless, which is definitely true of Super Furry.

Yet again the brilliant minds at Ars Thanea craft up something gorgeous that I just have to share. This piece was done for the upcoming, 10-episode series Life for the Discovery Channel. It apparently ties in with Planet Earth and looking at the artwork you can see a nod in that direction with the sun glow around the “e”. A breakdown of the project process can be viewed here on Behance.

Outside of UI and website design this kind of photo-illustration work is something I absolutely love to do.

These illustrated posters by Kyle Jones for his Senior Project are gorgeous! The style is so crisp and the colors are incredibly vibrant. The first one is definitely my favorite. For all of you Dribbble users out there be sure to follow Kyle.

Fantastic work by Dutch illustrator, designer, and typographer Esther Aarts. (via @rogieking)

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted any work by Scott Hansen. As usual I love these posters. You can tell that his style has evolved a little with the use of silhouettes and more simplistic, negative space compositions, but still beautifully vintage as always. I also love the last one with the split photographs. So inspiring!

Martin Ansin’s work has a beautiful illustrative style as you can see in this detailed view of his Taming Light poster for “…a group exhibition featuring painting, photography and illustration inspired by the films of Stanley Kubrick”.