Ibraheem Youssef

This Toronto based graphic designer and art director has been making waves in the realm of movie posters. His minimal designs and use of color are so striking. Making posters for filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson, his work is sure to excite even the coolest of cool hipsters. View his website for more of his work and bio here.

Kid Cudi

My new obsession is Kid Cudi. His song Make Her Say has the most kickass video. and its featuring some of the best artists right now: Lady Gaga, Kanye, and Common. I love this. the colors. the editing. the set design. so simple, so perfect. watch it here.

Elsa Mora

Another cool artist Elsa Mora works with various media, here are some of her paper sculptures, her website here

Peter Callesen

Peter Callesen makes these very very intricate paper sculptures in both large and small scale. view his work here and here

Raquel Apanicio

Raquel Apanicio artist/illustrator. source: here

Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor is really cool digital artist. Since everyone's on this Alice in Wonderland trip, I thought her artwork is a refreshing take on the trippy dippy world. Her website is actually super cool. Check it out here.

Alice who?

With an abundance of Alice around I thought I might join the crowd, jump on the bandwagon as the kids say. Here are some pretty and slightly strange images courtesy of the thinking tank

Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan makes some of the most beautiful and interesting sculptures out of the most mundane objects. Styrofoam Cups, Buttuns, pencils, receipt paper, its mind blowing.Check out her work here.

Nicolas Provost

Nicolas Provost is another really great visual artist and filmmaker. "His work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience." His portfolio is a mix of original work and deconstructed found footage from classic films including Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo . Here are some stills from his works: Gravity, Suspension, Plot Point, and Papillon D'amour. You can see Papillon D'amour here and his website here.

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More Godard

Epitomy of Cool

Jean-Luc Godard is basically one of the coolest guys ever. seriously. I haven't seen any of his films for a while now, and I almost forgot how awesome he is. See his films.

Genius

Bernard Herrmann is probably one of the most famous composers for film of all time. He's written scores for Martin Scorcese, Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock to name a few. I recently rewatched Psycho over my spring break. Not so much as watch, as listen as I was also attempting to clean my room, write a script and study for an exam simultaneously. Naturally I noticed how absolutely amazing the score to Psycho is. This put me into a little Hitchcock craze and after watching Vertigo as well, I've grown to seriously appreciate the major role a film's score plays. Listen to the theme from Psycho here.

Inspiration

ImgSpark.com is an awesome image hosting website that I frequent. Either to get inspiration, to get direction or just to look at cool stuff, this site has it all. Quality images: photographs, posters, and designs.